Justice Dept. accused of blocking Gonzales probe

Office of Special Counsel chief says his investigation into alleged politicization of the attorney general's agency has been repeatedly 'impeded.'

The status of the internal investigation of the department under Gonzales has been of great interest to lawmakers. The furor over the U.S. attorney dismissals was one of the factors that drove Gonzales, one of Bush's closest confidants, from office last year. Democrats believe that the U.S. attorneys were identified for dismissal based on their history of pursuing cases that could benefit Republican office-holders. Full Story »

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Francis Scalzi
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by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

A revealing expose of the tactics being employed by the DOD to protect from the law the inept and criminal G W Bush crony, Gonazales. We have known for quite some time that Bush has infiltrated every department and agency of the US government, not to mention the Supreme Court, with an array of his cronies and flunkies. The accusations leveled at Scott Bloch, which have never been proved, may well have originted with the Bush plants in the Office of Special Counsel. And it is most likely that Mukasey and the DOJ are sitting tight on their "investigation" of Gonzales' actions and corruption of the DOJ so as to prevent Bloch and the Office of Special Counsel from taking action. The article might have mentioned that this has happened before, repeatedly, most notably, but hardly exclusively, in the case of the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson. If the DOJ can stall any real investigation of Gonzales, he will go scott free and free of Scott. This has, in fact, been the operating pattern of the Bush administration in protecting itself from prosecution for its many crimes throughout its tenure in the White House. And this is certainly not a sudden epiphany; internet pundits, if not the MSM, have been pointing out these tactics for years.

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