Daschle Call For Bush SEC Records On Harken Energy Makes Him The Ultimate Hypocrite

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[Retired Chemist]

Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” yesterday that he had “real questions” about the Harken transaction and said Bush “would do well to ask the SEC to release the file, release it all, let everybody see just what is there

[Retired Chemist]

As I read about Senator Daschle requesting that President Bush open the records on his Harken Energy Dealings, I was reminded of Daschle stonewalling the release of records during Bill Clinton's impeachment!

[Vidalia]

Hold your ears little ones, here comes another BACKFIRE...

[chiefqc]

What an arrogant little traitor tiny tommy as*hole is.

Him and his money hungry wife(?)are a discrace and have more to hide than those he lies about.

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Daschle Calls for Release of Bush 'Scandal' File; Blocked Clinton Probe

NewsMax | 07/07/2002 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

"Daschle and his colleagues also continue to block the release of other still secret impeachment evidence against Clinton, held in the Ford Building during his Senate trial. The material, which Sexgate private investigators described for NewsMax.com in 1999, covers several rape allegations and other sexual assaults. It is so graphic and traumatizing that it reportedly "nauseated" one House member who viewed it and reduced another to tears. "

[Retired Chemist]

NewsMax.com

Monday, July 8, 2002 12:43 a.m. EDT

Daschlegate Offers White House Tempting Target

Now that top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle has called on President Bush to release the full Securities and Exchange Commission case file into the investigation of Bush's 1990 sale of Harken Energy stock, the White House's search for an effective response has undoubtedly begun.

They won't have to look far.

Turns out, Daschle and his wife Linda have their own sealed case files to worry about: records left over from the 1995 Senate Ethics Committee investigation into the alleged cover-up of the Democrat power couple's role in the deaths of three South Dakota Forest Service physicians who perished in a 1994 air crash.

The death plane was a charter aircraft operated by a close Daschle friend. The top Senate Democrat reportedly leaned on regulators to go soft on safety inspections for the charter company before the fatal crash.

Predictably, the Clinton Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee didn't do much with wrongful death and cover-up charges alleged by the doctors' widows - despite a blockbuster "60 Minutes" expose where the women expressly blamed Daschle for the deaths.

Heightening the Daschlegate intrigue, a Federal Aviation Administration office manager said she was ordered by superiors to destroy documents relevant to the fatal crash to protect Linda Daschle, who was then second in command at the agency.

The Forest Service physicians were killed when a plane operated by B&L Aviation crashed in Minot, N.D., on Feb. 24, 1994. B&L was owned by longtime Daschle crony Murl Bellew, who, before the crash, had asked his senator friend to help when the Forest Service found numerous safety violations with his aircraft.

According to the New York Times, the Senator then began "a two-year effort to strip the U.S. Forest Service of authority to inspect air charter companies." What's more, it appears Daschle tried to cover up his attempt to undermine the Forest Service.

In a Feb. 5, 1995, report, the Times revealed:

"[Daschle] initially said that he never pressed the Forest Service to get its inspectors to relax their inspections on B&L. But in November, a senior Daschle aide said that he had, with the senator's knowledge, intervened directly with the Forest Service inspectors who had warned that B&L was unsafe."

More evidence that the senator's denial was untrue emerged when documents turned up showing that Daschle had personally leaned on the Washington supervisors of the inspectors who had given Mr. Bellew's airline an unsafe rating.

The Times explained:

"Two FAA inspectors who spoke on condition of anonymity said in recent interviews that the Senator helped Mr. Bellew when he flunked a safety check in 1987." After Daschle intervened, one agency official was "called on the carpet to explain what happened," one of FAA sources said.

Then there's the account of Cathy Jones, an FAA office manager in Rapid City, S.D.

Jones told investigators that she was ordered to destroy documents relevant to the case because they "contained information with the possible appearance of improper intervention by Senator Daschle on behalf of the FAA."

The documents in question, Jones said, "would make the FAA look bad" because of Mrs. Daschle's top job with the agency.

On Nov. 30, 1995, the Senate Ethics Committee dismissed the doctors' widows' complaint, issuing the following terse statement:

"The Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint of possible improper conduct made against Sen. Tom Daschle regarding contacts made on behalf of the South Dakota aviation industry. The committee has concluded that contacts and actions by Sen. Daschle and his staff were routine and proper constituent services."

Of course, as with all Senate Ethics Committee probes, the Daschlgate case files were sealed.

