The Democratic Party is a TRAITOROUS, AMERICA HATING, CRIMINAL organization.
The complaint against Mr. McDermott stems from a 1996 conference call among Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, and other members of Congress, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Georgia Republican, in which the congressmen discussed how to respond to an ethics investigation of Mr. Gingrich.
Mr. Boehner was in Florida at the time and his cell phone call was intercepted by a Florida couple, Alice and John Martin, who recorded it.
In January 1997, the Martins gave the recording to Mr. McDermott, the top Democrat on the ethics panel [at the time]. Mr. McDermott subsequently leaked the tape to news outlets, including the New York Times. When the Martins revealed Mr. McDermott’s role in leaking the tape, the congressman resigned from the ethics panel.
...In August, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Mr. McDermott had ‘participated in an illegal transaction when he accepted the tape,’ and fined him $60,000 plus Mr. Boehner’s attorney fees.
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The Iraqi money went into McDermott’s legal defense fund for fending off a lawsuit by Mr. Boehner over the Democrat operatives “wiretapping” of the Republican conference call.
SEPTEMBER 2002 : (LEBANON : IRAQI VP TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN TELLS THE WORLD THAT HIS GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO LAUNCH A PREEMPTIVE FIRST STRIKE AGAINST AMERICAN AND ALLIED TARGETS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD) Even as McDermott and Bonior were still on the ground in Baghdad, issuing their all’s well cry, Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was telling the world, by way of Lebanese television, that his government reserved the right to launch a preemptive first strike—against American and allied targets, military or civilian, anywhere in the world. Where war is concerned, Ramadan promised, “we’ll decide when it happens.” Iraq “has the right to confront the aggressors on its land and in any place the aggressors are found. An enemy is an enemy....Any American, British, or Zionist interests on Arab land or within reach of Arabs, wherever they are, I consider as legitimate.”—— “Not So Innocents Abroad; “ by David Tell, for the editors, The Weekly Standard, 10/14/2002