And Another Asst Atty Gen at DOJ resigns, .... LINK

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An assistant attorney general at the Justice Department announced her resignation on Friday, becoming the seventh official to quit the department since the Democratic-led Congress launched an investigation in March into the firing of nine federal prosecutors.

Rachel Brand, assistant attorney general for legal policy, said she would step down on July 9. No reason was given.

Brand was nominated to her position on March 29, 2005, and confirmed by the Senate four months later.

She was responsible for preparing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito for their confirmation hearings and helped in the reauthorization in 2006 of the USA Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law that Congress approved after the September 11 attacks.

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She was responsible for preparing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito for their confirmation hearings

Did she coach Mrs Alito, too?

some history should be deleted.

involved with the subpoenaed documents?

At the time she was preparing Roberts and Alito for their confirmation hearings, she might have known about the 'inside corruption' that could break out in such a confirmation hearing, and it would have been her job to advise them how to respond.

So did Roberts and Alito 'know' about political corruption of the DOJ before they went to Capitol Hill for their confirmation hearings?

If they knew and kept it secret, did that make their answers to other questions incomplete or untrue?

If you were going to answer those questions, Rachel Brand would be a likely witness you would want to examine under oath.

If she did, and they did not reveal this to the confirmation committee in the Senate, then Roberts and Alito are DIRECTLY INVOLVED in this whole sordid affair, and now they are in a position to provide cover for the wrongdoers who put them in that position.

There could not be a worse scandal if the SCOTUS is involved in a corruption scandal that lands at its feet for a final impartial determination.

These guys are "directly involved." They received the Federalist Society briefing stating they have a "higher law and orders" to follow.

The BFEE has appointed most of the clown turds on SCOTUS. From Pruneface Reagan to Poppy Bush to his dim son crazy monkey.

If Congress, by popular demand, goes after the many sordid connections, it won't be just Sneer and Smirk who get impeached.

republicons are becoming synonymous with traitors...no honor whatsoever

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1217617

Folks, we can't take this lying down. Roberts, Alito, and the rest of "the five" need to know that they are being WATCHED and perhaps impeached if they step out of line.

We CANNOT afford to have them support this criminal administration in executive privilege appeal! CANNOT!

Both confirmation hearings were stellar excercises in "How NOT to answer questions truthfully and/or completely".

If she's the one reponsible for coaching those gangster-like responses to Congress' questions she should be locked up immediately!

Bush Supreme Court appointments, if we are ever able to restore transparent vote counting and get ourselves some real representation in Washington DC, and a real president. The problem then will be the Supreme Court and other Bush judge appointments as the obstacle to badly needed serious reform, including, for instance, re-asserting our sovereignty, as a people, over the global corporate predators who operate from our shores. How to remove these Bush appointees?

FDR tried it, in the 1930s. The number of Supreme Court justices is not fixed by the Constitution. Nine is an arbitrary number. So, when the Supreme Court--appointed by the previous rightwing regimes who had brought on the Great Depression with their laissez faire business policy (read: "free trade")--began declaring FDR's "New Deal" programs (which were aimed at feeding starving millions, helping the jobless and homeless, and re-starting the economy) unconstitutional, FDR proposed that Congress expand the number of justices, and add some younger, more liberal (and more compassionate!) justices, to balance things out. The rightwing called this "packing the Supreme Court," although it was perfectly legal and perfectly within the rights and duties of Congress. The rightwing successfully painted it as too extreme, and FDR had to drop the idea. However, the pressure of this controversy caused one justice to change his mind about the "New Deal." Thus, Social Security was saved.

So, one strategy could be to THREATEN the Supreme Court with a new "packing," or actually carry it through. Add liberal justices to balance their fascist, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional views.

That could be done without Constitutional amendment. If we could get the votes for a Constitutional amendment (2/3, I believe), we could amend the Constitution to give them term limits--and perhaps make it retroactive. Or make them subject to election by popular vote (--after we got rid of the rigged voting machines)--that is, all sitting justices would have to stand for election and defend their legal policies to the public.

Another strategy would be to declare the non-transparent 2004 election null and void, and to invalidate all Bush appointments of the last 2 1/2 years. I like this idea because it is so sweeping--we would get rid of all Bush federal court appointments since 2004, at once. The 2004 election was held under conditions of extreme non-transparency. The e-voting system is inherently invalid. On that basis alone, that election could (and should!) be nullified. Then there is the 2000 Supreme Court's unprecedented decision to overturn Florida law and crown Junior king. There is plenty of basis for invalidating that action as well. Thus, we could sweep away ALL Bush federal court appointments, from both terms.

And a fourth strategy would be to put a Special Prosecutor on them, and dog their every hunting party, get the goods on them, and impeach them.

It is this third strategy that your post adds ideas to. Things I hadn't thought of--their possible complicity in the DoJ corruption, and their possible lies about it. What did they know, and when did they know it?

We could dispatch the lot of them fairly quickly, and without much difficulty, by impeaching them for lying--on this and possibly on other matters. No need to develop more information, by appointing a Special Prosecutor. Just haul them back before Congress for close questioning, or (since I'm not sure if Congress can subpoena Supreme Court justices) search out the documents, hearing records, immunized witnesses and whistleblowers to put the case for impeachment together, and impeach them forthwith.

