Not forthcoming,Out of an increasingly muddled picture comes the image of partisanship at the DOJ

[maddezmom]

The more Justice Department officials and former officials testify before Congress, the dimmer the picture of the department's inner workings grows. To date, none of the officials responsible for listing U.S. attorneys for dismissal has been able or willing to disclose why they were listed and some later fired.

~snip~

Despite the inability or unwillingness of Gonzales and his associates to tell Congress and the public what happened, there have emerged several undisputed truths:

• Goodling, by her own admission, used partisan criteria to hire career prosecutors. This eroded the Justice Department's impartiality upon which the criminal justice system rests.

• Goodling testified under a grant of immunity from prosecution. She can be believed when she said her bosses had not been forthcoming to Congress.

• The attorney general of the United States entrusted to inexperienced and partisan aides the decision to fire chief federal prosecutors. According to Gonzales, he inexplicably let eight or nine U.S. attorneys — some praised as the nation's best prosecutors — be fired without knowing why they were being fired.

• While the attorney general, the man in charge, delegated the power to hire and fire U.S. attorneys, White House political operatives, including Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, were actively involved in identifying which federal prosecutors to fire.

• President Bush expressed continued confidence in Gonzales, saying the attorney general had done nothing wrong. In finding no fault, the president indirectly gave his blessing to the use of the Justice Department for partisan ends.

more:http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4834545.html

[indepat]

1. The President gave his blessing to the use of the Justice Department for partisan ends period

end of story move on

[L. Coyote]

4. The President gives orders, the Pope gives blessings.

[cassiepriam]

2. Rove is running the DOJ. That is clear. And everyone answers to him.

[L. Coyote]

3. The "Rove Ruse," yet another fallback position, a sacrificial lamb for "The Decider" ?

Rove is an aide, nothing more, and he has a boss, "The Decider."

I liken Rove to a colorful, engorged piñata at a political party, hung out for every blind fool to try to take a swipe at.
Meanwhile, the guy who hung him out there is not to be seen, and that's the idea, deflection to a subordinate.

Don't fall for the Rove Ruse. Take off the blindfold and go directly to the pantry to find the candy stash, the $bilked billions$.

[cassiepriam]

5. But Bush is only the front man. He isn't smart enough to cook up the schemes.

[L. Coyote]

6. Right, blame anyone but the elected guy in charge. That's so Republican of you!

[cassiepriam]

7. Sigh. DU is always such a pleasant place to be. :(

I will forgive you for calling me a republican.
But it is such bad karma for you dear.