You'd think one SOFA couldn't break two Constitutions, but you'd be wrong.

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has threatened to resign if the parliament does not pass the security agreement on November 24.

Some MPs are complaining that by the constitution, the agreement should have been turned over to the relevant parliamentary committees. Only if the latter reported it out should the government have proceeded with the first reading. Instead, the agreement went straight to the full parliament.....

Experts testifying, and members of Congress commenting, at a hearing Thursday on the Status of Forces Agreement insisted that it is a treaty and must be ratified by the Senate.

But when has Article I (or its client-state counterparts) been noted by Addington and co., except with derision?

If SOFA makes it through the Iraqi "legal" process, and is ratified by the Rump (and rogue) Parliament known as the Bush Administration, it will be yet another unconstitionality to confound Obama's lawyers, and their Iraqi counterparts, for years to come.

I commend Addington on his ingenuity. He and his friends will never be prosecuted for war crimes- the Administration of his successors will be trying to negotiate foreign-policy landmines through the Supreme Court, which has no taste for this kind of thing.

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One wonders if all torturers are seized by their consciences at moments.

Consider this alarming fallout from the Siegelman story:

By all appearances, the federal government - including law enforcement - has become and arm of both GOP corporate donors and their purchased government officials. That is the real K Street project scandal.  If you have any doubt, then explain to me while the below crimes have yet to be investigated:

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases have experienced 10 suspicious incidents including break-ins and arson.

These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are and the already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with, but also because of the suspicious nature of each incident individually as well as the pattern collectively. Typically burglars do not break-into an office or private residence only to rummage through documents, for example, as is the case with most of the burglaries in these two federal cases.

Watergate was one break-in. This is 10 and 2 cases of arson. And the FBI does nothing? The DOJ does nothing? As I have said before, both Gonzales and Mukasey have become accessories after the fact by obstructing justice. When this administration leaves office, both Gonzales and Mukasey need to be investigated for their continued obstruction not only in the Siegelman's case, but also the cases of Paul Minor, Wes Teel, John Whitfield, Oliver Diaz Jr., at al. Siegelman is but one victim of this ongoing bigger-than-Watergate series of politically motivated crimes. What are you going to do about this?

Well, if Bush leaves office and pardons the players in this un-American criminal saga on his way out, then justice will never be served. If Bush is impeached, however, he cannot pardon the witnesses. Do you see why impeachment is necessary? Again, what are you going to do about this? Or are you too busy celebrating the Obama victory with no thought of these victims?

Yes, but the American people don't want impeachments. Pelosi sees no evidence of criminality. Conyers writes another letter.

Bush is free to pardon himself.