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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
E-mail Shows Ex-CIA Director Agreed With Decision To Destroy Tapes Of Suspect's Waterboarding
Post Date: 2010-04-16 11:31:04 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Internal CIA e-mails show the former agency head, Porter Goss, agreed with a top aide's 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of the harsh interrogation of a terror suspect, a controversial action that remains the focus of an FBI investigation. The documents show that, despite Goss' apparent agreement, CIA officials almost immediately began worrying they'd done something wrong. The e-mails also indicate that President George W. Bush's White House counsel, Harriet Miers, hadn't been informed of the tapes' destruction and was "livid" to find out later. The videos showed CIA interrogators using waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique ...
Video: Typical Liberal Bigot Screams Racial Slurs at Tea Party Speaker
Post Date: 2010-04-11 16:17:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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Typical Liberal Bigot Screams Racial Slurs at Tea Party Speaker
Junior Florida Republican Party staffer had $1.3 million charged to party credit card
Post Date: 2010-04-10 12:33:31 by Skip Intro
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Junior Florida Republican Party staffer had $1.3 million charged to party credit card She was a 25-year-old junior staffer when the Florida Republican Party gave her an American Express card. Over the next 2½ years, nearly $1.3 million in charges wound up on Melanie Phister's AmEx — $40,000 at a London hotel, and nearly $20,000 in plane tickets for indicted former House Speaker Ray Sansom, his wife and kids, for starters. Statements show thousands spent on jewelry, sporting goods and in one case $15,000 for what's listed as a month-long stay at a posh Miami Beach hotel, but which the party says was a forfeited deposit. The credit card records, obtained by the St. ...
Government Motors posts $4.3 billion loss for 2009
Post Date: 2010-04-07 20:02:38 by Happy Quanzaa
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General Motors posted a post-bankruptcy 2009 net loss of 4.3 billion dollars Wednesday but said it hoped to achieve profitability in 2010. The new GM, which emerged from bankruptcy protection on July 10, achieved global revenues of 57.5 billion dollars and ended the year with net cash of one billion dollars. "As the results for 2009 show, there is still significant work to be done," Chris Liddell, GM vice chairman and chief financial officer said in a statement. "However, I continue to believe we have a chance of achieving profitability in 2010." The net loss includes the pre-tax impact of a 2.6-billion-dollar settlement loss related to the United Auto Workers union ...
Former Labor Dept. Official, Aide To Former Republican Rep. Dick Armey, Linked To Disgraced Lobbyist Abramoff Pleads Guilty
Post Date: 2010-04-07 14:34:04 by Brian S
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2:19 PM EDT, April 7, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) — A former official with the Labor Department has pleaded guilty in a corrupt lobbyist case. Horace Cooper, also a one-time aide to former Republican Rep. Dick Armey when he was majority leader of the House, pleaded guilty to falsifying a document when he did not report receiving gifts from lobbyists Jack Abramoff and Neil Volz in 2003. When Cooper was chief of staff for the Employment Standards Administration, he was required by law to report any such gifts. An indictment alleges he took expensive meals, concert tickets and sports tickets. The 44-year-old Cooper faces a maximum sentence of a year in prison, but could receive more time ...
Paper: GOP Senator Ensign Likely To Be Indicted
Post Date: 2010-04-05 12:00:42 by Brian S
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Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign is likely to be indicted for a $96,000 payment he made to the husband of the aide with whom he had an affair, a leading Nevada political reporter says.John Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun reports that prosecutors looking into the scandal surrounding Ensign's affair with former aide Cynthia Hampton are focusing on the payment made by Ensign's parents to the Hamptons. Critics have charged that Ensign used his parents to pay off the cuckolded husband, Doug Hampton. Click for Full Text!
Residents of NJ City Say Cops Worse Than Criminals
Post Date: 2010-04-03 15:58:54 by Brian S
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(04-03) 11:29 PDT Camden, N.J. (AP) -- Josephine Skinner's grandson Dequan was 11 or 12 years old a few summers ago when she says he had a run-in with a Camden police officer who neighbors claim terrorized them for years. As the youth crossed the street to buy a soda at a store, she said Officer Jason Stetser — known on the streets as "Fat Face" — sprang from his cruiser. "He grabbed my grandson and said he had $100 of stuff on him," Skinner said. "They tried to lock him up." Click for Full Text!
Watchdog Group: House, Senate C-Street Members Paid Below-Market Rents
Post Date: 2010-04-01 19:17:02 by Brian S
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A government watchdog group says it has filed ethics complaints against lawmakers who have rented rooms in a controversial Capitol Hill townhouse. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington - CREW for short - cites news reports that say House members and some senators have paid below-market rents to live in a house on C Street SE that is owned by a Christian prayer group known as the Fellowship. CREW wants the House and Senate ethics committees to determine whether the monthly rent, reported to be around $950, is below the market value. If so, CREW says, the discount could amount to an illegal gift. Click for Full Text! Click for Full Text!
