The Bush legacy: Refusing to testify in front of Congress

[Horse with no Name]

Since when in the history of this nation has that been acceptable? This asshat needs to go to prison. For a very long time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_go_co/salmonella_outbreak

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WASHINGTON – The owner of a peanut company refused to testify to Congress on Wednesday amid the disclosure that he urged his workers to ship bacteria-tainted products, pleading with federal health officials that he should be able "turn the raw peanuts on the floor into money."

Stewart Parnell, owner of Peanut Corp. of America, repeatedly invoked his right not to incriminate himself before the House subcommittee holding a hearing on a national salmonella outbreak blamed on his company. The outbreak has sickened some 600 people, may be linked to nine deaths — the latest reported in Ohio on Wednesday — and has resulted in one of the largest product recalls of more 1,800 items.
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Other e-mails released by the committee show after salmonella was discovered in the Georgia plant's products, Parnell tried to salvage whatever he could from the plant, looking for loopholes in what the government said they could use.

In a Jan. 19 e-mail about a truck with more than 33,000 pounds of raw peanuts, Parnell noted that Georgia agriculture officials are "putting a hold on everything else in the plant" beside what was on the truck.

"Obviously we are not shipping any peanut butter products affected by the recall but desperately at least need to turn the raw peanuts on our floor into money," he wrote. "We have other raw peanuts on our floor that we would like to do the same with."

[defendandprotect]

1. Are we making these people take the oath when they testify . . . ???

That should be happening --- wasn't sure about the bankers or those who

testified last week after the Markopolos charges vs SEC ---

[shraby]

2. Been going on for a long time..I remember

listening to Nixon's men taking the fifth. It's perfectly legal to do when the perps words will incriminate them later in a court of law...and it looks like that is where this case is going.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Republicons like to think they are 'special'

and I suppose they are with their wide-stance, diaper-clad, fail freakery. No one has ever done as much harm to America as the republicon homelanders have over the last 8 years.