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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1245)	9/16/2002 1:35:34 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

FEAR MONGERS WITH NO SUBSTANCE len, Thanks for the reference. It did sound like satire, as it indeed was. But as Paul Krugman quipped last week: "These days reality has a way of getting out ahead of satire." ********** Re: There sure is lots of noise and flashing lights on these "terrorist" stories but they seem to whimper out with little evidence, arrests, trials or convictions. There was an extremely relevatory moment at the ABA Annual Meeting in Washington last month. Sitting on a panel discussing civil liberties were Michael Chertoff, head of the DoJ Crimal Division and James Brosnahan of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro. Brosnahan, as you might recall was the defense attorney for John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban". The DoJ and Brosnahan had recently settled the Lindh case, with the government forced to back down on all of its hyperventilated and extemely well publicized charges. They simply had no case. At one point, Chertoff got nervous because Brosnahan was about to spill some of the beans on how lame the government case was. Chertoff threatened Brosnahan with "you know what will happen!" sternness to stifle the public dissemination of embarrassing facts about the government. It was a really crystalline moment of clarity about the mind of a fascist at work. ********************** Chertoff, the evil sheriff, as you might recall was the attorney who worked for five years to try to convict Bill Clinton of some malfeasance related to the Whitewater real estate deal. He's a political hack. Today, he claims that he can't move forward with prosecutions of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling because it's "too complicated". Meanwhile, due to the fact that she's a Democrat and a convenient distraction and scapegoat, Chertoff has taken on the Martha Stewart case con gusto. Chertoff is the worst sort of hypocrite. Willing to coddle the criminals he's in bed with, and use his prosecutorial zeal to attack his political enemies. Disgusting. -Ray