Episode #345390656 Of “If This Happened During The Clinton Years The Press Would Be All Over It”
Posted by Phoenix Woman on August 1, 2007
TPM has a little tidbit so wicked that, if it’d happened in 1997 instead of 2007, would be leading our morning radio and TV newscasts.
Instead, it will be all but ignored by those news sources from which most Americans get their information:
The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive for the drugmaker, urged him to slow down, the prosecutor told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
John L. Brownlee, the U.S. attorney in Roanoke, testified that he was at home the evening of Oct. 24 when he received the call on his cellphone from Michael J. Elston, then chief of staff to the deputy attorney general and one of the Justice aides involved in the removal of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
Brownlee settled the case anyway. Eight days later, his name appeared on a list compiled by Elston of prosecutors that officials had suggested be fired.
What was that about “restoring honor and dignity to the White House”, Bushies?
Like TPM says: Rotten to the core.
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serial catowner said
This would be the Bush administration that has made raiding medical marijuana suppliers one of their top law enforcement priorities.
At least the Bush gang is making it clear that laws against marijuana are not only wrong, but positively dangerous to the public when enforcement is put in the wrong hands.
But you knew that already.
whig said
There’s this one father whose kid died of a (get this) Oxycontin overdose, and he blames pot. Purdue (makers of Oxycontin) pays all his bills for him.
whig said
Steven Steiner.