While listening to the testimony, or lack thereof, from GOP Bright Young Man J. Scott Jennings, a 29 year old junior assistant toady in the Imperium, it occurred to me that it would only take one Imperium staffer to realize what a historic place he or she would have in history, if they were to ignore Bush’s claim of Executive Privilege and testified, truthfully and under oath, to Congress as to what, where, when, why, and how. They would be forever hailed as the patriot who began the dismantlement of the Imperial Presidency.
The Imperium chooses its toadies carefully, not emphasizing, oh, I don’t know, maybe competence as a major factor in hiring, but certainly loyalty. And that has, thus far, paid off. Claims of executive privilege and out-right stonewalling have kept the Congress at bay from looking into Bush’s underwear drawer. But the pressure is mounting, now. Contempt charges are beginning to fly. And if the threat of Bush’s "displeasure" are serious deterrents to truthful Congressional testimony, then that must be weighed, in their frightened little minds, against the idea of someday facing real Congressional wrath, up to and including multiple felony counts.
It would only take one. More on the flip.
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