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Post by Eric Holder on May 15, 2010 12:04:26 GMT -8
AG Holder Ducks Questions On Sestak Job Offer Saturday, May 15, 2010 Washington — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to answer pointed questions from Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., about allegations the Obama Administration offered U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., a high-ranking position in return for dropping out of the primary election against incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter. Mr. Issa wants the Justice Department to investigate the allegations which, if confirmed, could amount to three felony offenses for bribery and corruption. On Thursday, with Mr. Holder testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Issa asked why a special prosecutor has not been assigned to investigate the case. thebulletin.us/articles/2010/05/15/top_stories/doc4beeb69a71066671133872.txt
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 11:49:05 GMT -8
Charlie Rangel Angry: Where's My Journalist Protection? Friday, July 23, 2010 Rangel admits the nojourna-list left-media isn't supposed to expose democrats. Ok- here's my softball interpretation - this is not about the reporter, ok? ready? Luke Russert: Are you afraid you may lose your job? Charlie: What kind of DUMB question is that? What news station are you from? (ah, well - that must explain it) Russert: MSNBC Charlie: HUH? Yer kidding me right? (What? No Fox? - you trying to make a name for yourself?) Russert: Sir, Charlie: Where the hell's my protection gone? Don't you know whose side you're on? You don't sound like our political arm. Disgraceful! Russert: But, sir Charlie: No respect. You should be ashamed! Son, you need to go back to your office and find out how to do your job.obamacom.blogspot.com/2010/07/charlie-rangel-angry-wheres-my.htmlPanel hits Rangel with 13 ethics chargesThu Jul 29, 7:23 pm ET news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_go_co/us_rangel_ethics
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 22:29:03 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 23:10:09 GMT -8
Ex-US judge pleads guilty to child prison scam 23 July 2010 Last updated at 19:13 ET Cash for kids Prosecutors in a federal court in Scranton, Pennsylvania, said Conahan had closed a county-owned juvenile detention centre in 2002, just before signing an agreement to use a for-profit centre. Conahan received bribes from a for-profit juvenile detention centre after closing a county-run facilityProsecutors say Mr Ciavarella, a former juvenile court judge, then allegedly worked with Mr Conahan to ensure a constant flow of detainees. The two men were originally charged in early 2009 with accepting money from the builder and owner of a for-profit detention centre that housed county juveniles in exchange for giving children longer, harsher sentences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10747919
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Post by clone on Sept 13, 2010 20:28:38 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Oct 10, 2010 18:26:24 GMT -8
EDITORIAL: Obama's mad science adviser Sunday, August 16, 2009 Mr. Holdren and the Erlichs considered other extremist measures. "A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men," they wrote. "The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control." It gets worse. The Holdren-Erlich book also promotes "Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods." After noting that, well, yes, there were "very difficult political, legal and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems," Mr. Holdren and his co-authors express hope that their idea may still be viable. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/16/obamas-mad-science-adviser/
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Post by holders a wiener on Oct 16, 2010 20:34:46 GMT -8
Democrats in tight races change tune on foreclosures news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_forclosre_politicsMIAMI " Three weeks before the election, anger over tainted home foreclosure documents is bursting into the battle for control of Congress, especially in hard-hit states such as Nevada and Florida. Democrats in tight races in the worst housing markets are pressing for a national moratorium, putting a reluctant White House on the spot. Leading the call for a nationwide time-out on kicking people out of their homes is Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is locked in a neck-and-neck re-election contest with tea party-endorsed Sharron Angle in Nevada, which has the highest foreclose rate in the country. Reid is decrying "reports of shoddy and defective affidavit preparation." On Wednesday, attorneys general and bank regulators in all 50 states announced a joint investigation into questionable foreclosure practices, including forged documents, apparently bogus signatures and questionable notarizations. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has said the Justice Department also is looking into the allegations " but he stopped short of opening a formal investigation. �" but he stopped short of opening a formal investigation.
