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  • CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress- Rep. John P. Murtha

    09/13/2008 11:45:27 AM PDT · by smoothsailing · 26 replies · 92+ views
    Published on CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress (http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org) Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) is an 18th-term member of Congress, representing Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district.  Rep. Murtha chairs the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.  Rep. Murtha’s ethics violations stem from abuse of his position on the subcommittee to benefit the lobbying firm of a former long-term staffer and from threatening to block earmarks of other members for political purposes.  Rep. Murtha was included as a member to watch in CREW’s 2006 and 2007 reports on congressional corruption.PMA GroupPaul Magliocchetti worked with...
  • Texas A & M Sailor 'gave his life for theirs

    06/09/2008 1:13:26 AM PDT · by BellStar · 44 replies · 28+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 09 June 2008 | HARVEY RICE
    Joy from rescue of 5 Aggie boaters turns grim when 6th member of capsized boat crew is found dead amid wreckage A day that started with the joyous rescue of five crew members of a Texas A&M University at Galveston sailboat closed with the somber discovery of the sixth sailor's body in the wreckage of the sunken ship. Roger Stone, whose body was recovered by a salvage crew Sunday about 27 miles southeast of Freeport, was called a hero for helping two students escape from below decks seconds before the Cynthia Woods capsized. "I'm sure that's what lost his life,"...
  • The Hillary Chronicles: Worse Than You Thought (listening to secretly recorded conversation)

    03/15/2008 8:47:48 AM PDT · by doug from upland · 36 replies · 1,974+ views
    nro ^ | 3-15-08 | Byron York
    The Hillary Chronicles: Worse Than You Thought Two new biographies shed new light on Senator Clinton By Byron York Hillary Clinton wasn’t looking forward to the publication of two new biographies, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by former and present New York Timesmen Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr., and A Woman in Charge, by Carl Bernstein, the lesser half of the Watergate team of Woodward and Bernstein. Senator Clinton is, of course, famously secretive — she probably wouldn’t be happy with any biography unless it were written by, say, Sidney Blumenthal — and...
  • Lake Erie Crew Describes Satellite Shot (USS Lake Erie)

    02/24/2008 12:10:45 PM PST · by SandRat · 22 replies · 86+ views
    PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Feb. 24, 2008 – The crewmembers of the USS Lake Erie were calm as they fired the latest shot heard round the world. The Aegis-class cruiser fired the missile that destroyed a dead spy satellite that posed a threat to humans Feb. 21. Navy Capt. Randall M. Hendrickson, the Lake Erie’s commanding officer, spoke to reporters today aboard the ship, which has just returned from the mission. The visiting reporters are traveling with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who visited the ship. The captain said the crew worked intensively...
  • Somali Pirates Threaten To Kill Tanker Crew

    12/11/2007 3:07:16 PM PST · by blam · 31 replies · 10+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12-11-2007 | Laura Clout
    Somali pirates threaten to kill tanker crew By Laura Clout and agencies Last Updated: 12:32pm GMT 11/12/2007 A tense standoff has developed off the Somali coast between US warships and pirates who have hijacked a tanker packed with explosive chemicals. Somali pirates are able to operate with relative impunity off the volatile Horn of Africa. Under seige from the US navy, the pirates have now threatened to kill all 22 crew members of the Japanese Golden Nori unless a $1 million ransom is paid. The tanker, carrying up to 40,000 tons of inflammable benzene, was captured as it was sailing...
  • Crew of North Korean Pirated Vessel Regains Control

    10/30/2007 6:23:49 PM PDT · by SandRat · 10 replies · 35+ views
    NAVY newsstand ^ | U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs
    MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- The crew of a North Korean cargo vessel, Dai Hong Dan, regained control of their vessel Oct. 30, after fighting with the pirates who had taken over their ship sometime Monday. The crew was able to control the steering and engineering spaces of the ship, while the pirates had seized the bridge. The ship is approximately 60 nautical miles northeast of Mogadishu. Three corpsmen from USS James E. Williams (DDG 95), an Arleigh-Burke-class destroyer operating as part of the maritime coalition, along with a boarding team, provided medical assistance and other support as needed to the...
  • Mud Thrown At Murtha Stains All Of Us (Murtha Watch)

