Even with Bush's approval ratings tanking in the low 30's, the Republicans are working to defend themselves from the mob. Digby describes the new proposed laws which will allow security officers from the CIA and NSA to make warrantless arrests when and where they wish, and which will penalize leakers as well as those to whom they leak. Digby has the story.
What can we expect from a group of criminals who have been running wild, looting the American government like Randy "Duke" Cunningham and who are beginning to be aware that if they are caught they will be sent to prison the way Cunningham was? The Abramoff noose is closing in on a lot of Republicans. How do they save themselves?
They criminalize the transfer of information on their misdeeds, of course. That's what this is all about. It has nothing to do with American security, and everything to do with Republican political wrongdoing.
That "mob" the Republicans are afraid of is the mass of the American people. If the Republicans can just keep them from finding out how crooked they have been in the last decade, they really think they might be able to survive the coming cleanup. The only protection remaining to the Republicans is the Police State they are working hard to develop.
I'd guess that if they also pay off enough people, they have a fifty-fifty chance of pulling it off.
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