FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE BUSH REGIME

A little over a year ago, John S. Koppel, a career attorney with the Justice Department, wrote an op-ed decrying how the criminal Bush regime corrupted the Department and went on to say:

I realize that this constitutionally protected statement subjects me to a substantial risk of unlawful reprisal from extremely ruthless people who have repeatedly taken such action in the past.

According to Jane Mayer, he wasn't alone in feeling that the rat bastards might come after him. From The Raw Story:

Mayer pointed out that "two of the top lawyers in the Bush administration, Jim Comey who was the number two in the Justice Department and Jack Goldsmith who ran the Office of Legal Counsel, were trying really hard to put the country back on what they thought was a legal footing when it came to how to treat prisoners. They were trying to take away the torture memo and replace it with something that was more responsible."

"As they were working on this," Mayer continued, "they became so paranoid that the vice president's office was either trying to push back in some way -- they thought they might be being wiretapped, they thought they might be in physical danger. The fights were that intense. I can't tell you how passionate and hard-fought these fights were inside this government."

Let's recall what Colin Powell said about David Addington, who is now Cheney's Chief of Staff:

“He doesn’t care about the Constitution.”