Harper's
by
Scott Horton
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Aug. 9, 2008
(Opinion)
Americans now have more confidence in the integrity and reliability of Post Office employees than they do in federal prosecutors and FBI agents. But is the Justice Department going to start coming to grips with its "truthiness" problem, or will it just plod along through inauguration day, 2009?
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Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Excellent op-ed that presents Mr. Horton's case against the justice department's integrity via a preponderance of verifiable accounts of subversion of the American justice processes. (I claim they are verifiable based on my personal and avid c-span veiwing of committee probes on many current issues, in which those who do not give the finger to the subpoena process, yet volunteer to testify do so under oath and have confirmed Mr. Horton's assertions.) Balance is not intended. I rated fairness based on Mr. Horton's evidence. truthful but not truthiness. Space permits only the one issue (subversion of the U.S. Attorney system)to be addressed. For this reason, I rate context lower because the Justice Department truthiness issue is a systemic (by design) omnipresent tactic that must now defend against every thing from document/evidence destruction, obstruction of justice (isn't that cute for a justice department?), violation of international conventions, deception in war justification, human rights violations, subversion of "Agency Authorities", etc ad nauseam. Truthiness, as described, is a necessity in a psychophant organization that is clearly in "damage control mode" to which, to this department, there are no legal, Constitutional, moral or ethical constraints. This is the "big picture". Media and the constituancy need more from Mr. Horton.
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