dept of justice

Andrew Sullivan has suddenly discovered that John McCain is not a man of integrity:

The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person.

TN GOP flack Bill Hobbs needs to get his story straight about media access to the TN GOP’s Statesmen’s Dinner Saturday night.

The findings are in, the report is finished. The Department of Justice Inspector General has found definitively that the Bush administration broke federal law in politicizing hiring practices in the Dept. of Justice.

From the report (p.99):

The findings are in, the report is finished. The Department of Justice Inspector General has found definitively that the Bush administration broke federal law in politicizing hiring practices in the Dept. of Justice.
From the report (p.99):
The documentary evidence and witness interviews also support the conclusion that two members of the 2006 Screening Committee, [...]

Hey, it only took the Dept. of Justice thirteen months to give its approval to the proposed merger between SIRIUS Satellite Radio and XM Radio.

Criminal behavior? You're damn right, that's why they call it "criminal contempt."

The criminal contempt citations of White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers have been ignored by the Bush Administration, as was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's request to Attorney General Michael Mukasey to refer the House's contempt citations to a federal grand jury. Instead of letting a jury decide, Bush uses his henchman Mukasey to subvert the law.

NRA has a list of congresscritters supporting the good guys. For those who asked, McCain is on there. And so are all of my Reps. Thanks, guys.

Update: and Cheney? So, have he and Bush had a talk about the Dept. of Justice?

Update 2: NRA has a statement on the Cheney thing:

In a typical fascist move toward greater government secrecy, Bush’s FY’09 budget effectively eliminates the funding authorized by a new law for a Government Information Services Office within the National Archives and Records Administration.
Instead, Bush has shifted that funding away from the National Archive to the Dept of Justice. The problem lies in the [...]