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[Glenn, from the post]: That's why a former White House official and top right-wing activist like Blakeman can go on television and simply proclaim (without anyone contradicting him) that the President is the Attorney General's "client" and that whatever the Attorney General does to protect the President is accordingly justified in the same way that a standard lawyer's duty is to protect "his client's" interests.
... is that by dint of being the preznit's consiglie... -- umm, sorry, "attorney" -- and also being the nation's top prosecutor, Mukasey gets to be both prosecution and defence lawyer at the same time. Makes for much shorter pre-trial conferences, and a streamlined DoJ, at great savings to us all. Hip-hip-hooray! My rebate's in the mail....
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