A little sick that we have to make a report about these cases, but quite a few of them have cropped up in recent days, all of them disturbing.
It amazes me that Dick Durbin like a mom peering open her son's door a crack to ask if he's finished his homework. There are 17 outstanding allegations of abuse from Iraq and Afghanistan going back almost three years, and Abu Gonzales and his gang are trying to drop them, hoping that nobody's looking.
Good for Durbin:
In a letter sent Monday to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, incoming Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., noted that the department began looking into the allegations of abuse two and a half years ago.
"In that time, there have not been any indictments in any of these cases," wrote Durbin, who first pressed the Justice Department for a prosecutions update in November 2005, when now-Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was seeking Senate confirmation.
"It is my understanding that since then, the Justice Department has not commented publicly on the status of any of these cases," wrote Durbin, who sits on the Senate panel that oversees the Justice Department.
But of course, that's the way a Bush White House works - dysfunctionally. There is a reverence for officials worthy of being charged with crimes, and a contempt for and who may have done nothing wrong.
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