There just doesn't seem to be any good way to spin this, but I'm sure they'll try:
Susan B. Ralston, while she was executive assistant to Rove, similarly used "georgewbush.com" and "rnchq.org" e-mail accounts to confer in 2001 and 2003 with Abramoff, her former boss, about matters of interest to Abramoff's clients.
In a related e-mail, an Abramoff aide said Ralston had warned that "it is better to not put this stuff in writing in [the White House] . . . email system because it might actually limit what they can do to help us, especially since there could be lawsuits, etc."
Abramoff's response, according to a copy of his e-mail, was: "Dammit. It was sent to Susan on her rnc pager and was not supposed to go into the WH system."
Waxman said the exchange indicated that in some instances, White House officials were using nongovernmental accounts "specifically to avoid creating a record of communications" that are nonetheless subject to the committee's jurisdiction.
Why do all roads seem to lead back to Casino Jack? Steve Soto adds this interesting bit on the Abramoff bodies being rapidly buried:
What is also true is that DOJ has run the Abramoff case not from a regional office under a United States Attorney, but rather from headquarters using a revolving door of prosecutors and section chiefs, allowing one constant person to maintain control of the case through this turnover: Criminal Division head Alice Fisher, who has already been accused by Democrats of being an under experienced partisan hack….Fisher is now in a position through this turmoil and turnover beneath her to sink the Abramoff case and shut off the Griles problem for the White House while the Democrats are focused on the misdeeds at the district office level.
Can Henry Waxman stay one step ahead of the Bush Administration and the hacks no doubt operating their virtual paper shredders? The tendency of Republicans to be Luddites might actually work in or favor for once.
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ROOTZ!!!!
Just a little preview that we are getting back in the Roots Project saddle in the next thread.
Now to read Jane’s bon mots.
Jane!
Dick Cheney Controls Tim Russert.
Classic:
Good afternoon Jane.
Alice Fisher
There’s that name again.
She’s the fixer.
I dunno how, RevDeb got the Zed and my first post is #4, But I can see the zero for her post.
I think this is a first.
Is someone feeding this stuff to KO or Shuster? I’d really like to see it on the teevees.
Email disclosures will eventually do in BushCo. Those darn Internets and the Google.
God, I hope we can clean up this mess and go after the bad guys before they put a clamp on the investigations and close them.
Statute of limitations? It would seem that we need to keep all of this scumbags OUT of court until we get honest prosecutors back into the DOJ.
Then agian, IANL.
Well, they may be crooked but at least they’re incompetent.
This administration is too dumb and incompetetent to be trusted with regular presidential powers, let alone given extra bonus powers.
Subpoenas! Oaths! Sunshine! In the open for all the citizens to see!
Bustednuckles @ 6
What is a first?
Jeez, ya reach into the Bush bucket and come out with a handful of live wriggling snakes! Which snake do we bite the head off first?
RevDeb,
The first time anyone can see someone elses zero.
RevDeb @
12
No, what’s on second.
Bustednuckles @ 13
Ah. I see.
And Tom DeLay. And K Street. And Grover Norquist.
It’s not so much that there are Bright Shiny Objects being used to distract us; it’s that the seamless garment of BushCo corruption has suddenly sprouted a few rents, tears and loose threads, any one of which if tugged on could bring about the demise of the garment.
I dunno’s on third.
It would appear that the impeachment mechanism may be one of the few (and perhaps only) levers still available to noncorrupt individuals to actually deliver sunlight and justice.
These guys have such distain for pretty much everything that we all would like to take for granted from our government. They don’t even care that they weren’t being above board. They were just very concerned that they might be found out. That is NOT the behavior of honest people.
God, this bunch we have in charge are awful.
Whatever happened to Susan Ralston? She sort of disappeared and seems to have gotten away very easily. Is she still employed at the WH in some capacity?
Swopa you are a very “bad” person! *g*
Swopa @ 14
I dunno is on third.
Baseball season starts next week. Getting ready for my annual baseball sermon. But I digress.
We’ve got to make sure that these crooks don’t have the chance to plead out.
[Mod note: please don’t requote more than twice. Thanks, the Margin Faerie]
cleter @ 17
“Take the 5th” is shortstop?
RevDeb and Bustedknuckles:
I’ve definitely seen someone else’s zero before–when I was #1 before I became #2.
According to National Journal, 95% of Rovers emailing is on RNC servers. He just lost his executive privelege. That this scumbag collects a US taxpayer funded paycheck is greater than any bogs GOP outrage over “welfare queens”.
