The Cockroaches Scatter

June 23, 2004 Off By leigh

Caught in the spotlight, the cockroaches of the current U.S. justice department have begun to scatter, issuing statements that the Gonzales August 2002 legal memo arguing methods to dodge prohibition of aggressive interrogation tactics would be reviewed. So lets be clear, it has taken nearly two years of this memo being in operation (or at least not formally repudiated until now) before the justice department has decided there is something wrong with the thinking.

Caught in the spotlight, the cockroaches of the current U.S. justice department have begun to scatter, issuing statements that the Gonzales August 2002 legal memo arguing methods to dodge prohibition of aggressive interrogation tactics would be reviewed. So lets be clear, it has taken nearly two years of this memo being in operation (or at least not formally repudiated until now) before the justice department has decided there is something wrong with the thinking. Only after continuously resisting calls to release all information pertaining to the case, some 3 months after the outrage of the torture abuses being carried out has been revealed to the wider public.

In the context that even the Australian government knew the U.S. military was torturing detainees in June 2003, for the Christian storm troopers currently occupying the justice department to claim that no torture was being performed is exposed as another impeachable lie that the Bush-house has made.

The most interesting issue for me is the upcoming election. With so many impeachable cases being held back because of the impending election, what will happen if the Bush administration manages to manipulate the electoral process sufficiently such that it engineers a victory? Does Karl Rove and the other Klingons, err Vulcans, think that all the impeachment cases will disappear? Clearly the Republicans will continue to hold a majority in Congress until the elections in 2006, so they may be able to forestall any proceedings, although the chorus can be expected to grow only louder.