[kattracks]

Hey, if bill and hillary! could get away with it......

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Time for a HUGE house cleaning. Just get it all out there on the table, then let the voters decide who they keep, and who they fire. I'm so sick of this crap! It is preventing the kind of laws and progression we need in this country. I say let it all out on the table!!

COME CLEAN!! Then you can't be blackmailed, by anyone!!

[mrfixit514]

simple solution: Do what's right and don't do things that can be used against you. Sounds like too many members of Congress have skeletons in the closet.

[Jhoffa_]

This is a huge problem and Gary "smarmy hair" Condit is it's posterboy.

Any member of congress who can be blackmailed by the FBI can be blackmailed (and thereby controlled to some degree) by anyone.

Condit was on the intelligence committe and it should be obvious to everyone that Chandra (and Monica, and Flowers and all the affairs and all the dirt) is about more than sex.

It's about the potential to influence Congress through non-democratic means and that makes it a huge problem.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Wasn't there just a case where the FBI made extensive wiretap recordings, some involving prominent people, while investigating a New Orleans brothel and then would not identify or indict any of the brothel customers?

[ninenot]

Aren't these Congress-types the same ones who tell us "All this un-Constitutional security stuff is just fine. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about."

Well, boys and girls, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT???

[weegee]

Many in Congress are so terrified the FBI will blackmail them, they are afraid to criticize the Bureau.

Now maybe America understands why the Bill&Hill had 900 FBI files. And those files remain valuable even when the IRS can no longer be used to go after enemies...

[1234]

anyone who thinks the average politician ain't dirty, somehow, shouldn't be on this site. no belly achin, puhleeze, 'bout reality.

[dighton]

Lesson: don't videotape yourselves in compromising positions with poultry.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[brat]

"Many in Congress are so terrified the FBI will blackmail them, they are afraid to criticize the Bureau."...........NAH...they' re just afraid of getting caught!

[Myrddin]

I wonder how many of the current Congress critters could pass the scrutiny required for a DoD TS clearance. I frankly think they should earn that as a credential before applying to run for office. If they are not clean enough to pass that test, then they are open to blackmail to influence their votes.

[tracer]

Tradition! Tradition!

[Ronin]

The Times reported today how little criticism about the FBI has emanated from Capitol Hill, with the sharpest criticism of the FBI and CIA "has not come from liberal Democrats but from two conservative Republican senators."

That's because the liberal democRATs do have skeletons in their closets.

[DaGman]

J Edgar Hoover has come back from the grave in his pink nightie.

[Red Jones]

who can trust law enforcement people? especially at the federal level? Remember Waco and other events.

[backhoe]

A little dated, but still of interest:

FBIfiles:

Names on the 1000+ FBI files Clinton obtained for political ...
FBI files Bill Clinton obtained illegally “I would
never condone or tolerate ...

Letters to the Editor
... Charles Colson goes to jail for reading one FBI files.
Clinton administration reads at least 900 FBI files. ...

Letter From A Friend - #49: January, 1999
... exposing their past immorality. (There is question that his information is coming
from the FBI files Clinton pulled and examined.) That's great! Larry Flynt is ...

The Nationalist Times -- June 2000
... noise. If any of them threaten to squeak too loudly, there are all those lovely FBI
files Clinton's operatives have at their disposal to keep them in line. Yes ...

<Investigation Into The White House and D...

Inquiry into Clinton use of FBI files on...

FBI Files Fiasco No SNAFU!

[chemainus]

"Big government by its very nature is government that intrudes in people's lives, usurps their rights and responsibilities and confiscates their money. There is nothing conservative about any of this. Regardless of how benevolent and well-meaning its intentions are, government expands almost entirely for the purpose of controlling and regulating the lives of its citizens. Each act of government, each law passed, each regulation written is a step toward limiting the freedom of some one or some group or some organization or some business or industry. Granted, some of these steps may be necessary but most of them are not. So let's not kid ourselves. If conservatives are people who put freedom ahead of security and individual rights ahead of government control, then it must follow that they are opposed to big government. This being the case, a policy of 'big government conservatism' is merely an excuse for wayward conservatives to justify moving leftward and anyone who denies this is an ignoramus, a fool or a hypocrite." --Lyn Nofziger

[Brush_Your_Teeth]

Great! Take power away from the FBI to do its job then nail them when they fail because they do not have the power to run a real law enforcement network.

[ladyinred]

Gee whiz, golly, maybe if they didn't have dirt to be dug, they wouldn't have to worry about the dirt scoopers? What kind of people do we have up there anyway? LOL!

[Texas Mom]

Congressmen and Senators won't speak out against the FBI "because rightly or wrongly, they think the FBI will find dirt on them, and it will wind up in the public domain."

Do they know there is dirt and afraid the FBI just might find it?