Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin has the story (overlooked by most of the media, even though it would have been a top banner headline had it been the Clinton White House, of course):
The federal charges against David Safavian stem from his tenure as chief of staff of the General Services Administration, predating his arrival at the White House a year ago. But his arrest nonetheless draws renewed attention to the ongoing corruption and influence-peddling inquiry swirling around [Jack] Abramoff, a lobbyist well known for his connections to conservative Republicans in the White House and Congress.
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And for a White House so desperate to build public confidence in its ability to respond to the Gulf Coast disaster, it doesn’t exactly help that the man who up until Friday was overseeing contracting policy for the multi-billion dollar relief effort has now been charged with lying and obstructing a criminal investigation.
And in the expected (by now) bit of further troubling irony from this bunch:
Of course, had you read RAW STORY at the beginning of September, you would have known all about Mr. Safavian and his dirty links to Abramoff and Friends.
I am shocked that this isn’t headline news. But I am glad they are actually arresting people.
Hey Karl Rove your ass is next and then later after the clean out or how about simultaneously……TOM CROOKED DELAY GOES TO WASHINGTON PRISON!
Then at the end of the road somewhere we arrest the traitor Cheney, throw Bush in the chink and clean out all of congress…..Arrest every congressman who betrayed the constitution.
EVERY SINGLE LIAR, who has covered for B* is responsible. They must all be arrested. No american should be satisfied until EVERY LAST ONE is locked up and we force them to be put at the Hague/incarcerated.
Doug
When does fitzgerald’s grand jury wrap up?
Doug,
I sure hope you are right… after reading all the dirt that Brad has dug up the past year, I have become very chagrined and overwhelmed about the evils of this government.
But if you are right, it will (re)instill a small modicum of hope and faith in our government within me.
Fantastic! Inertia has commenced and it’s just a matter of time before the rest of the cookie crumbles. (Hopefully)
Not a bit surprising the MSM has failed us again. We should publish an ongoing list of all the Bush administration “officials” as they are arrested. Even though Safavian is small potatoes, it’s an important start.
Has Abramoff already been arrested?
We need to clean out the whole pus place. I look forward to the day they are all in prison. Then, and only then, will our nation be able to recover from this plague on our land.
Jack "Hack" Neocon Abramoff was already arrested twice and freed on 2.5 million dollar bond.
He is required to have mental therapy and never travel outside the US. I think the Feds will lock him up finally and say STFU to Gonzales.
Doug E.
Thanks Doug. I’d heard he’d been indicted, but I never heard he was arrested, and arrested twice no less. What a wonderful embarrassment!
When’s the rest of the Sugar Land bunch going up the river?
#6 Totally agree…but the most we can hope for with this dirty group is they back off a little.
Doubt it tho, Rove thinks he is beyond the law. He made a phone call to Texas Secretary of State because a state lawyer answered a question about Rove’s right to vote in Texas. Had her fired.
The Secretary of State had raised 100,000 for Bush.
Oh this was when New Orleans was flooding.
I’m telling you they are in each other’s pocket far and wide. It is like an infection and penicillin won’t be strong enough.
Jeff J: Let’s hope the entire bunch of them go up the river soon, we can speed it along by forcing the Justice Department to open up more corruption probes.
Like open up a probe immediately into Bob Ney’s dealings with other legislatures.
You can reach the DOJ (and go past Gonzales) by mailing them here
AskDOJ@usadoj.gov
You know the only way we’re going to get rid of all the scum lawbreakers is by forcing the government to hold them accountable. Oh and then the only way we’ll get rid of Cheney(and *Bush) is by standing with Fitzgerald and calling for universal impeachment.
The rules and laws of the Constitution
A sitting president can not pardon himself if the Senate has brought impeachment, and we know the congress is equally corrupt so it must be cleaned out and impeached as well.
In addition to this fact Rove can be charged with Voter fraud if two or more residents in Kerry County, Texas file an abridged lawsuit. Find some people in Kerr County immediately and start a fight against Rove, apparently Rove is afraid of this. It could get him evicted from Texas alltogether and spending about 5 days in jail, before the real accountability comes.
VINCENT A.
Correction: You can email the US DOJ here
AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
I mis-typed the last one. And its Kerr County TX, not Kerry County, sorry.
VINCENT
Vincent,
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In addition to this fact Rove can be charged with Voter fraud if two or more residents in Kerry County, Texas file an abridged lawsuit. Find some people in Kerr County immediately and start a fight against Rove, apparently Rove is afraid of this. It could get him evicted from Texas alltogether and spending about 5 days in jail, before the real accountability comes.
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HUH???
I just did a quick study of that area… Kerr County, Texas…. what’s going on there???
It appears to be a sleepy, rural southcentral Texas County outside of San Antonio. It appears to be farm country.
Did I miss something?
What connection does KKKarl have with that area?
Mrbluesky – some reporter started checking out Rove’s residency here in Texas. Well he and his wife own a couple of cabins in this VERY small village. Even the townspeople said they had never seen Rove there and they would have known about it being so little. I believe it was about claiming Homestead exemption for two residences that started it all. Washington and Texas … Buzzflash can give you more details.
Anyway, not a big deal, but Rove called the Secretary of State (a friend) who fired the lady state lawyer. During the week of Katrina crisis.
