Judiciary Report - And The Corruption Continues…Gonzales Caught Again

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And The Corruption Continues

Gonzales Lied To Congress

July 18. 2007

The following article comes as no surprise. It has been revealed through the Associated Press and Forbes that disgraced Attorney General Alberto Gonzales knew of the many FBI Patriot Act abuses and let it continue. I wrote months ago on this site that I did not believe it was the FBI agents that took it upon themselves to just up and break the law across the board like that. Someone above them knew and gave them quiet clearance. Here's what I wrote back on March 21, 2007:

“Yesterday, Mueller, pretending he didn’t know about the abuses, ordered an audit of the FBI’s 56 field offices in the continental United States. Why? You lead by example, Mueller. They learned this from somewhere. Something had to have made those guys think it was okay to do this.

If you didn’t authorize it, the agents couldn’t have been doing this and with the problem being so widespread either. The agents have been working in this manner like it is standard operating procedure for a reason. Somebody gave them the clearance to…and that somebody is you." - Judiciary Report March 21, 2007 Senate Hearings On FBI Misconduct Begin

Remember back in that same March 21, 2007 article I also wrote about the abuses, deliberately placing the number at "10,000 abuses" rather than what the DOJ report stated of "3,000 abuses" found (FBI Violations May Number 3,000, Official Says http://www.washingtonpost.com). Well, just last month, the FBI stated they separately found "1,000 abuses" (3,000 + 1,000 = 4,000). While I'm thinking “What? You mean 1,000 per month, right!” Here's what I wrote back on March 21, 2007:

Over 10,000 abuses were found. The FBI only has 30,000 agents. So that would mean:
If a portion of the nation’s FBI agents abused one NSL = 10,000 agents broke the law.
If a portion of the nation’s FBI agents abused two NSLs = 5,000 agents broke the law.
That would mean 1/4th to 1/3rd of them, broke the law, if they, on average, used 1 to 2 NSLs inappropriately.- Judiciary Report March 21, 2007 Senate Hearings On FBI Misconduct Begin

Their official abuse figures are still low, especially considering there were over 141,000 data requests. I don't believe for one second all of those were valid requests at all. This is the kind of widespread misconduct they are engaging in under Mueller and Gonzales, who in conjunction with their bosses in the White House, have officially suspended the law of the land when it comes to themselves and the administration. In that March 21, 2007 article I also wrote:

"This audit of the 56 field offices of the FBI is only to save face. What? Are you gonna punish them for something you told them it was okay to do, to save your own butt. See, this is how people’s lives get destroyed and their freedom taken, for following instructions from a corrupt senior officer."- Judiciary Report March 21, 2007 Senate Hearings On FBI Misconduct Begin

It was announced this week that there is a federal "criminal probe" of numerous FBI agents regarding this scandal. It went from an "audit" of FBI field offices back in March 2007 to a "criminal probe" this month. In plain English, those agents freedom is in jeopardy. Just the type of treatment I figured they'd subject them to, when I wrote this back in that March article: "This is how people’s lives get destroyed and their freedom taken, for following instructions from a corrupt senior officer."

Very sad, especially for the FBI agents, as they are the ones getting burned for following corrupt instructions, due to their superiors hanging some of them out to dry, to save face at their expense. However, you’re not fooling anyone. The nation knows who did this and it was management (Mueller and Gonzales). This has executive-power-means-I-can-do-anything-I-want-even-in-violation-of-the-law-of-the-land written all over it.

And there is NOT ONE SINGLE CASE of credible proof that any of these abuses protected national security or thwarted a terrorist attack in any way. You just got your privacy invaded in vain. Regardless of which country you live in, the standard rule of thumb should be, it is better to quit a job in government than go along with conduct in violation of the law of the land, because when the Congressional or Parliamentary, and if you really messed up, the Congressional and Parliamentary hearings begin, it is always the little guys that get burned the most.

For further reference, see Scooter Libby. We know Scooter didn’t mastermind it, but it was his near jailmeat booty that was on trial, now wasn’t it. Scooter got so close to jail, he could almost see the soap dropping.

Scooter: girlfriend, you ain't lying. I could almost see the Zest!

Gonzales is determined and adamant on staying in office, but we’ll see how long that lasts at the rate these horrible revelations about him are rolling in. Then again, you like Scooter know where all the bodies are buried, don’t you, and that is what’s saving your butt on the White House end:

Report: Gonzales Knew of FBI Violations

Democrats raised new questions Tuesday about whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have known about FBI abuses of civil liberties when he told a Senate committee that no such abuses occurred. Lying to Congress is a crime, but it wasn't immediately clear if Gonzales knew about the violations when he made those statements to the Senate Intelligence Committee or intentionally misled its members...

"Providing false, misleading or inaccurate statements to Congress is a serious crime, and the man who may have committed those acts cannot be trusted to investigate himself," Nadler, D-N.Y., said in a statement.

http://www.forbes.com