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White House Must Answer For Missing Emails
Lucas123 writes "A District Court judge this week ruled in favor of a Washington-based watchdog group, allowing them to question White House officials about missing emails involving controversial issues. The subjects include the release of the identity of a former CIA operative, the reasons for launching the war in Iraq and actions by the US Department of Justice. The group had filed suit [PDF] last May against the White House Office of Administration, seeking access to White House email under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The discovery ruling is bringing to light issues of email retention in businesses and other private organizations. We've previously discussed the White House's difficulties with email."
Dick Cheney doesn't care about the Presidential Records Act. That's the least of our problems. He doesn't care about any of his legal responsibilities, or even the constitution. He will chalk all of this illegal behavior up to "his interpretation of the rules," and he has consolidated so much power in the executive brand nobody can touch him (and of course, Mr. Bush). These documents will be destroyed years before the Democratic congress can repair the damage that has been done by this administration, but hopefully lessons were learned and this will never happen again.
This is what happens when there's a Republican Congress and a Republican President. Congress lets him run free and completely ignores their oversight responsibilities, acting like lords and barons in a monarchy, knowing they'll get kick-backs from the king. Don't believe me? Guess how many times in six years the Republican-controlled Congress subpoenaed the Bush administration for potential executive abuses? Yeah, zero. In contrast, Clinton's administration was subpoenaed over 1000 times.
Our government is completely broken... worrying about emails with a blow-by-blow description about how the system of checks and balances in this country got destroyed is a waste of time; We need to look at these last eight years on a macro level and make sure through legislation that this disaster never happens again.
You're right that they didn't go after Bill for the sex. The impeached Clinton out of pure spite, because they've hated that family ever since Hillary was legal council to the committee for the impeachment of Nixon. Any other partisan explanation you might have is completely baseless... Kenneth Starr was trying to nail Bill for anything he could get his hands on for the entirety of his administration because he was a partisan hack with a revenge motive.
Cleland volunteered for combat, and lost three limbs.
Bush had his rich daddy pull strings to dodge the draft, and then deserted anyway because he couldn't be bothered to do his pretend peace time rich boy tour.
Bush called Cleland "soft on national security".
That really says it all about the current Republican Party -- it is the Party of Cowards, Deserters, Draft Dodgers, and the Corrupt, Immoral gay-whore frequenting rich fat guys.
No, dipshit. It's not meant to excuse Bush, but to point out to all the left-wing "Bush is the worst president evar because..." nut jobs that this shit has been going on for probably 225-odd years.
You want to claim how horrible Bush is? Fine ... just don't produce a list that can be applied to a number of other previous presidents practically verbatim.