    09/23/2007 12:41:12 AM PDT · by smoothsailing · 56 replies · 125+ views
    Johnstown Tribune-democrat ^ | 9-21-07 | Editorial
    Mud thrown at Murtha stains all of us The Tribune-Democrat (Murtha's hometown newspaper) — John Murtha represents the people of this region in all that he does. We can’t accept the congressman’s earmark dollars with one hand and brush off his alleged transgressions with the other. When he steps in mud, or when others throw mud at Murtha, we all get dirty. That’s why, when questions are raised about possible improper activities at a Murtha-created organization, we get anxious. And when a watchdog group rates our local congressman as being among “the most corrupt” lawmakers in Washington, we are embarrassed....
  • IRS Clears Dobson Over Non-Profit Rules Allegations: "Focus on the Family is squeaky clean"

    09/11/2007 7:57:14 AM PDT · by rface · 7 replies · 329+ views
    CNS News ^ | September 11, 2007 | Randy Hall
    After an extensive audit, the Internal Revenue Service has exonerated Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson of accusations from liberal watchdog groups that he violated his organization's non-profit status by endorsing GOP candidates -- including President Bush -- during the 2004 election. "No dings. No criticisms. Not a single allegation was found to have substance," Dobson said regarding charges made against him in 2005 by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Citizens Project, a Colorado group that states its purpose is "creating a community valuing diversity, equality and religious freedom." [ snip ] CREW's original complaint,...
  • AP Omits Liberal Label for 'Watchdog Group' Complaining About Sen. Craig

    08/28/2007 3:09:01 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 1 replies · 332+ views
    newsbusters ^ | 8-28-07 | Mike Bates
    AP Omits Liberal Label for 'Watchdog Group' Complaining About Sen. Craig By Michael M. Bates | August 28, 2007 - 14:38 ET In its continuing coverage of Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), the Associated Press now reports: A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against Idaho Sen. Larry Craig Tuesday after Craig said he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from complaints of lewd conduct in a men's room. . . Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Senate ethics committee seeking an investigation into whether Craig violated Senate rules by engaging in disorderly conduct....
  • CREW Cleaning The Republican's House

    07/31/2007 5:45:56 AM PDT · by bocopar · 60 replies · 1,254+ views
    Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 7/31/07 | Bob Parks
    I must admit to having an initial gut response to CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) and their current attempts to root out nepotism in our nation's Capitol. According to Josephine Hearn at The Politico, "House members are complaining that their spouses could lose their jobs, their family incomes could drop and, perhaps, the entire pattern of their family lives could change if an ethics reform bill just passed by the House becomes law.""The bill would bar campaigns from employing a lawmaker's spouse. Its backers argue that employing a spouse creates an implicit conflict of interest, tempting lawmakers...
  • U.S. Forces Rescue Downed Helicopter Crew; Ops Continue Throughout Iraq

    07/03/2007 6:14:12 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 304+ views
    WASHINGTON, July 3, 2007 – An AH-64 Apache helicopter crew rescued two U.S. pilots after enemy fire brought down their OH-58D Kiowa helicopter south of Baghdad yesterday. The OH-58 pilots suffered minor injuries. An Air Force Thunderbolt II destroyed the downed helicopter with two 500-pound laser-guided bombs after the pilots were evacuated from the area. In operations today, coalition forces killed three terrorists, detained 29 suspects and destroyed a cache of bomb-making materials, U.S. officials said. A senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader was killed today by U.S. troops during a raid conducted west of Tarmiyah. The U.S. soldiers also...
  • IRS Exonerates Two South Dakota Non-Profits

    06/19/2007 1:59:39 PM PDT · by MountainFlower · 8 replies · 323+ views
    Alliance Defense Fund ^ | June 19, 2007 | ADF Media Relations
    WASHINGTON — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have helped to secure exoneration by the Internal Revenue Service for two non-profit organizations targeted by a leftwing special interest group in Washington. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a complaint to the IRS, demanding that it open an investigation to revoke the tax-exempt status of a crisis pregnancy center and an abstinence information clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D. “Pro-life and pro-abstinence viewpoints should not be treated as second-class perspectives. This is just another attempt by political special interests to silence these viewpoints in the great debates of the day,”...
  • CREW takes down DiFi Corruption Thread