But the chattering classes can only giggle about how silly these democrats and bloggers are (no underlying crime, you see-voters just don’t want no “vestigashuns”).
I believe we in the blogosphere will have the last laugh as BushCo completely implodes.
How unfortunate for the administration that running our country is getting in the way of their corruption and money grubbing.
I’ve said this before, but it is possible to physically damage computer hard-drives so that the data is unrecoverable — the “nicking the hard drive” scenario. Perhaps someone with more IT savvy can correct me on this, but shouldn’t we (and Rep. Waxman’s committee) also be interested in physically securing the servers before someone starts having fun with hammers, and not just “Delete” keystrokes?
Just throwing it out there…
I’d like a complete list of monies or favors that Abramoff gave to, or received from, politicians or lobbyists.
Yupper.
This is the moment I’ve been both praying for and dreading… I’ve often wondered how Bushco will behave when theyre finally up against the wall. I guess we’re going to find out now, and I hope we don’t find out in Iran. Fingers crossed, and nails chewed to quick.
Jane! Isn’t this what is called Obstruction of Justice? Abuse of Power? Corruption at the highest levels of the Government?
I am hoping that someone has an eye on Ms. Fisher.
there are wayyyyyyy too many possible convictions for this to be swept under a rug.
Which is what the USA’s firings has me pissed off about.
They know we know.
david baerwald @ 30
As in this? “A bunch of mindless jerks that were the first ones up against the wall when the Revolution came.” (obligatory Douglas Adams quote from “HGttG”)
Waxman has to go thru the DOJ to the FBI to get subpeonas issued and hard drives seized, right? All they need is a little bureaucratic foot dragging, right?
Mauimom @
4
Smells like a conspiracy charge to me.
-GSD
conniptionfit @
23
Take the 5th is the Closer. Hopefully of the BushCo crime syndicate
Slithering nightcrawlers in a coffee can with just a little bit of earth.
I think Monica has an interesting signature:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..age=5&
conniptionfit @
23
Nah, “Take The 5th” plays right field. Likes to hug the line.
All these years I’ve been hoping that the wheels will eventually come off this rancid wagon of an administration.
But to tell you the truth, every time a layer gets peeled back, what I’m seeing is so foul and loathsome that I’m starting to fear what we’ll see at the bottom of the pile.
I know that sounds melodramatic, but seriously, every time I think it can’t get worse, it gets so much worse. I’m afraid Karl Rove is going to peel off his mask to reveal that he’s actually Cluthlu or something.
david baerwald @
30
Notice we reach this moment as 2 carrier fleets begin doing maneuvers in the Persian Gulf while Britain tries to negotiate the release of 15 captured sailors.
As close to a perfect storm as possible.
-GSD
P.S. Even in bloodest red Utah, the prospect of Darth Cheney giving the address at BYU is causing lots of people to speak up.
Terry Olson @
37
What the hell is THAT? Are those HEARTS???
AP – Senate Democrats said Tuesday the White House’s latest veto threat would not dissuade them from pushing ahead on legislation calling for combat troops to come home from Iraq within one year.
Well Dems… this is all fine and dandy. How about a cut-off of funding. Are you all goining to out-maneuvered by the GOP? Again.
From AP:
Hillary, if you think for one instant I have nowhere to go, you’re very wrong.
*xyz @
6
Yep.
Merciless @ 38: I know the feeling! Given that the percentage of an iceberg below the water (unseen) is much bigger than what is above the water (seen), and given what we already know what Bush and his minions have been doing and attempting to do, I wonder what would happen if that part below the waterline ever got exposed. It could perhaps make our country that much stronger, or it could crack the foundations to see how badly the system was manipulated.
merciless @ 39
These guys have always been upfront about their mission to shrink government- we just didn’t realize that they meant “destroy”! And I really, sincerely do think that’s exactly what theyare attempting. They want to bankrupt government both financially AND morally, to make govenment so foul and pernicious that no American in their right mind would turn to government as for succor or protection.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 42
OKK – there was a post about this from Digby that was quoted yesterday, using the example of how Dems ended the Vietnam war. Don’t have the link, but go back and take a look. It really gives a good perspective.
conniptionfit @ 41
When I worked security in a college, the Lt. of the dept. was a former US Sergeant Major. He ha such an odd signature I asked him about it.
He said it was common to devlop a very unusual signature in order to prevent it from being easily copied.
