One things about the Republicans that walk in lock-step – they could also go on over the ridge, is lured well enough.

Under Bushie’s orders, the DoJ hired only graduates from the “christian law schools” Liberty and Regent Univ.

Bushie, Ashcroft and Rove wanted to seed the DoJ with religious right bible thumpers from these “Box-Top Law schools” who would embarass and then torpedo any efforts made by a democratic administration that might succeeded them. You know, Rove’s 1,000-year Riech – only for rethuglicons.

Looks like the Bushie talibangelical subversives and loyalists planted in the Obama/Holder DoJ can roll out the “Mission Accomplished” banner on protecting the Bush/Cheney hit squads.

If they have the balls, it’s time for the Obama administration to start the “purge” and take out the left over bible thumpin’ rethuglicon trash. If not, they are gonna continually suffer from planned incompetence, backed up by “plausible deniability”, that will continually make them look like the village idiots…

Don Seigleman who won the election for gov of Alabama , I think, suddenly lost in the middle of the night. He spoke out against election fraud. bush put him in jail. Moved him all around the country. Put him in shackles in the court room.There has been no investigation of his case although it was clearly illegal.

Compare that to Tom Delay. Scooter Libby. You can see a pattern. Go along with the fascist plan for America or go to jail.The plan is right there in your face. Taking tax payer’s money and giving it to banks. ..while the US is being persecuted. NAFTA …predatory lending..filthy environment and food.

It would appear the US consumer is no longer needed.

But it plays out as a big win win win for the bad guys — Blackwater’s gunsels get away with the dirty deeds, people’s confidence in the courts is reduced, and people’s support for illegal, result-oriented “tribunals” for those swept up in the “anti-terrorism” net is increased. The course of this case sure looks like part of the Republican Party’s war on the law and courts — the only time the rule of law comes to bear is when it relieves the right wing of liability and undermines political support for the rule of law. Meanwhile, the few new Obama appointees at the DOJ appear to have ruled out doing anything to interfere with the nuts and bolts of this partisan Republican agency. That is one of the reasons the Republicans are stalling Obama’s appointments there, but also one of the reasons he isn’t pushing on them.

The bigger picture is that Obama’s refusal to investigate or punish past Bush administration misconduct, despite his purported command that it won’t happen any more, ensures that the misconduct has not stopped and will not stop. Obama won’t take Cheney’s heat for the punishment of war criminal 2009 when he has given war criminal 2007 a pass. The same political calculations apply to the prosecution of war criminal 2009 as war criminal 2007, and surely the people doing this stuff are aware of it. Indeed, they may even believe that Obama is giving them license to keep doing it, while ensuring plausible deniability for himself.

Whatever people think Obama wants or believes in his heart, the current Departments of Justice and Defense are a continuation of the Bush administration.

This is the same MO as the Ted Stevens prosecution – gather enough evidence to prove beyond a shadow, then commit such egregious misconduct that the defendant won’t face double jeopardy, thus guaranteeing they will be free and clear from all further prosecution.