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A Test for Mr. Mukasey
An early test of all these traits will come in the next few weeks, when the new attorney general is expected to review the Justice Department's flawed, embarrassing prosecution of two former lobbyists for AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The lobbyists, Steven J. Rosen, and a junior associate, Keith Weissman, are charged under the 1917 Espionage Act with receiving classified information from Lawrence Franklin, then a top Defense Department official. The lobbyists allegedly passed on the information they had received to a reporter for the Washington Post and an Israeli embassy employee.
Much of the information was about Iran's plans for destabilizing Iraq. Mr. Franklin, who was also indicted, subsequently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Under intense government pressure he has agreed to testify against his friends, the former AIPAC lobbyists. Their trial is set for January
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There you have it. Mukasey is expected to review an ongoing criminal investigation involving AIPAC. Doesn’t this work out well for AIPAC members and supporters who steamrolled the Mukasey's confirmation?
It is established that the Bush administration has corrupted DOJ to the core. The supposed fix (wink) from the Democratic Party is to select an Attorney General who is expected to review the ongoing prosecution of a powerful lobbying firm with overwhelming influence over the Democratic Party. This is different from the firing scandal, how?
If the intervention suggested in the WSJ happens, (as if there is any doubt but that it will) the US transformation to a one party system in the US will be complete.
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Updated because so many here didn’t know (slaps face) that Schumer and Feinstein were instrumental in insuring the confirmation of Mukasey.
Schumer, Feinstein Push Mukasey Over The Top
After Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein on Friday announced they would support the embattled nomination of Michael Mukasey to be attorney general, Sen. Arlen Specter also threw his support to the nominee. USA Today reports Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he will "vote to confirm Michael Mukasey as attorney general, joining two Democrats whose support assures that the committee will recommend the former federal judge Tuesday." The AP notes Mukasey's confirmation "had been in doubt as five of the panel's 10 Democrats, including Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, had lined up against Mukasey after he refused to state categorically that waterboarding is illegal."
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