Cheney linked to Stevens corruption trial.
By on Aug 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Cheney linked to Stevens corruption trial.
Newsweek reports that in a conversation “secretly tape-recorded by the FBI on June 25, 2006,” Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) “discussed ways to get a pipeline bill through the Alaska Legislature with Bill Allen, an oil-services executive accused of providing the senator with about $250,000 in undisclosed financial benefits.” Stevens promised Allen, “I’m gonna try to see if I can get some bigwigs from back here and say, ‘Look … you gotta get this done’.” Two days later, Vice President Cheney undertook the unusual move of writing a letter to the Alaska Legislature urging members to “promptly enact” a bill to build the pipeline.
UpdateThe Progress Report has more on the "corrupting influence of oil money."
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Can this be the smoking gun ?
Can you say RICO ?
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 pmI believe a certain Representative from Ohio has already introduced a motion to impeach the Vice President. Can we please act on it now?
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 pmI would be surprised if he wasn't.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 pmI wonder how much kickback cheney dick received.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 pmI still can't believe the Bush DOJ is prosecuting this at all.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 pmUnless the point is to pardon Stevens in the end.
Dick Cheney involved in corruption and scandal? I've lost my faith in humanity
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 pmMichael Isikoff and Tony Hopfinger from Newsweek have just been invited to be Mr. Cheney's guests on a very special hunting trip...
PEACE
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 pmOil services corruption involving cheney: nope, no surprise there. He wrote a letter and expected results from writing a letter?? Isn't that a little ironic?
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:58 pm“secretly tape-recorded by the FBI"...
Why does the FBI dislike Cheney a/o Stevens?
That this tape was "leaked" is most interesting. Cheney is so darn secretive and a control freak ~ and if the FBI "liked" him the tape would never see the "light of day".
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:14 pmNot Uncle Ted? I'm shocked! (not!) I just keep wondering when that bigoted buffoon Don Young will be implicated for his shenanigans.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:21 pmGeez, where's JimAK here to defend Stevens?
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pmGee! What a surprise! (sarcasm off)
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 pmThe DOJ is investigating. The FBI is taping. And, despite our fears, the military has not moved against Iran.
Is it possible that the "little fish" have seen how the currents are running and decided to put their country ahead of their immediate superiors?
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pmWay OT, but still worth seeing, from TPM:
"Speaking of which, here's a billboard the Daily Show has rented out in the Twin Cities, near the airport, to welcome the Republican National Convention:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thezeppelin/2784188452/sizes/l/
Posted by minnesconsin" (poster on TPM)
PEACE
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 pmspencers mom,
ROFL! That was great! Thanks for the link!
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 pmwhat i want to know is whether the fbi talked to cheney and whether he lied to them.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pmThe Supreme Court are Maroon 5, the Salieris of jurisprudence.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:06 pmYes, now we need to get this criminal to testify, perjur himself and rid ourselves of this mucking fenace.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 pmChristians are obligated by their belief in Christ to follow the teachings of Him .
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:27 pmPeople need to read the new testament, even if you don’t believe. Buy wholesale electronics and Memory cards to see what hypocrites the President and the fascist right really are bluetooth headset.
stjack Says:
what i want to know is whether the fbi talked to cheney and whether he lied to them.
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Nah... the Dickster jes' invited them ta go huntin' with him...
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 pmUncle Ted and Coach Dick, what a pair of oil predators slinking around in the dark. Let the light shine. Darkness to light...
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 pmNothing surprises me anymore except that in seven and a half years these ugly people are still there.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pmThey're looking for the Anti-Christ? Maybe his name starts with a C abd ends with a Y. A Y has a tail like Satan should have.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:15 amIf it is a crime, Chenney is conected some how!
August 24th, 2008 at 1:28 amspencer's mom,
August 24th, 2008 at 1:37 amThanks for the link! To use a cliche (but very true here), you made my day!
Come on, we'll never see Cheney in a court of law. A guy like him isn't going to take one for the team. Someone in the GOP would have to do something like in the beginning of "Three Days of the Condor" to his offices and staff, then Dick would go on the run like some of his favorite heroes from 1945 Nazi Germany.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:34 amCAPTION.
"I swear that I'll lie"
¶ AIO
August 24th, 2008 at 5:15 amOnce again, I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
August 24th, 2008 at 7:34 amjimak is the latest rnc troll sent here to derail the threads. pay no attention to it.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:47 amAfter almost eight years of this, its hard to find mock surprise and horror at the words Cheney and corruption in the same phrase.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:11 amWait! dick cheney the Vietnam war hero...the man who solved the energy crisis in America....restored freedom and Democracy to our shores....supporter of open govenment and human rights....peace activists and friend to the working class....
was involved in a sleezy bribery case. Not a chance.
