Agriculture Undersecretary faces contempt charges.
By on Aug 21st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Agriculture Undersecretary faces contempt charges.
“A federal judge in Montana has ordered the Bush administration’s top forestry official to explain why he should not be held in contempt of court for the U.S. Forest Service’s failure to analyze the environmental impact of dropping fish-killing fire retardant on wildfires. If found in contempt, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, could go to jail until the Forest Service complies with the court order to do the environmental review.” Liliana Segura at Alternet has more.
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quiz: if the Agriculture Undersecretary falls in the forest will the president pick him up?
August 21st, 2007 at 4:56 pmI always knew something was up with Ag. They’ve been quiet lately. Almost TOO quiet!
August 21st, 2007 at 4:58 pmYou mean, until Bush pardons him. Bank on it.
August 21st, 2007 at 4:59 pmJesus!
Is there anyone in this administration that isn’t a crook?
August 21st, 2007 at 5:00 pmHe doesn’t have to reply or respond or go to jail because he’s not part of the Judiciary Branch of government. It’s a separation of powers thing.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:00 pmRey was busy overseeing the clear-cutting of our forests.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:01 pmSo the executive branch isnt subject to any oversight whatsoever….
August 21st, 2007 at 5:03 pmYou mean, until Bush pardons him. Bank on it.
Comment by Punchy
Bush cannot pardon comtempt of court rulings by judges, only sentences and convictions of a crime. Separation of powers.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pmMaybe Rey is just too scared to admit that he hasn’t a clue as to how to do an environmental impact study. I don’t know what his background is, but I’m willing to bet that he’s spent more time working on Republican election campaigns than he has in forestry.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pmThrow his butt in jail and put Bush in the cell with him.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pmDoing the review would invoke executive privilege and the national secrets act so, therefor, “Piss off, Judgie!” “hehehe” (snark off)
August 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pmDoes everyone in this admin think their shit don’t stink?
August 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pmAll the Toilet Paper progressives here are already salivating at the unrealistically premature fantasy of one of Bush’s forestry officials being found in contempt of court and then maybe going to jail for a while. As usual, when it comes to cases of crime involving Republicans–though the progtards here are really deranged since there’s no evidence that Mark Rey is a Repub (it’s just simple-minded thinking of progtards)–progs and libs have mostly fantasy to cling to. Ironically, on the other side of the aisle, there are many solid, hard cases of real crime being committed by Demoncrats, which the cowards at Toilet Paper actually hide because they are too scared to admit it. Take the case of Demoncratic assaulter-congressman, Bob Filner, who over the weekend beat an airport employee. Or, how about soon-to-be-convict Willie Jefferson of LA? Or, still, how about WV lawmaker Allan B. Mollohan?? Of course, this site is too chicken to put up links with stories about those villains.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pmAll the Toilet Paper progressives here blah, blah, blither, drool, pffftt.
Comment by Demshaveallthelawbreakers — August 21, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
**yawn**
August 21st, 2007 at 5:17 pm**yawn**
Comment by Zooey
Very Big **Yawn**……
August 21st, 2007 at 5:21 pm“Of course, this site is too chicken to put up links with stories about those villains”
Demsarebetterthanconseveryday!
Villians?!?!?!Villians you say? You sir are a bounder and a rapscallion! Where the dickens do you get the nerve to refer to democrats as “villians”?Where will it end? Will you next call us scoundrals?
August 21st, 2007 at 5:22 pmeveryone in this adminstration is above the law. We don’t reconize your authority! I’m with the Bush Gang, any questions!
August 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pmmike vick is going to change his voter registration to republican so he can get off.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:24 pmRey was a lobbyist for the timber industry before assuming his position on the floor in Bush’s cabinet.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:24 pmbobwurst. How eloquent. you must have read many books to come up with so many words.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:24 pmComment by Bob Day — August 21, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
You also cannot spell recognize.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:26 pmLet me get this straight, you said:
Is that really what you meant to say?
August 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pmI think yopu meant:”everyone in this adminstration is above the law. We don’t reconize your authority! I’m with the Bush Gang, NO questions!”
Comment by Bob Day — August 21, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
August 21st, 2007 at 5:31 pmBush is our Dictator and he will never allow a team member to go to jail. Look he commuted Libby’s jail time and he’ll do the same again. Jail and laws are for other people and no Judge can over rule our Supreme Leaders Bush/Cheney. Crime pays when your protected by our Supreme Dicators.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:40 pmNo reason for this crook to worry: Bush will spring him.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:48 pmThere is no end in sight. Follow the Bush appointees and find partisan politics at their worst. One more example of Bush quality at its finest. The next 18 months cannot pass quickly enough. Impeach Bush, Cheney and Gonzales and Save the Constitution!
August 21st, 2007 at 5:49 pmComment by Demshaveallthelawbreakers — August 21, 2007 @
Dinner’s ready.
Mom.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:49 pmeveryone in this adminstration is above the law. We don’t reconize your authority! I’m with the Bush Gang, any questions!
Comment by Bob Day — August 21, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
Look, it’s talking to itself again.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pmMmmmm! Chef Boyardee!!
Thanks, Mom!.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pmThis guy is well below Bush’s radar, in terms of getting any help from the Tarnished House.
George has some real problems right now, and someone this far down the ladder of appointees will be left in the woods to fend for himself.
So to speak.
August 21st, 2007 at 6:03 pmIn Soviet Russia, court has contempt for you!
(In China they’d execute his ass.)
August 21st, 2007 at 6:22 pmTake the case of Demoncratic assaulter-congressman, Bob Filner, who over the weekend beat an airport employee. Or, how about soon-to-be-convict Willie Jefferson of LA? Or, still, how about WV lawmaker Allan B. Mollohan?? Of course, this site is too chicken to put up links with stories about those villains.
Comment by Demshaveallthelawbreakers — August 21, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
August 21st, 2007 at 6:27 pmWe don’t cover them here because we don’t need to. No doubt folk like Limbaugh, Drudge, Hannity, & Savage are ALL OVER those cases.
Filner shoved somebody? WOW!! What a crime!
(It’s amisdemeanor, BTW…)
Now, THIS is a felony…
GOP Judge Reverses Jail Sentence For Sweeney’s Son
BALLSTON SPA—No jail time for the son of Republican Congressman John Sweeney despite him pleading guilty to felony second degree assault as the result of a fight which seriously injured the victim.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/121805ReverseJailSentence.html
Thank God Bush didn’t have to issue a pardon. That GOP judge took care of it!!!
August 21st, 2007 at 6:32 pmA timber industry lobbyist in charge of the U.S. Forest Service. This guy has been raping taxpayers and our public lands since day 1 of the BushCo administration. About as good of a Bush appointee as his Mining Safety administration appointee. What’s good for the majority of Americans is of no concern for this administration, they’ve been proving that over and over since January of 2001.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:22 pmThe head forestry dude is in trouble? Let me guess, his previous experience was being in charge of hanging the red white and blue decorations at Republican Party fund raisers.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:22 pmComment by Alejandro — August 21, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
The Chinese have ways to correct problems.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:54 pmNo chance he goes to jail, as the AG would have to prosecute, and the chances of that are,
August 21st, 2007 at 8:32 pmwait, let me come back in a couple of hours of CRAY computation cycles..
“Retardant” isn’t that redundant in re this administration?
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:40 am