Justice Deformed

J-Ger provides the delectable compare & contrast:

Attorney General Eric Holder, in his confirmation hearing:

The Department of Justice first and foremost represents the people of the United States. Not any one president, not any political party, but the people. I learned that principle in my first days at the department, when I sent corrupt public officials from both parties to jail. It guided my work as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, when I prosecuted one of the most powerful members of my own party at the very time he held in his hands the top legislative initiative of my own president. And it guided my service as deputy attorney general, when I recommended independent counsel investigations not just of members of the Cabinet, but of the very president who appointed me and in whose administration I proudly served.

None of those calls was easy. But I made them because I believed they were the right decisions under the law. If confirmed as attorney general, I pledge to you that this same principle will guide my service and inform every decision I make.

The news, today:

"New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won't be criminally charged in a yearlong federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the Democratic governor's large political donors, someone familiar with the case said. The decision not to pursue indictments was made by top Justice Department officials, according to a person familiar with the investigation, who asked not to be identified because federal officials had not disclosed results of the probe."

I would humbly and respectfully add this news from three months ago:

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

The incident - which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube - had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.

 

 

 

Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.

Well, I guess based on the above we can conclude that in the mind of Eric Holder, racist, anti-democratic communist militias and corrupt Democrat (sorry for the redundancy) apparatchiks are "the people," but CIA personnel on the front lines of the (defunct) War on Terror charged with extracting intelligence from captured jihadis that could save thousands of American lives and whose "enhanced" interrogation methods both worked and passed previous DOJ scrutiny?  Send them straight to hell!

I used to call the Janet Reno DOJ the "Department of Injustice."  Somehow that doesn't quite cover it with this bunch.  "Department of Lawlessness" or "Department of Persecution" or "Committee for State Security" seem better fits.  Particularly given that these won't be the end of their outrages, assuming we live that long.

UPDATE: The Architect layeth the smack down on Eric The Red's - and Red Barry's - candy asses: