So how much did the Clintons get for dropping that provision?
read the article carefully -- the language "was inadvertently dropped" from an addendum attached to more than 1,100 leases :)
The Department of the Interior was a mess during Bruce Babitt's term. A federal judge ordered both Babitt and Treasury Sec. Rubin to find out where the money owed for grazing , mining and whatever was and they ignored him. They were both found in contempt. The lawyers for interior actually told the judge that rodents ate the records. The judge was furious. I am not sure that this mess is just a rehash of the missing money reported during Rubin's tenure.
Most likely it is. The indians were due quite a bit of money. Gail Norton inherited a huge problem. I will bet that the entire mess will be blamed on GW Bush and Dick Cheney.
There is no issue that was dealt with honorable when the clinton's were involved.
That was the first thought that came to mind... did someone say Clinton??
plenty. I rember this one. it did drop out of the public mind rather quickly. but then Clinton had MSM eating out of his hand all the time
We talked about this, on FR, back then.