Congress Going DEM, so FBI Now Vows to Clean Up Congress....

[McCamy Taylor]

Here is the odd little story that at first glance makes no sense at all.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/15941495.htm

Chief says FBI unit focusing on Congress
By GREG GORDON
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The new chief of the FBI's Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on Congress.

Assistant FBI Director James Burrus called the bureau's public corruption program "a sleeping giant that we've awoken," and predicted that the nation will see emphasis in that area "for many, many, many years to come."

:wtf:

Jack Abramoff and buddies were allowed to frolic for years without interference from the Department of Justice, but now, on the eve of an election in which voters are going to sweep out the old and sweep in the new, Al Gonzales and the DOJ are finally vowing to clean up Congress? What gives?

Here is what I think is happening. The White House knows that the House is lost and believes that the Senate will turn, too. Since it will look very strange if the FBI, which has played hands off for six years, suddenly starts conducting a bucnh of Congressional investigations and undercover investigations and raids aimed at getting (Democratic) Congressmen kicked out of office, the DOJ has chosen to make this announcement right before the election so that it can claim that it is respnding to the Abramoff scandal.

What Al Gonzales is really responding to is the spectre of a Democratic majority. He plans to blackmail Democratic congressional leaders to force them to back off from investigations of administration officials and to force them to write GOP favored legislation. He can use the FBI's power to raid congressional offices to seize whistleblower testimony to determine in advance who the whistleblowers are and what they are going to say if an investigation is planned. In the Senate, he can target one or two Democrats from states with GOP governors, get them expelled and then switch the balance of power.

This is the kind of work that Al Gonzales does in all the free time he has since he does not bother enforcing the Voting Rights Act or the Bill of Rights.

Just another set of reasons why I believe that Al Gonzales is the biggest criminal in the Bush administration. When the man who is supposed to enforce the law uses that power to break the law, your country is in a hell of a lot of trouble.

[Double T]

1. When will 'al' ADD the clean up of the WH to HIS dirty laundry list???

[ShortnFiery]

2. Yes, they'll shamelessly focus on democrats ...

or did I miss them searching Delay's, Ney's and Foley's offices? :shrug:

Nope, but they did scour through Jefferson's. :(

[Kber]

3. Nice of the FBI to get on the stick like this

but I think the voters are going to take care of the problem for them.

Thanks anyway though guys.

[AJ9000]

4. You may be right, and the media will suddenly start watchdogging congress.

[SharonAnn]

5. I'm OK with investigating ALL of Congress. They're public officials

and if they're corrupt, I want them prosecuted.

I don't subscribe to the belief that somehow "out thieves" are better than "their thieves".

[Bucky]

6. In some ways, this is good. I want all members of Congress to live in fear of entrapment.

If it works on the Democrats, then in two years we can show how our side doesn't create the same culture of corruption that happens when Republicans are in charge.