Friday, July 20, 2007

Loyal Bushie gets Bush' back

Probably you wonder why the Valeria Plame case gets thrown out of court, even though it looks open-and-shut, at least to go on to trial. The following factoid rolled in to my inbox from Democrats.com, an activist site, explaining that the judge was a "loyal Bushie."

It said Judge John D. Bates "made his 'bones' with the Bushies as a Whitewater prosecutor under Ken Starr. Bush appointed Bates as a Federal judge in 2001, and a year later he dismissed the GAO lawsuit demanding Cheney's Energy Task Force documents. In 2006, Chief Justice John Roberts put Bates on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to turn a blind eye to Bush's illegal wiretapping of millions of Americans."

Judge Bates sounds like a really useful guy for the Bushies. Anyone remember the "vast right-wing conspiracy?"

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