I applaud AG Alberto Gonzales, FBI director Robert Mueller, and prosecutors at the Department of Juctice for not yielding to political pressure in an obvious case of bribery involving Congressman William Jefferson. Invoking separation of legislative and executive powers has nothing to do with this case and is clearly a red herring designed to distract us from what is at issue here.

Jefferson may be a member of Congress, but there’s nothing in the Constitution that gives him immunity from investigations all Americans
are subjected to in a suspected case of crime or official misconduct. While I don’t want to prejudge this case, what we know so far suggests that Jefferson is not innocent of the probable charge of bribery for which, without doubt, he is going to be charged.

It would be nice to have officials like Gonzales and Mueller stand up for principles, instead of the poltroons we see quite often who lose their integrity once they get to Washington. Having an army of honest men and women in government would be our best guarantee of not having to clean those Augean stables every so often.

Bravo, Alberto!

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I heard about this on Fox this morning. Awesome!!! I happen to think that Alberto Gonzalez is the finest AG we have had in decades and I am VERY glad to see that both he and Mueller are willing to stand up when it counts. There is much at stake here and, having thought about it (after jumping to conclusions like almost everyone else who doesn’t know what’s going on) I am totally satisfied that Bush did the right thing sealing these records until such time that Congress can be convinced that it has NO SPECIAL IMMUNITY from prosecution or investigation. He made it perfectly clear that the files would NOT be returned to Jefferson.

Carol

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