What a Mess at the DoJ!

I can’t stop laughing: one of the more prominent US Attorneys fired during the “purge” now being investigated by Congress was David Inglesias in New Mexico. The truth seems to be that he was kicked out because Senator Domenici and Congresswoman Wilson, both Republicans, complained that he was not doing enough to prosecute Wilson’s Democratic challenger [and Democrats generally] in last year’s election. Apparently Domenici took his complaints directly to George Bush who passed on the problem to Attorney General Gonzales for an apprpriate resolution. Now to fire a US attorney at the urging of a Senator for purely political reasons is decidedly unethical, if not illegal. So the DoJ cooked up another reason: he was an “absentee manager”. This reason looked much better because Inglesias was indeed absent quite a bit over the past two years and his office had to manage without him. They thought they were in the clear!

Not so fast! The reason Inglesias was absent turns out to be that he’s an officer in the Naval Reserve, so he was fulfilling his national service requirement. It is illegal for an employer to fire someone who is absent while on duty in the Reserves becasue of absenteeism. Duh! So now the DoJ is under investigation by the Office of the Special Counsel for illegal firing.

How twisted is that? They are so totally screwed up that even their lies get them into hot water with the law. This is all too funny for words. Bush’s rat’s nest of incompetent idiots is too stupid to pick a lie that is not even more illegal than the truth they are trying to avoid telling in the first place.

On second thoughts this isn’t funny. These bozos are still running the country.

Gonzales is a jackass of the first order. Let’s hope there is someone at the DoJ who can pick up the pieces and get our legal system in order before the damage is permanent.