Did you know that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is a liar who misled Congress about an important law enforcement and civil liberties issue? Excerpt from the WaPo account today:
As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005.Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or procedural violations that Gonzales received in the three months before he made his statement to the Senate intelligence committee, according to internal FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has said he was unaware of violations in the FBI's use of national security letters ¿ until an internal Justice Department report uncovered them in March 2007. But Gonzales was routinely sent notifications from the FBI when such violations occurred and had to be reported to the president's Intelligence Oversight Board. Look at excerpts from one of the notifications, sent on Dec. 11, 2006.
The acts recounted in the FBI reports included unauthorized surveillance, an illegal property search and a case in which an Internet firm improperly turned over a compact disc with data that the FBI was not entitled to collect, the documents show. Gonzales was copied on each report that said administrative rules or laws protecting civil liberties and privacy had been violated.
And yet, the President expects to run a Department of Justice with a man in charge whose only defense against intentionally lying to Congress is that he is as thick as a stump.
Meanwhile, it seems that the Republican US Senator from my home state of Louisiana is not the fine, upstanding Christian fambly man that he would have had people believe.
A God-fearing Republican Senator has apologised for "a very serious sin" after becoming the first member of the US Congress to be discovered on the telephone records of the woman dubbed DC Madam, who is alleged to have run one of Washington's biggest prostitution rings.Senator David Vitter, a married father of four who represents Louisiana, issued a statement saying he had "asked for and received forgiveness from God" after his telephone number appeared among those associated with the service of Pamela Martin and Associates.
The company's proprietor, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 51, is currently facing federal charges of racketeering for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of homes and hotel rooms in the Washington area, which is believed to have netted her more than $2 million over 13 years from 1993.
“This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible,” Mr Vitter said, in the statement issued to the Associated Press news agency today. “Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counselling.
Well, we do believe in forgiveness, and it's not my place to judge Sen. Vitter's soul. But it is my place as a citizen and a voter to judge his public character. And Al Gonzales's. The comeuppance due the GOP is a-comin'.
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At the New Orleans brothel, Maier said Vitter spent time with several women, but preferred one in particular named Wendy. She said all the girls that were with Vitter described him as a kind, respectful man, who did not talk down to them or use drugs.
"I'm not out to ruin a marriage, I'm out to save a man," Maier said. "I want his wife to know he's a good man, I want his children to know he's a good father. If he had sex out of wedlock, so what? At least he stayed with his children."
What does it say about America that our brothel owners are usually classier and more honest than our politicians?
Ah the immoral joy of David Vitter's own words come back to push him off his moral high horse.
When you're living in a glass house ...
Just out of curiosity, how many conservative politicians HAVE been able to ride out sexual scandal?
Bob Baumann? Nope. Robert Livingstone? Uh uh. Contrary to assertions I've seen here, most conservatives tainted by sex scandals are history in politics.
Personally, I think Vitter and people like him would do well to emulate John Profumo: leave politics immediately, and spend the rest of their lives quietly doing charitable work to earn back their reputations.
But I won't hold my breath.
SONG OF DEBORAH
..they chose new gods then was war in the gates.. awake awake deborah utter a song.. the Lord gave you dominion over the mighty.. curse you bitterly the inhabitants thereof who came not to the help of justice against the mighty.. they divided the prey, to every man a damsel or two.. let all thine enemies perish o Lord and the land rest forty years..
Deborah palfrey deserves the Pemberton Award for Clean Governance.
Palfrey list is like the Black Book of 1918.
That trial of the Century is deleted from all books, cursed be reporters.
The list there had 47000 names.
The list here has 46000 phone bills.
The listed are not womenizers, machos or ordinary sinners.
They are power brokers gay lutheran shock and awe agitators of all wars and all panics.
These wretches are one dirty cover to the real pimps deep underground.
A curse on the kingpins, Justice Charles Darling then and Judge Adolph Kessler now.
Noel Pemberton-Billing
Trial of the Century 1918
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