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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:38 PM
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Is the Jack Abramoff scandal getting ready to explode with New details?
I read a link late last night and can't find it now. Will there be a special Forum for this topic at some point?
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:50 PM
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1. Was this your link?
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:58 PM
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5. Thank You!
That's it; I want to try to use this info as part of a Readers' Theater project I'm writing.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 05:26 PM
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10. This is a Great article Thanks
the Republican corruption of using tax payers money earmarked for Defense to pay for their crimes is probably the topper of their offenses

This is why Rumsfeld will be vacating his post!!!
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:53 PM
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2. This might be the WEEK makes Watergate look like a drinking fountian.
Lots of good stuff on the dock.... All "Truth" could break loose!


I am Lighting Candles, Ringing Bells, and Building Altars!


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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:54 PM
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3. For Duke -- I call him Duke -- Cunningham
to fess up to so much, you know theres a friggin' Niagara Falls waiting to be unleashed.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 02:01 PM
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6. Yep. The Duke-ster was not bawlin due to remorse at his deeds.
He was singing the blues because he had no recourse but to fess up.

There is a big shipment of trouble on the way. And it 'absolutely, positively has to be delivered'.
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AnotherMother4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 02:11 PM
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7. When our soldiers are killed & maimed due to inferior equipment,
& the Dukester is living a life of luxury at their expense, do ya think he feels bad. I wonder if his war profiteering ever made him lose sleep? Somehow I doubt it. But now he will have a chance to make some amends & settle up for his crimes. He can turn in other war profiteers. This is what he needs to do for our soldiers
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 02:27 PM
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8. Won't do it.
Would have already.
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AnotherMother4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 04:23 PM
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9. Here's hoping & praying he'll find his conscience. Perhaps he'll
become the man he was long ago.
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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 01:54 PM
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4. I read that too... /nt
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 10:25 PM
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11. My guess is it will be swept under the rug.
Other things are way more important--did you hear that the liberals want to take away Christmas?
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spooked Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-11-05 10:43 PM
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12. I'll bet $$ was siphoned through the Cayman Islands via Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24468-2005Feb14.html

Lawmakers Told About Contract Abuse in Iraq

By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 15, 2005; Page A03

A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers yesterday.

The lawyer, Alan Grayson, represents two former employees who charged in a federal lawsuit that the security firm Custer Battles LLC of Fairfax was paid approximately $15 million to provide security for civilian flights at Baghdad International Airport, even though no planes flew during the contract term. Grayson said the firm received $100 million in contracts in 2003 and 2004, despite a thin track record and evidence the government was not getting its money's worth.

"I wish I could tell you that the Bush administration has done everything it could to detect and punish fraud in Iraq," Grayson said. "If I said that to you, though, I would be lying."

After an interview with Custer in January 2004, agents from the Pentagon inspector general's office wrote, "Battles is very active in the Republican Party and speaks to individuals he knows at the White House almost daily, according to Custer." A White House spokesman had no immediate comment.




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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:56 AM
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13. I'm kicking this thread.I emailed it to cnn...
and told them to try reporting news for a change.
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