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Gonzales Just a Rascal, A Scamp, Not Dishonest? NO

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:33:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Specter seems to think it is cute to be cagey and misleading. Ugh

GOP Senator: Attorney General 'wily,' 'misleading,' but not criminal

'wily,' 'misleading,' but not criminal

"He was telling only a part of the facts, really playing a cat-and-mouse game with congressional oversight," Specter said. "I do not believe that there is a perjury prosecution in the matter."

Specter then quoted from a Supreme Court decision that warned perjury shouldn't be pursued "simply because a wily witness succeeds in derailing the questioner so long as the witness speaks the literal truth even where the answers were ... shrewdly calculated to evade."

"The Attorney General continues to avoid responsibility for his false testimony," Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI). "It is time for a special counsel to investigate this serious matter.”

Tags: corruption, government, scandal

Missouri Governor Misusing His Office

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:38:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kansascity.com

The Star reported this week that Blunt’s staff was heavily involved in writing an early June news release sent out by the patrol regarding its investigation into the Taum Sauk Reservoir collapse that badly damaged Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park.

“They know to let the statement speak for itself, correct?” Chrismer wrote. That’s just incredible. The governor’s office has no business ordering a law enforcement agency to keep information from the public.

The news release about the Taum Sauk Reservoir episode was attributed to Col. James Keathley, patrol superintendent. But the statement appears to contradict his agency’s earlier report that the patrol had identified no criminal suspect in its investigation.

The highway patrol report didn’t need embellishment. Blunt staffers shouldn’t have interfered in the communications between the Highway Patrol and the public it serves.

Inappropriate interference from Missouri governor’s office

Tags: politics, ethics, corruption, regressive

Corruption in U.S. Government

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:22:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Absolute power corrupts absolutely

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Federal Lawmakers From Coast to Coast Are Under Investigation

Among members of Congress, Mr. Doolittle is far from alone in feeling heat from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department. More than a dozen current and former lawmakers are under scrutiny in cases involving their work on Capitol Hill.

Jan Baran, a Republican lawyer who specializes in ethics law, said he could not recall a time when so many members of Congress had been caught up in so many financial scandals drawing the attention of the Justice Department.

Mr. Baran said it was not surprising that most of the lawmakers under scrutiny were Republicans, given that their party controlled Congress until this year and “money follows power: those that don’t hold power are less susceptible to corruption, because they don’t have anything to sell.”

Tags: corruption, government, u.s.

Pat Tillman Murdered?

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pat Tillman was an atheist. He was killed under suspicious circumstances. Could it be that they burned his diary to hide that his "men" got rid of him for his atheism?

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

New documents shed light on Tillman’s death

GI’s last words, lawyers’ congratulatory e-mails made public in testimony

SAN FRANCISCO - Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Ultimately, the Pentagon did conduct a criminal investigation, and asked Tillman’s comrades whether he was disliked by his men and whether they had any reason to believe he was deliberately killed. The Pentagon eventually ruled that Tillman’s death at the hands of his comrades was a friendly-fire accident.

No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene — no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck.

Tags: military, cover-up, corruption, atheism