Sen. Kit Bond’s office implicated in Missouri U.S. Attorney removal.
Sen. Kit Bond’s office implicated in Missouri U.S. Attorney removal.
Yesterday’s DOJ/OPR report on the U.S. Attorney firings implicated Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) in the firing of U.S. Attorney Todd Graves. “Graves faced opposition from the staff of his home-state senator, Kit Bond, which we concluded likely led to his removal,” the report said. Today, CREW filed an ethics complaint against Bond, citing the following:
Sen. Bond’s office became dissatisfied with Mr. Graves after he refused to intervene in a dispute between Sen. Bond’s office and that of Mr. Graves’s brother, Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO). Mr. Graves told investigators that a member of Sen. Bond’s staff had called him to insist that he use his influence to force Rep. Graves to fire his chief of staff. When Mr. Graves refused, the Bond staffer told him “they could no longer protect his job.”
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This is an excellent sign.
Remember, the world’s problems cannot be rectified until the criminals are removed from power.
Excerpts from
http://worldreports.org/news/174_latest_false_prospectus_from_paulsons_treasury
LATEST FALSE PROSPECTUS FROM ‘PAULSON’S’ TREASURY
DECEITFUL TRANSFER OF BANK ASSETS TO BUYER WITHOUT RECOURSE
Tuesday 23 September 2008 03:30
By Christopher Story FRSA, Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review, World Reports Limited, London and New York. For earlier reports, press the ARCHIVE. Order your intelligence subscriptions and our ‘politically incorrect’ intelligence books online from this website.
SECOND UPDATE, 26th September 2008:
WHO’S BEING ‘RESCUED’? THE BANKS? WRONG: THE CROOKS
When ‘Paulson’ was televised getting down on bended knee in front of Pelosi, as though he was proposing to her (yuk), what do you suppose he was saying, apart from possibly asking for a less prominent lamp post? Here’s what he may have been pleading to his co-conspirator:
‘PLEASE vote for whatever convoluted version of the Plan comes out of the works, because quite clearly if you do not, we’ll be TOAST on Monday. I don’t care what Congress does, AS LONG AS YOU ALL VOTE FOR SOMETHING, cuz then Dubya will be able to appear on TV and praise me for having saved America and the whole world. But the underlying reason that you MUST DO THIS, darhling, is that it’s our pocket money, the on-the-books cash that we need for our new trading platform, so’s we can continue our hypothecation operations after we get out of this hellhole, like nothing ever happened. So be a dear, would ya?’
…
The game is well and truly up(side down) when the so-called US Treasury Secretary is seen kneeling before the Speaker of the House of Representatives like a mediaeval pilgrim worshipping a saint. Or like Lavrenti Beria, Stalin’s Interior Ministry (MVD) Chief, who, having ordered the murder of millions, broke down and fell on his knees in floods of tears when his executioners arrived at his cell to deliver the standard bullet through the temple.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:40 pmI can’t wait for this administration, and their strong-arm “my way or the highway” tactics to be over!
But our New Dems better not let power go to their heads in the same manner. The signs, however, have not appeared yet, right Madame ImpeachmentOffTheTable Speaker?
Now, who does the “fire who I tell you to or I’ll fire you” remind you of?
PEACE
September 30th, 2008 at 10:58 pmOT
Here is a link to the contact page for the folks at Washington University who will be putting on the Debate thursday night. Contact them if you suspect that Ms. Palin will be coaxed through the debate via electronic means. The page has E-Mail contacts who can make sure it doesn’t happen and they should know we care.
http://debate.wustl.edu/contact.htm
September 30th, 2008 at 11:01 pmOh oh – sounds like somebody is going to get a nasty letter after the Friday news dump. Geee… that should make everything right.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:06 pmMarie – they are already responding to these emails by replaying that they only host and have nothing to do with and no say in what happens.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:08 pmOh, drat!
September 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pmI am sure Don Siegelman his happy that someone has been “implicated”. I am sure it makes him feel much better about being railroaded into prison by a politicized justice department.
Now everything is vindicated. This must make up for giving rove a “free pass” on a congressional subpoena /snark
September 30th, 2008 at 11:23 pmIs Sen. Kit Bond using his Maxwell Smart style U.S. Senate tie-phone?
