You might need to register to read that. In short, anonymous federal law enforcement sources stated to the Post that Alberto Gonzales, Robert Mueller and Paul McNulty (the DAG, or Deputy Attorney General) all threatened to resign if President Bush orders the Jefferson papers returned to Congress. That’s a Saturday Night Massacre level-threat, over the WH reluctance to push a case relating to a #Democratic# member of Congress. If you found that puzzling, you weren’t the only one.

It seems to me that were this an ordinary corruption case, they wouldn’t threaten such draconian action. I am with Insty, who thinks that the Feebs may have stumbled into public corruption on a scale that… that is grand enough that even Republicans are running scared and willing to jump to the defense of William Jefferson. My liberal friends insist that it’s a Republican culture of corruption, my Republican friends insist it’s a Democratic Culture of Corruption, and my conservative and libertarian friends tend to agree with me that it’s a centralized government culture of corruption. I guess we’ll know more within a couple months, and if the corruption is widespread and bi-partisan, you can expect to see a voter revolt this fall.

If you’re wondering what on Earth possessed the president to jump to the rescue of Rep. “Money Bags” Jefferson and why on Earth every single member of the House jumped up to defend him as well, you’re not the only one.

Something strongly suggests to us that the entire legislative branch, with the support of the C-in-C, are busy covering something up that they really don’t want us to hear about and, considering these latest developments, it looks like the FBI have their hands on stuff that will blow the lid off of their collective cash-laden freezers if they’re allowed to continue doing their jobs.

But it’s really easy to settle this once and for all:

If the Congresscritters and Bush will just get off the FBI’s back and allow them to finish their investigation and quit obstructing justice, then we’re all a lot more likely to find out what’s really going on, aren’t we?

After all, if this is all just tinfoil stuff and they have nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear either, do they?

So why don’t they want us to know for sure?