[Antoninus]

Alleging a need to act quickly because of the leak, the FBI raided the homes of Weldon's daughter and a friend on Monday, Oct. 16. By noon of that same day, a group of nearly 20 Democrat protesters were milling outside Weldon's district office in Upper Darby, carrying matching signs that read "Caught Red-Handed." The story received a great deal of unreflective attention from a media desperate for a Democrat win, and Weldon went down to defeat.

The move against Weldon was naturally attributed to the Bush Justice Department. As the Berger case proved, however, there are powerful forces operating in the Justice Department and FBI that seem to have no greater goal than protecting the Clinton legacy and advancing the Democrat agenda. The idea that Karl Rove somehow orchestrated the Weldon hit makes sense only in the nether reaches of the liberal blogosphere.

This is an interesting article. Nevertheless, I would like to know how an FBI raid on a sitting Congressman's office goes off without the approval of *someone* in the Bush justice department.

Personally, I think the Bush admin--or at least *someone* within the administration--found Weldon to be "inconvenient". Same with Rick Santorum, which would explain why they put him out on a limb with that June 2006 press conference about WMDs--and then sawed off the limb.

[MarineMom613]

mark to read later.

[maica]

### an FBI raid on a sitting Congressman's office ###

The raid mentioned in this article was of Weldon's daughter's home, not his office.

Almost simultaneously with the raid on her home, people appeared at his Darby office with prepared, identical [which must mean printed] signs of protest.