Government Officials Tried To Rewrite Ethics Rules To Accommodate Their Partying
Government Officials Tried To Rewrite Ethics Rules To Accommodate Their Partying
According to the new Interior Department Inspector General (IG) report, nearly a third of the Denver Minerals Management Service’s 55-person office “received gifts and gratuities from oil and gas companies.” Several employees have tried to claim that they were unaware of federal ethics guidelines. However, as the IG outlines, almost all these officials had attended ethics briefings and knew the rules:
RIK officials often bragged about the “RIK way of doing business,” which aimed to “be a part of industry.” In the summer of 2006, RIK employees wrote up a document titled, “Initiative to Clarify Guidance for RIK Interaction with Industry,” which would codify their “uniqueness.” In short, RIK officials wanted to rewrite the ethics rules to cover up their misdoings. From the Initiative document:
As further evidence that employees were aware their socializing with industry officials was unethical, at one point, RIK oil marketing specialist Crystel Edler had her industry friends hide the fact that she had gone to a Shell party and stayed in a hotel at their expense. Edler told her friends that they were “sooo wonderful” for helping her out:
In a statement today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticized “how cozy the relationship between Big Oil and the Administration’s regulators have been,” which has “cheated the American taxpayer out of billions of dollars owed them by the oil companies.”
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Oh come on! You’re trying to tell me that I need to attend an ethics briefing before I know that I can’t get coke and sex on the government dime and/or bribe ?
Even if I get by the govt ethics, I think some of this sounds like criminal law. And if I don’t know that, somethign about ignorance of the law is no excuse.
And let me ask further, as I understand it these are the good people arranging contracts for off-shore oil drilling and ANWAR drilling. While the coke at least explains the idea that pipelines were the preferred coffe-klatsz sites for caribou – I really wonder if collusion could explain why Bush and McCain are so anxious to drill in both places.
OTOH – I’m sure these professionals would do a fine job of overseeing any such drilling and see that it didn’t cause any harm.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:35 pmAnyhoo, ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law. Sorry jerkwads.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:38 pmRepublican crooks and sleaze-bags on parade, led by Bush and Cheney, with Palin and McCain waiting in the wings to carry this mess for Four More Years! (funny how we didn’t hear that chant at the St. Paul Police Riot/GOP Convention…).
September 10th, 2008 at 9:41 pmHow the Hell could anyone, old enough to tie their own shoes, not know that hookers and drugs are NOT “part of business”?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:43 pmSounds like some drilling was taking place right there in Denver.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:45 pmpete Says:
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How the Hell could anyone, old enough to tie their own shoes, not know that hookers and drugs are NOT “part of business”?
September 10th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Because in the GOP , it is part of business…….Just ask Ted Haggard
September 10th, 2008 at 9:46 pmI don’t know MCMetal. At least Ted Haggard didn’t try the “no one told me it was wrong” defense.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pmIf ever Big Oil was ripe for a windfall-profits tax…
Were the free booze and cocktail weenies really worth prison?
They have to know the indictments will be flowing in a few months.
I hope Justice has yanked their passports…
September 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pmpete Says:
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I don’t know MCMetal. At least Ted Haggard didn’t try the “no one told me it was wrong” defense.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Yeah
He used the “I had intensive counseling and was cured” defense…………
September 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pmGarbage in . . . garbage out. For the most part, the American electorate is garbage. And this is what we get
September 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pmVery true MCMetal. Hey! Do you think he might get help from Ms. Palin’s church? I hear they are experts at “pray the gay away”.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pmLooks like we need Palin and Mccain to clean up this mess, we all know Barry never met a line he didn’t like. You think Obama smoked crack to, or stuck to powder like the blueblood he longs to be?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:05 pmNow that is some funny satire. Well done!
September 10th, 2008 at 10:07 pmCopano_Texian:
September 10th, 2008 at 10:13 pmSo which one is Cagney and which is Lacey or is this like more of a Hart to Hart sort of thing?
“It crawled into my hand, honest!”
How much training does someone need to know that trading sex and drugs for favors is frowned upon?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:14 pmCopano_Texian Says:
Oooh. Uck. Who cut the cheese?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pmGo To Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Anymore of Our F-Ing Tax Dollars.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pmTex is definitely on a roll…
Palin was a runner up for Miss Alaska, Tex. *snicker*
Her kids play Hockey! Word on the street is that they also know a thing or two about drugs & teh evil sex.
McCain is… well, just another John.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pmAnd Pelosi is going to do what about it?
