Via Hans von Spakovsky at NRO:
“Given the apparent political motivations behind so many of the recent decisions at the Department of Justice (DOJ) — from the dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party to the re-investigation of CIA interrogators after DOJ prosecutors had already reviewed the matter and decided there [...]

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Jan Crawford Greenburg over at the ABC News Blog, writes:
“News reports yesterday made much out of the fact that a draft report about the so-called “torture memos” doesn’t recommend criminal prosecution for DOJ officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee, but instead would only refer them to their state bars for disciplinary proceedings.
Setting aside that my [...]

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While not completely dismissing Muckasey’s nomination, I find this toubling:
“President Bush’s pick for attorney general has promised to fire any Justice Department employee who discusses sensitive cases with the White House without his approval, a leading Democratic senator said Thursday.
Earlier this week, retired federal judge Michael Mukasey told another senator he also would fire employees [...]

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Sounds confusing.  No more than this tripe. 
(Warning - Biased BS Alert Amy Goldstein reporting):
“House Democrats, preparing for a vote today on contempt citations against President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel, produced a report yesterday that for the first time alleges specific ways that several administration officials may have broken the law during the [...]

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While the left continually obsesses with the COMMUTATION of Scooter Libby, and the cooked up AG flap, let’s trip back down memory lane to perhaps the most agregious pardons ever given. That being Clinton’s pardon of a known terrorist group known as the FALN party, a group of 16 Puerto Rican terrorists, a [...]

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