As to Goody Goodling, Heaven knows.
-GSD
What we are seeing is the degeneracy of the messaging system in the WH. They could possibly be in MORE trouble than they think because the more channels there are to pass information around, the more places those messages touch, the more people might have seen it, copied it, squirelled it away for a rainy day. What might have kept them in line, one WH email system, rigorously maintained, backed-up and archived, has now gotten out of their hands. And since these are the Bushies we are talking about, they’d be stupid not to create some insurance policies for themselves on backup drives.
BTW, didn’t the VP buy $140,000.00 worth of “furniture” and computers from MZM? What exactly did they purchase with that money? In most corporations, you can’t bring an unqualified computer into the building. It has to be imaged 5 ways to Sunday by the IT Nazis. There have to be records, invoices, asset tags. If there aren’t, that is quite a big deal. WH security could be badly compromised to the extreme.
Kevster @ 25
Shouldn’t this also cost him his security clearance?
From GSD:
Notice we reach this moment as 2 carrier fleets begin doing maneuvers in the Persian Gulf while Britain tries to negotiate the release of 15 captured sailors.
As close to a perfect storm as possible.
-GSD
Time to wag the dog
portia.vz @ 50
LOL at ‘IT Nazis’… all for a good reason Portia – I’m sure
As to the effectiveness of the much vaunted “surge”. It appears that, as Scott Ritter postulated a few years ago……..
The US appears to be squeezing Jell-O in Iraq.
Tal Afar was the city that General Petraeus was supposed to have pacified that led to his being lionized as a pioneer in the anti-surgency strategery.
-GSD
Terry Olson @
37
Infantile personality, seems to me.
portia- maybe we can get in to place a horses head where it might do the most good!
ok, bad idea.
BTW, didn’t the VP buy $140,000.00 worth of “furniture” and computers from MZM? What exactly did they purchase with that money?
Portia, I’m pretty sure MZM bought a boat with that money, which they gave to Duke Cunningham.
But I understand your point completely. And since the White House has made so many enemies, even within their own party, some of this correspondence is bound to surface sooner or later.
I want my tax dollars (and weapons) to cease flowing to the Israeli government, to Egypt or any other government in the Middle East.
Ive been listening to Thom Hartman and hes reading yet another report that the attack on Iran will happen on April 6th. This from the Russian source.
He takes it seriously but havent we heard this before?
GSD @
40
Yeah, that’s what got me on the edge of my seat. Given the range of crimes that have been committed, the only hope they’ve ever had is to stay in charge of the investigations. Now that theyre losing their hold, what in the hell do they do now? Nuke Iran? Fingers crossed, mood edgy.
Tol’ya! Bucket of live snakes.
conniptionfit @
41
It looks like it says “Snuggles”.
Terry Olson @
37
Yes, that *is* interesting. A backward slant, large looping letters and no first initial. Somewhere I read that depending on which initial is emphasized, your think your mother (first name) or father (surname) is stronger. Does Monica even have a mother? It suggest that her father was an authority figure and the backward slant indicates submissiveness. (I’m making up the submissiveness thing)
Man, you folks are really depressing me. Attack Iran on April the 6th? Now I will be thinking of that for the rest of the day….
What is Monica hiding in all those big round capital letters?
I sure wish Waxman had a reason to subpoena Alice Fisher. Wonder if she’d take the 5th?
portia.vz @ 49
I commented on this in an earlier thread — ALL Federal agencies go through the General Services Administration to buy furniture, and the VPs office should be no exception.
Also, that furniture should be listed in a physical inventory — which is supposed to be checked yearly to verify that said equipment is still in said office location. Only electronic equipment is tagged.
portia.vz @ 63
Without reading too much into the specifics of the signature, there is one inference that we might reasonably draw.
Monica is the kind of person who practiced her signature for hours as a young person – trying to get it *just right*.
She’s always wanted to be someone important.
Brisingamen @ 67
But is that inventory available to the public?
portia.vz @ 50
Wait a minute. What was that story, an ancient story now, about a spy (Filipino-American Marine, IIRC) in the Exec Office of the VP?
Didn’t the FBI drag computers out of the Veep’s lair? What the hell happened with that?
I want our tax dollars going to medical research, socialized health care, education, to the sick, the old and the poor and environmental clean-up and prevention of more global warming. Not to wars in Iraq or perhaps Iran or any other hostile purpose. Perhaps I am being too radical.
