At this point, when the welfare of the US hangs on a thread...

[The Backlash Cometh]

wouldn't the attempted undermining of the Obama Administration by Bush moles be considered treason?

Some liberals are beginning to suspect Bush loyalists in career government positions are doing their best to try to deflate and hinder President Obama's agenda.

When the New York Times published a story on a former Guantanamo detainee who allegedly joined Al Qaeda in Yemen after his release, the timing struck Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein as "suspicious." The paper published its report just one day after President Obama ordered the prison closed.

Stein wonders whether President Bush's political appointees at the Pentagon -- some of whom, the Associated Press reports, have become embedded in career jobs -- leaked information to the Times "as a way of sending a signal to the new president."

Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, asking him to "immediately review the circumstances behind the conversion of these positions and the hiring of any former Bush administration appointees as career or temporary officials within the Office of Detainee Affairs."


http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Growing_suspicion_of_Bush_appointees_working_0210.html

[RJ Connors]

1. Well of course they embedded careerer Bushies in the government.

That was the major part of the story that came out during the Gonzales and Monica Goodling event in the justice department. That these yahoo's had hired something like 150 attorneys from Jerry Falwell's law school, (which I hear is doing better these days as now almost 50% of its graduates pass the bar exam.)and placed them in important positions in Justice.

Goodling was like the #2 or 3 person at justice and she had never actually practiced law. It should also be noted that when she got in trouble with Gonzo she got an attorney who went to Harvard instead of her trusty, and God fearing, alumni.

[RJ Connors]

2. The Amazing Transformation of the Judicial Confirmation Network

You might also want to take a look at this.

The Amazing Transformation of the Judicial Confirmation Network
By Kyle | February 10, 2009 - 2:21pm
Again, I feel compelled to ask why the folks at the Judicial Confirmation Network, an organization created by Jay Sekulow back in 2005 in order to press for the confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees, is suddenly leading the charge against President Obama's Department of Justice nominees.

Considering that the JCN was founded "to ensure that the confirmation process for all judicial nominees is fair and that every nominee sent to the full Senate receives an up or down vote," I fail to understand how it has suddenly establish itself as the voice of the Right in opposing David Ogden, Elena Kagan, Dawn Johnsen, and Thomas Perrelli - especially since, until last summer, the organization had been entirely non-existent for more than a year.

But somehow they have and now, on top of yesterday's ad in "Roll Call" blasting Sen. Pat Leahy for moving too quickly on these nominations, the JCN's Wendy Long has an op-ed in The Washington Times making the same points:

The hearing last Thursday on the appointment of David Ogden to be deputy attorney general - the spot just under Attorney General Eric Holder - showed the Obama-Leahy confirmation strategy for legal appointees whose views are far outside the American mainstream.

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Don't expect any more transparency today, when Elena Kagan, the Obama nominee for Solicitor General, takes the stand. She has charmed many in the conservative legal community, particularly in the academic world, by hiring a couple of conservative law professors in her capacity as dean of Harvard Law School.

(con't) http://www.rightwingwatch.org/