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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:00 AM

The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal

While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:49 PM

Our public servants

This only goes to reinforce, though it was already pretty clear, that the scoundrels in Washington are just looking out for each other and the elite who put them in power. The last thing they care about is the rule of law, fair play, or the interests of the average Joe. They are the antithesis of all that is good and true in this world.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:50 PM

Our reznit Babble-Blatherer said;

liberals sue everyone about anything they think they can get into court ...

Wow. And I though Norm Coleman was a Republican....

Cheers,

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:54 PM

Oh!, Jebbie

We Have A Winner for Today's ToD

Eager to see who could have earned TOD so early in the day, I clicked on your link to find no one had been named.

Still, I was very glad to see Derbig got his Mensch crown.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:55 PM

DiFi? A liberal hero?

That one just boggles the mind.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:56 PM

Glenn

I'm not ignoring you, but I will be busy with something until later tonight. I'll happily respond to your questions then.

Thanks,

JS

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:56 PM

-- ethics_professor

It's there.

You just have to work for it.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:58 PM

Oh!, Jebbie

It's there.

You just have to work for it.

I beg your pardon.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:59 PM

Why the intense outrage, why the over the top BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)?

It's not very pretty.

It will win you few converts.

Perhaps you have such high regard for your radical Islamic Brothers because you share with then a certain kind of hysteria and the same utter refusal to consider criticism of your cause.

Your politics some think is your religion.

Does secular humanism turn into Das Sekular Humanizm, run by an all powerful state, run by enlightened bureaucrats who all think exactly as you do?

Are you so rigid in your views and so horrified by those who object or differ, because, for you, your politics is a fundamental belief system.

If that is the case, and you are willing to take a look at it, does it not boil down to a kind of madness.

Is it your madness which makes you mad, and not really Bush who makes you so mad alla da tyme?

We all need someone to lean on goes the song. Is this youe religion, and anyone who differs is a non-believing infidel?

Hello?

I'm a human being too, so excuse me!

I'm just asking you to think. Your pony tails won't fall off if you think, my frems.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:00 PM

I beg your pardon. -- ethics_professor

It is tricky today. Listen to the music.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:03 PM

One of our other eedjits wrote:

You are so cocksure of your politics and so deranged when dealing with criticism or opposition to your views....

You mispelled "wittily and incisively sarcastic". Not that a person of your intellectual mein would notice.

Cheers,

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:05 PM

Smelly Feet

Think about THIS, suppurating hemorrhoid

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/07/1736214.aspx

and tell us about the superiority of your political ideology.

Nitwit.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:05 PM

H.Reid on Ted Stevens

Yet another piece of evidence, to support Glenn's thesis.

Harry Reid on Ted Stevens:

"My personal feeling, you guys, I don't know what good that [would do]... He was a real war hero too, you know. He's been punished enough,"

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:09 PM

Jestaplero

Thank you for your reply. I love the internet because I get to ask smart people questions--and they answer me. That is so cool.

Police interrogators are known for that ("Confess everything and you can go home!"...not) but prosecutors generally don't speak to defendants, but to their attorneys, so that wouldn't work.

Have you met any of my attorneys?;)

If I were him I would have gone to someone like Russ Feingold or John Conyers and not the press. That's the way to out the program without criminal liability.

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that Tamm wouldn't have told them anything they didn't already know.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:10 PM

I'm a human being too, so excuse me! -- Lotus Feet

No, you are wrong there. You are a Homo Sapien animal no doubt, but to be fully human requires much more. You are not human.

Your comments here show someone who lacks empathy and even a drop of Human Kindness or compassion.

There is possible a cure. Find a place where Quakers are talking to one another a listen a while. Just listen. Perhaps that might jolt you in some way into being aware of the animalistic things you have stood for here.

Note: I pick Quakers over my own path in that they are very American and not as foreign sounding as some eastern ways. But, there are many other paths toward curing yourself.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:11 PM

-- ethics_professor

I beg your pardon. --Scooter Libby
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:17 PM

Jebbie

I beg your pardon. --Scooter Libby

Yes, but did Scooter "have to work for it"?

I think not.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:19 PM

Well, thank you all for your superior thought.

You are doing a very good job in making my case that true believers like you who accept no criticism and brook no opposition are exactly why our Founding Fathers did their very best to create a complicated government structure which would hopefully forever bar dangerous nut cases such as yourselves from ever winning power.

Cheers

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:30 PM

I am outraged

"I try to keep my defendants out of the grand jury because they get to explain what they did and often you will have jury nullification - they will dismiss the case (and there's nothing the prosecutor can do about it) if they think if they think the defendant was right to do what he did, even if he did break the letter of the law.

-- Jestaplero

Is this true? I thought that pretty much the whole purpose of having a jury was the possibility of exactly that: nullification based upon the defendant explaining, and the jury agreeing that he was right to do what he did, even if he did break the letter of the law. If not, surely justice is a lie.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:36 PM

Hi there Dubya!

"...true believers ... who accept no criticism and brook no opposition ... forever bar dangerous nut cases ... from ever winning power."

Thanks smellyfeet

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 03:40 PM

I suggest you proof-read what you write prior to posting...

You are doing a very good job in making my case that true believers like you who accept no criticism and brook no opposition are exactly why our Founding Fathers did their very best to create a complicated government structure which would hopefully forever bar dangerous nut cases such as yourselves from ever winning power.

Cheers

-- Lotus Feet

because you seem very confused about the difference between elections and governance. You might want to read up on that, e.g., moron W was elected (well, sort of) and he is clearly a very dangerous nut case indeed.

Double-cheers!

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