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Chris Christie Must Condemn This Lawbreaking: NOW!!!

by: Nick Lento

Mon Jul 28, 2008 at 04:01:47 PM EDT

Today's NYT says...
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Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke the law by using politics to guide their hiring decisions for a wide range of important department positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department's credibility and independence, an internal report concluded Monday.

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Nick Lento :: Chris Christie Must Condemn This Lawbreaking: NOW!!!

We all know the stories about how the George Bush "Justice" Department fired US Attorneys that didn't tow the party line with sufficient aggression.

Seven U.S. attorneys were fired on Dec. 7 and another was fired months earlier, with little explanation from the Justice Department. Several former prosecutors have since alleged intimidation, including improper telephone calls from GOP lawmakers or their aides, and have alleged threats of retaliation by a Justice Department official.
Administration officials have portrayed the firings as a routine personnel matter, designed primarily to rid the department of a handful of poor performers.
But the documents and interviews indicate that the idea for the firings originated at least two years ago, when then-White House counsel Harriet E. Miers suggested to Sampson in February 2005 that all prosecutors be dismissed and replaced.

It's clear that any US Attorney that failed to lose their jobs was considered sufficiently "loyal" to the politically and ideologically driven agendas of the Bush administration that they were allowed to stay "on board".

Huntsu has written extensively on these matters. Here's a nifty quote

The entity charged with overseeing the executive branch is being bamboozled and confused and lied to in order to keep it from making a determination whether the law was broken. Whether intentional or not, whether illegal or not, it amounts to a major obstruction of justice.
And Christie is a part of the story. He was put on the list before he dropped a subpoena that affected the Menendez/Kean Jr. race, and then after the election was taken off the list. That's suspicious in and of itself.
And now Christie is lying, just like the rest of the Bush administration involved in this case, about when, how and where he found out that he was on and then on the list of US Attorneys to be fired. It was either all at once in Florida on vacation with the family in March, or it was over a month or more in New Jersey over the Christmas and New Years holiday.
Lies either serve a purpose, or they are an indication of an ethically challenged person. When there is no reason for a lie, nothing to gain from the lie, generally the person is just a liar.

If Chris Christie were truly the man of integrity he portrays himself as being; he would have "blown the whistle" on these people a long long time ago. Either Christie is an innocent fool who truly believes the propaganda BS that the Bushies put out or he is, himself, a corrupt actor. Either of the two should result in his losing his job and would certainly result in any plans he might have to run for governor being scrapped post haste

Here's some video of Monica Goodling (yes there is a God, and she has an ironic sense of humor ;-) testifying before congress (they had to give her immunity as she was, otherwise "taking the fifth".

Here's what Keith Olberman had to say on Ms Goodling's testimony....

And for laughs (through the tears) Bill Mahr weighs in...

For a longer, deeper treatment of Monica Goodling and Regent University see this from Bill Moyers.

Bottom Line: Unless Chris Christie comes out and condemns the unmitigated corruption of the Bush administration and resign his position as he turns whistleblower and "states evidence".....the man is (as I've been saying for years) little more than a self serving partisan hack, at best. And a "true believer" nut job at worst.

So please Mr Christie, prove me wrong and condemn the corruption of our Justice Department so blatantly. They would throw you to the dogs, in a second, you don't owe these people any "loyalty". Your oath is to the Constitution not to George Bush.

Meanwhile, the nascent "Christie for Governor" campaign slithers on...

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Christie has nothing to do with Bush DOJ antics (0.00 / 0)

Take three deep breaths and relax. Get a grip, man.

I know you're scared to death of Chris Christie's overpowering charisma and integrity but you're really taking the paranoia to new heights.

Whatever the Bush administration's antics at the DOJ were, they have nothing to do with the heroic work of our great U.S. Attorney in the streets of New Jersey.

Mr. Christie is our modern day Batman, or Eliot Ness, if you will. Do not spill that ugly ratwater from the Bush DOJ on him. One has nothing to do with the other.

Leave him alone and let him concentrate on his investigations and indictments on the corrupt politicians among us. Do not disturb!

CC deserves our praise and appreciation, not your ungratefulness and ridicule.

Chill out.

by: TerryMalloy-OnTheWaterfront @ Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 03:36:55 AM UTC

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LOL, Now Why Am I Not Surprised That... (4.00 / 2)

...you would reflexively "stand by your man". :-)

If Christie were the paragon of moral virtue that exists in your fantasy life; he wouldn't have the capacity to remain employed by the most foul and corrupt US President in the history of our nation.

You know Bush & Co are dirty as hell. Christie can't condemn that crew because he IS that crew.

It bugs the crap out of me when I hear Republicans routinely calling for Democrats to "condemn" some association or other when a candidate's been "hangin out" with someone who may have done/been something that could be seen as embarrassing.

Yet, virtually the whole Republican party is up to its arse in blood and sheer evil in the filth of the Bush administration and I don't hear too many calls for them to, not merely "distance" themselves from Bush; but to actually condemn him and the most foul manner in which he has sold out America and betrayed his oath of office.

Christie has to know how dirty his bosses are/have been, and if you can't see that; then you're delusional.

The fact is that most Americans are disgusted with Bush by now because after 7 years of being subjected this shit just about everyone can smell it and see it for what it is.

The last thing we need is a McBush presidency and a Christie BushPuppet in the statehouse.

Christie goes after low hanging fruit and fools; you'll never see him prosecuting the corrupt core of the establishments he works for.

