WHITE HOUSE MAY HAVE TORPEDOED ABRAMOFF CORRUPTION PROBE

[rodeodance]

i am so so so angry!!!!


http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=914257&ct=1463037


-- WHITE HOUSE MAY HAVE TORPEDOED ABRAMOFF CORRUPTION PROBE: In November 2002, the U.S. attorney in Guam, Frederick A. Black, notified Justice Department officials that he was opening an investigation into Jack Abramoff's lobbying activities with Guam judges. Days later, Black was demoted and barred from pursuing public corruption cases, ending his investigation. The Justice Department's Inspector General and the FBI are looking into Black's demotion to determine whether Abramoff's close ties to the Bush administration may have influenced Justice Department officials, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, in any way. "What this starts to suggest is that Abramoff's ability to corrupt the system was far more pervasive, certainly than we knew at the time," said Rep. George Miller (D-CA).

[Felix Mala]

1. Obstruction of Justice... Big Time!!!

[chicagiana]

19. Another count of impeachment !!!

Count 0)
Criminal Incompetence regarding the crippling of US security and law enforcement agencies before 9/11.

Count 1)
Mass Deception regarding falsified information given to Congress and the American populace regarding the strength of Saddam Husseins alleged WMD program.

Count 2)
Conspiracy to commit election fraud
2a) Florida 2000
2b) Ohio 2004

Count 3)
Conspiracy to fix oil & gas prices in regard to Dick Cheney's energy committee.

Count 4)
Obstruction of justice regarding the prosecution of Ken Lay.

Count 5)
Conspiracy to undermine legal treaties regarding the Geneva conventions and torture of untried detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Count 5)
Reckless Homicide in regard to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Count 6)
Bribery with regard to distribution of war contracts.

Count 7)
Obstruction of justice regarding the Jack Abermoff campaign.

[NVMojo]

2. damn, this is just the tip of the monsterous iceberg!

[acmejack]

3. Josh marshall has a great write up on that

At .

[Dhalgren]

4. Bush has got to start giving up some heads to roll or the "I" word

will gather momentum...

[Seedersandleechers]

6. This is sooo frustrating and unfair

what the repukes did to Clinton. If nothing comes of all this, well I don't know what....

[sofa king]

14. This ain't the head Bush wanted to roll.

Jack Abramoff is the key to the entire worm-hill of corruption that the Bush Administration has been so scrupulously trying to shovel back into the sack since before they stole Florida.

Consider this quote from Sibel Edmonds, the federal whistleblower who has been prevented from discussing details of her case by then-AG John Ashcroft's invocation of "state secrets." Only this time, I've provided a few hotlinks to line up what she said way back then and what we're seeing now:
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"SE: The most significant information that we were receiving did not come from counter-terrorism investigations, and I want to emphasize this. It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations.

"You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. In certain points - and they are separating those portions from just the terrorist activities. And, as I said, they are citing "foreign relations" which is not the case, because we are not talking about only governmental levels. And I keep underlining semi-legit organizations and following the money. When you do that the picture gets grim. It gets really ugly."
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http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml

Abramoff ties everything together, and judging by the arrests made today, either he--or someone very close to him--is talking. They're all gonna go down, which is why I'm so scared right now. It's looking more and more as if those people had no problem allowing for the murder of our own citizens, and using that murder, day after day, to provoke America into following the twisted agenda of a small group of people who see the world in a strange way.

What are they prepared to do to prevent that from coming to light?

[Dhalgren]

16. This is something that I have been saying and worrying about

for years, now. The Bush Family is filled with MURDERERS. The law says that if you pay for a murder or order a murder, YOU are a murderer. How many murders can be laid at the Bush Family's collective feet? You are right to be afraid, we all should be...

[katty]

18. many in power are aware of the bush family's contract hits

but they are determined to keep pulling the plug on the bush family power and influence-it's like chasing the mafia, but alot harder with the bush clan.

[katty]

17. Indeed, that is the question: and who are they prepared to sacrifice?

[ChowChowChow]

5. I hope it all hits at once!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Nominated. Look for the threads on the execution of his erswhile partner.

[caligirl]

8. They used the word TORPEDOED: the mob word for a hit noted in the

news article for one of the Gotti associates involved in the murder.

Interesting.

[indepat]

9. Power corrupts: absolute power....

[Alizaryn]

10. Hunter at KOS has a great diary

where he takes some of what Josh Marshall spoke of and goes further. It is worth a read.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/27/161325/227

[Seansky]

11. The circle continues to close. How did this guy become so

powerful with so little money when you think about it, is beyond me

[rodeodance]

12. I just hope this probe continues!

[yellowcanine]

13. If it looks, walks and quacks like a coverup..........

[slay]

15. Big time

Is the Republican party anything more than a huge corrupt mafia-like outfit? Me thinks not.

[texpatriot2004]

20. What does this mean? n/t