Former Dep. Atty General James Comey will be appearing tomorrow to testify before Congress. He will be there to discuss the purge of the USAs, but his appearance will provoke memories of another Bush/Gonzales scandal, one where Dep AG Comey is reported to have figured prominently. That scandal, which eventually resulted in the direct intervention of the President of the United States to shut down an ethics investigation, remains largely unexamined.
With the issues relating to the USA purge on the table, it might seem that any questions relating to an ethics review, especially one in which the investigators had specifically said they would not be reviewing the legality of the program, might be a paltry affair. But I can't help speculating and wondering, "what if?"
"What if" the story of the OPR investigation, as reported so far, leaves out or misinterprets some very significant facts? "What if" the President directly intervened to shut down the OPR investigation because it was likely to reveal something that would cause most lawyers to lose their license? What if" one or two questions to Mr. Comey might raise the possibiity that Gonazles should be facing a judge instead of a Congressional committee?
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