The Energizer Bunny of Corruption
Rep. Kurt Weldon is now under investigation for using his position to gain contracts and favorable treatment of his daughters lobbying firm.
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Former Bush FDA Chief charged with making false statements.
Actually, Former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford will plead guilty tomorrow to making false statements and having a conflict of interest while he headed the agency. Details and charging documents here.
Read moreConvicted Representative Still House Member
Now Ohio Representative Bob Ney has plead quilty to multiple counts of accepting brides, yet he remains an illustrious member of U.S. House of Representatives. Of course, once that became public, they all started saying how they would demand his resignation, “once they come back into session after Election day.”
Read moreIf Hastert Has To Resign The Terrorists Win
I guess you might think I’m doing a parody, but you’d be wrong. So help me, the Republican Congressional Leadership is spinning so hard right now, I think they have made themselves dizzy. In one of the most bizarre “spins” of this whole Foley episode, House Speaker Denny Hastert has managed to blame it all on “terrorists.”
Read moreChertoff: If We Inspect Cargo The Terrorists Win
Well that’s a unique argument, even from the always-creative Bush administration. You see, Osama’s goal is to bankrupt us –
Read moreSo Long To The Constitution
What Bush is doing in the run-up to the midterm elections is a disgrace equal to any other scandal of his nasty, incipiently despotic, regime. Using the hallowed anniversary of 9/11, he has demanded Congress pass a law that enables the major terrorist suspects, until now held in CIA secret prisons all over the world, to be transferred and tried at Guantanamo.
Read moreThe Reddest Red State?
Who’s ahead in promoting Tom DeLay’s market-based legislative techniques? Is it Ohio’s Bob Ney, Bob Taft and Ken Blackwell, or is Florida whack-job Kathering Harris leading the way?
Read moreDog The Bounty Hunter Gets Rotten Bone
It seems Simaile “Cisco” Lutu is suing the small-screen vigilante Duane “Dog” Chapman, the mullet-sporting criminal wrangler from A&E’s Dog the Bounty Hunter, his bail bond business, the cable net and local police for unspecified damages in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S District Court in San Francisco.
Read moreAdministration Seeks to Narrow War Crimes Act
The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a U.S. war crimes law “passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions.” The changes would mean interrogators would no longer face possible prosecution for committing “outrages upon [the] personal dignity” of prisoners.
Read moreVigilante Justice or Murder?
A jury on found restaurant owner Lawrence Storer not guilty of manslaughter for chasing down and killing a man who tried to rob him in 2003. Storer?s attorney John Fitzgibbons argued that he had committed an excusable homicide. Storer, testifying in his defense, told jurors that when Wilson pointed a gun at him, he was terrified of dying, and was acting in shock and instinct when he chased after him in his car. He hit Wilson, killing him on a downtown street.
Read moreNSA Might Have Tapped Phones Pre-9/11
Bloomberg is reporting that evidence seems to indicate the NSA approached AT&T months prior to 9/11 seeking to intercept telephone calls.
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