The new Watergate?
CounterPunch
by Marjorie Cohn
04/12/07
The Bush administration is shocked, shocked, that the firing of a few U.S. attorneys has caused such a stir in Washington. After all, the Oval Office says, the President can choose whomever he wants to prosecute federal cases. But the Supreme Court declared in Berger v. United States that a prosecutor’s job is to see that justice is done, not to politicize justice. The mass ouster of the top prosecutors had more to do with keeping a grip on power — by manipulating voting rights — than with doing justice. And like the Watergate scandal, the evidence points to a cover-up...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn04122007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn
by Marjorie Cohn
04/12/07
The Bush administration is shocked, shocked, that the firing of a few U.S. attorneys has caused such a stir in Washington. After all, the Oval Office says, the President can choose whomever he wants to prosecute federal cases. But the Supreme Court declared in Berger v. United States that a prosecutor’s job is to see that justice is done, not to politicize justice. The mass ouster of the top prosecutors had more to do with keeping a grip on power — by manipulating voting rights — than with doing justice. And like the Watergate scandal, the evidence points to a cover-up...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn04122007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn
rudkla - 13. Apr, 15:55