Now that the top Senate Democrat has demanded the release of SEC investigative case files gathered during the 1991 probe into President Bush's Harken Energy stock sale, will the Bush White House return the favor, and ask for the release of Ethics Committee's Daschlegate files?

To read the full transcript of interviews with the women who fingered Sen. Daschle as responsible for their husband's deaths, see: Widows told '60 Minutes' Daschle Caused Husbands' Deaths.

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[backhoe]

My file on the worm:

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"Tom Daschle's Hillary Problem" by Stephanie Mencimer
... The landmines in Linda Daschle's professional portfolio will make Hillary Clinton's
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www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.mencimer.html - 32k - 14 Jan 2002 - Cached

Daschle's Wife Lobbies for Identification Company
... WASHINGTON (EVOTE.COM) - Linda Daschle, wife of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
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[PDF] Schering-Plough Political Money Pushes Claritin Patent ...
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www.citizen.org/documents/report.pdf - Similar pages

Photos of Daschle using federal resources for campaign fundraising!

Mrs. Daschle, Big Business Lobbyist/Daschle: No Conflict, Won't Release Tax Returns

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[backhoe]

There's more- on another Senator's wife:

Bingaman:

As lobbyist for the telecommunications comet Global Crossing, which went bankrupt last month, she received $2,500,000 for six months' work during 1999.

NY Times

The paper reported that Anne Bingaman's office released a statement in which she stated she, "never met or spoke at any member of Congress or congressional staff on behalf of Global Crossing."

Free Republic Article - 01/29/02

And another FR link with lots of other links about Ms. Bingaman:

Free Republic Article - 01/31/02

Enron should be called "Demron"

Bingaman

As if this was not bad enough, Global Crossing also argued that the FCC should ignore its residual unilateral “regulatory safeguards” (such as benchmarks, for example) - unilateral safeguards that were promulgated under the watch of the very high-powered Washington DC lobbyists that Global Crossing hired to argue hypocritically the exact opposite view.

Source

She was also a Director at McLeod USA (along with Erskine Bowles, of Clinton fame). Got the info from this link. Then did a search and found they declared bankruptcy in Jan '02, 2 days after Global Crossing filed.

Another link that backs up Bingaman's tenure at McLeod USA:

USA Today Article

Also mentioned at that link is one of her current positions at BIA Digital Partners, a communications investment firm funded by the BIA Financial Network. Her bio is listed under Industry Advisors

Virginia Business - Feb 2002

...here's more...she worked for LCI International Telecom Corp. according to her bio above, then I found this little tidbit of info:

LCI International Telecom Corp. d/b/a Qwest Comm.

Source

Qwest has also filed for bankruptcy and is currently being investigated by the DOJ and the SEC and guess who used to be their auditor...you got it...none other than Arthur Anderson. Details can be found at this link

what Congress believed Justice's role would be when it enacted the Telecommunications Act of 1996."

Source

Her full testimony can be found here.

Bingaman played a key role in the development of the Administration's telecommunications policy, including the landmark 1996 Telecommunications Act.

Source

Both of these stories can be found at:

Source

Did Sen. Bingaman or his wife have anything to do with the agreement from Qwest for the Navajoes? Hmmmmm....

Sen. Bingaman was also on the Senate Year 2000 Committee which in 1998 assessed the Y2K status of the telecommunications industry.

And does anyone think it is funny that Global Crossing almost won the award (it got yanked...see the link) for the Defense Information Systems Agency while Sen Bingham sits on the Armed Services Committee?

Their paths just keep on crossing over and over again...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/577317/posts

...and a Tip O' the Hatlo Hat to RavingNutter who found these for us.

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OH, my gosh, theres BIG money in lobbying!!!Wish I could have been a lobbyist!! not

[backhoe]

It's really disgusting, isn't it?

When I think about that, and about how hard my wife works for a little over $18,000 a year, I get kind of mad and a little bitter.

[nicmarlo]

Now that the top Senate Democrat has demanded the release of SEC investigative case files gathered during the 1991 probe into President Bush's Harken Energy stock sale, will the Bush White House return the favor, and ask for the release of Ethics Committee's Daschlegate files?

It would only be fair if this is done. And the commieRats always want what's fair. (/sarcasm)

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What do you expect from an elf with a tiny brain daschle has not done anything wrong because he is a commiecrat and they are perfect pukes

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bumpity uppity for the hypocrit Dashole

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