Bill
03-14-2007, 06:12 PM
"We compare political profiling to racial profiling by presenting the results (January 2001 through December 2006) of the U.S. Attorneys' federal investigation and/or indictment of 375 elected officials. The distribution of party affiliation of the sample is compared to the available normative data (50% Dem, 41% GOP, and 9% Ind.).
Data* indicate that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops.
Our paper explores the role of the fourth estate and others in detecting such profiling and concludes that what is really needed is transparency, the highlights of which are noted below.
The current Bush Republican Administration appears to be the first to have engaged in political profiling. "
http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20070212_political_profiling.html
So, now we know what that email from Kyle to Meirs meant when it said US Attorneys who weren't cooperating with White House initiatives should be pushed out - the white house "initiative" was obstruction of justice by investigating Dems for corruption 7 times as much as investigating Repubs for corruption.
Data* indicate that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops.
Our paper explores the role of the fourth estate and others in detecting such profiling and concludes that what is really needed is transparency, the highlights of which are noted below.
The current Bush Republican Administration appears to be the first to have engaged in political profiling. "
http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20070212_political_profiling.html
So, now we know what that email from Kyle to Meirs meant when it said US Attorneys who weren't cooperating with White House initiatives should be pushed out - the white house "initiative" was obstruction of justice by investigating Dems for corruption 7 times as much as investigating Repubs for corruption.