Hastert's Letter To The DOJ ADVANCES The Cover-Up & Worsens The Scandal

[kpete]

Monday, October 02, 2006
Hastert's letter to the DOJ advances the cover-up and worsens the scandal

The letter http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010102.php sent by Denny Hastert yesterday to Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonalzes was sent with the intent of stemming the tide of this Foley cover-up scandal by enabling Hastert and friends to hide behind the fact that there is now a pending DOJ criminal investigation which they requested. But Hastert's letter should have the precise opposite effect. The letter itself is actually one of the most incriminating and scandalous actions to be revealed in this story, and demonstrates just how deeply corrupt and amoral the trappings of one-party rule have made the Republicans in Washington.

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The letter sent by Hastert to the DOJ yesterday does not ask for an investigation into the issue at the heart of this scandal -- namely, whether GOP House leaders failed to take action against Foley despite having ample reason to suspect strongly, if not fully know about, Foley's predatory behavior with underag pages. To the contrary, Hastert's letter has two overriding and clear purposes: (1) to exclude this wrongdoing engaged in by Hastert and the GOP House leadership from the DOJ investigation; and (2) to demand instead a criminal investigation into the parties responsible for the disclosure of the Foley story generally and the wrongdoing of Hastert and company specifically.

For that reason, Hastert's letter is plainly designed to bolster the cover-up, to intimidate those who have revealed information about this scandal, or to deter those who might come forward with more information. The letter worsens the scandal because it itself is corrupt.

more at:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/hasterts-letter-to-doj-advances-cover.html#links

[C_U_L8R]

1. Who will investigate Hastert and his henchmen??

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. So instead of asking for an investigation into Foley

Hastert is really asking for an investigation into who leaked the story. Oh that's good.

[Double T]

3. The rethugs are in charge of investigating themselves...............

and we know from all the other corrupt investigations it will be stonewalled, downplayed and spun in every direction to avoid the truth. Only the voters can save this country from continued absolute corruption.

[wakeme2008]

4. CYA Denny also sent a letter Sunday to Jebbie asking for the same

thing

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2858984&mesg_id=2858984

As EarlG would post


:)

[katinmn]

5. The DoJ is now a big useless joke

Led by the same jack-off who recently criticized the framers of the Constitution for giving judges too much independence.


http://www.usdoj.gov/

[seabeyond]

6. did you read his whole letter. i did not comeout with the same conclusion

of whomever wrote this article of yours, what so ever. he expressively states anyone who held onto this information of the explicit chats without giving them to the proper authority. i would expect nothing less if they held onto these since 2003 without bringing them forward

[Toots]

7. Whoever revealed this is certainly an "Enemy Combatant" and needs to be

tortured with 99 years in the electric chair.. Our entire National Security is at stake....