Obstruction of Justice

By Eric on September 6, 2008

Is anyone else getting a feeling of deja vu?

Key Alaska allies of John McCain are trying to derail a politically charged investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner in order to prevent a so-called “October surprise” that would produce embarrassing information about the vice presidential candidate on the eve of the election.

In a move endorsed by the McCain campaign Friday, John Coghill, the GOP chairman of the state House Rules Committee, wrote a letter seeking a meeting of Alaska’s bipartisan Legislative Council in order to remove the Democratic state senator in charge of the so-called “troopergate” investigation.
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The move underscored the huge political stakes in the outcome of a legislative investigation that is being closely monitored by both the McCain and Obama campaigns because of its potential impact on the fall election. “How can this possibly be read as anything but a partisan attempt to shut down a legitimate investigation that was approved and funded with bipartisan support?” said one state Democratic legislative aide, who asked not to be identified because of the political sensitivities. Coghill told NEWSWEEK that he decided to write his letter to strip French of his position on his own-without any coaxing by McCain campaign officials.
But a top McCain campaign official acknowledged that the GOP lawyer had given the campaign a “heads up” about his letter and that the McCain campaign approved of the effort to remove French. 

Sound familiar? That’s because the Bush administration has blocked investigation after investigation of everything from lost money in Iraq to the EPA. And, following in those footsteps, Sarah Palin is claiming executive privilege for all of her emails, having aides refuse to testify in a legislative investigation, and trying to end an investigation into her ethics.

We already know how John McCain and Sarah Palin are going to run the country because it’s the same way that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have been doing it for eight years: by deceiving the American people, decimating the Constitution, driving the country straight into the ground.

Tags: 2008, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Troopergate

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