Obama to Restart Terror Tribunals for Guantanamo Bay Detainees - This after he decried President Bush's use of them...
Obama Moves to Bar Release of Detainee Abuse Photos - This after he previously said he would not oppose the release - Now he has the ACLU pissed at him!
Saying his administration will be "looking forward," Barack Obama suggested he won't pursue criminal charges against national security officials accused of committing crimes in President Bush's war on terror.
Then President Barack Obama left the door open to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations, saying the United States lost "our moral bearings" with use of the tactics.
Pelosi first accuses the Bush Administration of torture and abuse... and supports prosecution of advisers who wrote legal memos validating the abuse... Now it turns out she knew about it all the time, and never objected until now! Looks like the spider got caught in her own little trap! With any luck this scandal will bring her down, or at least force her to vacate the leadership role in the House!
Dick Durbin... the guy that compared our troops to the Nazis, Pol Pot, and Stalin in one sentence on the floor of the Senate.
In remarks first expressed on the Senate floor late Tuesday and then re-read verbatim on Thursday evening, Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, read the report of an FBI agent who described treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
One knowledgeable official familiar with the memo cited by Durbin as well as other memos said the FBI agent made no such allegation. Now the possibility arises that he fabricated most of the "FBI memo" he quoted in his now-infamous Senate speech.
Barney Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. Frank was and remains a stalwart defender of Fannie Mae, which is now under FBI investigation along with its sister organization Freddie Mac, American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) – all recently participants in government bailouts. But Frank has derailed efforts to regulate the institution, as well as denying it posed any financial risk.
Frank served on the House Banking Committee for 10 years. The committee is the primary House body which along with the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) has jurisdiction over the government-sponsored enterprises.
"If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district." -Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) Known for directing earmarks to companies and institutions run by family members, his questionable ethics are public knowledge to the extent that he doesn't even bother trying to cover them up.
Murtha is a crook, and if the House Democrats were really serious about fighting corruption, they would have expelled him from the caucus when the first definitive corruption stories broke. The fact that he is continuing to use his position to benefit family is disgraceful, but more disgraceful is that he is getting away with it.
He is a symbol of the greed and waste of the old boy's network Washington that Obama promised to take down... which brings us back to Obama campaign promises!
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