A precious paragraph from another former insider in the federal government. The linked laden paragraph below is just a small portion of an excellent article.
"To satisfy the tobacco lobby, for instance, President Bush’s Department of Justice (DOJ) appointees gutted the most significant case ever brought against the giant tobacco companies. To assuage the Republican base, Bush’s DOJ brought an unprecedented number of civil rights cases on behalf of non-minorities, while drastically limiting its traditional affirmative-action lawsuits. In order to portray themselves as representatives of the party most likely to make the American people feel safe — a cherished nugget of political wisdom from Karl Rove’s constant polling activities — Bush’s Attorneys General have sanctioned, caused to be carried out, and/or turned a blind eye to the use of illegal spying on citizens, illegal detentions at Guantanamo and elsewhere, kidnappings and “extraordinary renditions” to countries which the State Department has classified as the most egregious of human rights violators and, worst of all, administration-sanctioned acts of torture."
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