One mystery solved.
By on Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:20 am
One mystery solved.
What was the White House getting for the $140,000 contract it had with corrupt Cunningham-linked contractor Mitchell Wade? Josh Marshall found out.
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Josh R0XX0RZ.
Thanks, Josh, for all you do
March 28th, 2007 at 10:25 amScreening Chimpy’s mail. Hmmmm….
Hey wingnuts (and/or William aka Jake), is that ok with you?
March 28th, 2007 at 10:28 amcheney gives wade 140 K, wade buys cunningham a 140 K boat, cunningham is prosecuted by Carol Lam, cunningham goes to jail for bribery, Carol Lam gets fired by bush.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:29 amSimple math, even a troll can understand.
MORE BOLD-FACED LIES BY THIS WHITE HOUSE! WHEN WILL IT STOP?? Short Answer: Not as long as this group of thugs are in residence there!
Dolittle, Wilkes, and Wade = MailSafeGate! Another breaking scandal!
March 28th, 2007 at 10:30 amMore smeers from left-wing moonbats. Clinton put him up to it. He hates our troops.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:31 amTypical Bush-League move. Give the very important job of screeining for anthrax and other dangerous items to some political hack-flunkie with NO experience.
No flunkie left behind.
-GSD
March 28th, 2007 at 10:31 amThis president and Veep need to be expunged from office! The dirt keeps getting filthier and we’ve just scratched the surface of this rotting pile of garbage called the administration! People are appalled everywhere – and are on “corruption overload”! This is getting totally disgusting – every day = another scandal. This is THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION ‘EVER’ IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY! What a legacy, eh??
March 28th, 2007 at 10:31 amSo, the contract was to scan in the President’s mail because of the anthrax scare right after 9/11. What ever happened to the investigation of the anthrax incident? That was a pretty major terrorist attack on American soil, wasn’t it??? Did the evidence point toward foreign terrorist, or the home-grown “McVeigh” variety?
If someone was going to scan-in the President’s mail, is that really an activity that you’d want to out-source? What sort of clearance would those scanner-operators need?
Seeing that the project, “never got off the ground”, was any of the $140,000 recoverable and/or recovered?
March 28th, 2007 at 10:35 amComment by helenahandbasket — March 28, 2007 @ 10:29 am
Short, simple, and to the point. Good job connecting the dots, I wish others would do the same more often.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:35 amIntriguing, especially given the fact that the anthrax used in the anthrax attacks was highly weaponized.
Now where would “terrorists” obtain anthrax weaponized by top secret American procedures?
Given all this, what are the odds that an anthrax attack is going to be mailed to the President? I bet ‘MailSafe’ enjoys a 100% success rate.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:36 amSeeing that the project, “never got off the groundâ€, was any of the $140,000 recoverable and/or recovered?
Comment by Peter — March 28, 2007 @ 10:35 am
It was used to buy Duke Cunningham a boat.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:36 amGSD,
It’s the Repuke way. They hate government SO much, they’d rather PAY someone else to do their job.
Well here’s a suggestion Repukes: If you hate government so much STAY THE HELL OUT OF IT.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:38 amGlad to see that people are catching on regarding ignoring certain posters. No need to respond to ignorant and dishonest flamers. Waste of time. Good. Keep it up.
We’re way past troll swill. Time for the truth
March 28th, 2007 at 10:38 amdeeper and deeper and deeper it goes…
KEEP DIGGING! KEEP TALKING!
but it still makes my stomach turn…
i so hope it can all be fixed…
another day in the garden… after today i should be able to relax and enjoy the show (all flowers and shrubs and trees) with only light tending… it’s very early for as much new growth as i see… and my last frost date is 5/15…
tomorrow i’m off to chicago and MILLINIUM PARK… !
March 28th, 2007 at 10:40 amtake care, be smart… …later, maybe…
g’day…
Terra is a joke to Bushco.,and the joke is on us.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:41 amYeah Katy,
March 28th, 2007 at 10:42 amI think we are reaching a true tipping point. There is only so much garbage the bag can hold before it rips apart.
Seeing that the project, “never got off the groundâ€, was any of the $140,000 recoverable and/or recovered?
Comment by Peter
Sure was. I think the Feds confiscated “The Dukester” when Cunningham was arrested.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:44 amThe moron in chief is speaking now to the cattlemen’s association – a friendly crowd – and he is, of course, blaming the democrats for advocating defeat in Iraq.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:46 amIraq is blossoming, he says — he and McCain are apparently listening to the same people.
Repukes are suffering from ‘Scandal Fatigue’?
Give me a break!
Normal Americans are suffering from ‘Republican Fatigue’.
Everyday, a new scandal, everyday, a new excuse.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:52 amIf excuses don’t work,
-claim they’re emboldening the terrorists.
