On that list, including this charge, was there ever a conviction or even an indictment?

Lots of charges and massive investigations, costing untold millions, how many indictments??

av,

Your list is a doozy.



# Travelgate (1993)NOTHING! NADA! ZIP!


# Filegate -- Bill Clinton compiles an illicit enemies list of his critics, using FBI resources NO PROOF THIS EVER TOOK PLACE. MORE REPUBLICAN LIES.


# Zoe Baird's nomination as Attorney General and Kimba Wood's subsequent near-nomination were derailed by past employment of illegal aliens as nannies. (1993) WHERE'S THE LISTING FOR LINDA WHAT'S HER NAME THAT KEPT THE ILLEGAL HOUSEKEEPER?? OH, I FORGOT, SHE'S A REPUBLICAN.


# Dan Rostenkowski and other Democrats in the Congressional Post Office Scandal (1991 - 1995)STAMPS! ALMOST AS BAD AS ILLEGAL SPYING ON AMERICANS, ISN'T IT.


# The office of Vince Foster, under investigation before his strangely conducted suicide, is cleared out before investigators can examine it, various documents which may relate to Foster's actions or death are withheld or vanish, and allegations arise of suspicious handling of the Foster death investigation itself, leading to strong questions of whether it was suicide at all. NO PROOF IT WASN'T, JUST MUCKRAKING.


# Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich financial improprieties GUILTY AND RESIGNED IN DISGRACE.

# White House Coffees and Lincoln Bedroom Sales -- questionable, potentially illegal, links were made between political donations and access to President Clinton, including the apparent sale of "coffees" with him, and what amounted to the renting out of the Lincoln Bedroom. POTENTIALLY ILLEGAL??? IF IT WAS ILLEGAL, WHERE'S THE PROOF??


# Walter Fauntroy, Delegate to Congress from the District of Columbia, guilty plea regarding lying on financial disclosure form (1995)OK, ONE COUNT. NO BIGGIE.

# Wes Cooley (1996)NOTHING! ZIP! NADA!

# Walter R. Tucker III of California resigned before bribery conviction (1996)


# Secretary of Agriculture Michael Espy forced to resign from office despite ultimate acquittal on criminal corruption charges (1998)


# Commerce Secretary Ron Brown investigated (1995)NOTHING! ZIP! NADA!

# Americorps head Eli Segal investigated (1996)NOTHING! ZIP! NADA!


# Labor Secretary Alexis Herman investigated (1998) in connection with alleged illegal fundraising and other financial improprieties, ultimately cleared (2001)

# Bruce Babbitt, Interior Secretary, independent probe (1998-2000) of alleged lying to Congress concerning influence of money in 1995 American Indian tribe casino decision finds no criminally prosecutable perjury by Babbitt

# Vice-President Al Gore (1998) allegations of improper fundraising and "no controlling legal authority" defense

# Whitewater scandal (1994-2000)NOTHING! ZIP! NADA!


# Teamstergate Ron Carey's and Bill Clinton's 1996 campaigns for the Presidency of the union and the United States, respectively, swapped Teamsters' Union general treasury funds into Clinton's campaign, for Clinton Campaign funds into Ron Carey's campaign warchest. The Teamsters' political director was jailed. No Clinton officials were charged. Carey's re-election was invalidated; James Hoffa, Jr. was elected when Teamsters election was rerun.


# Henry Cisneros resigns as Housing Secretary and, after lengthy probe that began in 1995, pleads guilty (1999) to lying to the FBI about money he paid former mistress Linda Medlar a.k.a. Linda Jones; later pardoned by President Clinton in 2001 (Possibly reclassify or cross-reference to Sex scandal)


# Pardongate (1999 - 2001) -- Bill Clinton appeared to write out pardons, during his lame duck tenure, in response to massive contributions linked to the pardoned. This included a scandal which has become traditional for departing presidents; the sudden flurry of pardons during the final month in office, which would probably not have been deemed tolerable at any other time.

That defeats the entire purpose. The purpose is to be disconnected from politics. Instead of a pardon of your teenager or my grandmother for drug crimes in which they were tangential and unwitting participants, you'd get Clinton flying in for the execution of a retarded person.

Letting some puke like Marc Rich out is a whole different order of sickening but not nearly so sad or even damnable.

Nothing is disconnected from politics. I'm saying make it directly tied, out in the open, and let the people decide. Clinton could sell pardons, then we could decide if they were worth the price.

Conservative Scholars Argue Bush’s Wiretapping Is An Impeachable Offense

Conservative scholars Bruce Fein and Norm Ornstein argued yesterday on The Diane Rehm show that, should Bush remain defiant in defending his constitutionally-abusive wire-tapping of Americans (as he has indicated he will), Congress should consider impeaching him.

QUESTION: Is spying on the American people as impeachable an offense as lying about having sex with an intern?

