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So, we all remember the whole Mark Foley thing right? The GOP tried to spin it as a, “the demos are anti-gay” thing, but then they quickly realized pedophilia is not the best platform for a winning ticket. At any rate, Foley was clearly abusing his position of power to make sexual advances towards underage male pages in the US Senate and had been for some years under the watch of at least a few other fellow GOP senators and underlings. Unfortunately for the GOP, the disclosure of Foley’s pedophiliatic power abuse came in close proximity to the election and cost the GOP countless votes. It is now coming to light that some New Mexico GOP senators were attempting to balance out the damage caused by Foley’s power abuse with a little more power abuse of their own. When I read the following, the old maxim, “Its like pouring gasoline on a fire” came to mind, but I guess they haven’t heard that one down in New Mexico.

WASHINGTON — A fired federal prosecutor told a Senate committee Tuesday that he felt “leaned on” and sickened as Republican Sen. Pete Domenici hung up on him in disgust last fall when told that indictments in a corruption case against Democrats would not be issued before the fall elections.

Ouch. I guess they ‘aborted’ a bunch of US Attorneys because they are about to replace them with hardliners without due process as allowed in the ‘constitutional’ Patriot Act. Turns out the real reason they fired them was because they were not willing to throw their ethics out the window and turn their offices into political hit-man clubs.

“He said, ‘Are these going to be filed before November?’” former federal prosecutor David Iglesias, one of eight U.S. attorneys summarily fired in recent months, told the panel. “I said I didn’t think so. And to which he replied, ‘I’m very sorry to hear that.’ And then the line went dead.”

Iglesias said he received the call at home on Oct. 26 or 27th and that it lasted two minutes, “tops.”

And, it turns out, yet another New Mexico senator was also out trying to turn the US Attorney’s office into a political hit-man club too.

Iglesias told the panel he received a call from Wilson about two weeks earlier, in which she asked him about sealed indictments — a topic prosecutors cannot discuss. Wilson’s question “raised red flags in my head,” Iglesias said.

“I was evasive and nonresponsive to her question,” Iglesias told the panel, saying he talked generally about why some indictments are sealed. “She was not happy with that answer. And she said, ‘Well I guess I’ll have to take your word for it.” The call ended almost immediately, Iglesias said.

Clearly this US Attorney is just a law abiding chump and has no place in the GOP.

Wilson said the department dismissed Iglesias “without input from me.” Her telephone call was not politically motivated, she said, and the conversation was “brief and professional.”

“If the purpose of my call has somehow been misperceived, I am sorry for any confusion,” Wilson said.

We don’t misunderstand at all. You were professionally attempting to get an appointed person, in a position of responsibility directly related to the preservation of justice (something I know HG cares about), to break the law by disclosing the contents of sealed documents to you in an effort to win an election. No misperceptions here.

The only question left is: Why don’t we have capital punishment for the fuckers that totally abuse the trust and responsibility that comes with certain jobs like Senator? These people are our lawmakers and it is more than apparent that they don’t give a shit about the law. This attempt to replace the people who won’t break the law on their behalf is wholly unconstitutional and without due process. Gonzales has said they won’t replace them without due process, but we all know he’s a little fucking liar too. I recall clearly the time when he said he would disclose all the details of the domestic spying program, a meeting was held with lots of important people, and he stonewalled them all, the exact opposite of what he said he would do.
...and people around here act like my credibility is shot!