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“. . . to be verbally abusive . . . It's the sort of thing commonly found when conventional wisdom is challenged and found wanting.”
Which "conventional wisdom" would that be? Yours and everyone else that thinks the rule of law is quaint and not equally applicable to all? And we are only as verbally abusive to you as you are painstakingly obtuse and inane.
“. . . declared Bush and all criminals. The calls for investigation echo round the room on a daily basis, with "rule of law" pontifically intoned at every opportunity. Yet when someone on their "team" is subject to the terms they demand, foul is protested. It's garden variety hypocrisy."
We've declared there is ample evidence to investigate and prosecute if warranted. That is all. Though we might have attributed the commission of criminal acts to him and his underlings. There is ample reason to believe crimes have been perpetrated as they have been admitted to repeatedly. Which person on "our team" have we cried foul about. Seems to me we are equally hard on the enablers and criminals on "our team" which is by defition consistent rather than hypocritical. If there is an "our team" around here it isn't the Dems necessarily but integrity, factual and intellectual rigor, justice, moral proportionality, humanity before nationality, equal application of the rule of law to all regardless of status.
“Moreover . . . it may turn out like the two year investigation into the Plame leakages, where noone was indicted for the leaks . . . including the actual perps, who were known to Fitzgerald even before the investigation began.”
Wasn't Scooter Libby investigated, indicted, prosecuted, and sentence commuted. Lucky for everyone else he didn't "roll over" as the jury was firmly convinced he was covering for many others. Every Prince needs his courtiers willing to fall on their swords eh?
“ . . . legitimate programs like the Swift banking affair were exposed making the tracing of funds impossible. Quite frankly, it's my opinion that adolescent desires for revenge and retribution are at work here . . . “
Do you know for a fact that "tracing of illegal monetary transactions" is now "impossible" or are you just clairvoyantly speculating and pontificating? And I know to you the pursuit of "justice" is equivalent to a desire for revenge and retribution, but that doesn't make it true.
