GOP frothing over corruption probe leaks

The GOP is now frothing at the mouth about all the corruption probe leaks coming out of the Justice Department naming one new Republican investigation target after another. They believe it must be some rogue Democrat on the inside that's leaking this stuff.

Republicans are mad about corruption probe leaks before the election and are privately grumbling that "rogue elements" within the Department of Justice are trying to help tip the election to Democrats, according to Roll Call.

"For House Republicans, it seems that every week brings a new report about a GOP lawmaker under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged corruption," John Bresnahan writes. "And with the elections just 12 days away, Republicans are crying foul, complaining bitterly that the negative press spurred by the public disclosure of those criminal probes could help cost them their House majority."

"While a Justice Department run by Republican appointees who were nominated by a conservative Republican president would normally get the benefit of the doubt from GOP lawmakers and staffers, some party insiders are privately wondering whether 'rogue elements' within the department — and more specifically the Public Integrity Unit, where corruption cases are handled — are trying to tip the election to Democrats by leaking news of these investigations so late in the cycle," the article continues.

A top political operative for the GOP tells Roll Call that it appears as if "the Public Integrity Unit of the Justice Department is running wild," and that they are "trying to have some effect" on the midterm elections.

Whine and cry. I, on the other hand, firmly believe that many of these investigations are being deliberately delayed by the Republican controlled Justice Department in order to hide them from the voters until after the elections.

I ask you, which do you believe is more likely?

Or, if you answer, "both," then I ask which do you think is likely to have the greatest impact on the election, the delaying of indictments or the leaking of investigations?

Just think how long it's been known that Tom DeLay is a target of federal investigators. Yet, there have been no federal indictments of DeLay -- yet. That enables the GOP machine to argue that the only indictments against DeLay are partisan motivated slaps from a Democratic Party hack in Texas.