In the USA, the Republican Party paedophilia scandal gives rise to many articles, and also to cartoons.
The Most Outrageous Scandal? Bush’s Iraq Policy, by Senator Feingold.
In the USA, the Republican Party paedophilia scandal gives rise to many articles, and also to cartoons.
The Most Outrageous Scandal? Bush’s Iraq Policy, by Senator Feingold.
Posted by: “hapi22” hapi22@earthlink.net robinsegg
Wed Oct 4, 2006 8:03 am (PST)
I saw the executive director of CREW, Melanie Sloan, on C-SPAN yesterday
and was very impressed.
CREW stands for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and
is a non-profit legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public
officials accountable for their actions.
My guess would be that it was Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who
prevented the FBI from opening an investigation into Mark Foley’s
e-mails.
In fact, I would say that is a “slam dunk.”
Now that REPUBLICAN House Speaker Denny Hastert has been caught with his
pants down, he is “urging” the FBI to “begin” an investigation into the
Foley e-mails.
Way to go, Denny … important to cover your butt now that the whole
world knows the Republicans would rather protect a Republican sexual
predator’s Florida House seat than protect the House pages from that
sexual predator.
I tell you, folks, anyone who votes for any Republican to the senate or
House will have to answer to God for doing that.
The Republican party, the Party of Lincoln, has become the party of
liars, cheats, sexual predators, adulterers, “religious” freaks,
racists, sleaze and corruption.
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*CREW urges Dept. Of Justice I.G. to probe why FBI failed to
investigate Foley e-mails sent by CREW this summer*
Administration Officials Must Explain Lack of Action
by Naomi Seligman Steiner
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
October 2, 2006
Washington, DC — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW) wrote to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s
office today to ask for an INVESTIGATION into WHY the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) FAILED to begin investigating Rep. Mark Foley’s
emails to a former House page as soon as the Bureau learned about the
emails in JULY 2006.
On July 21, 2006 CREW received a set of emails, allegedly from Rep.
Foley to a former House page, which it sent to the FBI later that day.
The emails, posted at http://www.citizensforethics.org, asked the page, who had
recently left the Hill, his age, how school was going and what he wanted
for his birthday. Rep. Foley also requested the boy’s photograph.
“As a former prosecutor who handled sex crimes in the District of
Columbia, the emails set off alarm bells. Grown men simply do not send
emails requesting photographs to teenagers over whom they have had some
degree of authority,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW wrote
today.
It appears only now, at the instigation of the House of Representatives
leadership’s request, that the FBI has begun a preliminary investigation
into former Rep. Foley’s conduct. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert
sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting an
investigation into Rep. Foley’s actions as well as who knew about Rep.
Foley’s conduct, when they knew it and why they did not forward that
information to law enforcement authorities.
Sloan stated today, “Since the FBI has known about Rep. Foley’s emails
since July, the question arises: Did the ADMINISTRATION help to
COVER UP Rep. Foley’s conduct and leave a potential sexual predator on
the loose? Was the administration more concerned with protecting a
powerful ally in Congress than with protecting children?”
Sloan continued, “The American public deserves to know not just how and
why members of Congress failed to take action to protect the youngsters
entrusted to the care of the House of Representatives, but also WHY
the FBI — an agency charged with protecting the public — FAILED to
safeguard other youngsters from a potential sexual predator.”
CREW’s letters and Rep. Foley’s e-mails are available at
http://www.citizensforethics.org.
***
For more information, please visit http://www.citizensforethics.org or contact
Naomi Seligman Steiner at
202.408.5565
OR at:
press@citizensforethics.org.
Read this at:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=163
2.
*a scandal of huge proportions of the REPUBLICAN House leadership*
Posted by: “hapi22” hapi22@earthlink.net robinsegg
Wed Oct 4, 2006 8:26 am (PST)
Absolutely NO ONE is doing a better job of reporting on the Mark Foley /
REPUBLICAN House leadership scandal than Josh Marshall at Talking Points
Memo.
If you want to be kept up to date on all the developments in this
mushrooming scandal, here’s the link: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
And, yes, it is important to keep in mimd that this is no longer the
Mark Foley scandal — he is gone from the scene.
This is NOW a scandal of huge proportions of the REPUBLICAN House
leadership, the Bush administration and, undoubtedly, Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales, who may be the very person who put a “hold” on the FBI
to prevent any investigation of Mark Foley’s emails even after the FBI
was given copies of the e-mails by CREW.
There are short articles about this at:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=163
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
wrote to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office
today to ask for an investigation into why the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) failed to begin investigating Rep. Mark
Foley’s emails to a former House page as soon as the Bureau
learned about the emails in July 2006.
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and at: http://www.citizensforethics.org/
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
calls upon the House of Representatives to appoint an outside
counsel to investigate the House leadership’s role in covering
up Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-FL) inappropriate email exchanges with
a sixteen-year-old former Housepage.
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