David Whitney, who has not talked to the Dooilttle camp in quite a while authored a hatchet job in which he created the appearance of:

1. That Doolittle was fighting legitimate subpoenas on some flimsy constitutional argument

2. That Gordon Hinkle leaving was some crushing blow and a harbinger of people jumping ship.

3. That the investigation was going to continue forever or until the DOJ triumphantly finally got their man.

I read the article, it is absurd and it is an amalgamation of old news.

How old? Whitney deliberately ignores making a distinction regarding the subpoenas. He lumps them all in together… including those of staff that did not work for the Congressman when the alleged heinous corruption occurred. (Don’t worry, if you don’t know what the allegations where, the Bee mentioned them generically 110 times this past year and I am sure they would e-mail them to you if you asked – easier yet, the Tin Soldier will make them the foundation of his campaign since his stances on the issues would torpedo his campaign.)

The annoying part for this Doolittle supporter is that those who oppose Doolittle have chosen to give credibility to the Bee by posting every negative story they write against him. Then, they get to hide behind the shroud of objectivity as they are just posting a newspaper story.

I’ll reiterate what I wrote before – the Bee should register as a 527.

The subpoenas of 11 years of documents is the exact same crap the Democrats wanted to pull when they were going after Dick Cheney’s energy commission and after Bush’s judicial appointments. There are constitutional protections for Congressman, just like the rest of us. The Bee knows this, too… but it makes a really good story to say that Doolittle is hiding behind legal technicalities.

Egland certainly took full advantage – as with past bee articles, this recent article is posted on his website. As with the past Bee article misrepresenting Doolittle’s support for the troops – evidenced by two bills passed in the House this year with Doolittle as a Co-Sponsor that the Bee did not cover – Egland seized on this Bee article to feebly attempt to score campaign points at the same time the article was blogged.

Egland wrote the following incendiary headline: ” Egland to Doolittle, stop stalling”. AKA – the Bee says you’re guilty… get out of office.

He follows it up with this nice statement: “Yesterday the Bee published a story detailing John Doolittle’s legal efforts to deny Federal Investigators the access they requested from his Congressional Records. This legal maneuvering could stall the Doolittle Investigation for up to two years.”

Why didn’t Flint include this snippet in his previous posting on Egland’s campaign e-mail? If you wanted to have balance to the debate about the Bee’s vendetta against Doolittle – posting this snippet is necessary as it illustrates how effectively John’s opponents use the Bee stories.

The Bee is obviously miffed that the investigation is grinding to a halt, so now this story is rolled out in another slow news cycle to breathe another two years of life into the investigation.