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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts) Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:43 AM Aug 2016

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/real-washington-corruption-not-hillarys-latest-emails-bush-cheney-ties-iraqs-wartime

"Yet there is a larger point to make. It was the Bush-Cheney administration’s circle of family, government colleagues and business associates who parlayed billions in wartime profits from White House ties. How convenient that the right-wingers going after Hillary Clinton seem to have forgotten that."

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Real Washington Corruption? Not Clinton's emails but Haliburton and the Carlyle Group (Original Post) Va Lefty Aug 2016 OP

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1. The Clinton emails are just the diversion to keep the public from noticing the real corruption

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 08:00 AM

Aug 2016

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2. Was a time when republicans claimed secrecy was a necessary function of governance

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 08:13 AM

Aug 2016

Of course, that was back when it was Cheney's docs they wanted kept secret.

Remember the ongoing court fight to get Cheney to release his White House visitors logs so we could see who had access to the Vice President?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101900816.html

Remember how instead of releasing the documents, Cheney ordered the secret service to destroy said logs?
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheneys_secrecy_far_greater_than_reported_0623.html

Yeah, no great outrage from the right then. Simpler times, right?