The leadership of the Justice Department is incredibly "stupid."

February 8, 2006 -- A Department of Justice prosecutor emphatically told this editor that the leadership of the Justice Department is incredibly "stupid." His statement was in respone to this editor's contention that criminal conspiracy appeared rife within the Justice Department and FBI. However, one statement in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's February 6 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee supports the Justice Department prosecutor's contention about rampant stupidity within DOJ. Gonzales testified that "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale" than George W. Bush. It is noteworthy that Gonzales failed to mention Richard Nixon's massive wiretapping program involving the NSA and CIA. But Gonzales's contention that President Washington engaged in electronic surveillance confirms the stupidity factor within the upper echelons of the Justice Department. Perhaps Washington was intercepting the lightning strike that was transmitted to Benjamin Franklin's kite key. We just hope Washington had a Clipper chip to decode the key.