Bush/Ashcroft/Gonzales Justice Department Political Profiling

Read "The Political Profiling of Elected Democratic Officials: When Rhetorical Vision Participation Runs Amok" by Donald C. Shields and John F. Cragan on ePluribus Media, 18 February 2007.

This article states:

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. Atttorneys 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......

The current Bush Republican Administration appears to be the first to have engaged in political profiling.

Read also in ePluribus Media, about the seven U.S. Attorneys recently dismissed by the Attorney General:

* "The Gonzales Seven"

* "The Alberto Gonzales Appointments: How the Process Has Changed and Why this is so Important," by Adam Lambert, 30 January 2007

Comment: The first of these articles provides a nice example of a simple analysis of available information that yields an important fact. Knowledge that the Bush administration is playing politics with the investigative process of the Department of Justice may allow (the newly Democratic Congress) to take steps to stop such abuse now and in the future. JAD