Laura Rozen posted a piece from the Denver Post the other day. In it, John Koppel, an attorney at the Department of Justice, denounces Gonzales' leadership as disgraceful.
In the course of its tenure since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has turned the entire government (and the DOJ in particular) into a veritable Augean stable on issues such as civil rights, civil liberties, international law and basic human rights, as well as criminal prosecution and federal employment and contracting practices. It has systematically undermined the rule of law...
He goes on to make a case for condemning the administration for "malfeasance" and "misfeasance."
Of course, we're so used to the malfeasance of the Bush/Cheney administration that we're close to writing it off as an unmanageable problem. Except for a few, including John Koppel, most tend to dodge the tough question: why is this administration still in office?
Malfeasance creates no big problem for the Chinese. When the screw-up and/or corruption gets embarrassing enough, they have a quick remedy.
China executed its former top food and drug regulator today for taking bribes to approve untested medicine as Beijing scrambled to show that it is serious about improving the safety of Chinese products.
Given the sheer accumulation of deaths, lying and profiteering, the Bush administration probably deserves multiple drops of the guillotine. Why are we so blasé about so much malfeasance? Don't we want to scramble, too, to restore our international reputation?
