Ran across this over at RedState.

How much proof is needed (in their own words) before folks realize Congress had the heads up long ago that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were run by corrupt individuals and headed for serious trouble?

This is a bit long but the comment at the very end from President Clinton is most telling.

God I hope that this pimple comes to a head, soon.

A top Senate Democrat on Monday threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President Bush’s secretive eavesdropping program.

“When the Senate comes back in the session, I’ll bring it up before the committee,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I prefer cooperation to contempt. Right now, there’s no question that they are in contempt of the valid order of the Congress.”

Leahy’s committee on June 27 subpoenaed the Justice Department, National Security Council and the offices of the president and vice president for documents relating to the National Security Agency’s legal justification for the wiretapping program.

White House lawyer Fred Fielding, in a Monday letter to Leahy, said that the administration needed more time.

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In a court of law in this country you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. I am not writing this to defend the United States Army or former Secretary Rumsfeld although some may interpret it as such.

If you make a blanket statement of someones guilt then in my opinion you need facts to insert in that statement so all may judge for themselves.

This exchange today mimics much of what we have been subjected to in these Congressional Hearings:

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, demanded to know whether there was a White House and Defense Department strategy to manage press portrayals of the war and other events.

“Well, if there was, it wasn’t very good,” Rumsfeld remarked.

“Well, you know, maybe it was very good,” Kucinich objected loudly. “Because you actually covered up the Tillman case for a while, you covered up the Jessica Lynch case, you covered up Abu Ghraib, so something was working for you.

“Was there a strategy to do it, Mr. Rumsfeld?”

“Congressman, the implication that ‘you covered up’—that’s just false, you have nothing to base that on, you have not a scrap of evidence or a piece of paper or a witness that would attest to that,” Rumsfeld replied hotly. “I have not been involved in any cover-up whatsoever.”

No evidence, no paper trail (and goodness knows there has been enough of that which has transferred hands), just the words for a soundbite from a Congressman.

As far as the Pat Tillman case is concerned, the punishments have been presented. Whether anyone agrees that they are sufficient, is a matter of personal opinion. There are many who have perished in more than one war due to friendly fire. Do many know their names or the circumstances surrounding their death except perhaps those in their units and immediate families?

I am not for one minute saying the Army handled this particular situation correctly, but I was not there and did not participate in the investigation and neither did these Congresspersons nor the press so how can they know more than those directly involved?

Pat Tillman was a brave Army Ranger whose life was cut short by what has been deemed to be accidental friendly fire. I doubt sincerely that there is anyone, in his unit or for that matter on this planet, who would not prefer to have him alive today, as we would every man or woman killed in war or conflict.

To use his death or the death of any soldier to score political points in Congress is abhorent to me. If you have proof that there was a massive cover up at the Pentagon (remember, the Army has already dealt with its own) or White House, by all means please bring it forward and I will stand with you in agreement that those involved should be punished.

Otherwise, please allow this man to Rest in Peace.

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