Whitehouse to GOP: Where Were You?

[L. Coyote]

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In this Business Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Whitehouse called on Committee Republicans to explain their opposition to Dawn Johnsen to be Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), after remaining silent during Bush's abuse of that office.

[PatSeg]

1. Whitehouse does it again!

[rateyes]

2. He's great!

[hisownpetard]

6. He's a rising star and will possibly be the next Democratic President, after Obama's 2nd term.

[PatSeg]

17. I thought that over a year ago

He was one of the first to speak out openly and loudly against the Bush administration. AND he has the perfect name!

[beac]

I just called and emailed to thank him. (contact info inside)

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Phone: [phone]

Email: http://whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/

[benld74]

3. thank you sir AND MAKE SURE it gets into HISTORY BOOKS!

[Dollface]

4. Immune to irony. Kudos to Mr. Whitehouse.

[hwmnbn]

5. Correct, I don't want to "look forward"...

before we expose and clean up the Bush mess at the DOJ. I want it done publicly and where warranted, I want high profile prosecutions.

K&R

[Jack Rabbit]

7. I look forward to . . .

. . . John Yoo being disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Awesome. Thanks for posting, L!

I'd have missed this otherwise.

[bdamomma]

9. god, you can just hear and see how Whitehouse feels about the

total gutting of the OLC and the Dept. of Justice, now will they prosecute those who committed crimes against us, speaking of the Bush Administration. Senator Whitehouse your friends across the aisle have amnesia.

[L. Coyote]

10. And, he has to hold his tongue about what he knows as an Intelligence Comm. member!

Imagine if he could let loose with what he actually knows!
It informs this discourse nonetheless, and is something we can read between his lines.

[tomm2thumbs]

11. most rotten place in the United States government - and the rot ran deep .. nice n/t

[Jefferson23]

12. K&R, and thanks for posting. Whitehouse's use of the word rot in the OLC

is perfect here. I thought I would add a few links to Ms. Johnsen's views considering what the Republicans are objecting to.

Tipping the Scale July/August 2002
President Bush picks judges based on ideology--so why shouldn't senators reject them for it?

By Dawn Johnsen http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0207.johnsen.html

Also, this one is very interesting too:

The Outer Shell The hollowing out of Roe v. Wade.
By Dawn Johnsen Posted Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006, at 5:01 PM ET

http://www.slate.com/id/2134849


Whitehouse references the USDOJ looking at Bush's OLC, now that will be something to read, but in the mean time, I had not read this from their website, so I thought I would share:


New! OPR and the Department’s Office of Inspector General completed a joint investigation into allegations of politicized hiring and personnel practices in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. The complete text of the joint OPR/OIG report can be accessed here.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opr/oig-opr-iaph-crd.pdf

(Released Publicly January 13, 2009)

[beac]

13. Whitehouse always tells it like it is. I hope he can hang on to that

as his star continues to rise. K&R!

[byronius]

14. Great Post.

[ihavenobias]

15. K & R n/t

[opihimoimoi]

16. K&R He is a rising Star of the Dem Party......Carl Sheeler....eat youre heart out

[LynnTheDem]

18. BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!!

Into the light of day, rightwingnut MFers. Into the light of day!

[pberq]

19. Great one! nt

[pacalo]

20. Thank you, Rhode Islanders, for giving us this senator!

I would be bursting with pride if Whitehouse were my senator.

Bravo!