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Title: Feds Treat Us Like Common Criminals, House GOP Complains
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TPM Muckraker.com
URL Source: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000659.php
Published: May 16, 2006
Author: Paul Kiel and Justin Rood
Post Date: 2006-05-16 19:27:24 by aristeides
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Comments: 7
Feds Treat Us Like Common Criminals, House GOP Complains Congressional Republicans are complaining of "reports of wiretaps, searches on Congressional grounds, open-ended document requests and demands to interview committee aides" coming from federal prosecutors, Roll Call reports this morning. "There’s a feeling that this would be a notch in their belt if they could get a Congressman," Ehlers said. To date, one former House Republican is in jail, another has been booted from his CIA perch, one has resigned from Congress and at least two current members reportedly are under investigation, all relating to corruption probes. Still, the GOP valiantly resists reform. "Despite federal probes and promises to change, the Republican-controlled House continues to draft spending bills setting aside billions of dollars for home-state projects without disclosing the sponsor," a practice known as "earmarking" which has been at the root of all current corruption scandals, according to the Wall Street Journal. (Roll Call, WSJ)
"A number of Members are very concerned about the way the Justice Department is investigating," [House Administration Chairman Vernon] Ehlers [(R-MI)] said, adding that the general impression among some Members is that prosecutors want to "get" a Congressman.
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#5. To: aristeides (#0)
Maybe they (the Justice Department) should enlist a citizen posse, or better yet, a lynch mob !
I'll give them a hand.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"A number of Members are very concerned about the way the Justice Department is investigating," [House Administration Chairman Vernon] Ehlers [(R-MI)] said, adding that the general impression among some Members is that prosecutors want to "get" a Congressman.
#6. To: noone222 (#5)
better yet, a lynch mob !
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