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Posted on 10/20/2013 6:20:17 PM PDT by markomalley
Members of Congress and their staffs are on red alert tonight for a CBS 60 Minutes investigation by veteran CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer exposing how lawmakers convert campaign donations into lavish lifestyle upgrades for themselves and their family members.
Sources say top CBS executives thought the report was so explosive that they made it the shows lead story and delayed airing it for another week in order to capture tonights much larger NFL-viewing audience. The report features selected revelations from Schweizers forthcoming book, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets.
Im under a publisher embargo right now and cant say much, Schweizer told Breitbart News. But suffice it to say, President Obama and some members of Washingtons Permanent Political Class are not going to like what we uncovered and the kinds of personal enrichment and self-dealing exposed in Extortion.
To prevent early leaks of the books contents, publisher Houghton Mifflin made bookstore managers sign legal affidavits saying they would not shelve Extortion until the books official Tuesday, October 22 launch date. The book, which contains a staggering 35 pages of source materials totaling over 600 endnotes, is chock-full of revelations and never-before-released documents on top Washington figures, says Houghton Mifflin.
According to the publishers description, the new book reveals vast new areas of corruption in our political system and contains eye-opening revelations on every page, while opening a whole new battlefield in the great war to fix whats wrong with our government.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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