http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/us/27justice.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The Office of Professional Responsibility ruled misconduct even without the emails, on the physical evidence.The deputy attorney general exonerated them of misconduct, overruled the Office, apparently (we now rediscover) without knowing what their conduct had actually been. Archiving of the emails was required, by Federal law - just as archiving of Rove's emails, Cheney's emails, and so forth, was required.
Ummm... so this is TortureGate, I'm assuming? And the emails were "shredded", in violation of Federal law? And someone (deputy attorney general) now thinks that's just plain acceptable? Hee, hee, hee? We have NO Constitution anymore. And no federal regulations, either. Unless they're federal regulations that say there's no Constitution. And even those regulations may be followed and executed or violated at one's discretion.
I never knew the Constitution addressed emails. Face it. Sometimes it is necessary to use torture to get information when lives are at stake. Especially when dealing with people who have no scruples against mass murder in the name of their God.
It addresses the authority of the law, over government officials. By Federal law, those emails were to have been archived. As were Rove's, Cheney's, W's, etc. No one is above the law - least of all a pack of government lawyers attempting to cover up even worse crimes.
Federal law is the reason we are filling Federal prisons with harmless pot heads. Lawyers make the laws. We pay them to help us deal with them when the law entangles us. Do you really think lawyers will fall into the traps they craft?
Laughable. But hardly a novel approach. But a sad day for all those decent folk that gave everything to defend the liberty and integrity that the US represents...ed. :m:
