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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:01 PM
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Anybody see this little tidbit in the Washington Post
(according to a Washington Post article published 12/18/05) from the years 1997 to 2002, the Republican-controlled House Government Reform Committee issued 1,052 subpoenas to probe alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration and Democrats, but in the years since Bush has been president, they have issued three.

I would be interested in knowing how many of those subpoenas resulted in any charges. Any way I found this to be astounding...
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:02 PM
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1. Somehow I am not surprised.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:03 PM
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2. Unfrickinbelievable.
:banghead:
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:05 PM
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3. Not surprised. I wish we could investigate this though. n/t
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:08 PM
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4. Any idea what the 3 issued ones were for?
I'd look it up, but I'm not quite sure where to look.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:45 PM
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12. here ya go
Democrats on the committee said the panel issued 1,052 subpoenas to probe alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration and the Democratic Party between 1997 and 2002, at a cost of more than $35 million. By contrast, the committee under Davis has issued three subpoenas to the Bush administration, two to the Energy Department over nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, and one last week to the Defense Department over Katrina documents.


More

ellen fl
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:09 PM
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5. clinton had a provable mandate
strangely, one would think that just word of mouth alone would point up the falseness of the way the lying liar gets away with his lies ....
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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:11 PM
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6. well, these same nuttjobs want to look inside our undies and judge us
so what did we expect?
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:17 PM
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7. I would love to get a link on that. Do you remember what article
you were reading? I'd like to pass it around as proof of lack of oversight when the same party controls all the branches.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:39 PM
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8. the article is posted here somewhere. i'll let you know if i find it. eom
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:41 PM
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9. Check my thread that's floating around somewhere on this page.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:42 PM
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10. Charges Or Convictions???
In the Clenis days, the charges were all that counted. If there was any investigation, it always ended up with zero. The only Clinton official to be found guilty during his 8 years was Henry Cisneros...and that was on laundering money to his girlfriend and had nothing to do with his government position. Several other prosecutions came up empty (any remember Webster Hubbell??) and wasted 40 million plus dollars. Does that answer your question?
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:44 PM
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11. Yes, I saw that.
All they want now is the courts. They already have a rubber-stamp congress which is the handmaiden of their demented leader. They own the fourth estate--the press. They want the courts, so they can complete their destruction of our system.

Oh... and what about the people? Well, no one is too concerned about THEM. Because the most vocal of the people is that small percentage which still (because it doesn't want to admit it was WRONG) make a knee-jerk defense of everything the demented leader does. The rest of the people--the great majority--are just ignored.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:58 PM
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13. That closeness to the rubber stamp Congress could be the
downfall of BOTH the Admin & the Congress! They are not only in bed on getting tax cuts and certain laws passed, they're in bed on the bribes, graft, kickbacks, and crimes!

That's OK with me! I'll party each time I see one fall!!!!!
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:04 PM
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14. Yes, it IS fun to see them falling like dominoes...
Duke Cunningham, Ney, Burns, DeLay (extra-special fun there!), Frist...and more to come! It can't happen fast enough for me!
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