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60 Minutes Report: Congress: Trading stock on inside information?

Video: Questioning Pelosi (and Boehner): Steve Kroft heads to D.C.

Pelosi fires back at '60 Minutes' report on 'soft corruption'

Audio: Stephen K. Bannon with author Peter Schweizer and Andrew Breitbart - Breitbart Calls For Spencer Baucus To Resign From Congress

The book that was the background for the report:

Yes.... throw all these crooks out!

1 posted on 11/13/2011 11:36:25 PM PST by STARWISE
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Take a breath ...


2 posted on 11/13/2011 11:37:41 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker dowTn)
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Everybody’s innocent in here. Didn’t you know that? —Andy Dufresne


3 posted on 11/13/2011 11:43:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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Of course they do... Do you expect the liars to admit they are breaking the law.

This report is absolutely sick for the average hard working, tax paying, law abiding Joe.

5 posted on 11/13/2011 11:45:43 PM PST by Sprite518
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...the long-running TV news show noted that insider-trading laws do not apply to Members of Congress...

Why is that? Why are these thieves (and worse) allowed to enact laws yet exempt themselves from the very laws they impose on the rest of us? That {expletive} has got to stop, like yesterday.

6 posted on 11/13/2011 11:47:33 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Of course they deny it....


9 posted on 11/13/2011 11:52:05 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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Anyone ever notice how many of our public servants become millionaires while in office?


14 posted on 11/14/2011 12:00:41 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I found this Twitter exchange between Pelosi and Breitbart to be somewhat enlightening:



Looks like Breitbart has "the goods" on Princess Pelosi. In other words, he has a few more documents up his sleeve!

Cheers
18 posted on 11/14/2011 12:10:58 AM PST by DoctorBulldog (I'm a Cainiac! Get over it.)
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The converse side of this is that lawmakers share inside information with lobbyists from Wall Street, who pay for it with campaign contributions.


24 posted on 11/14/2011 1:53:18 AM PST by wideminded
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Maybe, just maybe this will wake the sleeping giant and we totally re-work congress.
The first thing would be to make them subject to every law we are required to live by.
That includes Social Security.
They want to be treated like royalty. That is NOT what our founding fathers had in mind with congress. It was supposed to be like jury duty. Serve then go back home.
25 posted on 11/14/2011 2:49:28 AM PST by DeaconRed (My Hat Don't Hang on the same Nail to Long. I am a CAT adjuster.)
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Is anyone surprised? I’m not surprised. It’s not like this is “totally unexpected”. I’m just glad they have exposed this with such details.

I can name one example off the top of my head that’s got to be in this book, and if it’s not it should be — the ties between Homeland Security Personnel and the makers of the Airport “Naked” Scanners that received the job (which union are they?). Those people involved made a LOT of money there - AND did it by violating the public’s rights to privacy and safety.

If Martha Stewart went to jail, you can bet these folks deserve to be there for a lot longer than she was... It’s not like these were one time situations either — I’d bet you could charge these members of Congress as a group with the RICO Act.


26 posted on 11/14/2011 2:55:35 AM PST by LibertyRocks
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They deny the claims??????

I’m SHOCKED.....SHOCKED I tell you.

How could these vicious people attack the integrity of these “wholesome and good” politicians?

/sarc


29 posted on 11/14/2011 4:02:36 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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Of course it’s insider trading. Duh.


31 posted on 11/14/2011 5:19:23 AM PST by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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I have been waiting for this stuff to come out. It is explosive. If you are on Twitter follow @ThrowThemALLOut

If there is or is going to be a ping list for this subject matter, please add me. Great job pulling all the links/info together. After listening to Steven Bannon’s interview of the author and a few others last night, there should be lots of stuff coming out. Kudos Starwise.

32 posted on 11/14/2011 5:26:37 AM PST by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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I’m just hearing about all this. I’ll remind myself that this is CBS, then start reading.


33 posted on 11/14/2011 5:32:54 AM PST by TankerKC (Welcome to the age of "I Meant to Do That" Diplomacy)
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Now we know why Mr. $$$$mith goes to Washington and does everything he can to $tay there.


34 posted on 11/14/2011 5:35:27 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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Congress could easily modity their ethics rules to mandate a double blind trust (Congresscritter doesn't know choices being made; trustee doesn't know who is the client) for themselves and their immediate family members. Don't like that restriction? Don't run for office.

Pelosi may be "above the law" but I doubt that applies to her husband. Martha Stewart was jailed for a lot less. Let Mr. Nancy Pelosi feel the heat.

37 posted on 11/14/2011 5:47:31 AM PST by NonValueAdded (At 4 AM, it is a test; at 2 PM, it is a demonstration)
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Time to hire gallow builders.


40 posted on 11/14/2011 5:59:31 AM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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Peter Schweizer’s FaceBook page, for interested parties:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Schweizer/299095970114553?sk=wall#!/pages/Peter-Schweizer/299095970114553?sk=wall&filter=12


42 posted on 11/14/2011 6:14:05 AM PST by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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Well of course they deny it!

You don’t think they would admit it, do you?

LOL.


44 posted on 11/14/2011 6:51:31 AM PST by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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Have you seen "The List" of the Elite 80 : Skyrocketing Net Worth @ http://governmentgonewild.org/thelist ?

Pelousy's increase didn't even make the list as it was negligible comparatively. Yet there are some who still believe the financial collapse of late 2008 was not orchestrated.

Secret "closed door" meeting with Congress (3/14/08)
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/14/house_hold_rare_secret_session_on

Not only did members discuss new surveillance provisions as was the publicly stated reason for the closed door session, they also discussed:
1. the imminent collapse of the U.S. economy to occur by September 2008,
2. the imminent collapse of US federal government finances by February 2009,
3. the possibility of Civil War inside the USA as a result of the collapse,


And we wait...continuing to promote the same criminals.

Get Out Of Our House would be a good start.



45 posted on 11/14/2011 7:35:03 AM PST by Just A Nobody (Beware the ENEMEDIA ... Never Again! Support our Troops!)
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