Priorities

The angry yelps from the House because the FBI served a search warrant on the office of William Jefferson, remind me of the complaints about the Patriot Act and the claims that rights of privacy should come ahead of national security, or the belief that use of President's inherent power to protect this country requires authorization from the FISA court and Congress . This kind of thing comes up from time to time, where two principles come into conflict, and the normal balance is shifted by current events. William Jefferson's bribe taking is a criminal act, and the warrant was issued as part of that investigation not as a conspiracy between the Justice Department and the Judicial Branch to go fishing through House documents. What is there in his office which is so secret?

This reaction is so weird as to make one wonder whether anybody stopped to think how this would look to voters.