This will make you spit your coffee onto the monitor. The Washington Post is reporting on the Congressional subpoena issued to the Department of Justice. The subpoena demands that AG Gonzales turn over the material by Monday at 2 p.m.: http://www.washingto...
The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today seeking hundreds of pages of new or uncensored records related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, officials said.
And what concern is "Mr. Patriot Act" raising?
"Much of the information that the Congress seeks pertains to individuals other than the U.S. attorneys who resigned," Roehrkasse said. "Furthermore, many of the documents Congress is now seeking have already been available to them for review. Because there are individual privacy interests implicated by publicly releasing this information, it is unfortunate the Congress would choose this option."
Does it seem to anyone else that the irony cup is overflowing?
Hat tip to the wonderful Josh Marshall over at http://www.talkingpo...
"Oh, and when the last law was down and the devil turned on you where would you hide Roper, all the laws being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - do you really think that you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the devil the benefit of the law, for my own safety's sake."
Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons:
One of the lawyers said to Him in reply, "Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too."But He said, "Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers." Luke Ch. 11
(Now, we know there are good lawyers, too, :), but this verse seems to fit Gonzales.)