Meanwhile, back at the ranch, would someone in the peanut gallery like to remind me why we don't hear much about the actual leakers of Plame's station? You know, Armitage and Novak?

This wouldn't be an exercise in political kneecapping would it? Heh. Jeff Gillooly would be proud of you folks.

When I was active duty, I noticed that most of the "scandals" resulted from bad JAG advice.

Base and large unit commanders have JAGs assigned to them - so called staff judge advocates. Too often I'd see those SJAs scrambling for legal justification for their boss to do as he or she wished instead of advising him or her on what was the right thing to do. It got more than one senior officer in hot water.

I've also been unfortunate enough to seen military prosecutors forget they must above all be proponents of justice. Too often in their zeal to "win" they became government hacks and were no longer neutral arbiters of fairness.

For a while, I thought those failings were due to inexperience, but then I saw senior JAGs up to the same crap.

For what it's worth, the Justice Department GG describes today seems similar. They fail to understand their true mission is not to toady for their boss, but to do the right thing.

Excellent -- I never watch those news shows because they infuriate me but as I surfed, I happened to catch Abrams berating the Dems in Congress about not doing anything substantial against all this lawlessness -- which caused me to stop and watch.

Then when I saw that idiot say that about the AG and no one contradicting him, I started violently yelling at the TV. How one of those talking boobs could not set the story straight was beyond me. It reaffirmed my decision just to stay away from those news programs -- mainly for my health (blood pressure) -- but also because it is so depressing that they get people on that have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and the corporate owned media seems to not care.

The worst is the Race for the White House simutaneously broadcast on Air America in the first hour of the Rachel Maddow Show. Love Maddow, but the inanity of that show is beyond me.

i'm SO glad someone is calling this out. I was screaming at my television watching this when neither Abrams nor the other panelists corrected that statement.

Are they stupid or afraid? man, that shit is frustrating.

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Worthy of note too is that it was Ashkroft at his hearings -- on the very same day -- who claimed that the President had been his "client" as the reason he was avoiding revealing

Mr. Dubayia's direct involvement in the trampling upon our Constitution and all of the other abuses of power perpetrated by these grade "C" miserable employees of the voters.

Sounds like just another Gas&Oil Party Talking Point of the week, (which they will reuse if people buy it) addressed to --- who they know to be a confused and brainwashed (by them and the GE-TVs) electorate --- along with their ongoing campaign to blame Democrats for high oil prices and all of the other crimes perpetuated by them upon us for far too long now...

...Which makes the 2008 election so pivotal. Because for We the People to take back our country a Democrat must take back the Executive Branch.

It is not a matter of the personalities involved (such as what an embarassment to ones intelligence McCain has become)...it is about the Agencies Americans PAY to protect our interests

verus the foxes the Republicans Totallitarians have put in to guard the chicken coop, and their using of the Justice Department as a weapon against oppostion.

This absurd state of affairs would be comical were it not so serious. The lack of awareness on the part of Abrams (who I believe is also a lawyer) to challenge Blakeman is nearly as bad as Blakeman's assertion. Having read the post and comments, I'm reminded of the old Star Trek episode "Omega Glory," involving a post-apocalyptic battle between the degenerate Yangs and Kohms. There, we have the tribal chief holding tight to his chest a crumbling, meaningless Constitution that no longer functions as a foundational document of government. He intones in fractured Latin the relic's holiness while demonstrating not a scintilla of awareness of its meaning. What was once viewed as a comical, heavy handed piece of propaganda now seems embarrassingly prescient.