Posted on 05/18/2006 5:37:16 PM PDT by wjersey
Whoa! What was that about the party of corruption Nancy Facelift was complaining about?
Thanks.
His office got one heck of a phone call from me!!! Not that it made a difference but I suspect mine wasn't the only irate call.
After all, if they wanted Wellstone, the people would have voted for Mondull.
I guess Nancy Pelosi was right after all, culture of corruption... oh wait... she said republican, and Torricelli is not a republican but a democrat? How can this be? HOW CAN THIS BE?
Hey JV.
Is the PreWarDocs accessable to do searches?
Or do all the docs have to be scrolled through and read individually?
If you can do document searches, are can you search for Torricelli?
Or, would these docs not be in the files due to investigations?
Thanks hon!
Torricelli Sleeps with Saddam
BWAAAAHH!!! LOL! Classic!
Looks that way -- Bright & Bright was demanding a huge chunk of the OFF contracts (at a discount), based on the clout of just one corrupt Senator?
>>>An April 15 1996 cable from Mr Hamdoun to Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy prime minister at the time, if authentic, appears to corroborate these allegations.<<<<
Well, here is a convenient loop hole:
>>>>Mr Hamdoun died in July 2003. <<<<<
I HOPE that means that if a sitting Democrat turns out to be invoved, they won't be wrist-slapped "for the good of the Senate".
LOL! You're right, CWO!
Well...this announcement about a non-issue related to the illegal war on terror is just a ploy to make the public forget the REAL problem of porus borders. **sniff** It won't work! They tried that when they turned the weather machine against Louisiana and it didn't work then!
bump
So far I did not see any documents that show Toricelli or any American involvement with the Oil for Food program but I will search furthermore. However I have read a document written by the Iraqi intelligence in 1999? that talks about influencing some people with power in the US.
Thanks JV!
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/05/19/ap2760079.html
Senate Panel Probes Ex-Senator in U.N. Case
Excerpt:
The Independent Inquiry Committee found that Saddam exploited oil-for-food by awarding contracts and taking kickbacks from hundreds of companies and individuals.
The investigation into Torricelli was first reported by The Financial Times.
The newspaper, citing Iraqi diplomatic cables and other documents obtained by the Times and Il Sole 24 Ore, an Italian business daily, reported that in the 1990s, Torricelli met several times with Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations at the time, Nizar Hamdoun.
At those meetings, according to the newspaper, Torricelli, then a House member, allegedly urged Iraq to help his campaign donor, David Chang, and Chang's company, Bright & Bright Corp., get oil-for-food contracts.
In 2002, the Senate Ethics Committee "severely admonished" Torricelli for accepting improper gifts from Chang, and the senator decided not to seek re-election. Two years earlier, Chang pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and funneling $53,700 in illegal donations to Torricelli's 1996 Senate campaign. Chang told investigators that he gave Torricelli cash and gifts in exchange for assistance in his business ventures; Torricelli called the allegations lies.
Torricelli spokesman Sean Jackson confirmed that Torricelli had conversations with the Iraq ambassador, but said the purpose was to argue that U.S.-Iraq relations would improve if American companies participated in the oil-for-food program.
(snip)
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/051006/spread.html
Congress has so little relevance to daily life
Excerpt:
But having left Washington the ultimate insider jettisoned out Torricelli is now the outsider who is invited in. He plays a role in the shadows of national politics, having raised money for John Kerry in his 2004 presidential race and advised his friend New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine someone he helped guide into politics with a leap from the Senate to the Statehouse and is eager to help the presidential campaign of his friend Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who he is convinced will occupy the White House for two terms starting in 2009.
That is a good one!!!!! bump
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