We rid ourselves of the last King George.

Apparently we need to do it again.
Steve Bates:

For possibly the first time in American history, a Justice Department has not only declined to order an FBI investigation of the matter, even though such an investigation could lead to findings that Bush violated the law and the Constitution, but has also attempted to moot the case on appeal by a bit of chicanery that doesn't begin to pass the sniff test. Such an FBI investigation happened to Nixon in response to Watergate. It happened to Clinton in response to Clenisgate, or actually to the subsequent perjury charges against Clinton (of which he was acquitted). But it took an ACLU lawsuit against the NSA to initiate this case that the increasingly misnamed Justice Department would not begin.

James Bamford for the New York Times:

LAST August, a federal judge found that the president of the United States broke the law, committed a serious felony and violated the Constitution. Had the president been an ordinary citizen — someone charged with bank robbery or income tax evasion — the wheels of justice would have immediately begun to turn. The F.B.I. would have conducted an investigation, a United States attorney’s office would have impaneled a grand jury and charges would have been brought.

But under the Bush Justice Department, no F.B.I. agents were ever dispatched to padlock White House files or knock on doors and no federal prosecutors ever opened a case.

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In the past, even presidents were not above the law. When the F.B.I. turned up evidence during Watergate that Richard Nixon had obstructed justice by trying to cover up his involvement, a special prosecutor was named and a House committee recommended that the president be impeached.

And when an independent counsel found evidence that President Bill Clinton had committed perjury in the Monica Lewinsky case, the impeachment machinery again cranked into gear, with the spectacle of a Senate trial (which ended in acquittal).

Laws are broken, the federal government investigates, and the individuals involved — even if they’re presidents — are tried and, if found guilty, punished. That is the way it is supposed to work under our system of government. But not this time.

Even presidents must obey the law and uphold the Constitution. So Georgie must think he's king....