Krugman, King, Blow, and Rich: Blinded by Hatred of Tea Partiers
Post Date: 2010-04-01 15:36:56 by no gnu taxes
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The anger all but boiled off the page, and one marveled at the frustration, desperation, and primal rage so barely contained. He remembered a frantic Autherine Lucy, as she was pelted with eggs and slurs as she dared become the first black student at the University of Alabama. The echoes of jeers hurled at the Little Rock Nine haunt his fevered memory and come alive as his poisoned pen seeks revenge. He recalls — much more recently — the sullen, dim-witted fury of Klansmen listening to David Duke shriek about white power in Metaire, Louisiana, as he ran for the governor’s office (and captured 55% of the white vote) in 1991. Colbert I. King, Washington Post columnist, looks ...
Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson worries loading too many people onto Guam could capsize the island
Post Date: 2010-04-01 14:46:18 by no gnu taxes
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First, before you watch this short but remarkable video, a little background on Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson. He's from Georgia's Fourth District. A Washington, D.C. native, he's the fellow who took office in 2007 after knocking off former five-term Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney. A former county judge, the 55-year-old is an attorney, a standard liberal Democrat, receiving 100 ratings from the ADA and ACLU. In this House Armed Services Committee hearing last Friday (no, it wasn't April Fool's Day), Johnson was questioning Admiral Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet, about the stationing of 5,000 additional U.S. Marines and their families on the western ...
Black Tea Partiers to the Leftocracy: Enough With the Slanderous Race-Baiting [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-30 06:06:32 by Murron
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Black Tea Partiers to the Leftocracy: Enough With the Slanderous Race-Baiting Three patriotic black conservative Americans tell the race-obsessed Democrat party and lib mainstream media to stop slandering the Tea Party movement as racists and instead report the news accurately for a change: A Black President, the Progressive’s Perfect Trojan Horse: Lloyd Marcus … I defend my fellow patriots who are white by stating, “These patriots do not give a hoot about Obama’s skin color. They simply love their country and oppose his radical agenda. Obama’s race is not an issue”. Recently, I have come to believe that perhaps I am wrong about Obama’s race not being ...
Seeking answers from Israel
Post Date: 2010-03-29 15:14:44 by war
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A YEAR AGO this week, my daughter Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. She was run over by an Israeli bulldozer manned by two soldiers. The Israeli government exonerated the soldiers, closed the case, and refuses to release to the US government the complete report on the military police investigation into Rachel's killing. Only the "conclusions" of the report have been released. In them, the soldiers are identified by their initials: Sergeant Y.F. and Sergeant E.V. Their initials are nearly all we know of them. I wonder about Y.F. and E.V. I wonder whether they will pause this week and remember. Rachel was an unarmed peace activist trying to prevent the ...
High flyer: RNC Chairman Steele suggested buying private jet with GOP funds
Post Date: 2010-03-29 11:55:54 by Skip Intro
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High flyer: RNC Chairman Steele suggested buying private jet with GOP funds According to two knowledgeable sources, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel. “I know that … regular ongoing use of planes was something that was looked at,” says one person with direct knowledge. “I can’t speak to how serious those inquiries were.” Both sources say Steele considered purchasing a plane outright, or buying fractional ownership in one, through a company such as NetJets. Steele’s spokesman, Doug Heye, did not deny that such discussions took place, responding that ...
Police, Federal Agents in (Militia) Raids in Sandusky, Huron
Post Date: 2010-03-28 14:37:54 by Murron
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Police, Federal Agents in (Militia) Raids in Sandusky, Huron By SARAH WEBER Sunday, March 28, 2010 SANDUSKY and HURON A battalion of local officers and federal agents flooded the Bayshore Estates neighborhood Saturday afternoon. A second raid was conducted in Huron. An FBI agent at the scene of the Bayshore Estates raid said a second, related raid was taking place at “another location.” Huron police confirmed late Saturday a raid had taken place in that city, but would say nothing more. Likewise, FBI agents at the scene and at the Cleveland field office are staying mum on the cause of the commotion. “We did make some arrests,” said special agent Scott Wilson of ...
Oswald Trained By CIA Thru ONI
Post Date: 2010-03-28 09:11:39 by war
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Dingell/Barry plan revealed in 'to control the people' statement
Post Date: 2010-03-24 16:48:39 by Get Outta Dodge!
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Dingell/Barry plan revealed in 'to control the people' statement By Glen Enloe, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2010 As if President Barack (Barry) Obama didn’t have enough woes with mounting health care opposition, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) said in an interview March 22 that “…it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.” Wow. Another Democrat lets yet another party secret out of the bag. Of course, if you’ve been paying attention lately, this is no real surprise. It’s always been about control. On the night of the passage of the health care bill, ...
