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To: leadpenny

Everytime I read about the villainous bastard Abrahamoff, ripping off American Indians, I think about Bruce Ba Ba Babbitt, Clinton's Interior Secretary

http://www.savethepeaks.org/babbittwatch/



"Betrayal of Trust: Billions Stolen or Lost

As Secretary of the Interior, Babbitt was responsible for Indian Trust Accounts, a program created in 1887 to hold the proceeds of government-arranged leases of Indian lands. The government didn't believe Indians could handle their own finances. As it turned out, the Interior Department has mismanaged the trust from its inception, losing or misappropriating as much as 170 billion dollars of Indian money in one of the most shameful accounting scandals in history.

Native Americans sued the government for their lost money. The government has acknowledged in court that it still doesn't know the number of trust beneficiaries it serves. It doesn't know the value of the accounts or even the number of accounts it is supposedly administering.

Babbitt had 8 years in office to sort out the mess, but the federal judge responsible for the case grew so irritated with his department's inaction, intransigence and outright deception, that Babbitt along with two other officials were found to be in contempt of court. When Babbitt left office, the Trust Account scandal was no closer to resolution; meanwhile Native American families across the country remain cheated out of much needed income.


6 posted on 12/31/2005 2:52:42 AM PST by YaYa123
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To: YaYa123

. . . and Babbit was supposed to be one of the better Clinton people.


7 posted on 12/31/2005 2:55:18 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: YaYa123
Everytime I read about the villainous bastard Abrahamoff, ripping off American Indians, I think about Bruce Ba Ba Babbitt, Clinton's Interior Secretary

The liberals don't like to mention stuff like that

They are too busy trying to convince themselves that their politicians are pure as new fallen snow

11 posted on 12/31/2005 3:02:46 AM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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That's truly an outrage.
18 posted on 12/31/2005 5:03:54 AM PST by A Jovial Cad (The updated AJC profile page for 2006 is now available!***)
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