Bush & GOP "Evil Doers"

[Heathen]

Bringing things up to date:

You remember Florida, Diebold, and other questionable election activities.  Well here is yet another:

Phone-jamming case invokes images of Watergate

Democrats and Republicans here are locked in a legal battle over GOP operatives who tried to suppress voter turnout in a key 2002 U.S. Senate race by jamming Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks on Election Day.
 
The case has national implications. New Hampshire Democrats, through a civil lawsuit, are trying to question Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and White House officials about why one GOP official who was involved in the scheme called the White House repeatedly.

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Democrats say smoking guns abound in the case:

-A Republican operative who later was convicted in the case called Mehlman's former office in the White House nearly two dozen times.

-The RNC paid millions of dollars in legal expenses for the operative, though it was under no legal obligation to do so.

-Contributions were made to the state GOP by Indian tribes whom disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff represented and by former House Speaker Tom DeLay's political action committee in amounts that together almost equaled the cost of the phone-jamming scheme.

"There are some parallels to Watergate," Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said last week. "This is a third-rate, silly effort that definitely turns out to be rooted in the White House."

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/14444680.htm

[Heathen]

The Outing of a CIA Agent -- Things aren't going too well for Scooter Libby.  Let's check in on Rove and see how he's doing:

WASHINGTON Apr 26, 2006 (AP)— White House aide Karl Rove spent almost four hours at the federal courthouse Wednesday, during which he made his fifth grand jury appearance in the Valerie Plame affair.

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Wednesday's session is believed to be only the second time Fitzgerald has met with the grand jury examining questions left unanswered in the Plame affair. The only other day Fitzgerald was seen going before the new panel was Dec. 7.

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Rove's legal problems stem from the fact that it was not until more than a year into Fitzgerald's criminal investigation that the White House adviser told the prosecutor about his contact with Cooper regarding Plame.

Rove says he had forgotten the Cooper conversation, which occurred several days before Plame's identity was revealed by conservative columnist Robert Novak.

Rove and Novak, who is not related to Viveca Novak, also had discussed the CIA status of Wilson's wife.

Other unfinished business in the probe focuses on the source who provided Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward information about Plame, whose CIA identity was leaked to Novak in July 2003.

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Woodward says his source, whom he has not publicly identified, provided the information about Wilson's wife, several weeks before Novak learned of Plame's identity. The Post reporter, who never wrote a story, was interviewed by Fitzgerald late last year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1893802&page=2

I think the leak not only involves Rove, but also Cheney and who know who else.  This is why the investigation is taking so long.  As Novak said, the president knows who leaked her name.  I hope they can get the evidence for this treasonous act.

[Heathen]

And what about other investigation (so many to keep track of!)?

My dislike for Pat Roberts grows with each passing day as he continues to block investigations into WMD intelligence and more recenty warantless wiretaps:

Kansas' Roberts puts politics first
By HELEN THOMAS
Friday, March 17, 2006

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has a true friend and protector in Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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What it comes down to is that committee Republicans have succeeded in blocking an investigation that might reflect poorly on the president and his key advisers, who launched the Iraq war almost three years ago.

When Roberts adjourned a committee meeting rather than allow a vote on a wiretap inquiry, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. -- top Democrat on the committee -- said the panel was "basically under the control of the White House, through its chairman."

Republicans obviously have wanted to avoid a full-blown investigation of the root causes of the war, especially at a time when the president is embarked on another major round of speeches to explain the U.S. strategy for victory in Iraq -- and to muster more public support.

Roberts and cohorts have tried to save the administration from an expose of its spying activities, but the senator from Kansas comes up lacking compared with the late Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, who led a stunning investigation in 1975 into abuses and skullduggery by the intelligence community.

In an effort to block an investigation, Roberts has led the move to appoint a seven-member congressional panel to increase oversight on the wiretapping program.

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The prospect of the Republican-controlled Congress carrying out its oversight role over the White House is far-fetched, especially with Roberts as ringmaster.

Roberts, has made it clear when it comes to loyalty, the interests of party politics prevail over the country.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/263307_thomas17.html

Citizens of Kansas -- Would you please remove Roberts from office ASAP?  Thanks!

[Heathen]

Hmm..what other evil doings might there be?

Friday, April 28, 2006 · Last updated 4:15 p.m. PT
U.S.: FBI sought info without court OK
By MARK SHERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

It was the first time the Bush administration has publicly disclosed how often it uses the administrative subpoena known as a National Security Letter, which allows the executive branch of government to obtain records about people in terrorism and espionage investigations without a judge's approval or a grand jury subpoena.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...ml?source=mypi

3500 terrorists, wow, one on every corner.
How many legal wiretaps were carried out?
We are over run, save us, Help, Help!!!

It's not just foreign to domestic. That's the big lie. This months big Republican lie.

[The Smoking Man]

Well, let's not forget about extrodinary rendition!

There was the Canadian sent from NY to Syria and the other taken from the streets of Italy and dropped into some other foreign state.

That seems to be both a domestic and a foreign issue.

And look at the latest on the Guantanamo Prisoners. Now they are saying they don't want to release them for fear of how they will be treated in their own countries.

[The Smoking Man]

Okay ... where did this 'Heathen' person go???

We seem to be 5 members short if I remember correctly.

[Heathen]

 

You talkin' to me?

[The Smoking Man]

You talkin' to me?

Ho Lee Fuk <-- Ancient Chinese Philosopher

[The Smoking Man]

  <-- Master Ho and his bitches.

You Americans have heard of Ho Ho's haven't you?

[Heathen]

The worm Rove has slithered away from an indictment.  Maybe it's true that if you cut a worm in half it can still live.

[The Smoking Man]

The worm Rove has slithered away from an indictment.  Maybe it's true that if you cut a worm in half it can still live.

Yes, but only one end got the brain and the other got the presidency.