20 Way ObamaCare will Take Away Our Freedoms [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-23 15:17:06 by Get Outta Dodge!
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20 Way ObamaCare will Take Away Our Freedoms By David Hogberg Sun., March 21, '10 3:24 PM ET Tags: Health Care - ObamaCare - Freedom With House Democrats poised to pass the Senate health care bill with some reconciliation changes later today, it is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose. Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians leaving the field in droves, making it harder to afford and find medical care. We may be about to live Benjamin Franklin’s adage, “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose ...
DeMint to Introduce Bill to Repeal ObamaCare
Post Date: 2010-03-22 00:17:03 by Murron
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DeMint to Introduce Bill to Repeal ObamaCare Jim DeMint Mar 22, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) announced that he will introduce legislation this week to repeal President Obama's government takeover of health care. House Democrats voted this evening to pass the Senate version of the health care bill and it will likely be signed into law by President Obama later this week. "This bill is unconstitutional and it cannot be fixed. It must be repealed," said Senator DeMint. "The battle for health care freedom is not over and I will introduce legislation this week to repeal this health care takeover. "Unless this trillion-dollar ...
Brick thrown through window in Slaughter's (D-NY) Falls office
Post Date: 2010-03-19 20:18:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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NIAGARA FALLS — The "Slaughter Solution" on health care isn't the only thing that has come under attack in U.S. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter's world this week. Sometime early this morning, someone threw a brick through the front window of her Pine Avenue office. The damage was discovered about 12:30 a.m., city police said. The brick put a hole in the outer-most window at the office at 1910 Pine Ave., but did not damage a second interior window, police reported. A piece of broken brick believed to have caused the damage was found at the scene. Damage was estimated at $350. Slaughter, D-Fairport, is head of the House Rules Committee, which will structure the debate on ...
Marco Rubio's lavish rise to the top
Post Date: 2010-03-15 14:01:49 by Skip Intro
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Marco Rubio's lavish rise to the top Marco Rubio was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but special interest donations and political perks allowed him to spend big money with little scrutiny. About $600,000 in contributions was stowed in two inconspicuous political committees controlled by Rubio, now the Republican front-runner for the U.S. Senate, and his wife. A St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald analysis of the expenses found: • Rubio failed to disclose $34,000 in expenses — including $7,000 he paid himself — for one of the committees in 2003 and 2004, as required by state law. • One committee paid ...
Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
Post Date: 2010-03-14 19:39:13 by A K A Stone
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Josh Gerstein over at Politico sent Threat Level his piece underscoring once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties knight in shining armor many were expecting. Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of Americans upon arrest, even absent charges or a conviction. Obama said, “It’s the right thing to do” to “tighten the grip around folks” who commit crime. When it comes to civil liberties, the Obama administration has come under fire for often mirroring his predecessor’s practices surrounding state secrets, the ...
Obama spokesmaggot: ObamaCare will be law of the land by next Sunday
Post Date: 2010-03-14 13:15:59 by Happy Quanzaa
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Sunday announced that the health care reform bill would be passed by Congress and signed by the President by this time next week. “We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said in a one-on-one interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.”Whoever sits here at this time next week, I think will not be talking about health care as a proposal, but as the law of the land,” he said. Asked about the recent ruling by the Senate parliamentarian that the House Democrats cannot use a tactic they were first reported to be exploring last week by The Daily Caller — to hold the Senate ...
FBI, Ethics Panel Reviews New Email Evidence Against Republican Sen. Ensign
Post Date: 2010-03-11 19:16:39 by Brian S
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(ChattahBox)— Disgraced Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), who was forced to admit having an extramarital affair with the wife of his best friend, both of whom worked as aides for Ensign, is now under investigation by both the F.B.I and the Senate ethics committee for improperly securing the husband of his ex-mistress a lobbying job, to lobby members of Congress. This is one of the few ethical investigations that have reached the level of possible criminal charges. And today, The New York Times is reporting that new emails have been turned over to investigators, evidencing Ensign’s efforts to secure lobbying clients for his former aide in violation of federal rules. Sen. Ensign continues ...
vMore Messages Link Senator to Job Effort (Ensign)
Post Date: 2010-03-11 09:16:56 by go65
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WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign’s efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles. Mr. Ensign, Republican of Nevada, suggested that a Las Vegas development firm hire the husband, Douglas Hampton, after it had sought the senator’s help on several energy projects in 2008, according to e-mail messages and interviews with company executives. The messages are the first written records from Mr. Ensign documenting his efforts to find clients for Mr. Hampton, a top aide and ...
A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully (detention of "enemy belligerent" aka protester)
Post Date: 2010-03-10 06:57:30 by A K A Stone
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A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully Mar 5 2010, 3:40 PM ET Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump. According to the summary, the bill sets out a ...
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