NY Times: Bush actions mirror that of a third-world dictator
Yesterday’s New York Times has a great editorial about the mounting evidence that Alberto Gonzales and Bush’s Justice Department singled people out for criminal prosecution to help GOP candidates win targeted races.
Putting political opponents in jail is the sort of thing that happens in third-world dictatorships. In the United States, prosecutions are supposed to be scrupulously nonpartisan. This principle appears to have broken down in Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department — where lawyers were improperly hired for nonpolitical jobs based on party membership, and United States attorneys were apparently fired for political reasons.
Of the many in Congress who have spoken up against Gonzales’ misdeed, none have been louder or carried more credibility than Rhode Island’s own Sheldon Whitehouse, himself a former U.S. Attorney.