Kevster @ 52 and GSD
Doesn’t Pelosi, and all our Reps, need a concentrated effort of goosing to get that “Thou shalt not in Iran” clause back in, to stop the bastard.
I posted elsewhere but might have been EPUd —- doesn’t Mrs Pelosi look, just now, a bit like Marilyn on the grating but minus undies?
ROTFLMAO!
I just got around to clicking the link at the bottom of Janes post up top about Luddites.
GawDamn thats funny.
You are soooo wicked Jane.
I think the ‘perfect storm’ analogy is apt. There’s too much happening to keep track of!
Pretty soon we’ll be handing out assignments: “FDL, you take Abramoff, Plame and Walter Reed; Josh, you take DOJ and WH; Kos, you take Irag/Iran; Digby, you weave it all together into an understandable narrative…”
Good thing I don’t have a job right now!
merciless @ 39
I know exactly what you mean. And since I just watched the 1.5-hour video called “JFK II” visible on Google Video at http://tinyurl.com/3a7fzj , I’m getting a pretty good idea of what slimy things are in there. Even if only half of what JFK II alleges is true, our country is in mortal peril.
And I am not a conspiracy nut; I am just a semi-retired liberal, patriotic and scrupulously truthful scientist who consulted on the acoustics study that concluded there was a shooter on the famous “Grassy Knoll,” and who (in a different forensic acoustics case) helped prove that the 18.5′ gap in the Nixon WH tape was a deliberate and intentional erasure.
JFK II ties it all together for me. The roots converge on Prescott Bush, W’s grandpappy.
Attack Iran? With what troops? With what money? Loose change found under the cushions in the Oval Office couch?
Emma @ 66
Yes, that was my thought.
Why can’t Alice Fisher be brought forward to committee for testimony on how the Abramoff investigation has been proceeding/not proceeding?
Why can’t she be made to explain why there was such a revolving door and what she’s doing to make up for that fact?
She needs a session on the hot seat.
zeppo @ 64
no kidding. uch. I think the country would react negatively though.
OT-I’m getting pretty good at the abbreviations used but what is “*g*”?
Brisingamen @ 67
You mean the “General Services Administration” featured in the paper the other day for having been totally politicized to do things, like throw regional grand opening parties, to support “our [GOP] candidates”?
That GSA?
Solai @ 79
“grin”
conniptionfit @ 68
Hmm, I would think that it would have to be but I’m not sure who you’d ask to get it. I suspect invoking FOIA might do the trick, since GSA does have to keep records of what was purchased.
There is only one way to win a war with Iran. That’s with nuclear bombs and missiles.
Thank you.
Mrs. K8 @
80
Yep, that’s the one. I’m sure it’s all just a big misunderstanding.
GSD @
40
More details by way of Raw Story:
Cheney speech at BYU causes outcry
conniptionfit @ 41
Ducks! Oh no Shooter loading his gun!
RagingGurrl @ 76
Just airplanes screaming off thoise decks, and tyhe big uys coming in from Diego Garcia, no boots on the ground, so meaningless, designbed just inflame the Iranians. The Goons just do not know how big Iran and how strong. The response wuill be that they in turn flatten the oil installations on the other side of the Gulf, from the top — kuwait, the Sa’udi fields, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman. Watch this economy collapse……
The feeling in this house is if we start lobbing nuclear bombs and missiles into Iran, that will percipate a world war.
This is the WH Filipino spy case and it talks about e-mail! I just scanned it briefly, check it out!
http://pcij.org/blog/wp-docs/aragcomplaint0912.pdf
Meet Jeff Taylor, interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Please note, a Catch and Release policy is in effect for all area Republicans. Because it’s O.K…
All those U.S. Navy boats in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran are nuclear armed.
Solai @ 84
You are most welcome. I like it when folks aren’t too timid to ask what they don’t know. You most likely represent a dozen other lurkers who didn’t want to ask.
W: “Fire!”
Joint Chiefs: “We’re sorry George, we can’t do that.”
W: “Secret Service Agent Bootlick! Arrest those men!”
Joint Chiefs: “Sir, you clearly have become mentally incapacitated. We are placing you under protective custody, along with the Vice President and Agent Bootlick.”
[/fantasy]
Oklahoma kiddo @ 89
I totally agree. There are many, many things that this adminstration has shown it has no talent for, and one of them is looking beyond the immediate. They have no clue as to what terrible things could come of an unprovoked attack against Iran. And they haven’t even learned the very recent lesson from Iraq that they suck at predicting the future.
