Wednesday, January 10, 2007

A cause for worry: no prosecution of leakers

I've always had faith in our Constitutional system, that it applies to all citizens of this great country. Today, I'm facing a serious crisis of that faith.

As reported (via Power Line) by New York Sun's Josh Gerstein, the people who broke a multitude of laws in their partisan efforts to undermine the elected government and influence policy are not going to be prosecuted, because the investigations were blocked by those under investigation.

Guys like Sandy Burglar and half the sniggering would-be puppet masters can walk because there is no cooperation between the FBI and the CIA, and thus some people are apparently above the law.

The problem I have with the whole thing is that they labeled the CIA "the victim agency". Yes, the leaks were ostensibly CIA information, i.e., property stolen from the agency, but the victims here, it seems to me, are the general public, who have had their freedom, their elected government undermined by a handful of creeps who fancy themselves to be policymakers ahead of those who were actually officially hired by the public to do the job.

Sorry about the run-on sentences, but, by damn, I'm too angry to be concise.

These anal apertures think they can run our country! Well, I'm sorry, but I didn't vote them into the White House, and neither did any other loyal, true Americans. If they're planning their little coups, they can damned well be brought up on trial like any others who would make such an attempt, overtly or covertly.

I am sick and tired of the privileged few walking away laughing at the rest of us peons. It is time the Department of Justice got its act together and started living up to its name.

And, any agency which interferes in the honest seeking of justice ought to see itself defunded. Start with the CIA and whichever office(s) in the State Department has been playing footsie with the NY Times.


Update, 11 Jan: more from Scott Johnson at Power Line, well worth reading.

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