-GSD
September 30th, 2008 at 11:59 pmKit needs to retire to the Ozarks and cultivate some pot.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:11 amExactly!
Here’s what Michael Moore has to say.
As I said on another thread: repugs can’t politicized the treasury so they are doing the next best thing, stealing.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:12 amAnd as personal fortunes are jeopardized, or evaporated, the gang will turn on each other with increasing venom. That’s what happens when the parasites kill off a host. They eat each other. If it weren’t for the real-life tragedies of innocent victims, I’d be enjoying this.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:20 amBTW. The Anchorage Daily News has an interesting clip up. Another example of just how sleazy Bible Spice is.
http://community.adn.com/mini_apps/vmix/player.php?ID=2221420&GID=118
October 1st, 2008 at 12:21 amOT, but please take a look at these McCain interview clips from Iowa. The ones entitled “Sarah Palin’s Experience”, “Straight Talk” and “Taxpayer Financed Health Care” are the best (IMHO) and you can just see the rage seething, about to surface:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=videonetwork
And, surprised as you may be to hear it, McStain’s POW experiences keep coming up again and again and again… the fall back position for everything! How dare we question him!
PEACE
October 1st, 2008 at 12:23 amQuote From Forbes Magazine:
In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
October 1st, 2008 at 12:43 amHoly SH|T Has anyone put these pieces together???
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
“The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga., ”
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/business/stories//2008/09/29/gas_shortage.html
“Two more weeks of gas chaos, official says
Atlanta’s chaotic gasoline shortage should be back to normal by Columbus Day, Oct. 13, at the latest, said Randy Bly of AAA South. That means about two more weeks of uncertainty, desperate searches for stations with gasoline and long lines at stations that do have gas.
Bly said Nashville had fuel shortages similar to those in metro Atlanta, but now 70 to 80 percent of the city is being supplied.”
Hmmm, the Army violating the Posse Comitatus Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
I smell martial law in parts of Georgia around the corner.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:43 amAlecto Says:
Hmmm, the Army violating the Posse Comitatus Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
I smell martial law in parts of Georgia around the corner.
Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007″ (H.R.5122)was signed by the commander in chimp on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, with
PNAC members in attendance.
H.R.5122 killed the Posse Comitatus Act.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:06 amI was one of the first to post about it, here the day he signed it.
Is anything going to be done about Kit Bond? Probably not. Is anything going to be done about any others involved across the nation? Probably not. Any Bush crony going to be fired, arrested or jailed? Probably not. Nothing’s going to be done to right these wrongs. I don’t see any politician, federal or state law inforcement agency doing anything at all about the myriad of laws that have been broken in the last 7 years. Not even any substantial official investigations and there plenty of reasons to have hundreds of investigations. Now the rich are going to just take directly from the government, well, actually us, but who cares. Why? Because they own the politicians anyway so why not just cook up a phony crisis (like that’s never been done before) and voila! Instant money! Since the police would rather taser college students and kids with broken backs (after he’d fallen from a bridge, they tased him because he didn’t respond to their commands) instead of arrest people stealing obscene amounts of money. Its becoming increasingly apparent to me that the only thing that will finally solve this problem is complete and total anarchy. They want an example of chaos? How about all of us just stay home for a few days. All of us! The super-rich would probably shit all over themselves because there would be no one to change the toilet paper roll for them. It would be funny watching these people begin to bounce off the walls almost immediately. No servants, no lawn care, no limo driver, no grocery and alcohol delivery, no taxis, not even prostitutes! Everything they do is motivated by money, power and control. They may have the money, but we have the power and control. All we have to do is show them.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:33 amFrightening possibilities indeed. But, on the bright side, I’m not sure they can get the numbers, inside the inner circle, to risk civil war. They don’t seem to be displaying much solidarity of late.
Personally, I try to maintain some confidence that we will have an election and it will be, mostly, legal. I take heart in the fact that Flippy and Chippy seem to be losing a couple points a day.
Fraud would depend on a close election and sporadic turnout to have a chance swinging the election. Between the Worst Ticket Ever and frightened, angry, people who don’t always vote I still like Obama’s, and our, chances. I’m willing to impatiently await election day before I stock the bunker.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:42 amYou are correct Wayne:
http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/
Do you know it is almot IMPOSSIBLE to cut and paste the appropriae Section from the text here.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:45 amhttp://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-5122
Well we seen Dusty Fogo bite the dust in court. maybe this can escort Kit Bond to be Fogo’s cell mate.
