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Depoliticizing Crime and Decriminalizing Politics

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:10:32 -0700

TCS Daily - By James H. Joyner Jr. - Mar. 23 (News Analysis) - The recent flap over the Bush Administration's firing of eight U.S. attorneys has demonstrated the escalation of two related and unfortunate trends in American politics: the politicization of crime and the criminalization of politics. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other Administration officials have contended that the firings were for "performance" reasons and emphasized that they were well within the prerogative of the president, since U.S. Attorneys are appointees who "serve at the pleasure of the president." Congressional Democrats (and an increasing number of Congressional Republicans) smell something fishy in some of the firings, whose timings were suspiciously close with impending indictments against prominent Republicans or failed attempts exercise political pressure to bring prosecutions against Democrats for voter fraud. Further, some contend that Administration officials may have perjured themselves in misrepresenting the nature of the firings to Congress.

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The Human Calculus of National Security

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:50:01 -0800

TCS Daily - By Philip R. O'Connor PH.D - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Sen. Boxer has posed a fundamental question: What price in American lives are we prepared to pay for our national security policies?

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Why Intellectuals Love Defeat

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:00:04 -0800

TCS Daily - By Josh Manchester - Nov. 13 (News Report) - It is difficult not to conclude that there is a class of well-intentioned individuals in the United States like him who don't merely feel as they do upon witnessing a defeat, but instead think this way all the time. Like it or not, this mentality of permanent defeat plays a large part in the Democratic Party. It is now up to President Bush and the new Democratic congressional leadership to see that it does not become dominant.

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