Vincent – probably not enough citizens in Kerr County who care to file a complaint. Talk about Louisiana being corrupt…
One piece of good news – Times/CBS conducted a Poll majority of Republicans stated they would disapprove by 80% of a hike in taxes to pay for Iraq and Katrina and 55% disapprove of eliminating the recent tax cuts Bush gave them .
Boy you start reaching into the Republican’s pockets and hear them scream. Don’t care about losing our soldiers but watch out if it costs them money.
Vincent:
Yeah, Ney is certainly dirty. I found his rap sheet at the following:
http://www.ourfuture.org/issues...y/rapsheet.cfm
Some samples:
-Ney used the power of his office to help a Washington lobbyist buy a casino company in Florida. Shortly after the deal fell through, the company’s owner was killed in what police describe as a professional hit.
-After a Texas Indian tribe gave Ney tens of thousands of dollars in contributions and helped send him on a luxury golfing trip to Scotland, he assisted them in their attempts to open a casino. Washington super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid for a luxury golfing vacation to Scotland in exchange for Ney’s sponsorship of a bill that would re-open Native American casinos. Unfortunately for the Tiguas, the bill failed in the Senate, leaving the tribe tens of thousands of dollars poorer.
-Ney championed a bill in 2003 that would have protected predatory lenders in spite of the fact that foreclosures in his district have doubled since 1998.
What did you mean about Ney’s “dealings with other legislatures”?
Wish I lived in Kerr County, Texas, or knew of some folks there.
Jeff J.
Jeez… whenever Bush apologists are faced with such revelations, they immediately accuse Democrats of the same acts.
Notice though… they aren’t even trying to deny or excuse their behavior!
Safavian collected $720,000 from the Choctaw in 1999, and $920,000 from the tribe in 2000.
snippets–
The man George W. Bush appointed to administer $200 billion worth of federal procurement is a lobbyist.
David Safavian was a member of the now infamous lobbying team lead by Jack Abramoff while they were both with the Washington, DC influence-peddling shop, Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds.
A query of the online Senate records returns data showing Safavian collected $720,000 from the Choctaw in 1999, and $920,000 from the tribe in 2000. Much of the lobbying involved the Interior Department, which has oversight of Indian affairs.
Reports coming out of New Orleans are citing extensive equipment failures—from water pumps to communications networks—and extensive supply shortages—from sandbags to helicopters—as a leading factor in the dismal performance by authorities that contributed so heavily to the awful suffering and loss of life.
The federal government purchases over $200 billion worth of stuff every year, and people died for lack of sand bags and functioning water pumps?
Primary oversight of the purchasing apparatus responsible for buying an adequate amount of the right supplies in preparation for the worst eventualities rests with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy for the executive branch’s Office of Management and Budget.
The Federal Procurement Policy Administrator in that office is, arguably, the single individual with the greatest direct influence over how, on what, and with whom our $200+ billion is spent every year.
———————
Bob Ney had lots of shady dealings with Tom Delay…..
We should do a massive mail-campaign to the DOJ and tell them to formally investigate Bob Ney/Tom Delay and the corrupt casino mob-hit squads.
By the way……THERE MUST BE SOMEONE, IN KERR COUNTY TEXAS WHO WILL FILE A COMPLAINT.
Not everybody there can be so asleep…..people need to search around and see who can do it, after all "Texas" is about to be hit by a Hurricaine. It would do someone very good to get their revenge on "disaster strikes everywhere" Rove….
Doug E.
OT, but just saw that Reid will vote against Roberts.
Here are two links from "rightweb". This is a great resource, so check it out for much, much more on NEOCONS.
John Roberts
snip–
As Ed Whelan, president of the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, commented regarding the release in mid-August of some 5,000 documents from Roberts’ four years as assistant council in the Reagan White House: “Those who try to paint Judge Roberts as a squishy moderate will not find any supporting evidence in these documents.” —–
Federalist Society
Anyone suppose these guys are sacrificial lambs? I mean come on, the guy is arrested for lying.
Hey, the liar in chief does that daily on a massive scale … so the little liar gets hit?
Gonzales is obviouly behind the scenes protecting his benefactor’s ass.
Hey the prez gets what we pay for …
Re: #17 BTW…there is a Preston Gates law firm, Seattle, the Gates is William Gates, father of Bill Gates, father of Microsoft.
VALLEY GIRL, RE:19
(cleaned up) Rude Pundit said:
Here’s a line from the bizarro Senate confirmation hearings
of Roberts that got little play. When Russ Feingold was asking Roberts about a
potential conflict of interest in Roberts being interviewed to be nominated to
the Supreme Court while he was judging the Hamdan
v. Rumsfeld appeal on the Bush administration’s rights of detention, Feingold
said, "You had further interviews on May 3rd concerning a
possible appointment to the court with numerous White House officials,
including Karl Rove, the vice president and the White House counsel before the
decision in the Hamdan case was released." Which leads to an inevitable
question about Roberts, the "stealth" candidate:
Is there anyone, Democrat or Republican, who thinks that Roberts got out of
interviews with Rove and Cheney without them knowing exactly how he would rule
on every issue that might come up, from Roe v. Wade to enemy combatant
cases? Rove and Cheney may be "masterful" politicians, but, to be
sure, they are not subtle men. The fact that Rove even interviewed Roberts
means that the political operation was under way.
*You can read the text of John Roberts hearing re:
above at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world...278643,00.html
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