2 interesting Repug scandles are brewing

[rodeodance]

and the rove one is simmering.
Got this from a friend--i know they have been on DU but nice seeing them together.



Original Message --------
Subject: 2 interesting scandles are brewing
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:44:31 -0500
From: ...
To: .....

Friday, April 28, 2006
More Republican Corruption
The latest Republican to be implicated in the telephone scandal, in which Democratic phone banks were jammed, and that may have links to Ken Mehlman, is Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.

"A GOP telemarketing firm implicated in two criminal prosecutions involving election dirty tricks got its startup money from Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, financial records show.

Barbour's investment company arranged a quarter-million-dollar loan to GOP Marketplace in 2000 and also gave a promotional plug to the telemarketer several months later, according to Virginia corporation records and other documents."


Barbour was also the most supportive Gulf Coast cheerleader for Bush in the wake of Katrina, while everyone else was screaming about the incompetence and seeming lack of regard on the part of the President. He reportedly has presidential aspirations for 2008.

Grand Old PARTY!
Porter Goss and hookers?
From TPM Muckraker:

"Ken Silverstein reports at Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal. He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated. Sounds like he thinks House Intel Chair-turned-CIA Director Porter Goss is one of them:

I've learned from a highly-connected source that those under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees -- including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post.
Yowzah.

Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes' old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency. At the time of Foggo's appointment, no one could figure out where he came from, or how Goss knew him.

But if Goss was at the "parties," I wonder, was Foggo there too? Did they see each other? Is this where Goss had an opportunity to gauge Foggo's abilities, and determine he was qualified for the CIA executive director post?"

[lostexpectation]

1. atleast he didn't slash tires!

:P

[Peace Patriot]

2. We've got to be careful about scandal news. I mean, do we entirely

trust Bush's FBI? What if they're going after somebody GOOD in the CIA--not Goss--but somebody who allowed himself/herself to get into a compromised position--got enticed into it somehow. Just a word of caution. I know there are some good guys at work, in both the FBI and the CIA, but we would be wise to be skeptical, especially about any news that comes our way via the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. And I'm especially wary of sex scandals, because the smear is so easy--and it's so hard for an innocent who has been targeted to recover from it. We have purged, corrupted agencies. We have entirely corrupt news media. We have extremely dangerous, vicious people running things. We have pervasive, illegal, domestic spying. The whole situation is made to order for blackmail and other kinds of corruption, aimed at controlling people. The worst part of it is that we can't trust the news media. I saw them take Kevin Shelley apart on bogus corruption charges in California, for instance (--former, elected Dem Sec of State who had sued Diebold and decertified the worst of their election theft machines prior to the 2004 election.) It was a shocking lesson to me. I distrust them all now--all the news monopolies. With every story they print or broadcast, my thought is, "could be true, could be half true, could be a complete fabrication"--including complete fabrication by prosecutors, by law enforcement/FBI, by unseen hands, or by the corporate news monopolies themselves.

I don't blame people for slavering over potential Republican sex scandals. All the lies, the incredible hypocrisy, massive thievery and horrid fascist policy (torture, rape of prisoners, massive violations of human rights, illegal war with tens of thousands of innocents slaughtered) certainly points (gutwise) to other kinds of corruption lurking below the surface. And I would sooner believe this kind of corruption (or any kind of corruption) by them, than I would of anyone in political opposition to them. That's just common sense, in view of the rest of what they've done, and in view of what we know of their Rovian swiftboatings and other smears. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't swiftboat/smear one of their own who wouldn't go along with something, and who had dirt on them. (Look what they just did to top CIA brass Mary McCarthy--publicly LYING that she had disclosed the torture flights, as they fired her, a charge that she says is completely untrue. Their lies about people go by so fast, we can hardly keep up with them.)

Just be wary, and careful, and skeptical of the ugly Hollow Clown of the corporate news media when it points its red nose bulb at somebody. Don't trust them. Consult multiple sources. Try to get the accused's side of the story.