The White House's Version of 'Justice'

I have chosen to critique The Boston Globe's editorial article "Inside Justice's political purge" due to the author's uncanny ability to lay down the truth about how corrupt partisans may have been the underlying reason for the firing of at least three US attorneys in 2006. The backbone of the editorial, a report issued Monday by the Justice Department's inspector general and its office of professional responsibility, is able to help the writer clearly state the agreed opinion (since no specific author is clarified the opinion of the article is the paper's producer, editor, and staff represented as a whole) of valued belief that, "an attorney general is free to replace US attorneys for many reasons, but politics is not supposed to be one of them."

The accusations in Monday's report are fulled by the resignation of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, since he was unable to make sense of the removals and made contradictory statements in his defence. Former White House aids Karl Rove and Harriet Miers are accused for stonewalling the investigation after it had begun to uncover information pertaining the connection of political consideration aiding to the firing of the three US attorneys, therefore allowing speculations that there is more evidence to be uncovered leading to the canning of the six other US attorneys.

A career federal prosecutor from Connecticut, Nora Danneh, has been appointed by Attorney General Michael Mukasey to, "determine whether officials committed perjury or obstruction of justice - either in the firings themselves or in trying to cover up the circumstances surrounding them." It is hoped she will use every means necessary to obtain compelling testimony from officials to support speculations, for instance, that one US attorney was booted to open turf for a favorite of Rove.

After reading, examining, and evaluating the facts from this editorial, I am convinced the White House's political spinners played a role in the purge.

Civil Rights at the Polls

My chosen article is about the supression of fears within the civil rights movement at the polls. The Justice Department is looking to address such issues by meeting with civil right groups for the next two months, in hopes the November elections run smoothly at the polls. For instence, the Justice Department has already decided to appoint federal prosecutors to polling places as 'monitors', though some civil rights groups believe this will scare voters from going to the polls alltogether. More on this topic can be found here.
I think this article is worth reading because in some way, we all belong to one civil rights group. It is up to us to determine what is just for all at the place where we make our democratic decision. The polls should and can be a non-bias place, but it's up to us to stop Big Brother from getting his way with our feelings while we are there.