Shining on Justice scandal with Starr light
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Partisan GOP prosecutors? What else is new? The editors of America's most prestigious newspapers pronounce themselves flabbergasted by the Bush administration's corrupt and nakedly partisan machinations at the Department of Justice. As well they should. Hiring and firing U.S. attorneys according to their willingness to use the criminal justice system to benefit the Republican Party shocks the conscience of anybody committed to the Constitution and the rule of law. Some of us wonder why it's taken them so long to grasp the obvious. Because last time around, The New York Times and Washington Post were urging them on.
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