I want to be clear that I do not expect, or even want, Barack Obama to govern as I would govern. However, if I were president-elect, I would be planning quite an operation on inauguration day. As soon as I was sworn in, I would demand that Robert Mueller submit his resignation. Then I would instruct the FBI to lock down FBI Headquarters, the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency offices, the executive suites at the CIA, the National Security Agency’s offices, the National Intelligence Agency’s offices, and management’s offices at the Department of Justice. I would tell them to put yellow police tape around all of these buildings and offices, and I would treat each as a crime scene. I’d have them preserve evidence from every safe, every email cache, every hard-drive. And then I would prosecute every violation to the fullest extent of the law.
My number one priority would be exposing the truth about the anthrax attacks, the White House Iraq Group, and the mass firings of U.S. attorneys in the lead-up to the 2006 midterm elections. But, I’m a hardass that has no interest in pretending continuity in government is preferable to justice and the rule of law. Obama has a more difficult road. Mueller is appointed to a term that doesn’t end until 2010. I think Mueller should be in the docket. The last thing I think is acceptable is to have him continue on as head of the FBI, when I consider it the job of the FBI to investigate and imprison most of Washington’s elite Establishment.
But I didn’t get elected, and Washington covers its own ass. Don’t let it get you too down.
Both Krugman and Dionne are pushing for Obama to go bold – that could include frog-marching large swaths of the Bush Administration…
Both your links are to Krugman, Oscar. But it’s worth two links, just what I wanted to hear.
Closing the border to Bush as Cheney because they are flight risks.
yeah. I also forgot the White House and Naval Observatory. They need yellow tape, too.
Sounds like most of Washington needs yellow tape!
Bush and Cheney aren’t going anywhere – probably ever again. There isn’t a country in the world that would send men into the US to kidnap them and drag them out for a war crimes trial. Paraguay, on the other hand, wouldn’t be so safe for them. In fact, I can’t think of a country they’d be safer from reprisals for their actions than the US, where we tend to want to forget our former presidential failures rather than force them to account for their actions. If they go to Europe, some European judge will file for their arrest. If they go to South America, they can’t assure that they’ll be protected.
Is it verifiable that, as I heard and read from several sources, that W and HW both have purchased domiciles (ranches, so it’s said) in Paraguay?
Urban myth, or logical insurance for their future?
but lots of people speculate in that direction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/23/mainsection.tomphillips
(and google returns a lot, too: http://www.google.com/search?q=bush+buys+land+in+paraguay&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls
=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a )
Expand the list to include the Treasury Department: – a repeat of putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop: that day on April 24, 2004, Hank led the charge to lift the SEC rules that three years on, brought the financial house down.
Check this out:
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OOps: link to that Bloomberg lawsuit:
Bloomberg Sues Fed to Force Disclosure of Collateral (Update1)
While Obama was conducting these investigations he would be erecting gallows on the lawn of the White House. Expedited trials, expedited executions. Leave Bush for last and let the crows pick his bones clean.
I recall that Biden said they would be doing this.
It don’t expect to see the results for some time.
Revenge/justice is a dish best served cold.
who do you think Bush will pardon in his last days of office?
Any way you slice it, they have from now until then to keep their shredders busy. And then on the day Obama takes office, the yellow tape will no longer be needed because people loyal to him will be running those agencies.
Good post. But I’d strongly recommend adding 9/11 to your list of investigations, as there is every indication that was an inside job like anthrax.
Ditto this for sure. This is where the rot and corruption commences.
Downtown would look like Petworth or Deanwood! Do you think kids in DC will become less of a backdrop now that the Republicans are out of power? I hated how we weren’t notified in advance when they used our kids in DCPS as props for photo ops. UGH!!
I’m not trusting 90% of anyone up in Washington as it is. I think we need a whole clean slate. Anyone with longer than two terms service is out of touch in my opinion.
“… Mueller should be in the docket.”
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