Globe Editorial: Contemptible Conduct At Justice

Globe Editorial
Contemptible conduct at Justice
July 25, 2007

WHEN A senator of the president's party tells his attorney general that his "credibility has been breached to the point of being actionable," it is time for the president to stop letting loyalty blind him to that Cabinet member's incompetence and untrustworthiness. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has long since forfeited Congress's and the public's faith in his leadership of the Justice Department.

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Concerning the firing of the US attorneys, Gonzales refused to answer questions yesterday, on the curious grounds that his involvement in the decisions disqualified him from doing so. Both the Senate and House judiciary committees are trying to determine if the purge was motivated by politics. Several of the fired attorneys had either prosecuted Republican officeholders or decided not to bring charges in cases of alleged voting fraud by Democrats.

The congressional inquiries have been stymied by the refusal of Bush aides to testify on the grounds of executive privilege. Congress has threatened to cite them for contempt, but this week the White House said it would order the Justice Department not to prosecute any of the aides for contempt of Congress.

The brazenness of that interference in the function of Congress and the courts caused Specter yesterday to ask Gonzales, "Do you think constitutional government in the United States can survive if the president has the unilateral authority to reject congressional inquiries?" Gonzales, predictably, refused to answer. But the question will not go away, as Congress tries to determine the depths to which Bush's unfit attorney general has brought the nation's once-respected Department of Justice.

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Very good editorial.
Impeach Gonzo.

"Do you think constitutional government in the United States can survive if the president has the unilateral authority to reject congressional inquiries?"

I mean, how tough would have been to just LIE like has about everything else? To refuse to answer is essentially no different than affirming the premise of the question. These people know exactly what they're doing...they're taking over the government permanently, and destroying the democracy in the process. It's their plan.

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