Posted on 05/01/2005 3:32:27 PM PDT by wagglebee
In late 1996, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, engaged in a conference call with other Republican congressmen, including then-Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Their conversation was illegally wiretapped by two Florida Democrats, Alice and John Martin, who, when caught, were tried and fined $500 apiece.
Before they were caught and fined, these two wiretappers actually took their purloined tape recording to Washington, D.C., where they gave it to a then-member of the House Ethics Committee, Washington state's Democrat, James McDermott of Seattle.
McDermott leaked this private conversation to the New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – neither of which newspapers were ever punished for publishing this illegal wiretap.
But more than four years later, Congressman McDermott was found by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to be guilty of participating in an illegal transaction.
The federal court fined McDermott $60,000, plus attorneys fees to Congressman Boehner for his 1998 complaint against McDermott.
When the D.C. federal court found him guilty and fined him $60,000, McDermott immediately filed an appeal with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
There has been no ruling yet on this McDermott appeal filed eight months ago. But this prolonging of a case that began in January 1997 is an example of the venerable legal aphorism "Justice delayed is justice denied."
Late in 2004, Boehner's fellow Ohio Republican, David Hobson, filed a complaint in the House Ethics Committee against McDermott – who is widely known as "Baghdad Jim" for his inflammatory and far-left-wing speech in Iraq's capital before the fall of Saddam Hussein.
It may be hoped that the D.C. federal appellate court will soon rule on McDermott's very questionable appeal so that as his conviction of crime is upheld, he can, if he refuses to resign, be expelled from the House.
It amazes me that the media continues to focus on DeLay and completely ignores the fact that McDermott has actually been convicted of a crime.
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I don't know why it amazes you. They want the help the Dims and harm the GOP. Thus they focus on Delay and ignor McDermott. It is just a condition of the current times with a corrupt media.
Yeah I realized that right after I wrote it.
One must marvel at the ruthless efficiency. Even so. If I'm an Al Qaeda terrorist arranging a WMD attack by cellphone I need not fear the NSA nor CIA, nor DIA, nor the FBI but rather ye Democratic Party. If it threaten their prospects then I must abandon all hope of accomplishing my mission and flee.
He's trying to hold on long enough for a Hellary pardon.
I'll guarantee Baghdad Jim an SUV escort to the airport when he leaves town for good.
Yeah I realized that right after I wrote it.
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I know how it is. I get on rants like that too sometimes and then someone has to remind me too.
McDermott's criminality: Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank silent. After 9 years of hearing appeals, is it unfair to say that the courts are complicit in the cover-up?
Washington State doesn't want him to come back. Oh, I forgot. Seattle does.
This is child's play compared to the things democommies have done: WACO, Ron Brown, Vincent Foster, Ted "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy, Nuclear secrets to china
Sixty years ago, before all of this PC crap, Baghdad Jim would have been tried for treason and executed for the stunt he pulled with Saddam. The fact that the people of Seattle reelected him after that speaks volumes; I live in Virginia Beach and we have a huge active and retired military population and if our Congressman had done this, his life would be ruined.
I still do not believe the Democrat operatives in Florida just happened to find Old Newt on a phone conversation.
This was the day and age of private detectives working for the Democrats. There is much more to this mess than 2 Florida dimwits stumbling over cell phone hookups.
I suspect it was an old fashioned hard-wired tap, probably done by a federal agency at the order of the klintons. The RAT operatives were just a flismy cover. Ever since the ECPA-86 law, it was illegal to sell receivers that could access the cellular phone frequencies. Yet these two kindly old folks had something hardwired into their car, along with a convenient tape recorder?
We now know that the klintons requested three times more FISA wiretaps than any other presidency, yet there were no prosecutions for any intelligence violations. Just another example of our "protectors" gladly willing to bend and break the law for leftists.
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