Roberts Poked at Congress As Reagan Lawyer

[Judi Lynn]

Roberts Poked at Congress As Reagan Lawyer
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

(08-31) 19:13 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --


Supreme Court nominee John Roberts took shots at Congress while a Reagan administration lawyer, saying in documents released Wednesday that a congressman killed in connection with cult leader Jim Jones' massacre could be viewed as a "publicity hound" and that what Congress does best is "nothing."

Those two documents were among 420 Roberts papers released by the National Archives that originally had been withheld from Congress for privacy and security reasons. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library re-reviewed the papers and released them a week before Roberts' confirmation hearing after blacking out much material for privacy and national security reasons.

Two of the released documents show Roberts, then an assistant to White House counsel Fred Fielding, taking the then-Democratic Congress to task.

Congress voted to give California Rep. Leo Ryan, a Democrat, a Congressional Gold Medal after he was killed near the Jonestown commune in Guyana in 1978. Ryan had gone down to Guyana to investigate whether cult leader Jones was holding people against their will.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/08/31/national/w154925D14.DTL

[truthisfreedom]

1. omg, what a sick and twisted bastard.

he's finally being revealed for what he is.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Isn't that ugly? He's looking quite different from the MEpublican's

first images of him. That's just nasty! Too low for civilized society. Only a desperate man would be that vicious.