The suspicious circumstances surrounding the Department of Justice's investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for supposedly "racial profiling" illegal immigrants.  Although Napolitano's fingerprints have been scrubbed from the letter, her DNA influence on the content would be hard to miss.

Well, unless you have been living in a cave for the past few years, you knew it would only be a matter of time before the Obama Machine and its apparatchiks would launch into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his efforts to actually enforce the laws (yikes!!) relating to illegal aliens and their unlawful presence in this country.

And now that former governor of Arizona Janet (I'm-Concerned-Over-Trepedation-in-the-Illegal-Immigration-Community") Napolitano heads up the Department of Homeland Security (feel safer now, Virginia?), it was a foregone conclusion that the letter Arpaio received yesterday from the Department of Justice ("DOJ") would not be far behind. And although Napolitano's fingerprints have been scrubbed from the letter, her DNA influence on the content would be hard to miss.

Manhattan's Pravda on the Hudson today giddily characterized the DOJ investigation of Arpaio's actions as focusing on his orders to have his deputies "…patrol rural highways [ummm....that's how a lot of illegal aliens enter the state and county], raid Latino neighborhoods [ummm....that's where a lot of smuggled and kidnapped aliens are congregated in "drop houses"] and storm municipal buildings in the dead of night in search of illegal immigrants."

That last one is good. The "storming" of the Mesa Municipal Building and Public Library last October came after a Mesa city employee informed Arpaio's office that the janitorial company engaged by the city to clean the buildings was knowingly hiring illegal aliens and had a manager schooling them in ways to obtain false identification that would get them past federal identification verification software. It also occurred after the employee had tipped off a Mesa police lieutenant of the situation, only to have the police lieutenant brush him off, saying that "….it was a problem for the cleaning company."

Great. When the cops in a city flooded with illegal aliens brush off the problem, sloughing it off on "the cleaning company," you know (or should know) you have a problem.

Against this backdrop, the DOJ letter, signed by "Acting Assistant Attorney General" Loretta King, informs Arpaio that the investigation will focus on "….alleged patterns or practices of discriminatory police policies and unconstitutional searches and seizures" and on allegations of national origin discrimination, including "failure to provide meaningful access to MCSO services for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals."

Translation: DOJ wants to make sure that Arpaio ignores the fact that the flood of illegal aliens over Arizona's border with Mexico is responsible for a ballooning spectrum of crimes, including rapes; robberies; burglaries; car-jackings; assaults and batteries; identity thefts; extortions; kidnappings and, oh yeah – skyrocketing numbers of murders of law-abiding people, including police officers.

The tone of the DOJ letter seems more calculated as an attempt to intimidate Arpaio into backing off from the daunting task of enforcing the law – made none the easier as a consequence of Napolitano's blind-eyed insouciance in the face of the problem – than to lead to any "smoking gun" proving that his efforts are in any way improper. But fear not: if no such smoking gun is found to exist in reality, one will be concocted.

Indeed, the letter seeks to reassure Arpaio that the DOJ believes that "….you [Arpaio] and other MCSO officials want to operate the MCSO consistent with the requirements of the Constitution and federal law." This is a most ironic assertion given that King's ultimate superior – the Guy from Chicago now rooming at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – still seems to have no clue as to many of the fundamental,core requirements of the Constitution, including his eligibility to serve under it.

Interestingly as well, the letter notes that "[i]n nearly fifteen years of enforcing [the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994], the good faith efforts of state and local jurisdictions working with us have enabled us routinely to resolve our claims without resorting to contested litigation." Funny, what originally had been characterized on the first page of the letter as "allegations" and ";alleged patterns or practices," presumably from groups seeking to establish a race-based immunity from prosecution or investigation by Arpaio, have morphed on page two of the letter into "our claims."

Even more amusing, Ms. King purports to convey the message that the DOJ wishes to resolve the issues without resort to "contested litigation." Perhaps that explains why the final two sentences of her letter state: "Our Special Litigation Section will be handling the investigation in cooperation with the Coordination and Review Section and will contact your office to discuss the next steps. The Chief of the Special Litigation Section, Shanetta Y. Cutlar, may be reached at (202) 514-6255."

Interesting person, this Shanetta Y. Cutlar. To use the term "turbocharged and nitrous-assisted" to describe her could be the understatement du jour. She was named last September as a defendant in a "whistleblower" discrimination suit filed by a former DOJ employee.

One of the claims lodged against her was that she and/or persons under her direction violated the employee's constitutional rights against unlawful searches and seizures prior to firing him. This is a so-called "Bivens" claim, named after the Supreme Court case (Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971)) which recognizes an implied cause of action when a person's Fourth Amendment freedom from unreasonable search and seizure is violated by federal agents.

And Cutlar is the person assigned to probe and investigate Arpaio's purportedly"unconstitutional searches and seizures"? Who authorized that? Eric ("We-Are-a-Nation-of-Cowards-on-Race-Matters") Holder?

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, pull up a chair and get comfortable, because the matchup between Arpaio and Cutlar could prove to be one of the most fascinating "irresistible force meets immovable object" spectacles in a long time.

Finally, for any doubters out there: of course Cutlar will find Arpaio to be culpable. Of something. Anything. Expect nothing less in this tail-wag-the-dog exercise. Aside from the objective of ensuring that the pool of potential victims for future illegal alien predations remains sufficiently stocked to satisfy the PC objectives of Arpaio's enemies, that is the whole purpose behind this charade.

Ah, change.