Posted on 05/19/2006 7:56:19 AM PDT by kellynla
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Thanks kellynla.
FYI - Coop
Murtha was sitting quietly as ranking member of the appropriations committee, quietly directing funds to his brother Kit, then the papers started to find out about it.... then stories started appearing about the relationship between Kit and John Murtha and the appropriations winfalls...
AND THEN SUDDENLY... the stories STOPPED as john murtha started making anti-war statements and allegations.
could it be?
extortion?
Profiles in Corruption
Federal prosecutors designated him an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam investigation 26 years ago.
I was reminded of it after Murtha became a candidate for majority leader, not by a Republican hit man but a Democratic former colleague in the House.
In a long political career, Murtha has made bitter enemies inside his party who are alarmed by his new stature.
In 1980, the FBI named him as one of eight members of Congress videotaped being offered bribes by a phony Arab sheik.
The other seven targets took cash and were convicted in federal court.
The videotape showed Murtha declining to take cash but expressing interest in further negotiations, while bragging about his political influence.
Murtha testified against the popular Rep. Frank Thompson, which created lifelong enemies in the Democratic cloakroom.
The House Ethics Committee exonerated Murtha of misconduct charges by a largely party-line vote, after which the committee's special counsel resigned in protest."
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak22.html
My future daughter-in-law has a little brother in Iraq right now, fighting honorably with the 101st Airborne. Kegan is part of the same group who was ambused last week, one killed immediately.. the other two brutally killed later. Kegan says that you never know who your enemy is in Iraq. He said the smiling little boy you befriend by day, may turn you in to enemies, marked for murder by night. War is hell. We should stand by and support all of our troops.
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