"You Lie !" about your travel expenses

[marmar]

from McClatchy:




WASHINGTON — The congressional ethics investigation of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is broader than previously disclosed and goes well beyond his use of $12 in per diem expense money to buy six decorative goblets in Afghanistan last year.

Congressional staff members with detailed knowledge of the probe said ethics investigators are examining Wilson's unusually high number of foreign trips — at least 30 in the past eight years — and his use of per diem expense money while traveling abroad.

Wilson, a relatively unknown lawmaker until he shouted "You lie!" as President Barack Obama addressed Congress last year, has a reputation among his peers as a frequent foreign traveler, these staff members said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly on the investigation.

Wilson confirmed earlier in the week that examiners with the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent nonpartisan agency established in 2008 following a wave of lawmaker scandals, had recently interviewed him about his use of per diem expense money. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/04/100156/south-carolinas-wilson-under-wider.html#ixzz0yqm14TQy

[HughBeaumont]

1. (points and laughs at).

Could not have happened to a better asshole.

[Oceansaway]

2. LOL...n/t.....

[4_TN_TITANS]

3. Great thread title! n/t