“This conversation doesn’t exist.”
What do Rep. Jane Harman and Alberto Gonzalez have in common? You don’t want to know. Or more succinctly, you can’t because “this conversation doesn’t exist.” Or does it?
Harman always backed Bush and his wiretaps. Now she — and we — see(s) where it got her.
It’s crap like this that makes it clear why the Democrats never had much of a stomach for impeaching anyone from the Bush administration — they were too useful to each other.
Just when you thought Republicans had finally managed to kill irony, a Democrat comes along to save it.
Glenzilla:
“Besides, if Jane Harman didn’t do anything wrong — as she claims — then what does she have to hide? Only Terrorists and criminals would mind the Government listening in. We all know that government officials have better things to do than worry about what innocent Americans are saying. If she did nothing wrong — if all she was doing was talking to her nice constituents and AIPAC supporters about how she could be of service — then Bush officials obviously weren’t interested in what she had to say.
Beyond that, even if there were “illegal” acts committed here, surely we should be rushing to retroactively immunize those responsible, just as Harman eagerly advocated and engineered and then voted for when it came to the telecoms who broke our laws and enabled illegal spying on American citizens. That was when she voted to gut FISA protections and massively expand the Government’s power to eavesdrop on Americans with no warrants as part of the Cheney/Rockefeller/Hoyer Surveillance State celebration known as the “FISA Amendments Act of 2008.”
Irony so deliciously thick and juicy that you’ll need a chainsaw to cut through it. Yum!
The only thing I can think of that would be more deliciously ironic would be to see our former official inquisitors standing trial for torture in a Spanish dock.
Can you say “Inquisition?”
Of course, nobody expects…