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Saul, too right, I'm afraid

What I wonder is why this case is being tried in District court in Detroit of all places? It seems like a strange venue. I get mad all over again when I read the smug and arrogant attitude of the Federal attorney. We aren't going to provide the court with evidence, we will leave some documents for you to review, but you have to bome see them. That is no way to run a trial.

Funny how the Bush Administration was so quick to rant about activist judges, ruling like mavericks, except when the 2000 election was ruled in their favor.

As for Congress, it is disgusting how they are rolling over for this, they are so whipped it's pathetic.

posted by Blanche. on June 13, 2006 at 6:24 PM | link to this | reply

The ACLU does not have a chance in hell of being heard by a

predominantly right-wing and GOP-rich Judiciary. And you are right about the Plame situation. Rove is getting away with a treasonous act. Executive privilege has become rule in absentia, those being absent are our Congress. They're too busy quoting Norwegian gay marriage statistics, commending Mongolia for being a state for 800 years and such. Imbeciles. A bunch of assinine Neros strumming Dueling Banjos on their fiddles with the country falls apart around them. And the Judiciary? Just a couple rulings away from stepping back into the turn of the century -- 1900!!!

posted by saul_relative on June 13, 2006 at 6:21 PM | link to this | reply

Saul,

The repercussions of letting Rove skate are huge: he KNOWINGLY and MALICIOUSLY fed the media (who was it, The Washington Post?) a CIA operative's identity, which could have cost the lives of any number of people associated with her, and ended her career.

What was his noble motive? To get back at her husband, Joe Wilson, for daring to dispute the White House's dubious pretext of Iraq purchases of uranium from Niger. I love the misogynistic spin the GOP put on his trip, too: his wife sent him to Niger, therefore, he's whipped and under a woman's thumb. His wife did not send him anywhere, the Vice President sent him to investigate reports on the advice of the CIA. These duplicitious, devious people. Politics is such a dirty business and the public keeps buying what we've been fed. Grr.

posted by Blanche. on June 13, 2006 at 6:12 PM | link to this | reply

Saul, Karl Rove just got off on the Plame indictment?

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed. The GOP and the White House are so blatantly re-writing the Executive powers, it's arrogance incarnate. I read in the NY Times today that the ACLU has filed and brought suit against the the Administration to challenge the NSA warrantless wiretaps. I wish them luck .

The judge has to rule if they have standing, and can prove that the journalists, NGOs and others they represent have been significantly injured enough to have standing. The Feds are saying, "We don't need to show you no steenkin documents, it's not your businesss, it's State Secret" A favorite ploy of Justice Dept. these days. Sigh. It's been a LONG 5 years with more to come.

posted by Blanche. on June 13, 2006 at 6:05 PM | link to this | reply

Could be proof there isn't a god, LeRoyCoyote. Or at least an

uncaring, insensitive, aloof deity. Politics is such a strange business.

posted by saul_relative on June 13, 2006 at 5:54 PM | link to this | reply

GOP comeback

I am no prophet but you sound convincing. God looks after drunks, the U.S. Army, and the Republican party?