Some WaPo thoughts on record-sealing and WH intervention

bush seems to be genetically incapable of restraining himself from continuing to dig when he's already in a very deep hole... guess that's why we love him, eh...?

In trying to solve one problem, Mr. Bush created another: Presidential intervention in an ongoing criminal investigation is a bad idea and a worse precedent.

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It's precisely the fact that prosecutors are investigating Republican lawmakers that makes the president's intervention so ominous here.

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[I]t sends a chilling message to agents and career prosecutors working on cases involving other lawmakers to know that the president is on call to second-guess them if members are unhappy with the way their investigation is proceeding.

but you don't think politics could have possibly had anything to do with it...? < ponders > n-a-a-a-ah... not with THIS administration...

Mr. Bush has other interests here -- his diminished political standing and his need for congressional help on other issues, such as immigration reform -- that are not necessarily congruent with the legitimate needs of law enforcement.

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It's important to remember that this search warrant was approved by a federal judge, who certainly was aware of the constitutional sensitivities involved. [...] We think the judge is a better arbiter of whether that should be done than is the president.

ya THINK...??!?!

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