I am sure hoping we don’t go down this road.
We ( the U.S.) have a right to that Persian and Iraqi oil.
Mrs. K8 @ 79
Got it in one — GSA works out the contract details on leasing/purchasing office space, equipment and furniture, as well as running the buildings the Government actually owns. They also negotiate travel rates (hotels, transportation) and set per diem rates.
One of the people on my train this morning was saying that ‘other countries are developing their oil reserves, so we’ll be less dependent on Middle East oil’. I didn’t bother to argue the point: he’s a Faux News low-information voter. (I wanted to ask what countries he was talking about, and how big those reserves are.)
RagingGurrl @ 76
This one will be fought with the navy and air force, since there’s not much army left.
Reports have it that the air force brass are all for it (they’re the only ones who are); they’ve felt left out of the current war.
There’s a debate going on over at kos right now; apparently the Russian journalist who said he got confirmation that April 6 is the big date is not a fellow to be believed. But it’s still enough to make you go hmmmmm….
Brisingamen @ 82
Actually, I think Waxman is already on this case. See this post at TPM. It looks like Josh Bolten has until next friday to produce the documents in question. Don’t you hate it when you have to go looking for lost paperwork?
Yet another new offering from Jane. She’s on a roll.
Oklahoma kiddo
I. Look at a map and see how big Iran is. It would take an amount of nuclear bombs to “win” in Iran sufficient to destroy the world. II. Is it a win if the conquered territory is unihabotable? We could not get the oil out of Iran, nor Kuwait, nor Iraq, nor Sa’udi etc since it is but a spit across the Gulf.
III. Oh, attack another country which has not harmed this country’s territory???? You are a Bush supporter, or just someone who wants us to go on fighting Israel’s desirews by proxy?
McCain up in the Senate LYING!!
no kidding. uch. I think the country would react negatively though.
Maybe, but when that occurs the rest of the world will be throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the United States. This will not be good on so many levels.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 86
I thought the generals were opposed to bomb, bomb, bomb, bombbomb Iran. (Jeez, I never thought we’d hear that song again.)
[Mod note: please out of mercy to the mods, don’t requote more than twice. Thanks]
If the WH’s IT department is like my company’s, they do inventory of computers about every two months, and sometimes more often (annoying a fair number of the users, I guarantee).
I thought the generals were opposed to bomb, bomb, bomb, bombbomb Iran. (Jeez, I never thought we’d hear that song again.)
Portia –
Thanks for making me laugh out loud. What with all the distressing news, I needed that.
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 91
Oh my god, is there anything congress can do?
tbsa @ 103
I really, really, really don’t like living in a rogue nation.
Bustednuckles @ 7
If there are no comments when you load the page, and you only post comments or press “Refresh Comments” (and don’t reload the page), the first comment will be zero, whether yours is the first one or not.
Brisingamen @
67
Don’t be silly…the rules are just for the little people.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 83
Win? Oh I don’t think so.
What do we do when they fight back? Attack our troops in Iraq? Where do we find the troops to fight this new war and where do we find the money?
Is anyone going to think this through or are we just going to walk off the cliff.
Maunga,
OK is being facetious.
-GSD
Iran? April 6th?!!
Good Friday???
Brisingamen @ 113
Yup.
That’s the kicker, ain’t it?
You’d have to think that even THIS pope would have something to say about that.
Brisingamen @ 113
It will be good for some people. But not for the American men and women serving in our military.
Brisingamen @ 113
Ok, this is just weird. My brother the fundamentalist whacko Army reservist has not gotten shipped off to Iraq yet. I have no idea why. He’s got two MOSs. The rest of his unit has gone but not him. I’m just wondering if the army is holding back for some special purpose and they only want the crazy soldiers that want to do the lord’s work.
Well, I’m Pagan (Church of All Worlds).
Oh good ghods — the penny just dropped. Of course they want to do it on Good Friday.
Those idiots WANT Armageddon…and they think this will be the kickoff.
(Goddess, please let me be wrong on this.)
RagingGurrl @ 111
What fighting back? If someone drops a bomb on you, you spend your time trying to overcome the shock, dealing with the survivors and putting your cities back into some serviceable order. Retaliation will consist of the mobilization of your religious brotherhood in every other country of the world taking revenge on your behalf.
Ok, this is what we know will be the result of any foolish move on Cheney’s part to bomb Iran. We will become instant targets of terrorism. Any time an american has to travel overseas, he/she will be an instant target for islamic terrorism. I have a business trip to France in June and I am not looking forward to being an walking bullseye.
