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Why is anyone suprized ? He did exactly what Bush wanted him to do. He and Scooter will be paid very well their "suffering".

Retired Air Traffic Controller  | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |  02:17 PM

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Oh, Macro Mike you've got me crying big crocodile tears for poor Mr. Bloch (sniffle).

Jim  | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |  12:06 PM

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This situation is simply adding to the superfluous evidence that we have a leadership vacuum in the US today.

US  | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |  11:00 AM

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How do you become an enemy of the people, as Ibsen wrote about? By telling the truth, without an agenda, that pisses off the right and the left. When Bloch discarded an illegal policy cooked up by his predecessor--at out lesbian who had her agenda an axes to grind--he was accused of being a homophobe and pilloried by the left and by the Human Rights Campaign, its puppets like Blade Magazine, POGO, legal embarrasments like Jeff Ruch, etc. Later, Bloch went after White House obstruction, and a corrupt big money Republican contributor, Lurita Doan, who lied under oath and politicized the award of contracts to help win swing Congressional Districts. So he touched the third rail of Republican money politics, he pissed off the big money whores in the GOP, Tom Davis and his lapdogs like Issa (to whom Doan funneled hundreds of thousands through the various campaigns Davis controlled). Then Bloch's agency went after the FAA and the cozy arrangement between the airlines and the FAA that resulted in serious risks to the publc and airline safety. Then he demanded documents from Karl Rove and championed the cause of the fired US attorneys.

I dare say that the main stream media (who could not understand anything they don't get spoon fed from their sources), the angry REpublicans, the airlines, the gay lobby, Karl Rove,the closeted gays in the Bush administration (like Clay Johnson and Linda Springer) who have been trying to make Bloch walk the plank-all make the strangest of bedfellows.

So nobody sheds a tear when Bloch's home is raided by a bunch of jackbooted thugs, who seize his children's computers, throw around stuff and seize his medical records and other personal itens. Remeber he's an enemy of the people and his civil liberties and the presumption of innocence mean nothing.

There is so much that Bloch would like to say, no doubt, but as somebody looking at a grand jury nvestigation and seeing that anything he says can be used against him, he can't.

The MSM has no desire to lift heavy weights and cover this story in depth and question the motives of those baying for his removal (like Davis, whose wife got tons of money from Doan, and who owes his political and lobbying future to her and other power brokers like Rove who find Bloch an enemy of the people).

REmember what the conventional wisdom was about Raymond Donovan, how he was relentlessly pursued by a special prosecutor with no evidence, how after he spent millions of dollars beating back a bogus special prosecutor he asked how he could get back his reputation and his life?

There are a lot of unthinking and careless people who do not care about the consequences of falsely accusing Bloch. It is just more blood sport in Washington, where a person who wants a friend needs to buy a dog.

I want my country back, and I want the justice department to stop treading on liberties, stop wiretaping, stop misusing the FBI. Too bad that this is an issue that the prosecutors of the people's enemy don't care about.

A disillusioned person.

macro mike  | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |  10:50 AM

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As James Cagney said in that old film Public Enemy, "You'll never take me alive copper!"

Jim  | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |  09:03 AM

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Agree with Marcus, BUT, I further believe and have stated in oprevious posts, political appointees NEED to be replaced permanently with civil service individuals who will carry out an agency's agenda WITHOUT outside influence. Can't Congress change this mess with some sort of law?

iggy  | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |  08:50 AM

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Another Bush political hack. Hasn't this been the problem all along with Bush, that he also backs the losers he chooses for all positions? Bloch will destroy the institution to put his personal needs above what is right for the OSC. These actions are shameful.

Marcus Jenkens  | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |  07:59 AM

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