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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/ap_ ... estigation

How this prick has survived this long, I'll never know.

This is good news. This is unrelated, but I haven't heard anything about Rove's possible indictment in a while. I hope that happens. I know he's orchestrated the president's laughable post-Katrina face-saving effort. I'd love for him to be put away.

placeholder wrote:This is good news. This is unrelated, but I haven't heard anything about Rove's possible indictment in a while. I hope that happens. I know he's orchestrated the president's laughable post-Katrina face-saving effort. I'd love for him to be put away.

Not entirely unrelated. The Rove situation got a little more interesting last week: WaPo article

Seems one Jack Abramoff mentioned to his Tyco buddies that he had friends [Rove] in high places [the WH] at the same time he was pressuring his buddies in Congress [Delay!] to help shield his client from, you know, paying taxes.
Complicated, and uninteresting to the general populace, but gets geeky, wonky types like me all excited about the prospect of the whole thing blowing up. So messy, so great.
Hey Tom Delay. You're a prick. Maybe now you'll have to "answer for [your] behavior."

From Salon --

stench of corruption:

Tom DeLay: The House majority leader was indicted today on a felony charge that he conspired to launder corporate campaign contributions through the national Republican Party in Washington and back to legislative candidates in Texas.

Bill Frist: The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are both investigating the Senate majority leader's sale of shares in his family's healthcare business just before the stock's value plummeted in June.

Jack Abramoff: The Republican super-lobbyist, known to have bragged about his contacts with Karl Rove, was indicted in Texas last month on wire fraud and conspiracy fraud charges related to their purchase of a a fleet of gambling boats. This week, three men were arrested -- including two who received payments from Abramoff's business partner -- in the Mafia-style killing of the man from whom Abramoff and his partner purchased the gambling boats.

David Safavian: The president's chief procurement officer stepped down two weeks ago and was arrested last week on charges of lying to investigators and obstructing a separate federal investigation into Abramoff's dealings in Washington. Some Republicans who received campaign contributions from Safavian are divesting themselves of his money now.

Timothy Flanigan: The president's nominee to serve as deputy attorney general has announced that he will have to recuse himself from the Abramoff investigation if he is confirmed because he hired Abramoff to help the company where he works -- scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd. -- lobby DeLay and Rove on tax issues.

Michael Brown: The president's FEMA director resigned earlier this month amid complaints about his handling of Hurricane Katrina and charges that he and other FEMA officials got their jobs based on political connections and cronyism rather than competence or qualifications.

Bob Taft: The Republican governor of Ohio pleaded guilty last month to criminal charges based on his failure to report gifts as required by state law, among them golfing trips paid for by Tom Noe, a major Republican fundraiser who is the subject of his own scandal regarding the state's investment in $50 million in rare coins, some of which have mysteriously gone missing.

And then there's Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. The grand jury investigating the outing of Valerie Plame is scheduled to complete its work in late October. While neither Rove nor Libby is apparently a "target" of the investigation -- and while the "corruption" in Plamegate is moral rather than financial -- both men are known to have played a role in revealing or confirming Plame's identity in conversations with reporters, which may be a crime under federal law.

If Delay is taken down, I don't see any house of cards coming down afterwards. I doubt this will make any difference.

That said, this news still makes me very happy.

THX,
Jason

DJ_Statikfire wrote:If Delay is taken down, I don't see any house of cards coming down afterwards. I doubt this will make any difference.

That said, this news still makes me very happy.

THX,
Jason

Don't be so sure!

It turns out that Bill Frist's gain from his insider trading was worth between $2 and $6 million.

His ass is toast. The momentum from the DeLay indictment and the Katrina fallout is exactly what's needed to make a domino effect. And I don't mean like the pizza company.

I predict that when he gets out in 2011 he'll even have his own syndicated TV show, just like Martha.

Now if we can get Karl Rove his own TV show, that'll be something even more special.

Personally, I'm hoping Mr. Rove joins the Rosenbergs.

Just for fun...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason



THX,
Jason D

Yea sure.

I will believe all of this when Bush fires the CIA leak, Rove, like he said he would do.

I am sure this also, will a turn out about like the Katrina response investigation being headed by republicans.

Is Kenneth Lay in jail yet.

I wonder how they can pin this one on Martha?