http://watchingthewatchers.org/story/2006/5/12/17500/7230
Republican Criminals on Parade
By Lee Russ
May 12, 2006
The investigations proliferate, the scandals wax and wane, and the
current crop of Republicans continue to be...the worst that ever came.
Repub criminal news today. May 12, 2006:
Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted, by Jason Leopold,
truthout: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051206Y.shtml
Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff
Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration
officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will
immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel
publicly announces the charges against him, according to sources.
Law enforcement officials search house of CIA's No. 3 official
(Foggo), by KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/12/AR2006051200993.html?nav=rss_nation
Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house
and office of CIA's outgoing executive director, the FBI said.
The agency's third ranking official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, has been
under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative
Service and the CIA's inspector general, said FBI spokeswoman April
Langwell in San Diego.
John Roberts' paper on affirmative action may have been stolen from
National Archives by White House agents, by Timothy Noah, Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2141672/entry/2141666/fr/rss/
Last summer, during the pre-confirmation body-cavity search of Supreme
Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a Roberts-related file at the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library went missing.
The file was marked "affirmative action" and presumably contained
something on that topic written by Roberts--who is known to be
extremely hostile to affirmative action--when he worked in the Reagan
White House counsel's office.
Although the file disappeared after a White House employee and two
assistants vetted the Roberts-related files, National Archives
officials assured reporters that no one had been permitted to bring
bags into the room with the documents and no one was left alone with
the documents.
(We know the visitors were a White House employee and two assistants
because that's how they're described in a separate document from the
inspector general's office.)
That turns out not to be true.
The Web site The Memory Hole (www.thememoryhole.org) has now posted a
report from the National Archives' inspector general, vast portions of
which have been blacked out prior to its public release.
The report clearly states that the White House visitors were allowed
to bring personal items into the room where they examined the
documents, and further were left alone whenever they needed to talk to
the White House about what they were finding.
One of these Bush White House employees, the report says, was the last
known person to see the missing file.
But the Bushies deny they pinched it.
If this all sounds a little familiar, that's because a year ago Sandy
Berger, Bill Clinton's national security advisor, pleaded guilty to a
misdemeanor charge of removing and destroying documents (about the
Clinton administration's response to terrorist threats in 2000) from
the National Archives.
In that instance, the material was classified.
Berger ended up paying a $50,000 fine.
There's reason to suspect that history repeated itself with the
Roberts file, but the Bush administration, which took great delight in
exposing Berger's malfeasance, won't let us know who the possible
lightfingers were.
Indictment for Governor of Kentucky, by IAN URBINA, NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12kentucky.html?ex=1305086400&en=7cc7782cbf44c9ac&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky, a Republican, was indicted yesterday
on charges that he illegally rewarded political supporters with state
jobs.
Mr. Fletcher, who is charged with three misdemeanors -- criminal
conspiracy, official misconduct and violating the prohibition against
political discrimination -- has denied any wrongdoing and has accused
the state attorney general, Gregory D. Stumbo, a Democrat, of being
politically motivated in his investigation.
Yup.
All a partisan conspiracy.
No substance to it at all.
Just like the other 300 partisan conspiracies targeting Repubs of all
levels, colors, and degrees of corruption.
You want to know a real partisan conspiracy?
Government in the United States.
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A new crop of Republican criminals will undoubtedly be sprouting next
week.
Harry
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