THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE

Senator Cassidy:

I watched your interview where you spoke about the extraordinary privilege of serving as a United States senator and of participating in decisions that history may judge as having changed the world. You became emotional as you described both the responsibility and the privilege entrusted to you as you voted for Blanche.

You also said the decision was not “black or white.”

Senator, it was a black-and-white decision.

It was a decision involving a man who:

• Has eroded fundamental rights through the vindictive use of the federal government’s enormous power to investigate and prosecute public servants who simply did their jobs as they understood them.
• Has deep-sixed evidence and information concerning the alleged sexually predatory behavior of his boss and other wealthy and powerful men—not because concealing that information served America’s interests, but because it served the interests of the powerful.
• Condoned, supported, and carried out the outrageous conduct of the Department of Justice as it responded to the lawless behavior of federal agents after two innocent citizens were unlawfully killed in Minneapolis.
• Prostituted the integrity of the Department of Justice by attempting to create a legal cookie jar for people who assaulted Capitol Police officers and desecrated the United States Capitol.
• Twisted the legal process, and the traditional presumption of governmental “regularity”, by using the power of the Justice Department to provide his boss with millions of taxpayer dollars to settle a bogus lawsuit, while also seeking immunity protecting his boss from accountability for past, present, and even future misconduct.
• Enabled his boss’s financial grifting, allowing taxpayer dollars and the power of the presidency to be leveraged in ways that drive private financial benefit to his boss, his family, and his associates, while ordinary Americans struggle with the rising cost of living.
• Helped take America into a war that was lost at enormous cost, billions of taxpayer dollars, weakened national security, damaged American credibility, and, most tragically, the lives of 18 Americans: our sons and daughters, men and women whose sacrifice deserved far more than the contempt reflected in the word “suckers.”

Senator Cassidy, this was not a complicated choice between two equally defensible alternatives. It was a test of judgment, principle, and courage.

The decision was black and white!

It was morally wrong. It was politically weak. And it placed loyalty to power above loyalty to principle. You spoke movingly about history and about the privilege of participating in decisions that may shape it. History will indeed remember this decision.

It will not remember your role in it with fame.

It will remember it with infamy.

Sincerely

Robert Detor

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