Feb
10
Jackson Free Press: Corruption in the Bush Justice Department
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The Jackson (Mississippi) Free Press has an article strongly critical of the Bush Justice Department.
“Of all the interesting odors hovering in the wake of the exiting Bush administration, the most pervasive smell could prove to be the sickly scent of corruption. The reek sank as far south as Mississippi, and will likely take Congress years to clean, if it manages to get its hands on a big enough mop.
Congressional Democrats are repeating a failed 2007 effort to drag former White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove to testify on the alleged politicization of the U.S. Department of Justice under former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Rep. John Conyers, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, fired off another subpoena to Rove last month, demanding his presence at a Feb. 2 hearing.
Conyers also wants Rove to address questions on the Justice Department’s firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006, an issue that first prompted suspicion about the politicizing of the Justice Department.
A series of DOJ internal e-mails contains a list of targets, rated first to last according to their sense of “loyalty to the President and Attorney General.”
Rove Goes Local
Mississippi U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton was one of the names on a 26-member hit-list, but Lampton held his job after bringing a series of indictments aimed specifically at Democratic judges and a prominent Democratic fundraiser.”
Read the rest here.
