Daily Kos: The McCain/Bush Corruption Cover-Up

[springhill]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/14/13220/6198

Washington truism:

The cover-up is always worse than the crime.

It is true only in terms of being caught. Convictions associated with a cover-up stem from the effort to block justice and not the original crimes. The sad truth is that elected officials, lobbyists and their financial backers can and do get away with high crimes and misdemeanors.

Sometimes they get caught, but you would be shocked to see what they get away with.

Since 1999 I have been researching a crime wave behind an organized effort to fund the establishment of One-Party-Rule in the USA.

In the 1970s a small group of folks decided to take over America and they did. In 2000 they installed a weak, incurious and self-important man as President. In the years leading up to that coup d'état and in the years after the takeover, a great many crimes were committed against Americans and the world.

Most of those crimes will never be punished. Some will never be discussed.

In 2004 a window on this criminal enterprise was exposed. Then the cover-ups began.

Now it is all unraveling.

[tom_paine]

1. Important and excellent article.

[vickitulsa]

2. And a "Great Unraveling" it will surely be!

At least if Dems don't fold just when they have the strongest cards, it will be.

This is a brilliant article -- thanks so much for posting it here. I read the entire piece with a sort of subdued joy, just to see all the pieces fit together by a puzzle-solver with an keen eye for the connections.

Precisely what was needed, imo, to help many of us sort out a lot of what's been going on!

The author's logic insofar as the McCain contribution goes is unassailable and coherent, too. It's rather like those "hidden pictures" you had to find in the old kids books always lying around in waiting rooms, "Highlights," was it? Once someone tips you to where the hidden figure is, you can't miss it; but before then, it might be well nigh impossible to find in the jumble of images.

And it certainly elucidates the bizarre behavior McCain's been exhibiting on the campaign trail as well.

How many times have we DUers said lately that we think history will eventually note these times as some of the darkest our nation has ever known? When a condition becomes as obvious as that, surely even the disinterested public must be noticing!

This article provides the key points that signify just how corrupt the GOP has become, and where we are now as a result of their power grabs. It's done in a very readable style, too, with enough detail to support the conclusions but not too much to wade through at once. An excellent summary and overview! I hope a great many people read it.

[corkhead]

3. morning kick of this important article

[hwmnbn]

4. These repug criminals have staged the biggest.....

heist in history. They stole a whole government.

K&R

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. I think there are 500 e-mails out there that say that this time, it's going to be

different.

[malaise]

6. Great read

Nail em Dems!

[L. Coyote]

7. Check the Discourse Analysis: USAGate: Forgetting to forget

USAGate: Forgetting to forget
by drational
Mon May 14, 2007 at 07:01:00 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/14/84457/6926

Methods: To do this analysis, I obtained the full transcripts of HJC (5/10/07) and SJC (4/19/07) testimony of Alberto Gonzales and the SJC testimony of Kyle Sampson. To determine whether memory loss is a common ailment of DOJ employees, I also evaluated the HJC testimony of James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General who retired in August, 2005, but gave recent testimony on May, 7, 2007.

.... Percentage of “Memory loss” responses by Gonzales, and Sampson based on the party affiliation of the questioner. The values are 79% in response to Democrats, 21% to Republicans ....



=================================

Here is another one, a discourse flash from the past:

" "I’m Not a Crook." The Public Face and Private Political Reality of Richard M. Nixon
http://jqjacobs.net/anthro/discourse.html

Two hypothesis are herein tested in relation to private conversations between former United States President Richard M. Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. The first hypothesis is that there is a difference between a politician’s public persona and private reality. This discourse analysis explores the degree of difference between Nixon’s public image, as presented to the American public, and his private conduct as evidenced by secretly recorded conversations (transcripts follow in the Appendix of this article). A second hypothesis is that there should be a difference between the conversation of a superior and a subordinate. Politeness and other social interaction factors in superior and subordinate conversation should be in evidence in the Nixon and Haldeman conversations. Politeness is an important preoccupation in many conversational settings and should be in evidence in deference to a superior. Conversely, a superior might have less preoccupation with politeness to a subordinate.

Method

To test the first hypothesis, that there is a difference between the public "face" of political leaders and their private conversation and conduct, is not ordinarily an easy task. The general public is not ordinarily privileged to the private lives or conversations of public figures. .....

...

Nixon ordering Haldeman to break into the Brookings Institution.

N: They have a lot of material. I want--the way I want that handled Bob is get it over. I want Brooking. Just break in. Break in and take it out. You understand.

H: Yeah. But you have to get somebody to do it.

N: Well, you--that’s what I’m just telling you. Now don’t discuss it here. You’re to break into the place, rifle the files, and bring them out.

..........

[DemReadingDU]

8. We need more of this corruption uncovered

Get it out on TV so people can see it and hear it and talk about it.

[loudsue]

9. It's is obvious that Gonzo has been a part of this cover-up, and if allowed

to continue, the statute of limitations will run out before these jokers are held accountable.

:kick::kick:

[Kurovski]

10. K&R. (nt)

[Nikki Stone1]

11. Great article

:kick: