GWB43 Connection Strikes Again!

[benld74]

The GSA hearings provided more insight into the political goings on with this administration. This link : http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36474&dcn=todaysnews provides information on how a powerpoint presentation was used during a meeting of GSA officials. The link also provides an email from which the PPT came from, with the words " Its a close hold and we're not suppose to be emailing it around". Yet, during the hearing Mica and Davis repeatedly said what was done was nothing wrong, and actually attacked the IG of GSA for even making the charge go all the way to Congressional Hearings which they had to attend!

[L. Coyote]

1. Yet another twist to this tale: Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.

This expands the scope of the story.

It has been difficult to keep up in the last 24 hours, but here are the DU discussions, articles, links, more:

Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

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Sampson now making a statement.

[merh]

2. You've done a great job in keeping up with all that has

transpired re Emailgate - thank you.

I'm furious that we have to prove how wrong it is to use the WH for RNC purposes, how wrong it is to politicize the US attorneys office.

The Hatch Act, for the love of god, who would prosecute for violations if the prosecutors have abused it or violated it themselves. Investigations and prosecutions of RICO and white collar crimes have to be approved by the top members of the DOJ - those that are tainted by this admin, those that may well be themselves guilty of conspiracies to violate the laws.

:grr:

[marions ghost]

3. I wonder about

the effectiveness of RICO etc--it seems as though white collar crimes are not prosecuted anywhere really. It would be interesting to know how much that has been because of the compromise of the DOJ.

[merh]

4. have you seen this article and the study referenced in same?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2773126&mesg_id=2773183

the charts are telling

[marions ghost]

7. thank you

--the study should make an interesting book when it comes out in 09. Wish it could come out in 08.

Their solution is more transparency in the system--the kind of transparency that leads to prosecution one would hope. This registry idea seems good in theory.

Re. transparency:

"The well-known racial profiling and this brand new abuse of political profiling both demonstrate that what is really needed to correct the problem is transparency. The current Republican Administration is the first to have been "caught" statistically as engaging in political profiling. The authors of this paper call for new federal laws that would create a national registry of the federal investigations of both candidates and elected officials by the U.S. Attorneys' and other Justice Department Offices.

That Political Profiling Registry would indicate when a candidate or elected official was under investigation and report the candidates' or elected officials' party affiliation. Subsequently, that Registry would indicate if the investigation ended in no action taken or if there was an indictment or some special finding. Then, too, that Registry would report if the indictment was accepted by the Courts, whether the Justice Department plea bargained with witnesses against the elected official, or plea bargained with the elected official, entered into a speedy trial (say within 4-6 weeks of any indictment, especially if the indictment occurred within an election cycle, and if there was an acquittal, or a conviction).

Finally, in those cases of an acquittal, the Government would be responsible for legal expense and perhaps even punitive damages in civil court. That would help to deter the many frivolous Government investigations such as occurred in the City of Baltimore, MD. In tone and in deed, the new, Federal Political Profiling Registry would mirror both the current federal requirements for annual state and local reports of racial profiling data state-wide, the results of which the fourth-estate regularly reports, as well as the Commerce Department's Office of Labor/Management Standards' annual report on nation-wide instances of investigated, indicted, and convicted Union-based public corruption, which the fourth estate does a poor job of reporting.

http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20070212_political_profiling.html

[merh]

8. This does exist

"Finally, in those cases of an acquittal, the Government would be responsible for legal expense and perhaps even punitive damages in civil court."

At least in this state, I think there is even a federal statute that provides the defendant can seek to recover costs associated with prosecutions based on misconduct or overreaching of the prosecutor.

[Robbien]

5. They are still sending emails to each other even when they know

the emails are being given to the Democrats!

The GOP Rules practice is so commonplace they don't know it is wrong.

[NI4NI]

6. $200,000 donation to RNC

That was the going rate for Doan to get herself appointed as GSA administrator.
The hearing was another Scooter Libby moment.
Six (6) members of Doan's GSA staff (All Republicans) told Waxman that after the RNC power-point/slide show presented to the GSA employees at the GSA office by KKK's assistant Jennings, Doan stood up and solicted help from all the GSA employees to help the republic party take part in voting against Dems on the RNC's hit list.
Just like the Libby case, she testified repeatedly to Wamman's committee that "she could not recall making any such statements".