Tom Brokaw on Eric Holder: If It Was John Ashcroft, ‘The Left Would Be Going Very Hard After Them’

Conservatives can surely recall too how the hypocrites on the Left went hard calling for former Bush AG Alberto Gonzales for having the gall to fire some attorneys. But with repeated liar Eric Holder now involved in numerous scandals, it's a whole different story:

News veteran Tom Brokaw, in an appearance said if Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft were dealing with the same scandals that Attorney General Eric Holder has been embroiled in as part of the Obama administration, “the left would be going very hard after them.”

“From a political point of view, one of the ways that you can measure the impact of all of this and the fairness of it, think if this had happened in the Bush administration with John Ashcroft as the attorney general. You know full well the Democrats and the left would be going very hard after them with these issues that are in play,” Brokaw said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.

Host David Gregory asked Brokaw whether Holder would resign given the number of scandals DOJ is caught up in, most recently investigating the phone records of AP reporters and editors as well as Fox News.
“Do you think – you’ve seen these kind of investigations before, meaning the Judiciary investigation, committee investigation of the attorney general. This could be elongated. You have this morning on ‘The New York Times’ government officials talking off the record or on background about his effectiveness. Does he stay in the job?” Gregory asked.

“Boy, I think it’s tough to see how he does at this case. It’s up to the president. What we’re seeing in the ‘New York Times’ today is that familiar Washington two-step - officially getting the endorsement of people like David Axelrod and the spokesman for the president, but at the same time, there’s another part of that two-step that is going on in which people think it would better if he left,” Brokaw said.

“It would be better for the president to get this cleaned up. He has become obviously the lightning rod for a lot of the criticism just on this panel and certainly in Republican circles,” Brokaw added.

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Two Victories For The Bush Administration Against BDS

Four months into a new administration and the Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferers on the Left still can't let go of their hate from the former President (whose respectfully stayed silent on matters concerning the Teleprompter-In-Chief). Yet, vengeance-seeking liberals who've taken to the courts to get back at Bush and Dick Cheney, are finding themselves having a hard time finding anyone to side with their loonery:

A unit of the White House that was accused of misplacing perhaps millions of office e-mails does not have to make its records public, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The decision was a victory for the Bush administration, which sought to shield its internal communications.

The three-judge panel in Washington concluded the Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act over disclosure of its documents because "it performs only operational and administrative tasks in support of the President and his staff and therefore, under our precedent, lacks substantial and independent authority."

The latest opinion stems from a ongoing lawsuit by private groups over allegedly missing electronic messages, and allegations that the White House failed to properly monitor its internal communications among staff.

Then there was this BS concerning a bunch of illegal immigrants who claimed that they were subjected to "harsh" conditions at a holding cell after being arrested in New York post-9/11. So one of the illegals got himself lawyered up and tried to pin his supposed rough treatment on, of all people, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft:

A closely divided Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Pakistani man's civil rights claim against former attorney general John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for abusive treatment he says he received when arrested with other Muslims in New York after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The court voted 5-4 — with the more conservative justices in the majority — that the man failed to present enough facts early in the case that his treatment in detention arose from policies Ashcroft and Mueller created and directed that discriminated based on race or religion. The more liberal justices dissented, saying the former detainee had made concrete allegations and the majority's standard could make it harder for victims of government wrongdoing to bring claims of constitutional violations.

"Impeach Bush!"

Oh wait, they can't do that anymore. Bush-haters really need to get a life.