if it's good enough for flush limburger

it's good enough for alberto gonzales..................

and if you don't think the big companies (including of course the DRUG companies) have a hand in what's going on in the world, YOU ARE SADLY MISTAKEN

(also check out this posting from the DARK SIDE, ok ok, it's really called copious dissent, by the devil's advocate bring liberals and conservatives together.....................)

U.S. Attorney Became Target After Rebuffing Justice Dept.


By Amy Goldstein and Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writers

The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive for the drugmaker, urged him to slow down, the prosecutor told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
John L. Brownlee, the U.S. attorney in Roanoke, testified that he was at home the evening of Oct. 24 when he received the call on his cellphone from Michael J. Elston, then chief of staff to the deputy attorney general and one of the Justice aides involved in the removal of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
Brownlee settled the case anyway. Eight days later, his name appeared on a list compiled by Elston of prosecutors that officials had suggested be fired.............