The Brownshirt tactics for which the Bush Regime is now infamous.
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(Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:28:15 -0500) ---
March 5, 2008
How Republicans created executive branch hegemony
By Paul Craig Roberts
Having made the mistake of confirming Michael Mukasey as US attorney
general, the Democrats again find their efforts to hold Republican
government officials accountable for illegal and unethical behavior
stonewalled by the Department of Justice [sic] and blocked by the
Brownshirt tactics for which the Bush Regime is now infamous.
White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel
Harriet Miers were found in contempt of Congress for refusing to
comply with subpoenas and refusing to cooperate with congressional
committee investigations of the Bush Regime’s political firings of
eight Republican US attorneys.
The eight fired US attorneys declined to politicize their offices by
investigating only Democratic officials and ruining their election
chances with leaks from "investigations" designed to smear their
reputations.
Mukasey gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the majority Democrats in
Congress the finger and refused to refer the House of Representatives
charges against the two Bush Regime operatives to a federal grand jury
for investigation.
Following the now established practice by the Bush Regime, Mukasey
told the speaker of the House that members of the executive branch are
above the law and are not accountable to the US Congress, formerly a
co-equal branch of government under the US Constitution in the days
now past when the executive branch felt obliged to abide by the
Constitution.
Mukasey boldly asserted in his letter to Congress that Miers and
Bolton are immune from congressional subpoenas and, thereby, their
"noncompliance did not constitute a crime."
According to Mukasey, "The contempt of Congress statute was not
intended to apply and could not constitutionally be applied to an
executive branch official who asserts the president’s claim of
executive privilege."
[Mukasey Refuses to Prosecute Bush Aides, By Dan Eggen, Washington
Post, March 1, 2008]
The way matters stand in America today, the executive branch can
falsely prosecute, frame-up, and imprison members of Congress and
governors of states at will, but itself cannot be held accountable to
law.
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And you wanna put these guys back in office? Shame on you.
Harry
Harry Hope (rivrvu@ix.netcom.com).
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