    05/07/2007 10:21:41 AM PDT · by grandpa jones · 172+ views
    nuke's news & views ^ | 5/6/07 | nuke gingrich
    After leading the charge along with the NYT against Mark Foley (R-FL), it must have come as quite a shock to the radical left to see a popular Democrat come into CREW’s cross-hairs in a January 25 expose of the Feinstein - MILCON scandal. Still, CREW stood by their story, which was linked or referenced by scores of conservative websites. So what changed? It’s not like anyone really believed that the Soros-funded “CREW” was anything but a partisan hit site. Maybe it’s a testament to the Digg Effect. Four days after the CREW article was posted on Digg, and some...
  • WWII bomber crew members awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

    04/26/2007 6:21:02 PM PDT · by SandRat · 29 replies · 728+ views
    Air Force Links ^ | Staff Sgt. J.G. Buza
    /26/2007 - WASHINGTON (AFNEWS) -- It was a warm summer morning when the crew of the Flak Man, a B-24 Liberator, joined other bombers and their escort fighters on a daring mission. They flew from Pantanella, Italy, and played a key role in the bombing of oil refineries 700 miles away near Ploesti, Romania. The location was of strategic importance -- Nazi Germany got 60 percent of their petroleum from the plants there. En route, there was heavy resistance from the Luftwaffe in the air and from anti-aircraft fire on the ground. But despite heavy damage to the Flak Man,...
  • Crew Writes Patrick Fitzgerald Asking to Re-Open Rove Case in Light of Missing Emails

    04/13/2007 2:51:51 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 58 replies · 1,758+ views
    Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to reopen his investigation of Karl Rove's role in disclosing Valerie Plame Wilson's status as a covert CIA operative in light of recent revelations about missing White House emails. Press reports indicate that Mr. Rove uses a Republican National Committee (RNC) email account for 95% of his communications. In addition, the RNC's counsel has admitted that all of Mr. Rove's emails prior to 2005 have been destroyed. Moreover, the White House has admitted that -- as CREW reported yesterday -- five million emails are missing from...
  • Airline: Crew Member's Inappropriate Words Cancel Flight

    04/06/2007 11:10:25 PM PDT · by Westlander · 10 replies · 1,659+ views
    ClickOnDetroit.com ^ | April 7, 2007 | ClickOnDetroit.com
    A Northwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit was canceled Friday evening because a crew member used inappropriate language, Northwest media relations manager Roman Blahoski said. Flight 1190, carrying 180 passengers, was scheduled to land at Detroit Metropolitan Airport at 6:18 p.m., Blahoski said. Passengers who were able to pay out of their pocket to buy a one-way ticket to Detroit may make it late Friday or Saturday, while others are waiting to be accommodated.
  • Crew Files FEC Complaint Against Presidential Candidate Duncan Hunter's Leadership Pac

    03/14/2007 9:36:58 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 114 replies · 1,342+ views
    Yahoooo ^ | 3/14/07
    WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against the Peace Through Strength Political Action Committee (PTS PAC), the leadership PAC for presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter (news, bio, voting record) (R-CA). The complaint asks the FEC to investigate PTS PAC's illegal support of Rep. Hunter's presidential campaign. Rep. Hunter announced his intentions to explore a presidential bid in October 2006. Beginning in December 2006, he promoted his candidacy by running advertisements with money he both raised and spent illegally. In December 2006, PTS PAC aired thinly-veiled...
  • Multi-service Crew Fights War on Terror From Aboard USS John C. Stennis

    03/06/2007 4:43:08 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 251+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Lt. Nathan Christensen, USN
    ABOARD USS JOHN C. STENNIS, March 6, 2007 – Navy, Marine Corps and Army personnel are working side by side aboard the USS John C. Stennis Strike Group supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The Stennis Strike Group is afloat in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility, which encompasses about 7.5 million square miles and includes the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman and parts of the Indian Ocean. “This is the epitome of a joint operation,” said Navy Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn, commander of Carrier Strike Group 3. “Our primary mission is to conduct air operations in...
  • Judge Rips Into Attorney for TV Remarks (remnant of Plamegate)

