Michael Mukasey won't honor house contempt charges against White House aides Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten because ignoring the Congressional subpoenas did not "constitute a crime."
Interesting choice of words, Mr. Mukasey. The Constitution is derived from the word "constitute," as in the basis for all law. And it's the Constitution which the Bush administration has chosen to ignore again and again. And now Mr. Mukasey, you are among those who conspire to keep the President and his minions above the law.
In the kind of circular logic which has become a hallmark of all White House and Justice Department arguments, Mukasey and the Justice Department won't prosecute the contempt charges because Miers and Bolten were acting on advice from...the Justice Department. In other words, if the Justice Department gives advice which is criminal, it can't pursue prosecution against itself.
It goes hand in hand with the kind of logic which says, we can't investigate administration officials who secretly broke the law in the name of the fight against terrorism, because if we did, we'd have to break the secrecy that allowed them to break the law in the first place.
Down the rabbit hole we go.
Of course, if Congress never approved Mukasey, this imbroglio might have been avoided.
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