That’s right, NOTHING!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 10:21 pmTell your friends, tell your family about this. If you feel offended about this, don’t do nothing. Get off your couch, dust yourself off and march.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pmRepublican
September 10th, 2008 at 10:40 pmIncompetent
Kronies
Once again, the copulates_with_texans shows off his mucking foronity.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:42 pmYeah, just keep cindy away from it, and laura bush, and george bush and rush limpballs, etc.
at least Obama’s usage was in his past.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pmLet’s organize a protest!
Better yet, shit in one hand and wish in the other.
No need to get back to us on which one filled up first…
September 10th, 2008 at 10:48 pmWhen I was young it was “sex, drugs, rock & roll”.
Now those hip Bush/Cheney folks have turned it into a 21st century/Haliburton version ….. “sex, drugs, gas & oil”.
Simply amazing!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pmHow are you supposed to build a shanty town on the quad with one hand full of shit?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pmshocking!
Rangel Tussles With Boehner on House Floor Over Ethics Charges
FOXNews – 2 hours ago
Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel of New York took to the House floor Wednesday night to defend himself against mounting ethics charges, engaging in an unusual joust with House Republican Leader John Boehner – who is calling on Rangel to relinquish his …
boner, ethics?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pmCopano_Texian Says:
Looks like we need Palin and Mccain to clean up this mess, we all know Barry never met a line he didn’t like. You think Obama smoked crack to, or stuck to powder like the blueblood he longs to be?
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Typical stupidity from YOU. We need the GOP to clean up GOP corruption because…I got nothin, the level of ignorance necessary for that to make sense is far beyond me. I dont think McStupid and Caribou Barbie care about corruption and Caribou Barbie is only going after corrupt officials if they divorce her sister. MAN you are ignorant.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:01 pmOff Topic:
C&L has Olbermann’s Special Comment on McSpin using 9/11. The short version is that, if Flippy wasn’t lying when he said he “knows how to catch him” he should immediately tell responsible parties what his plan is. And STOP USING A NATIONAL TRAGEDY TO FURTHER HIS POLITICAL/PARTY AMBITIONS.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/10/special-comment-on-the-gops-trademarking-of-september-11/
September 10th, 2008 at 11:08 pmEugeneD~
September 10th, 2008 at 11:09 pmOne minor correction to your post, por favor…
Caribou Barbie is only going after any official who isn’t ‘on board’ and 100% kowtowing to her authorita~
pacific standard time folks
turn on “bones”!
funny!
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sorry for being ot.
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thank you.
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September 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pmAnother Off Topic: (Sorry, I get bored.)
We are starting to get more about Ms. Palin’s various churches and Pastors. I really think the GOP may live to regret the Rev. Wright crap!
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/hbc-90003486
September 10th, 2008 at 11:19 pmWho was in charge of the three executives that shat all over the public interest?
This is pure Bush/Cheney, let’s operate like the private sector horse hockey. It’s a direct indictment of leadership.
This administration is an abject failure…
September 10th, 2008 at 11:29 pmMcCain/Exxon 2008!
It’s the GOP party ticket!
Cheers,
September 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pmFor the GOP it’s a small step from free wheeling to free basing. Recall George W.’s Freedhem Agenda? Pakistan just got their first U.S. soldier administered application.
Bush just did it as Emperor of Formerly Free World:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11policy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
September 10th, 2008 at 11:45 pmRUCerious Says:
EugeneD~
One minor correction to your post, por favor…
Caribou Barbie is only going after any official who isn’t ‘on board’ and 100% kowtowing to her authorita~
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True enough like any librarian who would had the NERVE not to help her ban books. I stand corrected.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:49 pmCopano_Texian Says: Looks like we need Palin and Mccain to clean up this mess.
Its a mess, but i think your asking the Foxes to inventory the chicken coop.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:51 pmw o w .
MUST SEE.
Barack Obama on David Letterman.
tonight.
great conversation. great insight.
i’m STILL smiling!
September 11th, 2008 at 12:31 amAnother day under Bushco rule slips away. And what a day! Sex, lies, scandal, retractions, cover-ups, drugs, cronyism, accusations and denials. Not quite typical, even by the standards of the times. And, simmering behind it all, will Ms. Palin ever answer a direct question?
G’night good people.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:33 amYou too trolls.
BTW: Maddow reported that the Nation magazine is publishing a story with photo of McCain and Rick Davis meeting a convicted Italian con man, with Anne Hathaway, on his yatch, in Montenegro in August 2006 (mccain’s birthday).
Seriously, why is McCain meeting an Italian con man?
September 11th, 2008 at 12:57 amPromote Peace Says:
DieNowForPeace,
I’m serious. We need to organize and mobilize the streets. We need to end this madness! Let’s show them the power of protest.
if only…
heard rachel opine that marches don’t work any more, because the media won’t cover it…
it occurred to me, she’s probably correct…
…
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September 11th, 2008 at 1:13 amtonight’s CRAIG FURGUSSEN was a MUST SEE also.