BRUCE FEIN, constitutional scholar and former deputy attorney general in the Reagan Administration: I think the answer requires at least in part considering what the occupant of the presidency says in the aftermath of wrongdoing or rectification. On its face, if President Bush is totally unapologetic and says I continue to maintain that as a war-time President I can do anything I want – I don’t need to consult any other branches – that is an impeachable offense. It’s more dangerous than Clinton’s lying under oath because it jeopardizes our democratic dispensation and civil liberties for the ages. It would set a precedent that … would lie around like a loaded gun, able to be used indefinitely for any future occupant.


NORM ORNSTEIN, AEI scholar: I think if we’re going to be intellectually honest here, this really is the kind of thing that Alexander Hamilton was referring to when impeachment was discussed.
(Listen to The Diane Rehm show here. The segment above begins at 33:40)

UPDATE:

More from Knight-Ridder:

[Bush’s] explanation fueled more anger over the domestic spying, and some legal experts asserted that Bush broke the law on a scale that could warrant his impeachment.

“The president’s dead wrong. It’s not a close question. Federal law is clear,” said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University and a specialist in surveillance law. “When the president admits that he violated federal law, that raises serious constitutional questions of high crimes and misdemeanors.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/conser...achable-offense

Yes it is, and the biggest one is your boy got impeached.

But not convicted.

impeach means to accuse

Maybe you'll even things up. I can't wait to find out.

What a stretch, sure people who know they are being taped plan felonies while being taped.

The damned system was ubiquitous and one forgot they were running. Also, Nixon and others thought they were the private property of the executive so were careless about them.

I don't see any way he'd be impeached. Just weakened. I hope.

OK, you want an entirely different system. I prefer the one we have.

I was just brainstorming. Probably a bad day to be anything but "literal".

You forgot the quote marks. "Literal."

ninja invisible

Thank god you've never attempted to correct my punctuation.


(let's see, did I punctuate everything right? Did I spell it all correctly?)

It was a yoke, son.

You people never fail to amuse us.

I'm more than happy to be rid of any incumbents, but I have a feeling the coverage for this new scandal won't be covered the same way all those Dem scandals were.

Luckily for Reps most people don't pay attention anyway.

Mine too. I don't cair.

What little lives they lead.

Jan. 3, 2006, 3:08PM
Prosecutor in DeLay case subpoenas Abramoff documents

By SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The prosecutor in the Texas money laundering case against Rep. Tom DeLay issued subpoenas today looking for links between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and fundraising by the former majority leader.

District Attorney Ronnie Earle issued the subpoenas in Austin the same day that Abramoff pleaded guilty in Washington to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud.

Abramoff's plea came in a wide-ranging corruption investigation that is believed to be focusing on as many as 20 members of Congress and congressional aides, including DeLay and one of his former aides. Investigators allege Abramoff and his ex-partner Michael Scanlon defrauded several Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars in a lobbying scheme that also involved bribery of public officials.

In the Texas case, Earle sought records from Abramoff's former employers, legal firms Greenberg Traurig LLP and Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, LLP. He also subpoenaed records from a lawyer for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a former Abramoff client, and from a representative for the Barona Band of Mission Indians, a California tribe.

DeLay attorney Dick DeGuerin said Earle "goes where the fish bite."

"Ronnie Earle is an opportunist," DeGuerin said. "He issues subpoenas to try to make a connection between his case and the latest scandal, whatever it happens to be. The Abramoff thing is the latest he's doing. It has nothing to do with the case in Texas. Nothing. Zip."

suuuuuuuuuuure.

DeLay is facing money laundering charges stemming from corporate contributions to a fundraising committee he formed for 2002 state legislative elections. Texas law bans using corporate or union contributions for election or defeat of a candidate.

DeLay is accused with two associates of funneling corporate money through Texans for a Republican Majority, TRMPAC, and the Republican National Committee to several state legislative campaigns in 2002.

DeLay has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and labeled the investigation political.

He was forced to step aside as majority leader after he was indicted on money laundering and conspiracy charges in September. No trial date has been set because of pending appeals filed by Earle and DeLay.

Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds contributed $25,000 and the Barona Band, $5,000 to TRMPAC in 2002. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians contributed $1,000 in 2001, according to TRMPAC records.

In his subpoenas, Earle asks for correspondence between the subpoenaed parties and TRMPAC; Americans for a Republican Majority, DeLay's national fundraising committee; David Safavian, the Bush administration's former chief procurement official indicted in the Abramoff case; Abramoff, former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed and DeLay's co-defendants.


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...ro/3562538.html

I watched Hardball tonight to see what he'd have on the Abramoff plea deal.

He went on and on about how sleazy, crooked, evil Abramoff is, actually called him Satan.

Tonight I was reading my favorite blogs and what do you know, Chris made the blogs.



Wednesday, January 04, 2006



Hardball's Chris Matthews, FOX's Tony Snow and Britt Hume helped raise money for shady Abramoff charity

by John in DC - 1/04/2006 12:43:00 AM


Okay, this is interesting. Major kudos to reader Denise for sending me this.

