Schuylaar's Sesh - Bowe Bergdahl

Red1966

Red1966

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schuylaar said:
  1. Michael A. Battle Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys in the Justice Department.[56]
  2. Bradley Schlozman Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys who replaced Battle[57]
  3. Michael Elston Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty[58]
  4. Paul McNulty Deputy Attorney General to William Mercer[59]
  5. William W. Mercer Associate Attorney General to Alberto Gonzales[60]
  6. Kyle Sampson Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales[56]
  7. Alberto Gonzales Attorney General of the United States[61]
  8. Monica Goodling Liaison between President Bush and the Justice Department[62]
  9. Joshua Bolten Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bush was found in Contempt of Congress[63]
  10. Sara M. Taylor Aide to Presidential Advisor Karl Rove[64]
  11. Karl Rove Advisor to President Bush[65]
  12. Harriet Miers Legal Counsel to President Bush, was found in Contempt of Congress[63]
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Red1966

Red1966

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schuylaar said:
  • Bush White House e-mail controversy – During the Lawyergate investigation it was discovered that the Bush administration used Republican National Committee (RNC) web servers for millions of emails which were then destroyed, lost or deleted in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Andrew Card, Sara Taylor and Scott Jennings all used RNC webservers for the majority of their emails. Of 88 officials investigated, 51 showed no emails at all.[66] As many as 5 million e-mails requested by Congressional investigators were therefore unavailable, lost, or deleted.[67]
  • Lurita Alexis Doan Resigned as head of the General Services Administration. She was under scrutiny for conflict of interest and violations of the Hatch Act.[68] Among other things she asked GSA employees how they could "help Republican candidates".[69]
  • John Korsmo chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board pled guilty to lying to congress and sentenced to 18 months of unsupervised probation and fined $5,000. (2005)[70]
  • Darleen A. Druyun was Principal Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force nominated by George W. Bush.[71] She pled guilty to inflating the price of contracts to favor her future employer, Boeing. In October 2004, she was sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption, fined $5,000, given three years of supervised release and 150 hours of community service. She began her prison term on January 5, 2005.[72] CBS News called it "the biggest Pentagon scandal in 20 years" and said that she pleaded guilty to a felony.[73]
  • Philip Cooney Bush appointee to chair the Council on Environmental Quality was accused of editing government climate reports to emphasize doubts about global warming.[74] Two days later, Cooney announced his resignation[75] and later conceded his role in altering reports. Stating "My sole loyalty was to the President and advancing the policies of his administration," .[76][77]
  • Jack Abramoff Scandal in which the prominent lobbyist with close ties to Republican administration officials and legislators offered bribes as part of his lobbying efforts. Abramoff was sentenced to 4 years in prison.[78][79] See Legislative scandals.
  1. David Safavian GSA (General Services Administration) Chief of Staff,[80] found guilty of blocking justice and lying,[81] and sentenced to 18 months[82]
  2. Roger Stillwell Staff in the Department of the Interior under President George W. Bush (R). Pleaded guilty and received two years suspended sentence. [36]
  3. Susan B. Ralston Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Karl Rove, resigned October 6, 2006, after it became known that she accepted gifts and passed information to her former boss Jack Abramoff.[83]
  4. J. Steven Griles former Deputy to the Secretary of the Interior pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 10 months.[84]
  5. Italia Federici staff to the Secretary of Interior, and President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, pled guilty to tax evasion and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to four years probation.[85][86][87]
  6. Jared Carpenter Vice-President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, was discovered during the Abramoff investigation and pled guilty to income tax evasion. He got 45 days, plus 4 years probation.[88]
  7. Mark Zachares staff in the Department of Labor, bribed by Abramoff, guilty of conspiracy to defraud.[79]
  8. Robert E. Coughlin Deputy Chief of Staff, Criminal Division of the Justice Department pleaded guilty to conflict of interest after accepting bribes from Jack Abramoff. (2008)[89]
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Red1966

Red1966

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schuylaar said:
  • Kyle Foggo Executive director of the CIA was convicted of honest services fraud in the awarding of a government contract and sentenced to 37 months in federal prison at Pine Knot, Kentucky. On September 29, 2008, Foggo pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment, admitting that while he was the CIA executive director, he acted to steer a CIA contract to the firm of his lifelong friend, Brent R. Wilkes.[90]
  • Julie MacDonald Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, resigned May 1, 2007, after giving government documents to developers (2007)[91]
  • Claude Allen Appointed as an advisor by President George W. Bush (R) on Domestic Policy, Allen was arrested for a series of felony thefts in retail stores. He was convicted on one count and resigned soon after.[92]
  • Lester Crawford Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, resigned after 2 months. Pled guilty to conflict of interest and received 3 years suspended sentence and fined $90,000 (2006)[93]
  • 2003 Invasion of Iraq depended on intelligence that Saddam Hussein was developing "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) meaning nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons for offensive use. As revealed by The (British) Downing Street memo "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy" The press called this the 'smoking gun."(2005)[94]
  • Yellowcake forgery: Just before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration presented evidence to the UN that Iraq was seeking material (yellowcake uranium) in Africa for making nuclear weapons. Though presented as true, it was later found to be not only dubious, but outright false.[95]
  • Coalition Provisional Authority Cash Payment Scandal: On June 20, 2005, the staff of the Committee on Government Reform prepared a report for Congressman Henry Waxman.[96] It was revealed that $12 billion in cash had been delivered to Iraq by C-130 planes, on shrinkwrapped pallets of US $100 bills.[97] The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, concluded that "Many of the funds appear to have been lost to corruption and waste.... Some of the funds could have enriched both criminals and insurgents...." Henry Waxman, commented, "Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?" A single flight to Iraq on December 12, 2003, which contained $1.5 billion in cash is said to be the largest single Federal Reserve payout in US history according to Henry Waxman.[98][99]
  • Bush administration payment of columnists with federal funds to say nice things about Republican policies. Illegal payments were made to journalists Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus (2004–2005)[100]
  • Bernard Kerik nomination in 2004 as Secretary of Homeland Security was derailed by past employment of an illegal alien as a nanny, and other improprieties. On Nov 4, 2009, he pled guilty to two counts of tax fraud and five counts of lying to the federal government and was sentenced to four years in prison.[101]
  • Plame affair (2004), in which CIA agent Valerie Plame's name was supposedly leaked by Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, to the press in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the reports used by George W. Bush to legitimize the Iraq war.[102] Armitage admitted he was the leak[103] but no wrongdoing was found.
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Red1966

Red1966

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schuylaar said:
how about a "no confidence" vote for the republican congress who hold the american people hostage while stuffing their pockets with cash from special interest groups?
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how about a "no confidence" vote for the democrat senate who hold the american people hostage while stuffing their pockets with cash from special interest groups?
 
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schuylaar

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Red1966 said:
how about a "no confidence" vote for the democrat senate who hold the american people hostage while stuffing their pockets with cash from special interest groups?
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best thing you've ever said.

i agree. get rid of the special interests and lobby.

campaign online. town to town is a waste of money.

take the money out of politics!
 
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