Friday, March 14, 2014

Sen. Feinscam





The Two Faces of Elected Democrats
 ... it's probably not a good idea to begin by asserting that virtually all elected Democrats are liars. But what the hell.


Mr. Ron Metzger
Which brings to mind—

I naively thought Congress wanted to get rid of the bad apples. Boy, was I wrong. I thought we were doing a good thing here, but it turned out Congress didn't agree with that. They were angry

Francis 'Bud' Mullen

former FBI assistant director


.While prosecutors won 19 Abscam convictions, Congress sought assurances that a similar investigation would never happen again. Then-U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti approved new guidelines in 1981 that governed "sensitive" undercover investigations involving politicians.  [Full]

Of the thirty-one targeted officials, one US senator (Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ)) and six members of the US House of Representatives (John Jenrette (D-SC), Richard Kelly (R-FL), Raymond Lederer (D-PA), Michael "Ozzie" Myers (D-PA), Frank Thompson (D-NJ), and John M. Murphy (D-NY)) were convicted of bribery and conspiracy in separate trials in 1981.

John Murtha (D-PA) was one of the Congressmen videotaped[16] in an encounter with undercover FBI operatives.[17] Although never indicted or prosecuted, he was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the scandal.[18] ....
Murtha was given immunity and testified against his colleagues, and remained in Congress

Until fairly recently, most discussions of Abscam misdirected his party affiliation with (Harrison A. Williams (R-NJ)
 




3 comments:

USMC2841 said...

We've got Feinstein touting the 4th ammendment and Lerner using the 5th. If the government keeps acting this way we may get some Democrats to read the Constitution.

Anonymous said...

Those hypocritical Dumbocrats may read The Constitution, but look for them to interpret it to suit themselves and their vast left wing agenda. You know, very much like the radical Muslims interpret the Koran to justify killing anyone who doesn't bow down to them.

I started referring to Scary Harry Reid as "Hypocritical Harry", after he pushed through the filibuster fiasco last winter. But Diane Feinstein out-hypocrited Ol' Scary Harry on this one. And in just two months, too.

Scottiebill

Anonymous said...

There's an old saying something about "Depends on whose ox is gored."

e~C

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