[Sosfbay-discuss] Gonzales

[Wes Rolley]

The political circus that has pitched it's tent in Washington over the 
firing of US Attorneys is a great diversion from the Iraq War 
supplemental funding bill.   However, we should not lose site of two 
important issues.

First, that there is not question that the motivation in the firing of 
these specific US DA's was politically motivated.  Documents released so 
far show that the criteria for being a "good" DA was "loyalty to the 
President", not loyalty to the US Constitution.

It is also clear that California's Republican Congressmen were after the 
scalp of USDA Carol Lam for not paying enough attention to the 
prosecution of "criminal alien."  Maybe that was because she was 
prosecuting criminal Republican Congressmen.  It is ironic that one of 
the signatories of a letter to Attorney General Gonzales was "Duke" 
Cunningham. (Text of letter is here: 
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/duke-lam-letter/?resultpage=1&)

The second point is that the presidential offer, to allow Karl Rove to 
discuss the issue with the House and Senate committees behind closed 
doors, not under oath and with no transcript, indicates that they do not 
want the public to know what is going on.  I have seen most of the major 
media, including ABC's Diane Sawyer this AM, frame the question (To Tony 
Snow-job) as "if you have nothing to hide, why won't they testify under 
oath?"  I would rather she had said that the public has a right to know 
what is going on.  Public testimony would show how every single action 
by anyone in Washington is decided not by it's moral correctness, or 
even by whether is is good the the country, but strictly by the single 
criteria of what political advantage can we gain by doing this.


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Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; 
We must do. –Leonardo DaVinci
Wesley C. Rolley
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