Jim Webb on the floor of the senate now demanding legislation forbidding attacks on Iran without explicit congressional approval.
GO JIM GO!!!
Apparently, Jim Webb’s speaking of an amendment (his) to the current bill.
I came in the middle of it and heard him speak of “attack on Iran” being forbidden.
portia.vz @
118
What fighting back? If someone drops a bomb on you, you spend your time trying to overcome the shock, dealing with the survivors and putting your cities back into some serviceable order. Retaliation will consist of the mobilization of your religious brotherhood in every other country of the world taking revenge on your behalf.
Ok, this is what we know will be the result of any foolish move on Cheney’s part to bomb Iran. We will become instant targets of terrorism. Any time an american has to travel overseas, he/she will be an instant target for islamic terrorism. I have a business trip to France in June and I am not looking forward to being an walking bullseye.
.
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You believe no Iranians will fight back? Really?
But WH staffers don’t need to be under oath or have a transcript of their testimony, oh NO….
On thread, is there any way Waxman and Congress can empanel new investigative committees, or grand juries, to get to the bottom of each of these myriad issues? We have a full plate of corruption before us, it’s a ten-course meal, with Impeachment for desert, but Waxman’s the only chef in the kitchen.
Can Congress separate these duties down to smaller, issue-dedicated investigations that can EACH hold subpoena powers through Waxman’s committee?
Seems to me we need to re-instate the “Special Prosecutor” position, particularly when dealing with the DOJ.
Here’s something from to that effect from NYTimes Op-Ed Contributor NEAL KATYAL
“IN 1999, when the Independent Counsel Act (the law that gave Kenneth Starr and Lawrence Walsh their mandates) was expiring, I was given the job of writing the new Justice Department rules for the appointment of a special prosecutor since the department would once again be responsible for overseeing such investigations. There was one hypothetical to worry about once the Independent Counsel Act lapsed: a case in which the attorney general…(is)…suspected of possible misconduct. The rules were therefore written to vest the decision about whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the top Justice Department official not embroiled in the controversy. Today, the only way to get to the bottom of the United States attorney scandal — which involved the administration’s firing of nearly 10 percent of America’s top prosecutors — is to use these rules and appoint a special prosecutor.
The nightmare has now come true.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03…..atyal.html
They don’t want it on Good Friday. They want it on my BIRTHDAY! They want to ruin my favorite celebration for all eternity.
Bastards.
RagingGurrl @
121
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You believe no Iranians will fight back? Really?
It’s sort of like the run up to the Iraq war. Sure, they will eventually fight back. But it’s not like they are going to be able to invade us. The fighting will happen over there in Iraq-Iran. The terrorists, OTOH, will be all over the place and more motivated than ever. I think we should expect to see a lot of attacks in the US and whereever there are concentrations of Americans around the globe. We’ll be trapped in our own country.
Because Native American tribes are the only US entity that have no legal limit on the total amount of money they can donate to political campaigns. (They must still follow donation limits for individual candidates and campaigns, but they have no limits on the total amount over all individuals.)
signature @37
According to my graphology book, Handwriting Analysis”……
“Overinflated upper loops
inticates delusional thinking, not in line with reality”
And this,
“Widely inflated or swollen upper loops are a sign of overcompensation for feelings of intellectual inferiority and an emotional need for constant reassurance. the bloated upper zone writer resorts to exaggeration and boastfulness to compensate for his/her low self opinion. His/Her boasts, of course are based on fantasy.”
I’ll see what I can find on those strange heart things in the signature
FishGuyDave @ 27
Sure, but at this point, any losing the data is almost as bad as letting us see it. It’ll be really suspicious if all the servers are suddenly wiped and there’s no backups. Esp’ly after Waxman has asked about ‘em. I’d almost love to see them pull that. As good as admitting guilt. Esp’ly cause the files will then turn up somewhere else …
Glad to see that the Washington post picked up on this. When I wrote Jack Abramoff is this generation’s Alexander Butterfield the only one carrying the story was the Financial Times of London.
Visit the Schapira blog, What we know so far …
“… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!”
maunga @
88
This just reminded me of the burning oil wells during Gulf War I and it made me think that maybe it wasn’t Saddam who burned them. After all, isn’t it the Bush policy to cut back on oil supply to keep the price up?
Mrs. K8 @
81
Mrs. K8: On behalf of many of us net neophytes Thank you.