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Friday Links
The Political Carnival —
... Washington Post: Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... David Brooks: For the past few days I have tried to do what journalists are supposed to do. I’ve called around to several of the smartest military experts I know to get their views on these controversies. I will then ask you to to trust that I'm not selectively reporting the ones that agree with my opinion, and distilling it to sound ominously anti-progressive. I wonder why no one reads newspapers any more? WaPo: House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of ...
Capital Eye Opener: Friday, October 30
Capital Eye —
... DOZENS OF CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS FACE ETHICS INQUIRY: More than 30 members of Congress, plus several aides, are under scrutiny by House ethics investigators concerning issues about defense contracting and influence peddling, the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane report in this morning's edition. The information came to light after someone discovered what was supposed to be a secret investigation document on a public computer network, the Post notes. While details on the investigation are limited, and ethics inquiries aren't ...
The Morning Wrap
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times —
Congressional Ethics Probe: House ethics investigators have been examining more than 30 lawmakers and several aides on issues related to defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared this summer and obtained by The Washington Post . Hogan-Lovells Talks: Also in ...
More Democrats behaving badly?
RedState —
... involving the investigation of seven PMA Porkers* was pretty succinct (mad giggling usually is), this follow-up article describing the document disclosure (completely accidental, of course) and some more names to watch deserves at least a bullet points list. Also of interest to ethics investigators, apparently: ...
Ethics probe so big lawmakers have to take a number -- half the Pentagon spending committee caught in net
Top of the Ticket —
... Turns out that nearly half the members of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which Murtha chairs, are under investigation for funneling millions in federal funds to clients of a lobbyist who used to work on the Hill. The charge: They put earmarks worth $300 million in the 2008 Defense appropriation bill to benefit clients of the PMA Group, a now-defunct lobbying firm headed by Paul Magliocchetti, a former aide to the committee. ...
Ethics Committee Gone Wild
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
Being in the right place at the right time matters in life, and that seems to be what happened at The Washington Post. The Post noticed that some confidential documents from the House Ethics Committee had been put on a public server, and they got themselves a big scoop--a list of lawmakers being examined by the committee. Such information is supposed to be kept confidential because it doesn't take much for the committee to examine a member, at least in an informal way. But it was later revealed that a junior staffer, working from home, had not followed the necessary security ...
Florida members among those named in House ethics investigations
Naked Politics —
... DC's abuzz over a report in today's Washington Post about a memo accidentally posted online by the House Ethics Committee. The July memo details how the committee's investigators "have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling," according to the Post. ...
Hillary's Pakistani Moment, Zelaya's Final Solution, Free the Military Panel 7
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
... We have two Congressional panels investigating over 30 members of Congress for ethics violations: "House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling." This makes me so happy, as I'm sure it does for many others who have seen the system perverted by bribes associated with earmarks and lobbying groups. ...
And we want these people in charge of hospitals and doctors?
Peoples Press Collective —
... Turns out that nearly half the members of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which Murtha chairs, are under investigation for funneling millions in federal funds to clients of a lobbyist who used to work on the Hill. The charge; ...
Why Don't We Call Bribery "Bribery" When It Involves Senators Wives Getting Paid Off For Their Husband's Votes?
DownWithTyranny! —
... I'd be more interested in knowing how the Justice Department investigations into the most corrupt members of Congress-- like the 3 Inland Empire crooks, Jerry Lewis, Ken Calvert and Gary Miller-- are progressing, but yesterday the Washington Post published a leak showing that more than 30 House members are being looked at by the largely ineffective Ethics Committee. As always-- going back to the days when Jerry Lewis ran it and Duke Cunningham and Duncan Hunter ran rampant-- the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee is a major focus. Todd Tiahrt, a teabagger-supported ...
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