    12/23/2006 6:58:52 PM PST · by paudio · 18 replies · 1,886+ views
    imdb.com ^ | 22 December 2006
    An attorney for former ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife, Valerie Plame, is at the center of the Plamegate scandal in Washington, was raked over the coals by a judge Thursday for remarks she made the day before on MSNBC's Hardball. During an interview on the program, Melanie Sloan said that former administration official Scooter Libby could still be convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice even though he may not have been the first person to reveal that Plame was a CIA agent. In a stinging rebuke from the bench, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said that he "would not...
  • Attorney(Joe Wilson's) admonished for statements on Libby

    12/21/2006 1:10:38 PM PST · by johnny7 · 25 replies · 1,746+ views
    NBC News ^ | Dec 21, 2006 | By Joel Seidman
    WASHINGTON - A federal judge strongly admonished an attorney for former ambassador Joseph Wilson for her appearance yesterday on MSNBC's program "Hardball" where she predicted a jury can find I Lewis "Scooter" Libby guilty of making false statements.
  • CREW releases 2nd Annual Most Corrupt Members of Congress Report (Ethical Humanist Barf Alert)

    11/13/2006 11:41:33 PM PST · by restornu · 7 replies · 1,145+ views
    Public Statement Washington, DC – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its second annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress entitled Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch). This encyclopedic report on corruption in the 109th Congress documents the egregious, unethical and possibly illegal activities of the most tainted members of Congress. CREW has compiled the members’ transgressions and analyzed them in light of federal laws and congressional rules. Two members have been removed from last year’s list of 13. Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) is now serving...
  • CREW BLASTS PELOSI ENDORSEMENT OF UNETHICAL MURTHA FOR MAJORITY LEADER

    11/13/2006 12:24:26 PM PST · by smoothsailing · 104 replies · 3,346+ views
    For Immediate Release November 13, 2006 Contact: Naomi Seligman Steiner - 202.408.5565/press@citizensforethics.org CREW BLASTS PELOSI ENDORSEMENT OF UNETHICAL MURTHA FOR MAJORITY LEADER DEMOCRATS WIN ON ETHICS BUT CHOOSE TO RUN CORRUPT MEMBER FOR LEADERSHIP POST Washington, DC – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) questioned soon-to-be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) commitment to eradicating corruption with her endorsement of one of the most unethical members in Congress, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), to be Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Rep. Murtha was listed in CREW’s report Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five...
  • Pro-Abortion Group Files Lawsuit Over Pregnancy Centers, Federal Funds (CREW)

    11/02/2006 4:36:04 PM PST · by wagglebee · 15 replies · 409+ views
    Life News ^ | 11/2/06 | Steven Ertelt
    Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-abortion group calling itself a watchdog organization has filed a lawsuit seeking information on federal funding of pregnancy centers across the country. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) claims that the government is funding centers that are providing misleading information to women. CREW is one of several pro-abortion groups that have tried to tarnish the reputation of the thousands of pregnancy centers across the nation by claiming they are giving women false information about abortion's risks. Previously, CREW asked the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House about the...
  • Rep. (Duncan Hunter) fires back at U-T article

    10/22/2006 5:10:51 AM PDT · by radar101 · 49 replies · 1,165+ views
    San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 22 OCT 2006 | Philip J. LaVelle
    Duncan Hunter's cam- paign committee paid $26,000 to say deal was on up and up. In a move rarely seen in politics, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter bought a full-page ad in yesterday's editions of The San Diego Union-Tribune to rebut what he said were false impressions created by the newspaper regarding his East County home. Laced with bits of humor, the ad's overall tone was serious, with Hunter telling readers that his 1994 purchase of the property in Alpine was on the up and up. As for questions the newspaper raised about the residence's value on the tax rolls,...
  • Sestak And CREW Launch New Dirty Trick On Weldon

