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Feb. 2nd, 2008
The CIA destroys tapes of torture interrogations: nothing much happens. Congress says okay, just as with its ignored subpoenas.
The New England Patriots organisation destroys tapes made by the their team of New York Jets practices against league rules: Congress leaps into action with inquiry, meetings, witnesses hauled forward.
But then, it's important to investigate trivialities as a distraction when you have Mr. Bush's justice department moving against journalists involved in revealing his illegal domestic wiretapping programme, isn't it? Of course, there continues to be no investigation of the illegal wiretapping that was revealed.
The New England Patriots organisation destroys tapes made by the their team of New York Jets practices against league rules: Congress leaps into action with inquiry, meetings, witnesses hauled forward.
But then, it's important to investigate trivialities as a distraction when you have Mr. Bush's justice department moving against journalists involved in revealing his illegal domestic wiretapping programme, isn't it? Of course, there continues to be no investigation of the illegal wiretapping that was revealed.