Someone needs to do a special on these (Hilton) Federal Prison’s. Where these criminals get sent to. The elite prisons.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:11 amThere Might Be a Financial Crisis, But the World’s Arms Dealers Are Doing Just Fine
Frida Berrigan
Alternet
September 30, 2008
The CEO of a weapons manufacturer has plenty of chances to rub elbows with deputy secretaries of defense, officials from Homeland Security, retired military personnel, and the best and brightest of the defense establishment almost any week of the year.
One such opportunity occurred at the ComDef 2008 conference, which wrapped up at the National Press Club in Washington on September 3. Sponsored by weapons giants like Boeing, Raytheon, and BAE Systems, the day-long conference was organized around the theme of “Defense Priorities in an Age of Persistent Conflict.” It featured presentations from a Navy undersecretary, a deputy director at the Pentagon, several weapons manufacturers, and defense representatives from France, the Netherlands, Canada, and elsewhere. With this high-powered lineup, the conference probably delivered on the promise of its catch line: “Where the international defense cooperation community gets down to business.”
Next on the calendar in mid-October will be the Women in Defense National Conference at the Crystal Gateway Marriott near the Pentagon. Sponsored by consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, the conference includes a panel on the “National Security Priorities in the Next Administration,” moderated by a Lockheed Martin vice-president. Foreign policy advisers from the McCain and Obama campaigns will be on hand and — in a nod towards inclusiveness — representatives from Bob Barr’s and Ralph Nader’s campaigns have been invited. The closing reception is sponsored by Lockheed Martin, and Booz Allen Hamilton is picking up the tab for the “Breaking a Glass Ceiling” dinner featuring retired Air Force Major General Jeanne Holm. And then, who would want to miss flying south for the winter? The Defense Manufacturing Conference at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Florida in early December offers military industry executives the chance to soak up the rays and address the question: “Are we ready to provide affordable warfighting capabilities?”
One of the persistent themes of these and many other weapons industry conferences is the looming concern that the military budget — which increased by two-thirds between 2001 and 2008 — can’t keep spiraling upwards forever. ComDef 2008 frames it like this: “persistent warfare is eroding the capability of our armed forces and hard choices will need to be made … It is increasingly unlikely that more money will be found for defense.” Last year, the Women in Defense conference addressed this issue with a panel titled “Shaking the Money Tree: Funding National Defense,” moderated by a vice-president for programs and budget at Lockheed Martin.
Shaking the Money Tree
Lockheed Martin stands head-and-shoulders above its competitors as a professional tree-shaker. Between 2001 and 2008, the company saw its contracts from the Department of Defense jump nearly 130%, from $14 billion to $32 billion. In a stagflation economy, their profit margin is more than healthy. The Bethesda-based company reported a 13% increase in profitability for its second quarter — from $778 million last year to $882 million this year.
The weapons industry’s concern about belt-tightening notwithstanding, the military budget is likely to continue its dramatic growth. The Defense Department’s base budget, which does not include funds for nuclear weapons or the $12-billion-a-month “global war on terror,” has grown by nearly 70% — from $316 billion in 2001 to a request for more than $515 billion for 2009’s fiscal year (which begins in October). Despite the fact that these figures represent close to what the rest of the world combined devotes to the military, neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has adopted reducing military spending as part of his national security plan. In fact, as both of them talk about modernizing the military for the 21st century and expanding the size of the armed forces, the billions add up.
So the weapons industry’s alarm bells are ringing prematurely and the future — particularly in foreign weapons sales — looks very bright. Take Lockheed Martin, for example: The company, which is springing for the floral arrangements at the Women in Defense conference next month, has more than $10 billion in proposed or recent weapons deals with foreign nations. The biggest deal could be worth $7 billion (that’s a lot of gladiolas and irises for Women in Defense) to Lockheed Martin. The United Arab Emirates is interested in the company’s THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system. The mobile truck-mounted system is designed to intercept incoming missiles targeted at sites such as airfields or populations centers
October 1st, 2008 at 9:26 amAs though anyone in Congress has the stomach for pursuing ethics cases or doing anything punitive when they may be next!
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 amPhoto caption: Hello? Maxwell Smart? No you have the wrong number.
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