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This is a place for members of Progressive Democrats of Hawai‘i to express their thoughts
and exasperations about political happenings. The opinions and views are not necessarily
those of PDH's steering committee or membership as a whole.

“Watergate,” which ended with the resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment, began with a third-rate burglary. It lead to Nixon’s resignation because his aides tried to cover up his involvement. One special prosecutor, Archie Cox, tried to uncover the coverup, and was fired, thereby precipitating the “Saturday Night Massacre”, which in turn forced Nixon’s administration to hire another special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, whose persistence led to Nixon’s plaintive cry, “I am not a crook!” followed soon after by his resignation.

As if current empire-builders’ (Bush, Cheney, Yoo & co.) mangling of the Constitution wasn’t bad enough, we now find that the White House may be aiding and abetting murder and other felonies (see The Observer’s The House of Death, by David Rose). We already know that the President has approved torture and killing of Iraqis and other Moslems from the Middle East; Now, the question is, have he or his aides have done the same regarding Mexicans south of the border?I think the Democrats should ask Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to see if people operating out of the White House have committed Federal crimes in connection with this case.Fitzgerald’s mandate already allows him to look into such crimes, on his own initiative, if he wanted to. When he was appointed, Fitzgerald was empowered with unilateral authority to “expand” his jurisdiction and “pursue it wherever he wants to pursue it.” This was documented in an interesting article by Marcia Macmullan, dated August 13, 2005, with the title “Synopsis of Article on Why They Can’t Fire Fitzgerald“

This is an important article, BTW, that deserves a permanent place in our library.
But a formal request from the right leader in either House or Senate would be hard to ignore. Fitzgerald’s role is appropriate because the DOJ can’t be expected to investigate itself with an adequate level of impartiality.

Bob Schacht