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Time is running out

fff

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I guess the Bush pals are getting careless or desperate as Bush's term runs out. This guy certainly was open and casual about selling politicial influence.

Today, CREW sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking for an investigation into whether lobbyist Stephen Payne violated any criminal laws by offering to arrange meetings with top administration officials in return for a contribution to the Bush library and a substantial commission for serving as a go-between, and whether any administration officials broke the law by participating in a scheme to sell meetings for contributions. The letter to DOJ can be found here.

The Times of London has reported that a Times investigator asked Mr. Payne to arrange meetings in Washington for an exiled former central Asian president. Mr. Payne can be seen on videotape saying that such meetings can be arranged for “somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000, with about a third of it going directly to the Bush library.” The balance would go to Mr. Payne’s lobbying firm, Worldwide Strategic Partners. When asked which officials might be available to meet for that price, Mr. Payne replied, “Cheney’s possible, definitely the national security adviser [Stephen Hadley], definitely either Dr. Rice or . . . I think a meeting with Dr. Rice or the deputy secretary [John Negroponte] is possible . . .”

Mr. Payne is a top Bush donor who raised more than $100,000 for the 2000 presidential election and another $200,000 for the president’s 2004 re-election campaign. He is also a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council and has accompanied President Bush and Vice President Cheney on foreign trips.

Federal law prohibits public officials from directly or indirectly demanding, seeking, receiving, accepting, or agreeing to receive or accept anything of value in return for being influenced in the performance of an official act. If Mr. Payne was authorized by any member of the Bush administration to trade meetings with top level officials in return for financial contributions to the Bush library, those officials may have violated the bribery statute. Similarly, by offering to serve as a conduit to deliver contributions to the Bush library in exchange for meetings with administration officials, Mr. Payne may have violated federal law.

Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW, said today:

"It is clear from this week’s reporting that Mr. Payne is attempting to capitalize on his relationship with the President of the United States in a way that suggests United States foreign policy may be for sale to the highest bidder. Although the White House has denied any connection between official administration action and contributions to the library, considering Mr. Payne’s close ties to the White House, this simply is not credible. The Justice Department should immediately investigate if this administration is complicit in this or other contribution-for-meeting schemes with Mr. Payne."

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/33262
 

backhoeboogie

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Where you are in life is where you put yourself. Many of you libs blame Bush for all your woes.

Now that "time is running out", who are you going to blame next year when you are still a loser?
 

hopalong

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backhoeboogie said:
Where you are in life is where you put yourself. Many of you libs blame Bush for all your woes.

Now that "time is running out", who are you going to blame next year when you are still a loser?


BUSH!!!!
They have such a mindset it will take them years possibly even decades to come up with a new person to blame!! :D :D :D :D
 

kolanuraven

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backhoeboogie said:
Where you are in life is where you put yourself. Many of you libs blame Bush for all your woes.

Now that "time is running out", who are you going to blame next year when you are still a loser?



Hey...it's over 8 yrs later and you guys are still blaming Clinton!! :?

If you can do it....we can also!!!

In fact, AHole seems to have quiet an infatuation with Mr Clinton!!
 

CattleArmy

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kolanuraven said:
In fact, AHole seems to have quiet an infatuation with Mr Clinton!!

Before Clinton he always had to wonder what a cigar was for. Now he just wonders and is bitter about what else he could have learned with Clinton more years in the oval office and new interns.
 

aplusmnt

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CattleArmy said:
kolanuraven said:
In fact, AHole seems to have quiet an infatuation with Mr Clinton!!

Before Clinton he always had to wonder what a cigar was for. Now he just wonders and is bitter about what else he could have learned with Clinton more years in the oval office and new interns.

You sure are stuck on sex lately, you not getting any at home or what? :shock:

Personally I think Clinton getting some strange was a good thing, if America had to rely on Hillary to keep him happy in the bedroom he may have gotten us in a bigger mess than he did.
 

aplusmnt

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kolanuraven said:
backhoeboogie said:
Where you are in life is where you put yourself. Many of you libs blame Bush for all your woes.

Now that "time is running out", who are you going to blame next year when you are still a loser?



Hey...it's over 8 yrs later and you guys are still blaming Clinton!! :?

If you can do it....we can also!!!

In fact, AHole seems to have quiet an infatuation with Mr Clinton!!

Come on I know you are smarter than fff, you know policies that one president make have a great affect on the years to come! I know you do not want to agree with me but you know it :wink:

fff I understand, she is so unbalanced she can not help it. She has been wooed by the left and they have her brainwashed. But I think you have some economic common sense about you, but that is OK I understand you not wanting to admit I'm right :wink:
 

kolanuraven

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aplusmnt said:
CattleArmy said:
kolanuraven said:
In fact, AHole seems to have quiet an infatuation with Mr Clinton!!

Before Clinton he always had to wonder what a cigar was for. Now he just wonders and is bitter about what else he could have learned with Clinton more years in the oval office and new interns.

You sure are stuck on sex lately, you not getting any at home or what? :shock:

Personally I think Clinton getting some strange was a good thing, if America had to rely on Hillary to keep him happy in the bedroom he may have gotten us in a bigger mess than he did.



Well...then just think what we could have avoided if GW had ' gotten him' some ' strange' also!!!
 

backhoeboogie

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kolanuraven said:
Hey...it's over 8 yrs later and you guys are still blaming Clinton!! :?

'06 was the best year ever for income. '07 surpassed it. '08 is going to be a banner year, beyond imagination. Life is good. I can coast through another 8 years of someone as bad as Carter was.

Now don't get me wrong about Carter, he worked harder than any president I know of. He simply was a demo and everything he did was wrong. The harder he worked, the worse things got.

Pelosi wants to punish all the successful hard working Americans. She wants to take half of their income and give it to libs sitting around doing nothing. If she and the communists have power for 20 years, losers will still be losers when it is over.

We need to teach folks how to fish rather than giving them fish hand outs. You can read this forum and see for yourself.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon. I didn't even have a plastic spoon from a fast food dumpster. I worked my tail off to get where I am and I take great pride in it. Anyone could have done what I did in this land of opportunity.
 
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