Of course, this ain't gonna happen until we get back our right to vote (which I think has to be done in local/state venues), and are able to elected an activist, progressive president, like FDR, and a like-minded Congress, and they probably wouldn't do it, unless the Supreme Court started nixing their reform programs, as it did to FDR. A lot was at stake, politically and economically. Peoples' lives were at stake. But with this fascist Bushite gang on the Court, it wouldn't be long before such a crisis developed. They are even more rightwing than the Coolidge-Hoover Court----very extremist rightwing, and bought-and-paid for corporate predator tools.

As to the feasibility of any of these strategies, I've learned a couple of general lessons from studying the awesome leftist (majorityist), democratic revolution that is sweeping South America. Here they are:

1. Transparent vote counting (!)
2. Grass roots organization.
3. Think big.

an incredible asset in terms of ensuring electoral integrity - notably voter suppression.

but I love them all.

do you mean?

won--but we must value every vote in the country, and not play into election fraud strategies and narratives like "it all comes down to Ohio." They set the groundwork for it "all coming down to Ohio" by small percentage thefts all over the country, tweaking close states like NM to Bush, and creating a national popular majority for Bush along the way. THEN "it all came down to Ohio," where Rove had the most corrupt Republican political machine in the country (and perhaps in our history) in place, like a spider web trap, to do whatever was necessary, including massive and conspiratorial crimes, to prevent Kerry from winning. They knew from the early exit polls that Kerry had won. They had to go all out, using every election theft capability they had created, short of Cheney's plane getting hit with a phony missile out over the Pacific, for a phony "terrorist" incident to shut down west coast voting.* We have got to face the great probability--in my opinion, certainty--that these highly non-transparent, Bushite corporate-controlled voting systems were not fast-tracked across the country (2002-2004) to sit idly by and let the American people oust the Bush Junta, when they had specifically installed the capability to steal large numbers of votes undetectably. We could have had a transparent voting system--open source, or just paper ballots--but no, they made it as NON-TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE, and all the Democrats went along with it, too. That's the other reality we need to face--that these machines were not installed just to keep Bush-Cheney in office and manufacture an endorsement for the war; Bush/Cheney may come and go but the system remains--a Mussolini voting system where those with police and military powers combine with business corporations to decide who the leaders will be.

Fascism.

And we are there. The only question is, are we so stuck in this hole already, we can't get out? I think we still have an opportunity to climb out of the hole of outright fascism before the country is locked down, if we make the restoration of transparent vote counting priority no. 1. Vote suppression is a crime, and is a particularly heinous crime against black voters, who were systematically deprived of voting rights and full citizenship for so long. But a law exists that forbids suppression of the votes of blacks or any other group. We don't have to undo a law, or make news laws, to remedy it. We just have to get existing law ENFORCED. And the way to do that may well be a full investigation of Ohio '04 and rigorous prosecution. And I think we will likely find out, at the same time, that Kerry won. But the trouble is that, with Blackwell in charge in '04, the evidence trail may have gone cold. It may be hard to prove definitively--for purposes of invalidating the election, or of prosecutions.

Better to take a sweeping approach, I think. The entire election was invalid, period, because 80% of the nation's votes were "counted" by a private rightwing Bushite corporations, using 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY code, with virtually no audit/recount controls. There is simply no way to verify such an election. It was therefore NOT an election.

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*(Yup, that's where Cheney was--he left for Hawaii on Sunday--a blue-blue state--two days before the election, after weeks of phony "terrorist" alerts--so phony everybody was laughing at them. So, either they had to get Cheney out of sight/out of mind, to make a convincing election narrative, or they had a terrorist backup plan in case all else failed--cuz there was no reason, period, for a rightwing Bushite to go to Hawaii two days before a very close election. I remember they got some shill to put out a phony newsblip that Hawaii "just might" go red. Hawaii! A total crock. And WHY did they do this? They went to a lot of trouble to set that up--the absurd cascade of terrorist alerts, the phony Hawaii poll, Cheney P.R., Cheney's trip. It was very puzzling.)

the votes are under lockdown now with jennifer brunner. many are missing, but there are still enough there to show that kerry won.

I've pondered the possibility of voiding out most of what Bush has done since it seems to be pretty much accepted now that the election was stolen. So let's do something about it!

If only the media had reported about the Ohio convictions, but I don't think it got any TV exposure at all, and I don't know about MSM print or internet. I heard about it from blogs, and even there, my friend who also peruses blogdom never heard about it until I mentioned it.

But it did happen, and that's why Bush got Ohio and that's why he got sworn in. So if he's an illegitimate president why shouldn't we just say "oops" and take it all back?

WH bio
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/rbrand-bio.html

Source Watch profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rachel_Brand

These folks are the heart and soul of AGAG's DoJ Politburo/Thought Police, and it's becoming a regular Friday ritual for some of them to resign.

Meanwhile the Decider and Cheney ignore subpoenas and everything else.

And most Dems campaign so that they can change things next year-impeachment is off their DLC corporate interest loving, BFEE enabling table.

:mad:

He KNOWS he's guilty as hell under the laws of this land. But he doesn't give a damn about them.

Fine mess the republicans have gotten us into.

:kick:

These Bush people are resigning because of the pressure applied by the Democrats. Haven't you noticed the hearings?

Call her before Congress, IMMEDIATELY!!!

:)