Fired Government Appointees
Okay, here’s something I don’t understand. The Department of Justice has a couple of scandals on its hands. One scandal affects every citizen’s of this country privacy rights while the other affects the employment of six lawyers. Why has the firing of six US Attorney Generals caused such an uproar while the FBI overstepping their bounds in their use of National Security Letters to obtain private information about you and me caused little more than just an acknowledgement that there is a problem there and a mild warning that the NSLs may be made harder to obtain?
I can’t get worked up over six government appointees losing their jobs because the administration that appointed them decided to go with someone else. Yeah, it was probably unfair to a couple of them, probably deserving of at least one of them but they were appointed to the job by the President it’s up to him whether they keep their job or not. They knew it and, I would think, Congress also knows this. What’s the big deal?
I find it much easier to get worked up over the FBI overstepping the expanded authority given to it by the Patriot Act but it doesn’t seem that many in Congress are thinking much about hearings over this. Where is their priority?
Politics | Larry D. Burton | 21 March 2007 |
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By Dan Lyke, 3/21/2007 @ 1:42 pm
Because the FBI overstepping their authority with stuff like this is something that’s been going on for just under 99 years?
By Larry D. Burton, 3/21/2007 @ 8:51 pm
Which makes it an even bigger deal to get worked up over.
By Felix Miller, 3/24/2007 @ 10:38 pm
I agree with Larry, and with Dan Lyke. On Flutterby Dan has a link to a Washington Post story on abuse of the National Security Letters (I think that is the name) that is pretty scary, for those who value freedom of expression.