Posted on 08/28/2007 9:39:12 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
The next attorney general will inherit a demoralized Justice Department that has been cut adrift from its historical values and well-honored traditions. New leadership offers an opportunity for Justice to return to its best traditions under both Democrats and Republicans. Here are 10 priorities that would help the next attorney general guide the department back on course:
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"Take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
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Depoliticize hiring. Stop considering applicants' political backgrounds in the hiring and promotion of career lawyers. Equally important, political appointees should have experience in the areas they are overseeing, rather than experience as political operatives. If political appointees have ample relevant experience, they will command the respect of career lawyers by virtue of their intellect and judgment.
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Keep politics out of public integrity cases. Cynicism about department decisions is most likely to arise when Justice prosecutes a politician -- or decides not to -- and when decisions about alleged election fraud are announced just before elections.
Maintain vigilance against terrorism. Use the tools the department has been given to help keep our country secure. The new National Security Division, for example, must work seamlessly with traditional crime-fighters.
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Just outside the attorney general's office is the inscription "The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts." Those words should remind the next attorney general that even when the department loses a case, it fulfills its mission so long as justice has been served.
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Jamie Gorelick? When I see her head pop up I want to play whack-a-mole! The chutzpah of this broad - she did more to facilitate 9/11 than anyone other than Clinton himself.
Here, I think she's angling to become Hillary's attorney general. You can just smell it coming right off her words in this piece...
I was just reading some interesting opinions from the Left prior to Gonzales’ confirmation. They were very concerned that Gonzales’ prior employment with Haliburton would cloud his attitude towards prosecuting Enron. Seems to me that Gonzales put Kenny Boy in the jail he died in. What did the Clinton Admin do about Enron?
Also, taking into consideration the Mortgage crisis we are now experiencing, wouldn’t Jamie Gorelick’s tenure at EVP and General Council during the improprieties at Fannie Mae?
This bitch is lucky she isn’t in jail along with her pal Frank Raines. For this woman, who got one of the highest ranking jobs at Fannie Mae COMPLETELY based on politics — she had NO prior experience in mortgages or anything related to financial services — to opine on the politicization of anything is the height of chutzpah. Not to mention her total politicization of the 9/11 commission hearings. Good grief.
Even more appalling is that the Wash Post thinks her judgment is reliable enough to grant her space in its oped section. Disgraceful. She should be hiding her head some place instead of sticking it up to be whacked. This woman’s decisions were directly responsible for the success of the 9/11 attack. A newspaper with working brain parts would not even allow her to write a letter to the editor.
Oh, say, like those "values" of the '90s???
I agree with you completely. Who in the world would lend her, of all people, any credibility with regard to terrorism?
Apparently, just the cretins at the Washington Post!
Ms G has NO moral authority whatsoever!
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