Comments on: House Judiciary Calls for Investigation into DoJ Selective Prosecution

by: publius

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:47:30 +0000

John Conyers? please… has anyone looked at the House Judiciary Committee members? The only thief not present is Alcee Hastings, a disgraced federal judge/criminal, that most of the Judiciary Committee members who are democrats, vouched for.
Please, even if there is a smidgeon of truth, these are the wrong people to carry it. This is like Johnny Crawford, John Teague, Don Siegelman, Lanny Young, Nick Bailey, Bill Blount, Larry Langford, Paul Hamrick, and Steve Windom starting a Church or a bank…

by: Anonymous

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:59:13 +0000

#15, you’re assuming it was Alice Martin, and not mid-level Washington DC bureaucrats at DOJ (who aren’t necessarily replaced during a change in the presidency) who made the decision to continue the prosecution. Remember that the lawyers in her office didn’t actually try the case; lawyers from DOJ, I believe, were brought in to try it. Only one lawyer from her office sat at the table, and I don’t remember him doing anything substantive during trial.

by: Anonymous

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:49:21 +0000

Nobody — you and many others refuse to see this distinction. Appointing somebody who was a contributor is not a crime. Appointing somebody IN EXCHANGE for their contribution is a crime. That’s what Siegelman did with Scrushy.

by: Montgomery

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:27:05 +0000

To Anonymous #3-
Doug Jones might have prosecuted Jim Woodward, but it was the Bush Justice Department, and Alice Martin’s Northern District, that chose to continue the prosecution and brought him to trial again, after it was sent back following an appeal. Surely, had there been a “political prosecution” in the first place, the even-handed prosecutors currently in office would have righted the previous wrong. Or am I missing something?

by: Reactionary

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:30:46 +0000

Nobody - tell me how Siegelman got the motorcycle.

by: Nobody

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:51:49 +0000

Siegleman is guilty of being a governor who lost. There is absolutely nothing that he did that Governor Bob Riley hasn’t already done. If Sieglemen deserves to be in jail then every single decision maker in Alabama politics needs to go to jail as well. Every Governor in Alabama history has appointed people to boards and every single one of those people appointed had given a donation to that Governor’s campaign.

Take something as insignificant as the Historical Commission and you will see that nearly every person appointed by the Governor was also a campaign contributor.

by: Anonymous

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:45:42 +0000

Onelife off in la-la-la-la land. There are no Clinton DOJ prosecutions that come anywhere near the stuff this DOJ has pulled. Pure fantasy to the degree that it is a waste of relocated electrons.

by: Onelife

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:32:55 +0000

>>The House Judiciary Committee today has sent letters (available here in a .pdf file) to the DoJ Inspector General and to the DoJ Office of Professional Responsibility “to request that your offices conduct a thorough investigation and report on the troubling allegations of selective, politically-motivated prosecution in recent years by the Department of Justice.”

A DOJ with some balls would respond with a list of selective, politically-motivated prosecutions from the Clinton Administration and ask, “Is this what you mean by ‘recent years’?”

by: Stubborn

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:27:07 +0000

What a joke ! Former AG’s both R’s and D’s from 40 states, the House judiciary committee, Independent counsel, Reagan’s former Asst. Sec. of Treasury, and the 11th Circuit court of appeals are all full of crap. I don’t care that the 11th circuit is the most conservative appellate court in America, they are off base and obviously part of this brain washing. You mark my words, very soon people will go back to ignoring the facts just like they did for years, and we can simply say what we want about Don and it will be accepted as reality. I’m holding on for that day. Damn the facts….full delusion ahead.

by: Anonymous

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:16:19 +0000

About time! This is good news!