XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Free Lunch"  wrote in message   
   news:3bigp8pgp44vpk2qvn6rspimkb21vk55cl@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 18 May 2013 17:42:29 -0800, linuxgal    
   > wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >   
   >>Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 18 May 2013 09:08:53 -0800, linuxgal   
   >>> wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >>>   
   >>>> >Jeanne Douglas wrote:   
   >>>>> >>Holder had recused himself from the investigation long before this   
   >>>>> >>appalling behavior, so how could he have known anything about it?   
   >>>>> >>   
   >>>>> >>You DO know what "recused" means, don't you?   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> >It means "I'm not in the least bit prepared to testify about anything   
   >>>> >so   
   >>>> >I better come up with an excuse not to testify."   
   >>> No, recusal is his decision to get out of the way of the investigation   
   >>> and turn it over to someone who is independent of him. It is handing   
   >>> over power to someone else.   
   >>   
   >>One should never do something half-assed.  If he's going to hand over   
   >>power to someone else, he should hand over all his power and resign.   
   >   
   > So he cannot win. If he recuses himself you don't like it, if he   
   > controls the investigation you will accuse him of a coverup.   
   >   
   > The real problem is the laws that have slowly stripped all meaning from   
   > the 4th amendment, not the fact that the AP was the target in this war   
   > on leaks.   
      
   Hardly just the 4th. The 1st, 2nd, 5th, etc are all being slowly torn down   
   to something that is meaningless as a limit on the powers that the   
   government exercises.   
      
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