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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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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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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
And hundreds more to go. "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. "There’s a feeling that this would be a notch in their belt if they could get a Congressman," Ehlers said. Whiny little bitch. I say the Justice Dept. should go after this guy next.
"We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent." - International financier and CFR member James Warburg Feb. 7, 1950
Ah, sweet justice........ These pompous self-righteous gasbags are willing to let fed bureaucraps call taxpayers 'common criminals' because we don't just jump up and down with excitement at the prospect of handing over our blood and fruits of our labors to the bastards! Truth.....Lawrence Summers was one that denigrated us commoners, and IIRC Doris Meisner, as head of social security admin. This was said in open testimony in open hearings, both I believe were in senate hearings......and were quite well spaced apart in time.
I should have completed my thought before posting..... So where were all these congresscowards to defend our honor and integrity against these yahoo bureaucraps? Let's be nice and just say, they didn't bother. Which makes me believe I shouldn't bother or be concerned that these congressional bastards are under the gun, so to speak!!!
Maybe that is because MOST if those Congresscritters ARE common criminals.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! Sen. Barry Goldwater
Maybe they (the Justice Department) should enlist a citizen posse, or better yet, a lynch mob !
------------------------------------------------------------ Kennedy Assassination ... Bush (I) did it ! 9-11 ... Bush (II) did it ! "Sarah if the American people ever find out what we have done to them, they will chase us down the streets and lynch us". [George H. W. Bush to Sarah McClendon] I'll give them a hand. "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! Sen. Barry Goldwater
So who are these "unnamed" sponsors? Legitimate wiretaps of truly suspected crooks (as can be found in Congress) must have revealed who, but which dept is holding the info collected by the wiretaps? And, how are they using it? That's what this could be about, harvesting for blackmail.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. – George Washington "If the president made us go to war with Iraq, why doesn't he go over there and fight the war?" Christian May [6th grader]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.
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Feds Treat Us Like Common Criminals, House GOP Complains
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"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 !
#7. To: aristeides (#0)
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)
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