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The Most Important Job In The Bush Administration

by Tim F|  November 16, 20071:44 pm| 24 Comments

This post is in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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Now as always, the departmental Inspectors General:

IG investigators were astonished particularly by what transpired in the first ten days of [Maher] Arar’s detention. Well-defined procedures were not followed. The State Department was consciously kept out of the loop. Steps were taken to circumvent Arar’s rights, and particularly to guard against the prospect that a lawyer for Arar would challenge his highly dubious treatment through a habeas corpus proceeding. Who was at fault in this process? A group of very senior figures, mostly in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Justice Department figures, and particularly those who are fingered and criticized in the early drafts of the IG Report, have been frantic in their efforts to quash it. And they’re succeeding. That, I am told, is why the IG Report has not been finalized and transmitted to Congress.

Imagine the watershed if every one of these guys did their job.

Case in point, State IG Howard “family issues” Krongard. Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

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  1. 1.

    Andrew

    November 16, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    Crotch kick, pow!

  2. 2.

    RSA

    November 16, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    Imagine the watershed if every one of these guys did their job.

    And watch the bloodshed when they don’t. . .

  3. 3.

    Zifnab

    November 16, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    John’s still finishing 2nd place on Google.

    I expected better.

  4. 4.

    Ugh

    November 16, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    His brother set him up.

  5. 5.

    jcricket

    November 16, 2007 at 2:10 pm

    Vast left wing conspiracy.

  6. 6.

    David Hunt

    November 16, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    Imagine the watershed if every one of these guys did their job.

    Yeah, the sudden mass firings of all those IGs might very well be a watershed events.

  7. 7.

    tBone

    November 16, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    Victim of a liberal smear campaign. Someone is trying to sell a book. The Clintons did it first anyway. Why do you hate America??

    And anyway, at least Krongard has the class not to threaten people with testicular violence, unlike some people I could name.

  8. 8.

    jenniebee

    November 16, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Hey, if you don’t like it, you can always find another country to live in.

    /glibertarian

  9. 9.

    Dreggas

    November 16, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Case in point, State IG Howard “family issues” Krongard. Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    His brother set him up because of this one time at band camp…

  10. 10.

    Davis X. Machina

    November 16, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    What the hell, I’ll give it a shot.

    Er war immer ganz führertreu.

    You can’t really file your taxes, retire. or go Godwin, too early..

  11. 11.

    cleek

    November 16, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    his brother set him up the bomb

  12. 12.

    Jake

    November 16, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    State IG Howard “family issues” Krongard. Somebody, please, try to defend this guy

    George Soros, acting on orders from Queen Hitlery, made him do it.

  13. 13.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    November 16, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    As the good book says, “I am not my brother’s keeper.” That’s the best I can do. Otherwise, you have to use that faulty memory thing. And that’s getting real old.

  14. 14.

    cleek

    November 16, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    it’s nothing but a partisan witch hunt designed to distract a good man from doing his job helping his country IN A TIME OF WAR.

  15. 15.

    LiberalTarian

    November 16, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Honestly, what happened to Republicans? I mean, I never thought they actually hated the bill of rights, freedom of religion, a strong national defense (instead of a morally bankrupt one), and one-man-one-vote.

    With all the Limbaughts, Malkins, Gonzales’s, etc., I don’t see how I ever thought they loved this country. They hate every thing about it. Is there a deserted island in the Pacific somewhere they can go to and live in their cheerful little stone-age until the ocean swallows them up???

  16. 16.

    jcricket

    November 16, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    As the good book says, “I am not my brother’s keeper.” That’s the best I can do.

    Do we actually remember who said this in the Bible?

    Cain! Responding when he was asked where Able was (after he had murdered him).

    I think it means sort of something different than people use it for, although perhaps it is apropos in this situation?

  17. 17.

    Dreggas

    November 16, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    LiberalTarian Says:

    Honestly, what happened to Republicans? I mean, I never thought they actually hated the bill of rights, freedom of religion, a strong national defense (instead of a morally bankrupt one), and one-man-one-vote.

    I used to think the same thing, then bush came. Of course now I am learning the rot started much further back (see Vietnam, end of).

  18. 18.

    Xenos

    November 16, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    Identical twins, separated at birth. During the break he had to locate a genealogical service to determine if the other guy was indeed his brother. So you see, no bad faith here at all.

  19. 19.

    Xenos

    November 16, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    In the alternative, the brother had a sex change operation, was originally his sister. Understandable confusion when asked about his ‘brother’. Won’t happen again. We will all laugh about it someday.

  20. 20.

    Dreggas

    November 16, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    Just an update. It seems his brother is really rolling on him to Waxman.

  21. 21.

    Dreggas

    November 16, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    As posted by a commenter over at TPM:

    RockGolf wrote on November 16, 2007 5:12 PM:
    All together now… Sing!

    Doo doo doo doot clik clik
    Doo doo doo doot clik clik
    Doo doo doo doot
    Doo doo doo doot
    Doo doo doo doot clik clik

    They’re creepy & they’re spooky
    They’re altogether ookie.
    They’re Buzzie & they’re Cookie.
    The Krongard fa-mi-ly.

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    November 17, 2007 at 12:48 am

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    He’d make a good Polish Mine Detector?

  23. 23.

    canuckistani

    November 17, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    No video of him killing children and puppies has ever been publicly broadcast.

  24. 24.

    Johnny Pez

    November 17, 2007 at 11:28 am

    Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.

    Look! Over there! It’s Britney Spears!

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