The walls are crumbling

John Solomon and Dan Eggen write in the Washington Post today:

The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President Bush's policies on immigration, firearms and other issues, White House and Justice Department officials said yesterday...

Since the mass firings were carried out three months ago, Justice Department officials have consistently portrayed them as personnel decisions based on the prosecutors' "performance-related" problems. But, yesterday, officials acknowledged that the ousters were based primarily on the administration's unhappiness with the prosecutors' policy decisions and revealed the White House's role in the matter.

"At the end of the day, this was a decision to pick the prosecutors we felt would most effectively carry out the department's policies and priorities in the last two years," said Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse...

And we all knew that was true, didn't we?

We all knew that what the administration says rarely bears any resemblance to the truth, especially when it serves them to create, as one said years ago, "our own reality." We've seen it, time and time again -- not just the simple lies, like "We know where the WMD are", but the most blatant contradiction of what we have seen and heard with our own eyes and ears. "We've never been 'cut and run'."

What's beginning to change is that the media is finally beginning to do its job and hunt these lies down.

Most of the prosecutors have said they were given no reason for their dismissals and have responded angrily to the Justice Department's contention that they were fired because of their performance. At least five of the prosecutors, including Iglesias, were presiding over public corruption investigations when they were fired, but Justice Department officials have said that those probes played no role in the dismissals.

But honestly - do you feel even the slightest inclinaction to believe them? This administration has now reached the point that I'd go look out the window if they told me the sun was rising in the east this morning.

And that's a dangerous attitude for the public to have. When we ignore the warning that is finally, finally true we'll be killed by the wolves our leaders have trained us not to believe in. (Because of course the wolves are out there.)

We need to get rid of these people and we need to do it as soon as we can.