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If what Jon B. Eisenberg alleges is substantially true, I can't imagine how it is that Department of Justice employees like Anthony Coppolino, Erin Hogarty, and Thomas Bondy aren't abandoning their presently ordained roles as toadys for George W. Bush, in order to break this case wide open.
Presumably, they took an oath of office to protect the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic- not an oath to collaborate in a secrecy state protecting criminal acts in high office.
Sometimes it's imperative for people to snap out of their routine focus, drop their thralldom to the impostures of hierarchy, consider what is actually happening on their watch, and take responsibility.
Is it more likely that the sky is going to fall without a surveillance state based on the dictatorial whim of the US chief executive's Will To Power- or that the rule of law in this country is going to succumb to the dry rot of apathy, and unthinking fealty to the Fuhrerprinzip?
Time for a revolt of the guards- before it's too late.
