Spy Games: Quick-Draw Dems
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAWYER John Dion has worked on every major national security case of the past quarter-century, including the prosecutions of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen. Since 1997, he has run the counterespionage section within the Criminal Division. About once a week, the CIA advises his office of another case involving the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
In July, the CIA asked Dion's office whether someone's leaking the name of a covert CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak might have violated a 1982 law forbidding the intentional disclosure of a clandestine agent's identity. Dion has since commenced an investigation. It is hard to imagine a lawyer more qualified than Dion to head up the investigation. But Democrats in Congress are impatient with the idea of a Justice Department investigation.
It doesn't matter that Dion is a career lawyer who has won the praise of both Republican (Edwin Meese) and Democratic (Janet Reno) attorneys general. No, Democrats want Attorney General John Ashcroft to hand the case to an outside lawyer--now. Some Democrats even want to pass a new independent counsel law--under which a court would appoint the outside lawyer.
Check out the rest of this commentray from Terry Eastland from the Weekly Standard.
Matt's Chat
I couldn't agree more. It is outrageous to think that the Justice Department in general and Mr. Dion specifically is incapable of handling this investigation with the best interests of the nation and justice in mind. Continued pushing for an independent counsel clearly illustrates that for Democrats this is a political issue and not a carriage of justice issue. And that is truly sad.Mark's Remarks
No, Matt, because Cheney and Haliburton and the Illuminati are behind it all...It is a vast right wing conspiracy to keep the truth from getting out....NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!No the Democrats are so hell bent on getting Republicans since we stole their stronghold in California from them, they need some ammo to try to unseat this President, and this sad non-story is the only thing they have left. It does not matter that this person is very competent, this Mr. Dion.....No, what the liberals want to do is go to the wackey 9th district court justices and have them appoint a Bush hater who only cares about digging up dirt....not about getting to the truth...WHICH WE ALREADY GOT TO WHEN NOVAK SAID--THESE DID NOT COME FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND WERE NOT PLANNED LEAKS!!!! How many times does he have to say it and how many times do I have to caps it????? Wake up, people!!!!
