Congressional hearing chills FBI-Justice relations

[sabra]

Source: NYDaily News

WASHINGTON - A chill akin to a new Ice Age has frozen the relationship between the FBI and the Justice Department following a very public split between the agencies' leaders.

FBI chief Robert Mueller nuked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a congressional hearing last week, essentially calling the nation's top lawman a liar.

Since then, a distinctly cold air has settled between FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. and the main Justice building directly across the street.

"You could open an ice rink between the buildings," one Mueller aide said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/07/30/2007-07-30_freeze_dc_lawmen_feud_over_gonzo_.html

[billyoc]

1. How ironic, just as they get the most broad surveillance powers in the history

of the world, there's no functioning law enforcement infrastructure to use them.

:nopity:

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Well, Justice shat in their own bed, let them lie in it.

:eyes: Like they need encouragement to lie.