DOJ official: House ethics committee is broken.
By on Feb 25th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
DOJ official: House ethics committee is broken.
“The Justice Department has a message for Congress: clean up your house or else we may have to do it for you. A senior federal law enforcement official told TIME that the paralyzed and often lax House ethics committee has created a vacuum that prosecutors won’t hesitate to fill. The House’s internal mechanism for keeping corruption in check is ‘broken,’ says the official.”
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I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Are we saying we want Alberto Gonzales, Mr. Rubber Stamp Republican himself cleaning up Congress?
The DOJ answers to Bush.
This sounds to me like the Executive Branch of the Government waging war on the Legislative Branch of the Government.
February 25th, 2006 at 4:27 pmWell duh! Incase you havent noticed the Executive branch has declared war on everythng and everybody except big business foreign and domestic. Mostly domestic gets the shaft. Any one want to hold hands and strole through the crawford cowards pig farm this week.????????Blessings
February 25th, 2006 at 4:41 pm1 & 2 It looks like a way for the Excutive Brank to take over both Houses. Remember on gwbush was annointed by God to run Amerika into the ground!
February 25th, 2006 at 4:47 pmThere’s nothing wrong with ethics mechanisms. Everyone knows how it works.
The problem is people who don’t SPEAK UP when they see unethical behavior.
Take away their lobby money. It’s the only solution. Hang ‘em if they break the law. It’s no different than the justice they’d get cheating at a poker table.
February 25th, 2006 at 4:51 pmWho would they ge after first – Tom Delay or John Murtha?
February 25th, 2006 at 4:51 pmActually, I’ve figured it out – they(DOJ) are going after all those in the legislative branch who are flaunting International Treaties by voiding the Ports Deal. Shame on you Congress for even considering the reduction of other nations’ respect for America! Traitors.
February 25th, 2006 at 5:15 pmCan’t find the DOJ officials name anywhere???!!!
February 25th, 2006 at 5:55 pmThere is another House that needs a sweeping too…
#7 – Howdy Neighbor,
February 25th, 2006 at 6:06 pmThis is a trial balloon that has been raised in order to say that trials may be soon in order if the House does not police itself. The “senior Justice Dept. Official” was asked to leak a position to the press in order to give the House “Ethics” Committee an opportunity to get its collective a$$ back in gear.
They better fix this ASAP, without any DeLay.
February 25th, 2006 at 6:25 pmdoesn’t a thing need to exist before it can break?
February 25th, 2006 at 8:54 pmhmmmm…
The “I” word is being bantered about more and more. Rep. Conyers has introduced a bill calling for a committee to investigate whether “high crimes and misdemeanors” have been committed. Over two dozen representatives have signed on. And now the Executive Branch is going to step in and begin investigating the ethics of members of the House of Representatives?
Remember, “You’re either with us or with the terrorists…..”
February 25th, 2006 at 9:10 pmOn what authority does the DOJ base it’s suggestion ? I wasn’t aware that they had that sort of ability. Does anyone know what this might be based on ? Or is it just Bushco making stuff up as they go along, hoping no one will catch on ?
February 25th, 2006 at 11:34 pmSsssshhhhhh! Be vewwy qwiet!
Congress is not aware they are planning to take over the Congress through not-so-stealth techniques! First – blackmail; then, if that doesn’t work, Gonzales will take over the investigation of their ETHICS!
You know something! The Administration, and the Congress think that they will spin it back around! HA! I have never seen the general populace so angry at the Republican administration as they are at this moment, and believe me, we are not going to forget about it. They are in for a big, big surprise at the results of the next election. That is if we can vote, after these fools get finished with their dirty work through every means that exists through the election supervisers, and don’t forget to watch your Secretaries of State. If you don’t think they are instrumental in the election results, how do you think Katherine Harris received her chance to run for the House, and actually thinks she can get elected to the Senate?
February 26th, 2006 at 8:51 pmIS that why it sued POGO, do a googles on DOJ, POGO blog, if you want to see some DOJ in action stuff
March 8th, 2006 at 10:28 pmhttp://falseclaimslaw.blogspot.com/2006/01/i-dont-know-outcome-of-this-situation.html
or google: doj pogo berman qui tam.
See how the DOJ plays with peoples lives, in an unsavory breach of trust, to hurt America, accountability, democracy, and seeks to block out full disclosures on its
March 19th, 2006 at 3:30 pmvast array of malfesance
http://www.indianz.com/News/show.asp?ID=2003/02/06/trust
See article from indian news on DOJ hack Schiffer, and the chilling aspects of his breach of trust to Ameicans
March 19th, 2006 at 3:44 pmSee, the other on the POGO/ OIL non profit mess.
Alert others…. as Americans, we can’t let america be just some place for breach of trust to be so wide spread ain the abusive Bush DOJ
Get it straight. The DOJ’s negative-court-sanction records speak for themselves.
Problem: Career bureaucrats bowing to the political talking points instead of the Constitution. …but who ever trusted someone else’s lawyer, and his or her minions, anyway?
Their are many very fine public servants within the DOJ. There are bad apples in every organization. That being said, I worked with them and I’ve met more honest people in the Juarez cat houses than in AUSA’a offices.
I’ve spent 20 years and $2 mil tracking, investigating, sueing them for misconduct.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:16 pmWith a bit of tongue-in-cheek, I now say we should think, only think, about putting them all in a toesack and dropping them in a river. ; )