Abramoff forms a group called the "Capital Athletic Foundation." The group appears to play a key role in the Abramoff scandal:


...allegations that Abramoff used NCPPR and CAF to pay for overseas trips for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and other Republican lawmakers and that he attempted to influence lawmakers with large donations from various American Indian tribes.

More on the non-profit's role from the Washington Post:

The Capital Athletic Foundation's Web site portrays youths at play: shaking hands over a tennis net, learning how to hold a bat, straining for a jump ball. Its text solicits donations for what it describes as "needy and deserving" sportsmanship programs.

In its first four years of operation, the charity has collected nearly $6 million. A gala fundraiser last year at the International Spy Museum at one point attracted the Washington Redskins' owner as its chairman and was to honor the co-founder of America Online.

Records for GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff's Capital Athletic Foundation show that less than 1 percent of its revenue has been spent on sports-related programs for youths, and federal investigators are looking into how large amounts of money were funneled through the nonprofit group to support Abramoff's interests. (Thomas Butler -- The Hill)

But tax and spending records of the Capital Athletic Foundation obtained by The Washington Post show that less than 1 percent of its revenue has been spent on sports-related programs for youths.

Instead, the documents show that Jack Abramoff, one of Washington's high-powered Republican lobbyists, has repeatedly channeled money from corporate clients into the foundation and spent the overwhelming portion of its money on pet projects having little to do with the advertised sportsmanship programs, including political causes, a short-lived religious school and an overseas golf trip.

Then we go back to March 5, 2003 and find out that Chris Matthews helped put on an event benefiting the very same "Capital Athletic Foundation":

It's called the Interactive Spy Game Gala. Scheduled for March 26 at the International Spy Museum in Washington, the event's purpose is to raise about $300,000 for the Capital Athletic Foundation....

Fox News Channel's Tony Snow is master of ceremonies, and Fox's Brit Hume and MSNBC's Chris Matthews are aboard. Opera great Placido Domingo is an event committee member. But, this being Washington, the event will be mostly populated by powerful lawmakers, including Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.


And it was only just a few hours ago that we reported how Chris Matthews was trying to downplay the impact of the Abramoff scandal in terms of what it said more generally about Republicans. Very interesting indeed.

An aside: I can't wait for Rick Santorum to explain what he was doing there."

(from Americablog)

I sent this to Hardball to see if he would react. He might. ?

Those media shrieking heads would sell tickets for sex with their grammas if they could make airtime heyday with it, Sherry.

That's all the morals or "outrage" they got.

It's funny when the famous....fall. Bill Bennett, the MORALITY CZAR, gambling away millions in secret. The born again, oh so Christian Moral Majority members, Ralph Reed, DeLay, et all getting caught in the web of corruption. They are such hypocrites, it's a joy to watch them implode. They fly so high and sink so low.

about as enjoyable as watching a train wreck

the disaster president

<snip>

“Your honor, words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused,” he said.


“All of my remaining days, I will feel tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct and for what I have done. I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and from those I have wronged or caused to suffer. I will work hard to earn that redemption.”

<snip>

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/n...on/13543697.htm


Abramoff displaying some crocodile tears, I’d say he's sorry he got caught/prosecuted as there is NO way he didn't know he was breaking laws. Now had he had turned himself in I just might believe he was sorry... I guess the guys he plied with money and gifts to sell out their constituents are drawing straws to see who will be the scapegoats and who will skate.

THE LAST STRAW

Icarus.

Great post.

I found the contrast between Abramoff's praise-be-Jesus words and his devil-be-Don attire hysterical.

Abramoff is an observant Jew. I don't think he praises Jesus.

39 of the 44 Democrat Senators have taken Abramoff-Related Money


Nearly 90 Percent Of Senate “Democrats Have Taken Abramoff-Related Money.” “The NRSC has begun circulating among fellow Republicans new reports showing that all but five of the chamber’s 44 Democrats have taken Abramoff-related money.

In addition, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have taken more than $1.2 million, according to records provided to The Washington Times.”

(Charles Hurt, “Dorgan Returns Abramoff Money,” The Washington Times, December 14, 2005)

I sit corrected. Praise-be-God then. Heck Sherry, I think he'd prob'ly praise Allah if it would sell.

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Morals and values, morals and values, morals and values, morals and values, morals and values, morals and values, morals and values.

Where? corporate whores got caught. awwwww.... turns out K street was rife with corruption.

your new avatar is jumpy and disconcerting

Praise God and pass the dinero.

I see that you got a promotion Brian.

But eminently appropriate.

Don't deserve it for being AWOL. No computer for a while.

Did you go through 'Withdrawal?'

O'Reilly was talking about that just a minute ago. Guess where the New York Times comes in?

Had plenty to do. But I'm glad to be back online. With a better gaming computer.

In the bird cage?

And make the puppy jealous?

Rule of law is a good thing.

What's the matter? Are they criminalizing politics again?

Waaaaaaa, poor widdle Pubes.


The morals and values hypocrites got caught. Now they attack those who expose illegal acts. Do you rightwingers even know the definition of whistleblower?


It isn't exposing an entire CIA front company, that's for sure.