    10/21/2006 4:27:52 AM PDT · by PghBaldy · 8 replies · 756+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | October 21 | Dan Riehl
    CREW - Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in government (eye roll) have launched a new dirty trick against Curt Weldon and it is clear it was done in conjunction with the Sestak campaign. What remains to be seen is if the Mainstream media reports it objectively given the obvious facts. E-mails received by CREW have prompted us to ask the Department of Justice to investigate whether Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) violated the law by intimidating government personnel "in the national security field" who support his opponent, Joe Sestak. The first e-mail describes a "hit list" compiled of Weldon opponent's supporters....
  • Judge Orders Cheney Visitor Logs Opened

    10/19/2006 10:36:02 AM PDT · by elc · 51 replies · 2,160+ views
    Breitbart ^ | 10/19/2006 | MATT APUZZO
    A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election season debate over lobbyists' White House access. The Washington Post asked for two years of White House visitor logs in June but the Secret Service refused to process the request. Government attorneys called it "a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details of the vice presidency." U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled Wednesday that, by the end of next week, the Secret Service must produce the records or at...
  • Wetterling Campaign Fires Staffer Over E-Mail (Paid Mole Trapped)

    10/17/2006 3:25:57 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 37 replies · 1,150+ views
    WCCO4 ^ | 10/17/06 | AP
    Democrat Patty Wetterling's campaign manager has fired a field organizer who admitted sending an e-mail to one of opponent Michele Bachmann's field staff implying he was a Bachmann supporter. Bachmann said the e-mail was signed "Erick," but the e-mail heading said the message was from "Jon Bohn," a Wetterling employee who joined the campaign about a month ago. The e-mail sought information about Bachmann's plans to overcome Wetterling's lead in the latest poll. Wetterling campaign manager Corey Day says he fired Bohn minutes after he received the e-mail from the Bachmann campaign. He said Bohn admitted to sending the e-mail....
  • Agents raid homes of Rep. Curt Weldon’s daughter, close friend

    10/16/2006 10:17:57 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 145 replies · 5,117+ views
    Agents raid homes of Rep. Curt Weldon’s daughter, close friend By John Shiffman, Mitch Lipka and Patrick Kerkstra INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS Federal agents raided the home of the daughter of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) and his longtime friend Charlie Sexton this morning. The agents departed Karen Weldon's three-story brick home on Queen Street in Philadelphia with arms loaded with boxes. A government car pulled into the alley to the back door of the house and loaded boxes into it. Three agents standing in an alley declined to identify themselves. "I can confirm that we conducted a number of...
  • Weldon faces probe on daughter's deals

    10/15/2006 5:21:16 AM PDT · by Alissa · 20 replies · 780+ views
    AP ^ | Oct. 15, 2006 | KIMBERLY HEFLING and LARA JAKES JORDAN
    The FBI is investigating whether Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., used his influence to secure lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, two people familiar with the inquiry said Saturday. The inquiry focuses on lobbying contracts worth $1 million that Weldon's daughter, Karen Weldon, obtained from foreign clients and whether they were assisted by the congressman, they said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality of the criminal investigation. Weldon, a 10-term Republican from the Philadelphia suburbs, long has denied any wrongdoing, and his top aide said Saturday no one had notified him of an investigation. "I think...
  • FBI reportedly probing Rep. Weldon

    10/14/2006 7:26:17 PM PDT · by roostercogburn · 26 replies · 1,303+ views
    WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating whether U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon used his influence to secure lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, two people familiar with the inquiry said Saturday.
  • FBI raids homes of Weldon child, friend

    10/16/2006 12:22:24 PM PDT · by Kimberly GG · 37 replies · 1,555+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 10/16/06 | Maryclaire Dale
    MEDIA, Pa. - The FBI raided the homes of Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record)'s daughter and a close friend Monday as it investigates whether the congressman improperly helped the pair win lobbying and consulting contracts. Agents searched four locations in the Philadelphia area and two in Jacksonville, Fla., said Debbie Weierman, an FBI spokeswoman in Washington. The congressman's home and his offices were not among the locations searched, she said. Earlier Monday, Weldon called the investigation politically motivated and called the timing suspect. The Republican, who is locked in a tight re-election bid and has clashed with the...
  • FBI Investigating Pa. Rep. Curt Weldon

