Comments (13)

Ron Byers wrote on March 6, 2007 7:19 PM:

Do you get the feeling that the administration is making it up as they go.

Richard L. Adlof wrote on March 6, 2007 7:22 PM:

Silly willy nilly old bears . . .

You all believe that Justice is about rooting out corruption . . .

For this Administration it is about doing that which is Right . . .

chagres wrote on March 6, 2007 7:47 PM:

Can anyone spell "Keating"?

Jack wrote on March 6, 2007 8:38 PM:

More allegations of corruption within the Department of Justice. It's just about time for a new Independent Counsel statute. Otherwise they should be thinking of closing the whole damn thing down.

"Before his retirement in 2002, SA Gilbert Graham worked for the FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) Squad NS-24. One of the main areas of Mr. Graham’s counterintelligence investigations involved espionage activities by Turkish officials and agents in the United States. On April 2, 2002, Graham filed with the DOJ-OIG a classified protected disclosure, which provided a detailed account of FISA violations involving misuse of FISA warrants to engage in domestic surveillance. In his unclassified report SA Graham states: “It is the complainant’s reasonable belief that the request for ELSUR [electronic surveillance] coverage was a subterfuge to collect evidentiary information concerning public corruption matters.” Graham blew the whistle on this illegal behavior, but the actions were covered up by the Department of Justice and the Attorney General’s office."

http://www.nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/PressRelease-March5-07.htm

noshrub wrote on March 6, 2007 9:19 PM:

Thanks for (un)covering this and sticking with it. Just like the Duke Cunningham story, you guys were on top of this before it made the headlines. The implications of what the DOJ/AG have done is frightening...hopefully Cogress will move to get the language taken out of the Patriot Act that allowed them to do this in the first place. Please keep covering this. I'm all ears...and eyes for whatever you post. Gonzales & Bush are moving steadily towards fascism...thanks to your hard work on this, Congress has woken up and is paying a lot of attention.

bob wrote on March 6, 2007 10:34 PM:

I think we're already in a fascist state. Look again. Getting us out of it is now the task.

ohmy wrote on March 6, 2007 10:55 PM:

Ok...Fritz did right and the jury saw through the smoke. However, with whats been happing with Federal Attorneys has this blogger worried about Patrick Fitzgerald future! This is one man the administration should be concern about! And just like others in corruption cases around the country, they were handed a pink slip!

Even if this may sound crazy, don't put it past this administration to do such an act!
Just a brain fart!

gtash wrote on March 7, 2007 7:51 AM:

I never thought I would see the day, but the mainstream press I listen to on a daily basis hardly geve these hearings any notice. Most focused on Libby verdict and Walter Reed and then went on to fluff pieces. It is almost as though editors across the country decided there was just too much bad news to report. Thanks to TPM Muckraker and TPM for staying on watch and reporting.

Arkansan wrote on March 7, 2007 9:44 AM:

Does anyone know what happens next, if anything? The hearings were fine theater, but they didn’t resolve anything. BushCo. has never met a problem that a stonewall wouldn’t fix, and this is no different. It would be nice to see the new “Democratic Majority” do something than act ferocious and show it its teeth, only to retreat to the corner to chew on the juicy bone that was just tossed to them.

Richard L. Adlof wrote on March 7, 2007 11:09 AM:

Fitz declared the matter closed unless new evidence becomes available . . . Hinting that sentencing may be flexible if someone feels talkative.

Wilson and Plame are proceding with their civil suit against Darth Dick, the animal human hybrid Rover, et al.

Mostly, a number of Congress committees NEED to do their jobs and investigate a treasonous act or two.

Richard L. Adlof wrote on March 7, 2007 11:13 AM:

I almost forgot . . . Congress NEEDS to repeal the farging PATRIOT Act.

Arkansan wrote on March 7, 2007 12:46 PM:

Arlen Specter, who yesterday defended the administrations right to replace competent honest US Attorneys with criminal hacks, today is on the senate floor complaining about the Kangaroo Court trials of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba prisoners. Next he’ll introduce legislation to ban the show trials altogether and simply condemn the inmates to death. He’ll reason that if the trials aren’t going to be fair, why bother?

Does he think anyone, and I mean anyone, views him with distinction at this point?

Spencer Stall wrote on March 8, 2007 5:05 PM:

Once again the Republicans have shown what they are made of. Senator Pete Domenici and Representative Heather Wilson tried to coerce U.S. attorney David Iglesias into revealing and hurrying up an investigation into the corruption of two Democratic state treasurers in New Mexico. Soon after they were told that these calls were inappropriate, Iglesias was fired. I hope there will be an intensive investigation into the illegal and immoral acts committed by these two.