Coverups Are The New Black
8 comments March 15th, 2007at 06:14pm Posted by Eli
In just one day, we have the following revelations:
- The Justice Department inquiry that Bush squashed last year by denying investigators security clearances was almost certainly a threat to Gonzales. (h/t All-Seeing Eye Of Froomkin)
- The original Justice Department e-mail dump was carefully vetted to omit any mention of the fact that both Rove and Gonzales (before he became AG) originally suggested purging all 93 US Attorneys, not Harriet Miers. (h/t Atrios)
- Administration staffers used external e-mail addresses (mostly from RNC domains) to communicate official White House business, thereby evading the White House’s mandatory e-mail archiving process. (h/t Atrios again)
But hey, that terrorist mastermind we caught four years ago finally confessed to 9/11 and Daniel Pearl, so none of that matters! U S A!! U S A!!
Entry Filed under: Bush,Corruption/Cronyism,Politics,Republicans,Rove
8 Comments
1. PoliShifter | March 15th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Looks like the gwot is over now…bring the troops home. What every they’ve done to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed it appears they can get him to admit anything…Maybe Bush can get him to admit that he ordered the firing of the attorneys.
I sitll find it funny that Bush could do all he did (lie about yellow cake, WMD, out Plame, FEMA, Brownie, abandon Afghanistan, NOT catch Bin Laden or shut down Al Qaeda, allow rampant war profiteering, Walter Reed, etc etc) and not raise the ire of Congress. But this attorney firing thingy might do him in. Not the Iraq War, not the Downing Street Minutes, not the Halliburton rip off, not the FEMA trailers in the desert, not suspending Habeas Corpus, not violating FISA, not violating The Constitution…
Oh Well, however it happens so long as it happens.
2. Eli | March 15th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
I don’t think it’s so much that *this* is finally the big one where all the other scandals were trivial, so much as that *this* one happened with a Democratic majority in Congress.
I suspect BushCo. wouldn’t have pulled nearly as much shit if they didn’t know Congress would always have their back.
3. PoliShifter | March 15th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
That’s a good point, I didn’t think about it that way…however, many Republicans are also calling for Gonzales to step down.
Do you think if it were still a Republican Majority that the rethugs would stay mum on this?
4. Eli | March 15th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Absolutely. They’d be telling the Dems to sit down and shut up… assuming they even had a need to.
5. JollyRoger | March 16th, 2007 at 1:17 am
I agree with Eli. I can almost see Sensenbrenner walking off with his gavel, and shutting off the lights.
They never thought they were going to lose again. That rotting hulk of fecal matter assured them that his math said they’d be tall in the saddle.
6. HopeSpringsATurtle | March 16th, 2007 at 2:12 am
Cover-ups hav ,strong> always been black.
7. Ruth | March 16th, 2007 at 5:49 am
Watergate happened because somebody got pissed off and told the WaPo’s Woodward and Bernstein … Harriet, you pissed enuff yet?
8. Eli | March 16th, 2007 at 6:55 am
They never thought they were going to lose again. That rotting hulk of fecal matter assured them that his math said they’d be tall in the saddle.
I wonder if they would have restrained themselves at all if there had been a Democratic Congress all along, or if they would have just made an effort to cover their tracks.
I really didn’t think they would be dumb enough to put so much incriminating stuff in e-mails – this is yet more proof that they really *are* incompetent and stupid; it’s not just a cover story.
Watergate happened because somebody got pissed off and told the WaPo’s Woodward and Bernstein … Harriet, you pissed enuff yet?
Harriet and Gonzo are absolutely, unconditionally, eternally loyal. Neither one of them is going to rat. Besides, they would forfeit whatever cushy wingnut welfare/lobbying gigs they’re in line for.