    10/14/2006 5:24:00 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 52 replies · 1,508+ views
    Fox News ^ | October 14, 2006
    The FBI is investigating whether Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., used his influence to secure lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, two people familiar with the inquiry said Saturday. The inquiry focuses on lobbying contracts worth $1 million that Weldon's daughter, Karen Weldon, obtained from foreign clients and whether they were assisted by the congressman, they said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality of the criminal investigation.
  • FBI investigates Rep. Curt Weldon

    10/13/2006 4:12:42 PM PDT · by dogbyte12 · 160 replies · 3,469+ views
    McClatchy Newspapers ^ | 10-13-06 | Greg Gordon
    WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is investigating whether Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, according to sources with direct knowledge of the inquiry. The FBI, which opened an investigation in recent months, has formally referred the matter to the department's Public Integrity Section for additional scrutiny. At issue are Weldon's efforts between 2002 and 2004 to aid two Russian companies and two Serbian brothers with ties to strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a federal law enforcement official said. The Russian companies and a Serbian foundation run by the brothers'...
  • Soros, Foley and the FBI

    10/11/2006 5:25:23 AM PDT · by SJackson · 15 replies · 1,176+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | October 11, 2006 | Richard Poe
    Its sinister maneuvers in the Foley scandal have put George Soros' Shadow Party on a collision course with the FBI. THE SCANDAL over Congressman Mark Foley’s sexual misconduct has generated some unexpected blowback.  It has pitted George Soros’ Shadow Party against the FBI. The Soros-funded group CREW has effectively declared war on America’s top federal law enforcement agency. CREW has called on the Justice Department to investigate the FBI.  In an October 5 statement, it accused the Bureau of having “fabricated and disseminated” falsehoods about CREW, as part of an FBI “cover-up” of the Foley scandal. (1) In the war of...
  • Soros and Foley. (Soros’ Shadow Party against F.B.I.)

    10/09/2006 9:58:22 PM PDT · by DaveTesla · 101 replies · 2,273+ views
    frontpagemag.com ^ | Monday, October 09, 2006 | David Horowitz
    A leftist group with strong ties to the Democratic Party and to radical billionaire George Soros may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice in the Foley case. FBI investigators have accused the group CREW of concealing evidence of Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual misconduct over a period of several months. George Soros’ Open Society Institute contributed $100,000 to CREW in January 2006. “CREW is little more than a front for George Soros’ Shadow Party,” charges David Horowitz. “CREW has been withholding this evidence for months, apparently in order to release it just before the election. It is well known that...
  • Saved by Foley (Democrats plan exposed?)

    10/09/2006 9:58:07 PM PDT · by jrooney · 118 replies · 3,455+ views
    The American Spectator ^ | 10-10-06 | Washington Prowler
    One of the stories going around Democrat Party circles is that party operatives like Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and American Family Voices weren't quite ready for primetime with the opposition research materials they had gathered for the 2006 election cycle. According to one political consultant with ties to the DNC and other party organizations, "I'm hearing the Foley story wasn't supposed to drop until about ten days out of the election. It was supposed the coup de grace, not the first shot." So why the rush? According to another DNC operative: bad polling numbers across the...
  • CREWing Manny Miranda

    10/09/2006 7:02:40 AM PDT · by Laverne · 15 replies · 722+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | October 9, 2006 | Clarice Feldman
    CREW, the Soros-funded organization, wants to have it both ways on the sanctity of private emails and web material. Sometimes it is fine to disclose them. Other times not. Sometimes the content of these communications matters, other times the only important question is the process by which they became public. And of course, most of the press and some Republican saps buy into this nonsense. As attention is focused on CREW’s role in the non-sexual / not-pedophilia / non-scandal of Mark Foley, it’s worth revisiting that organization’s role in the persecution of Manny Miranda, a former Senate Judiciary Committee aide....
  • Kerry vows tougher stance on group that questioned war service

