Today’s Talk

November 29th, 2006 by CD

Ever hear of the saying “better late than never?” Well, that seems to be the Department of Justice’s slogan these days as they have officially announced that they will head an investigation into President Bush’s Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Why now? Well, the inspectors from both the DOJ and Defense Deportment refused to open investigation last year. The Inspector General in charge of opening investigations ignored calls from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid who was a major voice against the program. It was also noted by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at a DOJ oversight hearing that President Bush put an end to an investigation that was supposed to headed by the Office of Professional Responsibility.

Now it’s a bit strange that as the Democrats are scheduled to take control over congress at the start of next year that the DOJ will now open up investigations. Let’s hope that the DOJ does not think that the American public and the democratic party is naive enough to think that this switch in priorities will lead to an unbiased outcome.