Scott Horton: "Gonzales' New Cover Up" (stifling the Harman criminal investigation)

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Gonzales' New Cover Up
by Scott Horton

The emerging wiretap scandal ensnaring House Democrat Jane Harman leads to a familiar face: Alberto Gonzales, who may have stifled the investigation for his own political gain.

While press coverage of potential political corruption surrounding an espionage investigation has tended to focus on California Representative Jane Harman, the person most at risk on the basis of the facts disclosed so far is former Attorney general Alberto Gonzales.
Gonzales appears to have personally intervened to shut down an FBI probe into Harman’s potential wrongdoing—which was reportedly recorded on several wiretapped phone calls—because he viewed her as a key Democratic ally in Congress who could help him fend off accusations about warrantless domestic wiretapping.

“The allegations surrounding Harman again show Attorney General Gonzales deciding a criminal investigation for political reasons—in this case helping a key Democratic ally in Congress.”

Lawyers in the Justice Department’s criminal division reviewed the Harman transcripts—which suggest she may have agreed to help two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of espionage in exchange for political favors—and concluded that the transcripts presented the prospect of a “completed crime.” But Gonzales role in stifling the criminal investigation into her conduct has been largely overlooked.

The exposure of Gonzales’ management of the Harman matter comes at a perilous time for the former attorney general. He is currently under scrutiny by a special prosecutor, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut Nora R. Dannehy, appointed to complete an investigation into abuse of power involving U.S. attorneys. The Justice Department’s own internal probe into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys could not be completed because a number of key figures, including some in the White House, refused cooperation with the investigators. However, the preliminary report found substantial evidence linking the firings to efforts politically to manipulate prosecutorial decision making, specifically in the case in New Mexico.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-21/gonzales-new-cover-up/2/

[Supersedeas]

1. the legal eagles of the Bush Administration have some kind of legacy, no?

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2. All through the first 8-9 years of this century - I believed that our lives had been

taken over and we would never own ourselves again. What I did was observed and measured the confidence and arrogance of these criminals and I came to a conclusion: These people 'knew' something about their longevity. They came from a place that said they would never have to pay for their crimes because they would stay in power and not have to face us. Their acts were so drastically morbid that I thought they only way they kept proceeding was some knowledge that they would own the earth - for a long time. I was measuring their mind set. They were emboldened some way - and it is has been building since the first Kennedy assassination helped by the Mafia which is how old - a century?

I concluded that no one who is doing what they are doing (from stealing votes, to the possible taking of Iraq through a Pearl Harbor like event, to torture and unparllaeled bombing without an official war, plus the lies and takeover of the media by their Party) - no one would go that far knowing that they might have to pay for it after the next election.

But, those responsible are still not paying for it. I'm not talking about just Cheney and his sidekick fundraiser. We're talking specific names right now - Gonzales, Harman - we need to start looking ath the true heads of the infrastructure and they are never in the news or called to hearings.The heads of foundations and councils and multi-national corporations who hide their money from us - outside the jurisdiction of this country. No matter how we squeeze Gonzales or Hadley or Cheney = the people who directed the Bushes and all the other politicians to take advantage of the everything within the government to further the head honchos agenda - are still in place andthe real problem is not going away with Gonzales and Harmon in the news.

There can be fallout for certain infividuals like G and H - to make it seem as though there is justice, but the culprits are still active and they may end up with plenty of influence over the rest of Congress. If Obama is fighting it, he may be alone except for us.

The head honchos want us to collapse so that we are taken down many, many notches, but not far enough so that we can't help them become even richer.

And no one has a plan to stop them from owning our souls.
The U.S. of America has become the perfect example of hypocrisy.
We are believing a whole bunch of filth.
And we are not alone.

The little people CAN stand, raise their foot a little and firmly put it on the earht and say no.

But not, perhaps, while there are still enough people with steady jobs and buying power or the wealthy. They will make fun of the rest of us and agree with the press who will pillory us. Until things happen to them.

Look at the ridicule and accusations of the Latin American countries who are trying to shake the usury hold of the IMF and World Bank. Look at Aristede. Do these countries who are really trying get a fiar shake by the Northern European bred people who believe they are superior enough to take countries, to take earth resources, who are beginning to have problems buying partner leaders in those countries - like they have in Colombia?

Gamblers on Wall Street and Switzerland and many, many countries cheated us then blamed the people they cheated. And they're still doing it - no changes to the way of cheating is in place = yet.

We need to Wake Up, Stay Awake, and Wake Others. And hope that a person of influence will have the influence - we can still hope.