    10/08/2006 1:40:37 PM PDT · by bitt · 192 replies · 3,510+ views
    Boston Glob ^ | October 8, 2006 | Mike Glover, AP Political Writer
    DES MOINES, Iowa --Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry lashed out Sunday against a group that bashed him during his last run at the White House. Kerry, who made a weekend appearance in northwest Iowa, said he is concerned that Swift Vote Veterans for Truth is again resorting to "the politics of fear and smear." The group, financed by Texas conservatives, ran commercials questioning his claim of being a decorated Vietnam veteran -- the centerpiece of his presidential campaign in 2004. "We're not going to give them an ounce of daylight," said Kerry, who is considering another run at the Democratic presidential...
  • John Aravosis And Crew And Foley Emails

    10/07/2006 7:40:10 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 80 replies · 1,031+ views
    Strata Sphere Blog ^ | Saturday, October 7th, 2006 at 5:32 pm. | AJStrata
    John Aravosis is yapping up a storm, and letting out details he doesn’t quite comprehend are (a) not common knowledge and (b) implicate him as working to orchestrate Foleygate in the media. It is important to note all the activity in July of 2006 regarding the non-salacious emails between Foley and a Page from Louisianna (aka, the LA Page). I have done numerous posts on these emails (the last one here with back referencing links). Reader TopSecretK9 as reminded me of this Aravosis comment when he admitted in October that he had the Foley Emails in July and mentioned he...
  • Page Scandal Makes America Look Silly

    10/08/2006 9:37:44 AM PDT · by the Real fifi · 24 replies · 1,319+ views
    The Sun ^ | 10/08/06 | Mark Steyn
    In London, sex scandals come along every other week. You name it, British parliamentarians do it: three-in-a-bed, auto-erotic asphyxiation, gay teen flagellation, getting your toes sucked while wearing the soccer kit of Chelsea Football Club. But at least at Westminster, sex scandals require actual sex. That the governing party of the world's only superpower could be felled by one creepy pervert's masturbatory e-mails and IMs is an event historians will marvel at. Granted that the Roman Empire in its death throes got hung up on gay sex, the American hyperpower seems set to be the first to collapse over gay...
  • Ex-Page Tells of Foley Liaison (21 years old!!!)

    10/08/2006 4:56:15 AM PDT · by PghBaldy · 182 replies · 4,517+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Ocyober 8 | Walter F. Roche Jr
    A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails in which the congressman described assessing the sexual orientation and physical attributes of underage pages but waiting until later to make direct advances. The former page, who agreed to discuss his relationship with Foley with the Los Angeles Times on the condition that he not be identified, said his electronic correspondence with Foley began after he finished the respected Capitol Hill page program for high school juniors. His sexual encounter was in the fall of 2000, he said. At the time, he was...
  • Foley Setup? - Part XIV - Putting it together

    10/06/2006 8:24:11 AM PDT · by Perdogg · 117 replies · 4,755+ views
    Macsminds ^ | 10.06.06 | MacRanger
    Bit h/t to the Commenters at Just One Minute. We bloggers owe our best work to their diligence and tenacity. The following is a complilation of some what they found so far, of what just may be the key to getting to the bottom of a Democratic conspiracy in the Foley Setup. As I previously posted here, there apparently was a promise of a book deal to pages by a Robin Kasaros. Googling her name brought about useful information such as she hosted “House Parties” back in 2005. No, not where you sell Tupperware, but the kind that like to...
  • The CREW Emails - Many Discrepencies!

    10/06/2006 8:52:26 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 9 replies · 375+ views
    The Strata-Sphere ^ | 10/6/06 | AJStrata
    The CREW Emails - Many Discrepencies! CREW has posted the emails it sent to the FBI (which are redacted like the FBI claims) and there are interesting tidbits for the timeline. These email refer to the 2005 contacts with the Page from Louisianna whose family has asked ther media to stay away.First off, the emails between the Page and the House Staffer were sent on August 31, 2005! Yes folks, last year. Supposedly this is from the Page to an unknown Staffer (democrat?) who was the intermediary for passing the emails to the news media. So we know the...
  • Conservatives Accuse Watchdog Group[CREW] of 'Christianophobia'

    10/06/2006 10:50:21 AM PDT · by inpajamas · 67 replies · 1,583+ views
    CNSNews ^ | 10-6-2006 | Monisha Bansal
    A liberal government watchdog group has asked the Secret Service to release its records of prominent conservative Christian leaders' visits to the White House, but one of those leaders called the request "an act of Christianophobia." Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Wednesday. The group said in the request that the records are "likely to contribute to the public's understanding of the influence that conservative Christian leaders have, or attempt to have, on the president in the exercise of his authority." The Secret Service has 20 business days to...
  • Open Society Institute (& Soros Foundations Network) is Funding CREW, and attacking Conservative's!

