If you have been reading your Perkins -- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, for one -- you will know that we have spent decades building a system of corruption in some of our law enforcement and intelligence branches. All of that is unraveling as the world logs on and more information is shared with everyone.

Bringing everything Rove out into the open could be tip of the iceberg, and a lot of buried bodies may come bubbling up to the surface and a lot of people presently in office, or simply still living, could be implicated. It is not surprising, then, that the FBI might want to simply find out what the Special Counsel has, and possibly even inadvertently delete some files and lose some hard copy material.

If the FBI gives the stuff back, or most of it, and explains that it apparently got a bad tip, it will be pretty clear that they have been fishing. If he is indicted and the charges smell fishy, it will mean that he had been warned and now he will be paying the price.

We never actually got rid of the Tories after the Battle of Yorktown. They simply regrouped, determined that they were the elite, the entitled, and that they, ultimately, should be running things. They have been doing their best, behind the scenes, to do just that, and the reign of King George the W has brought a lot of it to the surface. I sincerely hope that more and more will emerge so that we can shine the bright light of day on all of it.

It's unsettling when no one in government can really be trusted, especially the intelligence and law enforcement communities. We know there are many good people in the agencies, and we suspect that they continue to be sidelined by the manipulators, who have themselves been manipulated through carefully hatched plots around the kitchen tables of some families who wield far, far too much power.

Channing
Ventura CA USA

The Criminal Torturing Unitary Executive, as vetted by John Yoo, orders the FBI to do it's bidding and investigate/destroy evidence. Would that be, criminals investigating criminals, under orders from criminals? Is that RICO on steroids?

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