W’s third Attorney General, Michael Mukasey must be very proud. After all, following John “Tap that Wire” Ashcroft and Alberto “Geneva = Quaint” Gonzales is pretty intimidating. Still, he’s off to a great start in making sure the Justice Department is looking out for justice department.
Mukasey announced that there will be no criminal prosecutions for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers. He told delegates to the American Bar Association annual meeting, “Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. In this instance, the two joint reports found only violations of the civil service laws.”
I’m no lawyer, but my understanding of English tells me that if you violated the law, you committed a crime. What I get from all of this is that the Attorney General’s job is to create new definitions to commonly accepted principles, not uphold justice. Let’s review:
- John Ashcroft – civil liberties do not mean freedom, rather that the government knows things it can’t tell you and therefore knows better than you what’s good for you.
- Alberto Gonzales – torture is humane brutality.
- Michael Mukasey – criminal activity is only when you break a law that conflicts with administration interests.
* Thanks to David Tuffy for the edit. See David’s comment for more.
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It’s “toe the line” brother… maybe your understanding of the English language isn’t all that.
http://grammartips.homestead.com/toetheline.html
Well there you have it. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know English. It’s a good thing that we have had such great attorneys general that have both skills.