    10/06/2006 6:52:10 AM PDT · by OPS4 · 47 replies · 1,532+ views
    The Attacks from Crew on Foley and Now on The Religious leaders who's congregations are mostly Republican, are under attack by CREW. Crew is funded by George Soros, and it appears they are going after all things Republican and Conservative. That Means most of us Freepers and all who stand with us, must be aware of the attacks on our Moral and Ethical values and foundations. I will be posting a blog that will be monitoring these groups as well as all other attack groups from the left, so we are aware of the advancements in thier agenda's. As you...
  • Foleygate May Turn Into CREWgate

    10/06/2006 12:22:34 AM PDT · by John Lenin · 156 replies · 4,912+ views
    Strata-Sphere ^ | October 5th, 2006 | AJStrata
    Foleygate May Turn Into CREWgatePosted by AJStrata on October 5th, 2006 The FBI, which keeps meticulous records and has no reason to spin this mess, is now claiming that CREW had the emails as early as April and that they were so heavily redacted the FBI could not do much with them - so says the Washington Post: Law enforcement officials said then that the e-mails did not provide enough evidence of a possible crime to warrant a full investigation. In the e-mails, Foley praises the physical attributes of one page and asks another teenager for his picture. In...
  • The Foley set-up starts to break open

    10/05/2006 4:35:34 PM PDT · by Anti-Bubba182 · 57 replies · 3,182+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | 10 05 06 | Clarice Feldman
    The Foley set-up starts to break open Drudge has a world exclusive, as most readers already know. According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal… Developing… They have to get up a lot earlier in the morning to pull this sort of thing off these days. The MSM may be dumb but we aren’t. Present state of play—the Dems...
  • Watchdog Group Disputes FBI's Claims on E-Mails

    10/05/2006 8:19:20 PM PDT · by blogblogginaway · 86 replies · 2,598+ views
    washingtonpost.com ^ | oct 6, 2006 | Dan Eggen
    The watchdog group that first provided the FBI with suspicious e-mails from then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) said yesterday that FBI and Justice Department officials are attempting to cover up their inaction in the case by making false claims about the group. Law enforcement officials said the allegations by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) are without merit, and they stood by allegations that the group had refused to provide some information to the FBI. The dispute is the latest controversy this week for CREW, a liberal-leaning group that has come under attack from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert...
  • FOLEY EMAILS WERE ALTERED?

    10/05/2006 6:33:28 PM PDT · by Gribbles141 · 279 replies · 8,872+ views
    LGF ^ | 10-2-06 | LGF, Wild Bill
    Mark Foley Emails Altered? Now the Mark Foley story is getting weird. (Yes, I know it’s already weird, but this is weirder.) There doesn’t seem to be any doubt that Foley’s guilty of making advances to teenage boys—after all, he resigned—but there’s something very odd about the email messages being circulated by media and left wing blogs: Foleygate: Mark Foley emails altered.
  • Foleygate Tidbits

    10/05/2006 6:09:27 PM PDT · by jrooney · 27 replies · 1,330+ views
    The Strata-sphere ^ | 10-05-06 | AJ Strata
    The FBI said the emails provided by CREW had the Page’s name redacted and made following up impossible. They also said CREW edited the emails (they are not scans, they seem to be recreations - signs of RaThergate and Downing Street all over again). CREW challenged these claims and let slip the emails included the name of the Page and the Staffer (my guess is the name of the staffer is key to the investigation). I think it is fair game to demand CREW to make public the staffer’s name (it will come out anyway). Was it Fordham? Doubtful. Was...