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October 31, 2007
FBI Corruption Probe
by Aaron Park
3 1/2 years of investigations, no indictment
Your house gets raided and files relating to the associate that got you into this investigation in the first place are left behind. Of course, your young daughter is terrorized during the whole ordeal and no one cares.
You are a Republican Congressman and three of your colleagues resigned in disgrace, two of whom went to jail, so therefore you are presumed guilty.
And so it goes, instead of idealogical attacks which had never worked in the past… the tactics change to throwing it through the fan and alleging corruption. John Doolittle did the same thing we do in my office, pay relatives for consulting… that’s the worst of it.
Jack Abramoff took down Bob Ney, Duke Cunningham and Tom DeLay. All three of them went down within a year of discovery, but not John Doolittle. You have to ask yourself that question to be intellectually honest. (Don’t tell me it is because John Doolittle is so powerful, Ney and DeLay were at the highest level of GOP leadership when they went down.)
Larry Craig was forced out of office in a week after being exposed for being a pervert. Mark Foley was forced out of office several weeks after it was revealed that he was out of control sexually.
John Doolittle is still in office.
Could it be that John is innocent? Could it be because the government has egg on its’ face over this investigation and they refuse to exonerate John because they will look bad?
“If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit”...
The sad fact is reading the bee commentary and the hyperbolae of Eric Kerry-Egland for example, it looks like other people’s ambitions are at work to deny John Doolittle due process. (after 3 1/2 years no less)
The fact that the media has so much power that they can take down a congressman by simply attaching his name to every negative Republican story is absurd. Even more absurd is when Republicans contribute by skewering that congressman before he has had his day in court.
Posted by Post Scripts at October 31, 2007 11:17 PM
Comments
Jack Abramoff was associated with many democrats currently serving in congress. I wonder if anyone can name even a single one...or one that has recieved similar treatment.
It might be interesting to look into the background and associations of those doing the investigating. We eventually learned that the person responsible for many of Tom DeLays court "hassles" was himself a corrupt operative in the Texas Democrat Party. Delay was aquitted on those charges but of course long after he resigned and had spent a lot of time and money defending himself.
I don't know how we can clean this brand of politics out of the system. I do know that it is up to us to expose it whenever we can and to discover the truth behind the game: the politics of personal destruction.
Posted by: Tina at November 1, 2007 08:31 PM
Aaron, as a former investigator, my job was to investigate crimes. If the focus of that investigation was directed to a particular person, who my investigation later exonerated, I did not see that as being a failure, or having egg on my face for the result. I saw it as being my job. I would hope that this would be the case for the FBI as well.
Posted by: John Freitas at November 2, 2007 12:42 PM