Bush White House DOJ protocol = utter chaos

when senator whitehouse [Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.] presented this chart in the hearing yesterday, i was occupied with something else and didn't get the full gist of what it showed, so today, i surfed around until i found it... fascinating and quite disturbing...

The chart compares the Clinton protocol for appropriate contacts between the White House and the DoJ on pending criminal cases with the Bush protocol. According to Whitehouse, the Clinton protocol authorized just four folks at the White House to chat with three folks at Justice. The chart had four boxes talking to three boxes. Out comes the Bush protocol, and now 417 different people at the White House have contacts about pending criminal cases with 30-some people at Justice.

calling the bush portion of the chart "protocol" demeans the term...

pro·to·col
Pronunciation: 'prO-t&-"kol, -"kOl, -"käl, -k&l
Function: noun

1 : an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction
2 a : a preliminary memorandum often formulated and signed by diplomatic negotiators as a basis for a final convention or treaty b : the records or minutes of a diplomatic conference or congress that show officially the agreements arrived at by the negotiators
3 a : a code prescribing strict adherence to correct etiquette and precedence (as in diplomatic exchange and in the military services)

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