Posted on 07/21/2011 10:28:28 AM PDT by Nachum
A top aide to Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin supplied an answer last year to a thorny question a friendly witness would face the next day at a pivotal hearing on for-profit colleges, raising questions of witness tampering, an email obtained by The Daily Caller shows.
As Harkin prepares for another event on the same subject at 2:00 p.m. today, the email raises fresh concerns about the senator’s committee conduct after he recently faced accusations from Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigators that he pressured them on an error-ridden report unveiled at the very same hearing.
That Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing on Aug. 4, 2010 provided crucial momentum to a push by the Obama administration for strict new regulations on the for-profit sector that were finalized June 2.
Josh Pruyn, a former official at a for-profit school, testified then that he was “disillusioned” with the high-pressure sales techniques he said he saw used to enroll students at Westwood College online.
In advance of the hearing, representatives for for-profit, or “career,” colleges suggested there were ties between Pruyn and the James Hoyer Investigative Law Firm, which “has tried to make a business of suing” for-profit colleges, in the words of the sector’s top lobbyist in an email at the time.
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“the email raises fresh concerns about the senator’s committee conduct after he recently faced accusations from Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigators that he pressured them on an error-ridden report unveiled at the very same hearing.”
Not to worry....the media...shhhhh...has got his back. he’ll get out of this unscathed I’m certain because after all....he’s a Dem.
How dare they call him a Democrat in the news.
Another truth-challenged, self-described Vietnam vet.
Exactly. He will skate.
I wouldn’t put anything past this slime ball.
Put Harkin, Kerrey, Biden, Schumer, Durbin, et al., in a bottle, shake it up and pour one out. It doesn’t matter which comes out as they are all the same.
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