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Post by pitching boobies on Oct 31, 2010 10:42:18 GMT -8
Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury October 2010 The intensity of Palin’s temper was first described to me in such extreme terms that I couldn’t help but wonder if it might be exaggerated, until I heard corroborating tales of outbursts dating back to her days as mayor of Wasilla and before. One friend of the Palins’ remembers an argument between Sarah and Todd: “They took all the canned goods out of the pantry, then proceeded to throw them at each other. By the time they got done, the stainless-steel fridge looked like it had got shot up with a shotgun. Todd said, ‘I don’t know why I even waste my time trying to get nice things for you if you’re just going to ruin them.’ ” This friend adds, “As soon as she enters her property and the door closes, even the insects in that house cringe. She has a horrible temper, but she has gotten away with it because she is a pretty woman.” (The friend elaborated on this last point: “Once, while Sarah was preparing for a city-council meeting, she said, ‘ I’m gonna put on one of my push-up bras so I can get what I want tonight.’ That’s how she rolls.”) When Palin was mayor, she made life for one low-level municipal employee so miserable that the woman quit her job, sought psychiatric counseling, and then left the state altogether to escape Palin’s sphere of influence — this according to one person with firsthand knowledge of the situation. The woman did not want to be found. When I finally tracked her down, her husband, who answered the phone, at first pretended that I had dialed the wrong number and that the word “Wasilla” had no meaning to him. Palin’s former personal assistants all refused to comment on the record for this story, some citing a fear of reprisal. Others who have worked with Palin recall that, when she feels threatened, she does not hesitate to wield some version of a signature threat: “I have the power to ruin you.” www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010
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Post by clone on Oct 31, 2010 23:01:23 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Aug 11, 2011 18:32:39 GMT -8
eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htmSunday, June 27, 2004 Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations. The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative. Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans. nh-obama.jpg (12114 bytes) Barrack Obama "It’s clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could not take place if I remain in the race," Ryan, 44, said in a statement. "What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign – the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics I refuse to play." Although Ryan disputed the allegations, saying he and his wife went to one ‘avant-garde’ club in Paris and left because they felt uncomfortable, lashed out at the media and said it was "truly outrageous" that the Chicago Tribune got a judge to unseal the records. The Republican choice will become an instant underdog in the campaign for the seat of retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, since Obama held a wide lead even before the scandal broke. "I feel for him actually," Obama told a Chicago TV station. "What he’s gone through over the last three days I think is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody." The Republican state committee must now choose a replacement for Ryan, who had won in the primaries against seven contenders. Its task is complicated by the fact that Obama holds a comfortable lead in the polls and is widely regarded as a rising Democratic star. The chairwoman of the Illinois Republican Party, Judy Topinka, said at a news conference, after Ryan withdrew, that Republicans would probably take several weeks to settle on a new candidate. "Obviously, this is a bad week for our party and our state," she said. As recently as Thursday, spokesmen for the Ryan campaign still insisted that Ryan would remain in the race. Ryan had defended himself saying, "There’s no breaking of any laws. There’s no breaking of any marriage laws. There’s no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere." —AP
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Post by moabiter on Aug 11, 2011 19:17:16 GMT -8
News Corp. Has ‘Best Friends’ in High Places 8/10/11 at 1:45 PM Ahead of New Corporation's quarterly earnings announcement this afternoon, Rupert Murdoch hosted a board meeting yesterday on the studio lot of his company, 20th Century Fox. It was the first board meeting since the phone-hacking scandal engulfed his company, and included high-profile "independent" News Corp. directors, like a former president of Goldman Sachs, as well as a member of the Bancroft family, who sold Murdoch the Dow Jones media company and The Wall Street Journal in 2007. According to the New York Times, "corporate governance experts said that the long history between News Corporation and many of its independent directors is a glaring example of how chumminess in the boardroom can allow and even contribute to mismanagement." But the potential conflicts of interests aren't just internal: Also in the room was Viet Dinh, a former member of the Bush administration and co-author of the Patriot Act. He also happens to be "best friends" with the U.S. Attorney that's supposed to be investigating News Corp. Dinh, the Times reports, "is ultimately responsible for the independent internal investigation going on into the phone hacking scandal at News Corporation’s British subsidiary, News International." But as Massimo Calabresi explains at Time ( Murdoch’s Well-Connected Point Man on the News Corp. Hacking Probe swampland.time.com/2011/08/10/murdochs-well-connected-point-man-on-the-news-corp-hacking-probe/ ), Dinh's buddy Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is in charge of looking into Murdoch and co.'s potential wrongdoings on this side of the ocean. Dinh and Bharara met at Harvard, and Bharara was the best man at Dinh's wedding. Dinh, meanwhile, is the godfather of one of Rupert's grandchildren. nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/news_corp_has_best_friends_in.html
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Post by clone on Apr 21, 2012 13:01:23 GMT -8
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Post by Eric Holder on Apr 22, 2012 14:10:29 GMT -8
Eric Holder – The Oklahoma City Bombing Connection January 4, 2012 Source Please view the above referenced source for the FULL story. Documents obtained by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show then Clinton Deputy Attorney General for the District of Columbia Eric Holder authorized members of the FBI to provide explosives to Oklahoma City bombing criminals Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols immediately prior to the April, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building. Holder had authorized the FBI to provide the explosives to McVeigh and Nichols in conjunction with a Clinton Administration undercover operation named PATCON, an acronym for “Patriot Conspiracy.” As Jesse Trentadue describes it, “PATCON was designed to infiltrate and incite… militia and evangelical Christians to violence so that the Department of Justice could crush them.” (1)
Both Waco and Ruby Ridge are now known to have been PATCON inspired, Department of Justice plots.
Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing, Holder instructed FBI agents to recover from Terry Nichols any remainder of the explosives the Bureau had provided him and McVeigh. To the chagrin of Eric Holder, the explosives were later discovered by another agency, complete with the fingerprints of Nichols, McVeigh and 2 FBI agents. Holder had reportedly offered Nichols respite from the death penalty for his cooperation in recovering the explosives. Obviously the Deputy Attorney General considered covering up his criminal complicity in the bombing eminently worth sparing Nichols just punishment for the murders of 168 innocent Americans.
Jesse Trentadue accidentally came across PATCON while investigating the murder of his brother Kenneth at the hands of the Clinton Department of Justice. An FBI informant familiar with the Oklahoma City bombing story, Kenneth was found hanged in his cell after having been jailed by the FBI. Though an official FBI report had listed Kenneth as a suicide, it was obvious that he had been severely beaten and his throat cut. (Link to Picture Of Kenneth Trentadue’s Body: Warning: May Be Disturbing To Some) silencedogood2010.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/eric-holder-the-oklahoma-city-bombing-connection/
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Post by Eric Holder on Jun 8, 2012 18:56:47 GMT -8
Congress Grills Holder On "Fast And Furious" June 7, 2012 | 3:47 p.m. PDT Attorney General Eric Holder faced a hostile cross-examination from the House Judiciary Committee today, as its chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), introduced wiretap application forms that he said proved that the government knew its tactics were flawed before it stopped its "Fast and Furious" firearms-tracking operation. The "Fast and Furious" operation involved agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to knowingly "walk" traceable guns into Mexico and thus ensnare suspected arms traffickers who were providing weapons to the increasingly violent cartels. The ATF ended up losing track of hundreds of guns inside Mexico, many of which have since been found at the scenes of violent crimes, including that of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010. www.neontommy.com/news/2012/06/congress-grills-holder-fast-and-furious
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Post by Oliver Stone on Jul 2, 2012 5:32:54 GMT -8
Mexican election could mean drug war strategy shift, U.S. officials say updated 9:53 AM EDT, Tue June 26, 2012 The United States voiced its support and offered **$1.6 billion** to aid in the fight. www.cnn.com/2012/06/24/world/americas/u-s-mexico-election-impact/index.htmlWonder where that went. _________________________ Mexico's Election: Why It Matters to the U.S. POSTED: June 29, 12:35 PM ET Most Americans won’t take much notice, but maybe they should; what happens in Mexico doesn’t stay in Mexico – it has a big impact, for better or worse, on the United States, and not only because millions of Mexicans live here, legally and otherwise. Mexico is the U.S.’s third-largest trading partner and second-largest export market, and the go-to supplier for its multi-billion-dollar drug habit. It’s hard to think of a country that affects the United States as much, day to day. "The election in Mexico is extremely important to the United States because Mexico is an extremely important country for the United States," is how Robert Pastor, a Latin America expert at American University, sums it up. Given all that, it’s worth asking – who is Enrique Peña Nieto, and what’s he going to do? First, the drug war. In early 2007, President Felipe Calderón sent the Mexican army in to wipe out the drug cartels. Five years later, the cartels are as strong as ever; in fact, they're arguably even more violent, since the [useless] crackdown has shattered them into numerous warring factions. Meanwhile, wide swathes of Mexico have been turned into bloody hellscapes, complete with headless bodies and corpses swinging from bridges; 50,000 people (and counting) have been slaughtered, many of them innocents with no connection to the narcotics trade. www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/mexicos-election-why-it-matters-to-the-u-s-20120629
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