-claim it’s a matter of National security
-can’t talk about it, it’s under investigation
-I need to spend more time with the family
-I’m on a tour of kid’s pornography
-It was a personnel matter
-CRS (Can’t remember shit)
-Lie Lie Lie
-We’re too busy to talk about that now
-We have no record of that
-It’s Easter
-Ad Nauseum
America, are you as sick of these Bushlickers as I am?
Worst. President. Ever.
Investigate. Impeach. Incarcerate.
the left crying about supposed corruption in this White House after 8 years of corruption in the Clinton White House….
only the liberal whackos are this dumb….poor libtards and dumbcrats.
so easily fooled by the talking points of places like thinkprogress.org.
look at you sheeps blindly following thinkprogress.org
sad, sad kids….
March 28th, 2007 at 11:15 amI wonder if I can get a $280,000 to be a food taster for the chymp.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:21 amYa know, checking bananas for peak ripeness is hard work.
Oh, now I get it.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:22 amThey take the president’s mail out on the yacht and open it there.
If there’s any biohazard, they can just dump it in Chesapeak Bay, no one will notice.
Good scam.
only howpathetic would still be trotting out,
March 28th, 2007 at 11:23 amBut, but Clinton~~! Loser.
howsad that you don’t know simple grammer. “Sheeps?” You need to step up your ESL classes.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:50 amI wonder if thinkprogress.org is as insterested about corruption when it comes to the Democrats…
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Jack Murtha, William Jefferson, Kennedy….
sad, sad….you poor sheeps, how easily you follow the marching orders of left wing blogs like thinkprogress.org
March 28th, 2007 at 11:52 amdlet @ 17,
March 28th, 2007 at 11:53 amYou’re right about “The Dukester”, but we also need to recover $140,000 from Wade, right? We wouldn’t want him to feel left out.
Simple math, even a troll can understand.
Uh, actually not. Trolls don’t do math, just like they don’t do facts or logic.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:54 amSince most everyone appointed or hired by the Bush administration is totally incompetent, it’s amusing to think of the gang hiring one of their stupid, corrupt cronies to protect the President’s life.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:55 amPeter,
The anthrax story is no different than the Plame story. Both were spoken about by the President and he launched investigations to find who was responsible, well supposedly.
The people mailed anthrax were for the most part Democratic liberals and Dubya could give a rats ass about investigating anyone that’s sending liberals anthrax.
Dubya launches into pomp and circumstance publicly and reassures the American people he’s concerned and investigating, not unlike Bin Laden, NO, The Plame case, etc. etc. and then it dies on the vine when actually no investigation is necessary, his party is pulling the strings. He knows that given the American publics attention deficit disorder that they won’t follow the case long enough to see that it was all smoke and mirrors, there was no investigation.
The money was never intended to be used for scanning mail as he knew there was no threat, so by all means let’s buy someone a boat with taxpayer money that’s the perks associated with being a Republic666an
March 28th, 2007 at 11:57 amhowsad – when you’re dating them they can be “sheeps.” But when you’re writing about them you better call them “sheep.” Just like your lame talking points do you think if you keep repeating your mistakes we’ll start to believe them.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:08 pmhowsad,
Wow, what a well argued point, moron
March 28th, 2007 at 12:09 pm#30 shane
March 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pmRepetition — that has been successful for the Bushies and Fox News all these years. Trolls take their lessons from them.
Makes me laugh even harder now when I hear Bushy talk about all the “pork” in the spending bill.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:24 pmThe work of screening the White House mail is obviously one involving national security. It’s the type of activity that could be off limits to investigators. If (I say “if”) this is merely Cheney using a subterfuge to send a $140,000 gift to Cunningham at taxpayer expense, through a contractor, then it would be devilishly ingenious to hide that transaction through a matter that would come under the umbrella of national security and could possibly be hidden and off limits due to executive privilege. If this scenario is true, then I ask how many other shady transactions have been hidden within so-called national security contracts that are beyond the public’s ability to investigate?
March 28th, 2007 at 3:24 pmFRANKENCheney
March 28th, 2007 at 11:05 pml
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I really do beleive the whole anthr3x thing was sent from someone in our government…this is one 140,000 $ job they could afford to not do and still get paid, because they knew the only one who had been mailing the stuff was themselves..
the first target and victim of the Anthrax was a guy from a tabloid who had published very unflattering pictures of the Bush twins in the past…
the others targets were two democratic senators who opposed the patriot act.
do these sound like the sort of targets that middle east jihadis would choose?
March 29th, 2007 at 3:10 am#34, yes, that would be a disturbingly brilliant scheme.. someone who is a lawyer would almost certainly be implicated in that sort of clever fraud. Libby perphaps?
March 29th, 2007 at 3:17 am