The 9 1/2 Page Gap
Rosemary Woods poses at her White House desk to demonstrate how a single move could have erased the tapes, 1973. (AP File Photo)
Nearly three decades later, investigators "erased" several pages of testimony given by former Doyle Campaign Manager, Andy Gussert. Gussert testified that he took direction on the campaign from Doyle Aide Andy Cohen who was a State Department of Justice Employee at the time. Gussert also mentions Doyle Flak, Bill Christofferson and fundraiser Barb Candy but the details of his testimony have been redacted.
And Gussert helped Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard.
See the 9 1/2 page gap on pages 18-29 of the John Doe documents.
posted by DJordahl @ 6:07 PM
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DA Blanchard is beginning to look as contorted as Rosemary was at her desk.
What bothers me most in all this phony prosecution is the outrage by the good government types over conduct that as Justice Prosser puts it is at the core of the legislative branch of government. The legislative branch IS the political branch. The fact is that the law Blanchard is going after Jensen on is not at all clear (which is WHY "everyone was doing" the kind of stuff he is accused of doing: the law gave no guidance). Then look at what Blanchard is doing to the ones where the law IS crystal clear: Krug and company it seems were patently, clearly, breaking the law. And he does nuthin'.
It's not enough to excuse this lapse in prosecutorial judgement by saying he's going after those in power and ignoring the small fry. The small fry are - this is the political branch, remember, driven by elections - always striving to become the big fish.
The real question for a prosecutor like Blanchard is and always should be, is the law clear or not, giving guidance to those I am scrutinizing?
With Jensen, the answer was no, the law was not.
Krug? Yes, it was crystal clear, unambiguous, the law was broken.
So Blanchard is subverting justice.
Getitright, I addressed the corruption and bossism that taxpayer-funded political empires created at the Prosser post below.
I'll add here, if we're going to have taxpayers fund campaigns, they should fund ALL campaigns, not just those handpicked by the polticial bosses, like Prosser was.
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