I agree in spirit with most of what you say, but frankly, it's basically old news around here. We know that Clinton was a corrupt snake in the grass who failed miserably to address the terrorist threat and who, in fact, actually enabled the 9/11 attacks with considerable help from Gorelick.
What I kept looking for as I read your post was your explanation for why the Bush Justice Department is as corrupt as Clinton's was, and even more importantly, why Bush is apparently too weak to do anything about it.
Regards,
LH
yes yes yes yes yes yes
why bush is cavorting with bill is the biggest question of all
either naive or corrupt
not good
Ok let's look at a couple of possibilities:
1. Bush decides to expose Clinton's mess, even right after 9/11, only the Republican side might have believed it. Remember the beginning of the 9/11 Hearings: Richard Clark attacking Bush as if 9/11 was his fault. Now it's their word against Bush, and as we all know, Clinton is an especially good liar.
(Clinton's playbook is as follows: Let's say he robes a bank and doesn't want to get blamed. BEFORE ANYBODY knows anything he comes out and accuses Bush of robbing the bank. Voila, if evidence starts to surface, he simply brings up the earlier story and uses as his defense that you (the other guy) are just trying to blame him for something it looks like you did).
2. Do what what our government has been doing for years. Look at the Kennedy assassination: A simple murder by LBJ and Hoover but it's still too hot to handle. Lie after lie after lie, anything but deal with the truth. Bush has chosen this path.
Our foreign policy now will continue to re-establish the Reagan doctrine, screw with us and we'll kick your (rear). Iran, Iraq, North Korea saw a paper tiger and Clinton did nothing but re-enforce that image with all his screwups.
Bush is not going to deal with the past other than respond to the present problems caused by Clinton's past incompetence. Sandy Berger is part of the past that is going to be ignored. It's not that Bush is too weak, it's that he is not going to allow that can of worms to be opened. Can you imagine the havoc IF John Q Public knew beyond any doubt that Clinton covered up terrorist attacks in 1995 and 1996 which led to 9/11? Bush is not going to go there, it looks really nasty from every angle you look at it.
I think the underlaying problem with all of this and similar accounts is that our government has become a perpetual motion machine and many within firmly believe that the people they represent are no longer capable of making informed decisions about our welfare. They will do whatever necessary to protect those within the government that manufacture scenarios that suck the people into believing that the government is the great protector and we should not question our government's authority.
Then we enter the conspiracy theories and wonder how and why people would create and commit the atrocities in the name of the greater public benefit.
My take on all of this is, that when our government closes itsself to access by the people, we have to begin questioning it's authority to act with such secrecy and deception, despite the claims of people with first hand knowledge regarding the situations and why they appear to be questionable. Then the operatives from within start the smear campaigns against those in positions to question policy and directives. With assistance from the media with well placed press releases (disinformation perhaps?) good people are being dissected.
My conclusion. Trust nobody with your security except yourself. Believe half of what you see and a fourth of what you hear. We are dealing with a perpetual motion government machine here. Until we bring it back down to the peoples level where our voice is not only heard but counted, this mistrust will only become worse.