Oh wait, maybe you're talking about that egg-sucking, yellow corporate prick we have for a Vice President. That one...is definitely a corrupt piece of slime.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:37 amOil is the mother of all harlots
Oil is an abomination
the great whore (big oil) corrupted the earth with her intoxication
Bush/Chaney/McOilmoney legacy
August 24th, 2008 at 10:13 amNot exactly, Bobwurst. While JimAK (formerly known as Jim Wilke) is willing to post inane right-wing talking points on most subjects, his specialty is defending Ted Stevens.
Indeed, JIm has posted so many apologies for the good Senator here, I don't even know why the DoJ is going through with this trial. It seems Jim has Sen. Stevens all but acquitted already.
August 24th, 2008 at 10:29 amThis isn't the first time that Cheney or Bush have been linked to scandal or crime - but they go blithely on their way, leaving ruin in their wake.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:36 amI will believe our system works when the crime family goes to prison.
Im sure JimAK defended Abramoff, Delay, Lewis, Cunningham, Ney and Foley as well.
August 24th, 2008 at 1:28 pmOIL SLICK DICK...
August 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pmI promise you, we won't know the whole width and breadth this Admin has gone to showing favoritism and pissing on the Constitution for it's own advantage...It's a scary thing....I bet those shredders are working overtime! Our tax dollars hard at work. Probably SAY the shredder costs $4 million...and they need 1000 of them to "git 'er done" before someone else finds out...I'm hoping Obama cleans house. I detest these guys...had their own little playground for 8 long years...OK, done...
August 24th, 2008 at 4:18 pm> Big deal. If the DOJ thought there
> was anything to it, they
> would have mentioned it in the indictment.
nooo....sorry pal, im going to speculate that you don't have any legal training whatsoever and you talking out your a@@.
the only things that an indictment is going to mention, beyond the statutory requirements to establish jurisdiction, etc, is the information necessary to inform the defendant of what he's being charged with. Information about everyone who may have been involved is not necessarily going to be mentioned, unless it somehow does something more to explain to the defendant what he's being charged with. So sorry pal, but "it wasnt in the indictment therefore theres nothign to it" is legal reasoning so flimsy most avid law and order fans would see through it.
> One more time, Stevens has not been charged with taking
> bribes, the DOJ noted they could not charge a quid pro quo.
Right, they also mentioned the statute of limitations as a factor as to why Stevens wasnt charged with bribery. So, basically, what they are saying is that bribes most likely occured, but they either occured so long ago that the statute of limations prevents prosecution and/or he only agreed in principal to do favors in exchange for money, not to do any specific favors for specific amounts of money.
So basically, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for your arguments. Politicians taking money in exchange for favors is ok with you, as long as he did it in a way that isnt technically against the law. Its ok with people like you that Stevens took money for favors, as long as he didnt agree to a specific favor for a specific amount of money, as is required to be in violation of the relvant bribery statutes.
Once again, listening to you law and order rightwingtards trying to lower the ethical bar for your heroes to the point where "its ok unless its illegal" is hilarious...
August 24th, 2008 at 5:22 pm>Please note the page on the
>indictment where that is given.
It wasnt in the indictment you retard. It was a comment made by the DOJ spokesman during the press conference announcing the indictment.
Like I said and you completely ignored, the only purpose for an indictment is to fully inform the defendant of what he's being charged with. Its purpose isnt what to inform him what he cant be charged with because the SOL has run. I love how you law and order types, when faced with corruption by your own heroes, suddenly lower the bar to "if it wasnt in the indictment then it doesnt mean anything"
>My belief is that this situation is going to look a lot >different once the trial starts.
No one gives 2 sh@ts what you beleive! How did the scooter libby trial look to you once the jury returned a guilty verdict?
Gee, hmmm, stevens gets hundreds of thousands of dollars of services from people directly connected with the oil companies he lobbied so boisterously for in congress, doesnt list them as a gift or A DEBT (debts are something he was required to disclose, so that completely debunks the "it wasnt a gift it was a service the guy was waiting to get a bill for" talking point), and somehow the idea he was actually receiving some benefit from spending him time in congress defending these big oil interests doesnt sound suspicious to dullards like you...
August 25th, 2008 at 12:52 am