Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Mukasey is a Decider, Too

So, it seems like Attorney General Mukasey doesn’t see the need to pursue investigations or criminal actions against those responsible for politicizing the hiring process at the Justice Department. Good to know.
“Where there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we vigorously prosecute,” he said. “But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime,” he said. As the inspector general’s report acknowledged, the hiring violations were such a case, because the wrongdoing violated federal civil service law, but not criminal law, he said.
Which leads me to wonder, which laws does one have to violate before they’re considered a crime? I can’t be the only one who wants to know where the line now lays! I can understand that not every wrong is necessarily a crime. I guess. But violations of federal civil service law aren’t prosecutable crimes? If they’re not, then why do we have them? Or are only some of them crimes? The others are, what? Bad manners?

Remember when Schumer and Feinstein supported Mukasey nomination? Good call, guys. You were right on the ball with that one.

2 comments:

PW said...

Well, I for one am looking forward to further exploration of the gray area in which I can break the law without committing a crime.

Then again, as I think about it, the last eight years have provided so many examples, this post really isn't all that funny.

JKA said...

Wow. Interesting times... no, wait, the other thing... frightening.