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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:12 pm
by TheCatt
Update
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and FBI Director Robert Mueller --indicated they would resign if forced to give the seized materials back, the officials said.
Whoa, men of integrity? In Washington?
I really like the fact that they are willing to give it all up in exchange for this.
Whereas Congress is just willing to whine.
Says something.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:10 am
by Malcolm
Gonzo has just moved up a notch in my book. This still doesn't quite excuse him from all the wacko-ass shit he's said in the past, but he's well on the path to redemption.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:27 pm
by TheCatt
Bill Frist says search was OK.
Tell whiners in the House to "get over it."
OK, he didn't, but he should have.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:36 pm
by GORDON
I think Congress just doesn't want to lose their dead hooker hiding spots in their offices.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:34 pm
by TheCatt
2 out of 3 branches agree: search legal
And the judge agreed with me 
Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan said members of Congress are not above the law.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:38 pm
by Leisher
The raid on Jefferson's office angered members of Congress, some of whom threatened to retaliate by tinkering with the FBI and Justice Department budgets.
Color me crazy, but that should be punishable as a felony.
How is that not akin to blackmail or bribery?
Fuck Congress. Corrupt assholes, every one.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:46 pm
by TheCatt
Fuck Congress. Corrupt assholes, every one.
Amen
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:20 pm
by thibodeaux
The raid on Jefferson's office angered members of Congress, some of whom threatened to retaliate by tinkering with the FBI and Justice Department budgets.
Color me crazy, but that should be punishable as a felony.
How is that not akin to blackmail or bribery?
It might be extortion, but hell, let the branches of government fight each other. That's what "checks and balances" is all about.
Be a welcome change from all the branches ganging up on US.
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:16 am
by Alhazad
now we just gots to bring down those boobs in the judiciary
yeah...
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:10 pm
by TheCatt
Update
Sources tell CBS News that authorities are seeking an indictment against Congressman William Jefferson, D-La., on more than a dozen counts involving public corruption.
Jefferson has been the subject of a ongoing probe in which FBI agents allegedly found more than $90,000 in cash in his freezer in August 2005.
CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports that the Justice Department is expected to unveil the charges later today.
This was the latest development in the 16-month international investigation of Jefferson, who allegedly accepted $100,000 from a telecommunications businessman, $90,000 of which was later recovered from a freezer in the congressman's Louisiana home.
Last year prosecutors and the FBI seized nearly 19,000 pages of documents and electronic files from his office.
Jefferson's attorney argued before a federal judge last month that the seizure was unconstitutional because, while FBI agents looked for documents related to a criminal bribery investigation, they also examined many other records related to Jefferson's work as a legislator, in violation of the constitutional principle that the executive branch may not use its law enforcement powers to infringe on the independence of the legislative branch.
The bulk of the Jefferson investigation has essentially been on hold since last summer because of the legal fight.
Jefferson, 63, who has publicly denied any wrongdoing, won re-election last year despite the looming investigation. He is currently serving his eighth term representing Louisiana's 2nd District.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:11 pm
by TheCatt
Anyone want to guess what city is in the 2nd district?
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:09 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:Anyone want to guess what city is in the 2nd district?
One sitting between two rivers, in a swamp, below sea level, & a few scant miles from the coast?
But really, this is fucking pathetic. CAUGHT w\ $90K+ in his fucking freezer & still wins reelection. Course if Marion Barry can get caught on vid tape smoking crack & still get elected later on, I suppose much is possible in the realm of politics.
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:48 pm
by GORDON
Sooooo.
Nobody holds black people to standards as high as they do white people?
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:04 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:Sooooo.
Nobody holds black people to standards as high as they do white people?
Affirmative Action for Politics.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:06 pm
by TheCatt
To me, this is another one of those "Am I racist?" moments. I can't believe he won. I can't believe Barry won. I can't believe how corrupt the Durham city government is (a city with similar ethnicity to DC and NO). Yet it just keeps happening, and the same people just keep getting elected.
There must be something about black culture I don't get. Like being loud in movie theatres/public.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:08 pm
by GORDON
This guy sez the AP doesn't want to use the word "democrat" when talking about this story.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Cold%20Cash.php
Original post here.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/228904.php
I'd be interested in seeing a comparison or the above example, republican vs. democrat scandals, in the MSM.
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:11 pm
by GORDON
TheCatt wrote:To me, this is another one of those "Am I racist?" moments. I can't believe he won. I can't believe Barry won. I can't believe how corrupt the Durham city government is (a city with similar ethnicity to DC and NO). Yet it just keeps happening, and the same people just keep getting elected.
There must be something about black culture I don't get. Like being loud in movie theatres/public.
I'm not sure that it is racist to note racist tendancies in other... races.
Scumbag black politicians in poor black districts seem to get reelected no matter how poorly they behave. Just a fact of life. If someone can show me an example or three.... three would be good in order to offset Marion Barry, Ray Nagin, and now this scumbag.... I'd be willing to take my view under revision.
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:40 am
by TPRJones
Nah, it's not racist. Because it's not about race, it's about culture. If you were saying "Blacks are inferior because of X genetic thing" that'd be racist. But that's not what this is, this is an observed difference in a cultural group, which is a valid observation.
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:06 pm
by TheCatt
What if I said: "why is the cultural group so stupid?"
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:25 pm
by GORDON
Do you consider ALL black people to belong to that cultural group?
I guess a cultural group can define itself as "stupid." Look at the hippies in the 60's.... their big goal was to get high and tune out.