Perverting justice for politics

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo

... the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office -- at least some of whom are in the midst of corruption investigations of Bush administration officials and key Republican lawmakers. We also know that they're taking advantage of a handy provision of the USA Patriot Act that allows the White House to replace these fired USAs with appointees who don't need to be approved by the senate.

And one of the replacements, who will remain until Bush is out of office:

So who's Griffin and what experience does he bring to the job?
Well, top of the list seems to be his stint at the White House where he worked for Karl Rove doing opposition research on Democrats.
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Back in 2000, when he was in charge of digging up dirt on Al Gore, he apparently had a poster hanging on the wall behind his desk which read: "On my command - unleash hell on Al."

Another result of passing the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act without reading it. [edit: Apparently it was in the reauthorization, not the original Act.]

More, with links to the relevant law.
Diane Feinstein spoke about it today.