Karl Rove, senior advisor to George W. Bush and chief political operative, has set about bending our system of law-and-order to his sinister political cause. Eight US Attorneys fired to provide cover for Rove to replace the Arkansas US Attorney with one of his henchmen.

This is in preparation for smearing Hillary Clinton if she were to get her party’s nomination; Rove will have his Arkansas plant singing the second chorus of “Like a bridge over troubled Whitewater.�

The administration — which has made its contempt for all forms of oversight as clear as can be, and which has engaged in every possible effort to block scrutiny of its conduct — obviously simply decided that, despite all of these controversies, and despite their legal obligations, they would keep ensuring that highly relevant e-mails continued to disappear, or would simply break the law by using e-mail systems that did not preserve their communications, including communications relating to ongoing investigations. What other reasonable conclusion is possible in light of these facts?

Amen.