We need to organize and mobilize the streets.
Better yet, if you have the power to mobilize a slab of concrete, I think we could put your “skills” to better use.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:13 amAll we need is a sex scandal to distract from the real horrors going on. This is meaningless as compared to the business Conyers needs to attend to.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:06 amIf they’d just admit sex and drugs are just as fun for Republicans as they are for Democrats. We’d get along better.
Pelosi sucks. Oooh I’m afraid of her criticism.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:30 amRoll out the barrel, Pork a porkbarrel for fun
Doing the porkbarrel polka
September 11th, 2008 at 4:16 amCorruption was the number one issue in 2006. Want more of it? Vote GOP this November.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:21 amkaty Says:
Promote Peace Says:
DieNowForPeace,
I’m serious. We need to organize and mobilize the streets. We need to end this madness! Let’s show them the power of protest.
if only…
heard rachel opine that marches don’t work any more, because the media won’t cover it…
it occurred to me, she’s probably correct…
…
If you had any idea how many veteran protests and Iraq war protests I have been to…. and not a damn one of them was covered by the media like they should have been.
Its been 1984 for the last 8 years, Folks.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:51 amCopano_Texian, why do you love government corruption?
September 11th, 2008 at 9:24 amCopano_Texian Says:
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Looks like we need Palin and Mccain to clean up this mess
Yes, when one of my dogs poops on the living room rug, I always tell my other dog to clean it up.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:27 amSomeone please remind me, which party is in the administration now ? Oh, thats right the one professing to bring reform to Washington. Well, Senator mccain, what have you done lately or in the last few decades to reform anything in your party.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:58 amWhat do you call Interior Department Employees
&
Oil Company Employees on a Boat?
A: Offshore Drilling
September 11th, 2008 at 10:52 amTITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 1 > § 4
§ 4 Misprision of felony
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
I have been pursuing several complaints against the U.S. Marshals Service. The former Chief of the U.S. Marshals Service Office of Inspection (Internal Affairs) Yvonne Bonner stated to me in writing that they would conduct an official investigation but “Due to privacy issues you are not entitled to know the outcome of the investigation” which is “obstruction” & violates U.S. Department of Justice polices.
(Yvonne Bonner is currently under an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General for possible ethics violations involving an unrelated incident).
I contacted the Hon. Senator Charles E. Schumer & the Hon. Congressman Charles B. Rangel requesting their assistance. The former Chief of U.S. Marshals Service Congressional Affairs division John J. McNulty, III responded in writing twice to the Hon. Senator Charles E. Schumer & once to the Hon. Congressman Charles B. Rangel “denying in writing” the very existence of the investigation which contradicts the document from the former Chief of the U.S. Marshals Service Office of Inspection Yvonne Bonner. As per TITLE 18 > Part I > CHAPTER 47 > § 1001 he has made “false statements” in writing to Congress. This facilitates the appearance of an ongoing cover-up & is “obstruction of justice” at the highest level.
Thus making his statements absent of a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made. A clear error of judgment; an action not based upon consideration of relevant factors and so is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law or if it was taken without observance of procedure required by law 5 USC 706(2)(A).
I submitted my documented proof of these allegations to the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation & the Office of the Inspector General & they all refuse in writing to take any action under federal statute of law. I feel that my only recourse may be found under federal statute:
TITLE 28 > PART IV > CHAPTER 85 > § 1361
§ 1361. Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty
The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.
USDOJ AG Order No. 2835-2006
The Attorney General shall ensure by regulation that any component of the Department of Justice receiving a non frivolous allegation of criminal wrongdoing or administrative misconduct by an employee of the Department of Justice, except with respect to allegations described in subsection (b)(3) [matters within the investigative jurisdiction of the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility], shall report that information to the Inspector General.
All of my supporting documents with detailed information can be downloaded as a pdf from my website located at http://daprocess.com. Thank you.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pmThis is another example that the “old world jounalism of Murrow, Cronkite and Rather is dead and buried. In the case of the Time Magazine reporter Ms Tumulty, she seems to think the finding out the who, what, where, when and how have been replaced with a steno pad, which she records what ABC said in rebuttle to the complaint of Congressman Kucinich. There is a great disconnect with what happened and the points made by ABC. She asks little of no questions to ABC. She takes what is handed to her and repeats it vebatim and then calls that reporting. I call is stenography. Lida Sohbet sohbet sesli chat Gelinlik Modelleri
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January 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pmI want suits in Colorado, New Jersey, and any other state where illegal suppression campaigns are being conducted. And some real looks at the polling methodology would also be eye opening.
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