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Originally Posted by host
dc_dux, is there an awareness on capitol hill, of the agenda, names, organizations, and the clout that the "folks" and orgs I wrote about on this thread, wield....how organized and single minded it is?
Or, is the day to day familiarity democrats working in Washington acquire, with folks "on the other side of the aisle", obscuring the perception that they really are well funded zealots, walking in aggressive lockstep?
Do most people even know what CNP is and about Ted Olson's "hand" in virtually everything....from the firing of the air traffice controllers in '83, to his relationships with Ken Starr and R. Emmett Terrell Jr....and on and on until he ended up on the litigation committee at the law firm that <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/10/17/los-angeles-us-attorney-debra-yang-resigns-will-join-gibson-dunn/">"hired"</a> LA US Atty Debra Yang away from her investigations of Wilkes, Foggo, and Rep. Jerry Lewis....how big the Federalist Society membership is, yet how curiously reluctant now SCOTUS chief justice Roberts was, before his nomination to SCOTUS was approved, to admit he had been a Federalist member....?
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Host...I would expect that the Dems in Congress are reasonably well informed about the CNP, and folks like Ted Olson, Grover Norquist and that crowd.
There needs to be clear lines of jurisdiction in order for Congressional oversight and some has occured with the hearings on politicization of DoJ and upcoming hearings on religious organizations and potential abuse of tax status for political purposes....the rest has to be left to DOJ to pursue potential criminal activities.
Mukasey's nomination was secured once he had Schumer's (his other NY bud) support. Mukasey carries the Federalist baggage, but at least he is free of the personal loyalty to Bush...the best we could hope for at this point.
One good sign...
.Mukasey is reopening the internal DoJ investigation of pre-2005 potentially illegal wiretapping activities.
Some may recall how
Bush personally intervened and stopped the earlier internal investigation in its tracks by not authorizing security clearances for the DoJ investigators.