Congress and The Justice Department At Odds

As I read more and more about the FBI raid on Representative William Jefferson's office, due to an FBI sting where Jefferson reportedly was caught red handed with the FBI sting cash, I can't help but express my disbelief at the executive branch's arrogant show of bullying and disregard for the separation of powers in this matter. (Side note: I know Jefferson is a Democrat and Black...could that be the reason the FBI and Gonzalez chose HIS office to raid and not Delay, or Cunningham or Abramoff's?) Yet, how ironic that now GOP Congressmen are upset that THEIR (collective) Constitutional rights have been abridged.

Those Congressmen yelling the loudest are the same men that gave this president carte blanche to slowly eviscerate the rights of the average American citizen when they approved the Patriot Act (who's name, by the way, implies that if you disagree with the Act you are NOT a patriot)...how Orwellean is that? Not to mention the wiretapping; data-mining; voting rights infringements brought on by voting machines that clearly work in favor of Bushco; detention camps; etc.

NOW Hastert, et al are screaming that THEIR rights have been violated, meanwhile, attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and senior officials and career prosecutors at the Justice Department told associates this week that they were prepared to quit if the White House directed them to relinquish evidence seized in a bitterly disputed search of a House member's office, government officials said Friday. >>>More

This should be an interesting development. Stay tuned...