An administration of criminals.

I linked this over at Unfogged but nobody should miss it, so go read Beyerstein et al about the overt criminalization of the Bush Justice Department, now manifesting in burglaries and arsons against targets of politically motivated federal probes and various witnesses across Alabama and Mississippi. It goes without saying that this is standard operating procedure for Republican DoJs, having been tirelessly practiced all through the Nixon and Reagan administrations. And this, I suspect, is exactly the reason they have pushed back so hard against revealing even the tiniest details of their warrantless wiretapping and domestic surveillance programs, because they always had less to do with national security than opposition research and good, old-fashioned ratfucking. It is, after all, the only thing they do with even the tiniest shred of competence.

But this, much like the nearly unreported story that the news networks didn't bother to tell anybody that their bemedalled "military analysts" have almost uniformly been paid administration plants, pales in significance to the fact that Obama's former preacher (whom the media would like to remind you is blackblackblackityblack) said something inflammatory. And black.