Harper's: Mukasey Asked To Obstruct Justice By Movement Conservatives?

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From Larisa Alexandrovna's blog:

http://www.atlargely.com/2007/11/real-journalism.html

Real Journalism/News Roundup...

Harper's Scott Horton drops a bomb in which no one appears to be interested, although everyone should be:

"Several days before his first meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Michael Mukasey’s Justice Department handlers arranged a private meeting for him with a number of “movement conservatives.” Two different administration sources have described the meeting to me. During the meeting, Mukasey’s counterparts, largely figures associated with the Federalist Society, pushed him on two points in particular.

First, they wanted him to undertake that he would not appoint a special prosecutor to look into the U.S. attorneys scandal and related charges concerning political prosecutions. At this point it is clear that if an independent investigation were to be launched, it would quickly run head-on into some of the same figures who sat in the room with Mukasey. The email traffic which has surfaced already — and it is only a tiny fraction of the total — shows how Rove and Miers repeatedly relied upon the Federalist Society and its members to help them out in addressing recalcitrant U.S. Attorneys who would not debase their office by converting it into a political tool. Let’s be cynical and say that the first request they put to Mukasey was designed simply to protect themselves and keep their behind-the-scenes involvement with the Justice Department’s highest profile scandal so far out of the spotlight."

In other words, promise us you will obstruct justice - a crime.

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