Maybe you can sell your

"Mr. Christie is our modern day Batman, or Eliot Ness"

line of bull to the ignorant and the naive; but I don't believe too many folks here are buying it.

Though, I do appreciate your image of the "ugly ratwater from the Bush DOJ"; it seems we agree on that much eh? I'm so glad to hear that you're "concerned". ;-)

Now if you can get Christie to endorse your own stated "take" on the "Bush DOJ" I just might find your spiel somewhat credible.....until you can pull that off you remain an affectively concerned trollop from my pov.

by: Nick Lento @ Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 07:07:49 AM UTC

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Chris "Two Face" Christie (4.00 / 2)

Not Batman.

He's got two sides: 1) the side that has done a good job fighting both political and business corruption; and 2) the side that has used his office to manipulate the political environment in direct violation of DoJ policies and the law.

That said, I don't think he needs to comment on this issue. He is the NJ Attorney, and his job relates to federal crimes committed in NJ. Since none of the report deals with NJ, there's no need for him to comment.

However, since there is evidence he bought the job by contributing (with his brother and their wives) a half million dollars to Republican coffers, and this story is about the politicization of the DoJ, he doesn't get off scott free.

by: huntsu @ Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 14:01:39 PM UTC

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Come to think of it ... (4.00 / 1)

Batman is a little nuts and has a dark side two.

Two Face is more appropriate since he was a DA and not a rich orphan, but still ...

by: huntsu @ Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 14:02:40 PM UTC

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Nick, as a good government guy... (4.00 / 1)

do you believe that another prosecutor would have done as well as Christie has?
I don't doubt that his hiring was political in nature, (90% of the hiring is apparently, at least in NJ).
But this seems to be one case where along with the political qualifications (big contributor) his performance is stellar.
I guess what I'm saying is even if we had the most partisan democrat I can think of as AG, do you think that we'd still have the record number of convictions of Republicans? And think before you answer, Ms. Milgram has had a year or two now and I've not seen much from her. She is certainly aware of the George Gilmores and other Republican corruption.
I'd like to think Christie's office is uniquely talented here, because the alternative is that NJ is SO corrupt that a prosecutor with no experience (like Christie) can start banging out over 100 convictions including some major players without any talent.
Although I don't agree with the apparent buying of his position, and he has politicized the office, but at the end of the day, the job is getting done where others have been ineffectual. (Harvey, Rabner, Milgram) Just a thought.

"Where ever you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

by: William Weber (WjcW) @ Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 12:32:05 PM UTC

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Great Points, But You're Condemning Christie With Faint Praise.... (0.00 / 0)

.....I seem to remember (maybe it was on politicsnj?) saying that if someone with no law degree, like me!, was in Christie's job, and was 100% committed to cleaning up NJ...that they would have had a THOUSAND convictions by now. (Of course Christie would have been fired if he really did his job, but that's another story).

That's how pervasive/systemic is the wrong doing in NJ imho.

Whatever good Christie has done has been self serving, not because he gives a crap about cleaning up the corruption. He goes after low hanging "fruit" and fools. You'll never see a thorough systematic RICO investigation/prosecution of NJ dirty policis from Christie.

So, again, William, "Great Points, But You're Condemning Christie With Faint Praise...."

As for Milgram et al, you're pretty much right; they are a major disappointment.

(So who is the fire breathing progressive who is going to primary Corzine and give us a better alternative?)

Let me put it this way; I see the existing Democratic establishment (i.e. John Corzine et al) as the metaphorical equivalent of a dentist doing root canal on a healthy tooth with no anesthesia, painful, but survivable.........however, I see the Republican alternatives, again metaphorically speaking, (i.e. Chris Christie) as a homicidal maniac blowing my brains out all together. Both are evil. We need an alternative to both....meanwhile, one of them is going to be in power.

The establishment Democrats justify their assault on decent ordinary working class Americans by telling us that they're so much better than the other guys, and that's perversely true on one level; but it's far from good enough, eh?

by: Nick Lento @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 15:32:15 PM UTC

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Nick, I have to give you credit. (0.00 / 0)

You sound really cute when you're feigning outrage over everything.

by: dennisl @ Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 13:38:10 PM UTC

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Who's Feigning? :-) (4.00 / 1)

I really do feel quite pissed off about the way things are.

That doesn't meant that I need to be constantly consumed by rage and anger, or that I can't be light and jocular now and then.

The more information one accumulates about "how things work" in our economic/political systems; the more of a radical disconnect one will see between the professed ideals/principles by which things are supposed to be "governed" and the corrupt reality of the "way it is".

It is (I believe) normal and healthy for this kind of dissonance to cause outrage in decent humane conscious beings.

The challenge before all of us, who follow these matters closely, is to avoid becoming jaded/numbed.

Let me put it this way. You have a mother, right? (Hell, even Joe Ferierro has a mother!) So imagine how you would feel if you were walking down the street and happened upon a scene in which a thug was beating up on your mom?
(And if for some sad reason, you don't feel love or concern for your mom, imagine it being your dad or your son, daughter or (if you're a super rich sociopath) your new million dollar car.) What emotions would you be feeling? What would you do?

Well, from my perspective, we're all family. All of us humans from past to present to future are all one. We are objectively precious to/for each other. Some of us have forgotten that this is the way it is; and they've become the psycho-spiritual equivalent of cancer cells attacking the whole in pure "self service".

Of course the actual dynamics are far more intricate and complex than the simple little picture painted above; but I'm fairly confident that, if y'all do some serious contemplation, it'll become clearer that "we're all in the same boat".