Mafia prosecutor now has Bush in his sights

[Proud_Democratt]

George W Bush has seen off Al Gore, John Kerry and Saddam Hussein. But with the varnish fast disappearing from his administration, the president may finally be about to meet the man who could prove his undoing.

Preet Bharara is a 38-year-old Indian-American lawyer, who made his name prosecuting the bosses of the Gambino and Colombo crime families in New York.

Now the former district attorney has President Bush in his sights, as well as the man they call "Bush's Brain": Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser.

Mr Bharara is spearheading the Democrat campaign to uncover corruption, mismanagement, incompetence and financial impropriety at the heart of the Bush administration.

In a flurry of subpoenas and press releases, the Democrats have launched 36 investigations, holding about 220 committee hearings since seizing control of Congress last November - and forcing the resignations of six Bush administration officials. It is as if several dozen Hutton inquiries had started at once.

Mr Bharara is already well on his way to claiming his first prominent political scalp through his role as senior counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of three bodies conducting inquiries into the sacking by the Bush administration of eight US lawyers.

http://www.prouddemocrats.net/viewtopic.php?p=685#685

[stellanoir]

1. Amen

"Caging" is in essence. . . a felony.

May their presumed impunity and "the buck(s) stop here."

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. How in the hell do we hold this up as a shining example to

the rest of the world??? In reality, you simply cannot. They won't have it anymore than we would if another banana republic was saying to us, "Hey, look at this, this is a shining example of how America should do businesss". I'm sure we would laugh in their faces whilst planning to launch a friendly coup of their shining example.

[Proud_Democratt]

3. Bush is more

concerned about gay marriage and his corporate cronies than the nation's citizens!

[Faux pas]

4. Hi, this was already posted last night....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2868392&mesg_id=2868392
And this was my response:

"Maybe this will be the country's knight with the shiny steel b*lls.
Kickin' for hope."
~~~
I feel the same way today. This is good news and should be posted as many times as needed until everyone here gets to see it.

[kimmerspixelated]

5. This is a giant ray of hope!

More power to this man!!!