FEBRUARY 2003 : (CREW aka "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" BECOMES ACTIVE) http://www.citizensforethics.org/news/20030719_natljrnl.php CREW has been active only since February [2003] , so its profile is still relatively low. Yet Republicans detect a strong Democratic orientation. Sloan, most recently an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is a former aide to Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; then-Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Schumer, D- N.Y.; and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. In addition, CREW's three board members are Mark Penn, President Clinton's former pollster; Daniel Berger, a trial lawyer from Philadelphia and a Clinton fundraiser; and Louis Mayberg, the president of a mutual fund company. 10 posted on 01/28/2004 10:52:10 AM PST by jimbo123
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FEBRUARY 2003 : (SPECIAL INTEREST NONPROFIT GROUP 'CREW' aka CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS BECOMES ACTIVE - IT IS FILLED WITH FORMER CLINTON ADMINISTRATION PEOPLE, INCLUDING MELANIE SLOAN, FORMER ASSISTANT US ATTORNEY IN DC) ... CREW aims to counterbalance the conservative legal watchdog groups that made such a strong impact over the past decade. These groups focused their attention on their left-wing adversaries, leaving the right relatively free from scrutiny. CREW focuses equal attention on misconduct by all, including the right. - CREW website * (* Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a non-profit legal watchdog group, ....Melanie Sloan serves as CREW's Executive Director. - CREW website)
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CREW assisted former Rep. Chris Bell (D-Texas) in drafting a complaint against Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) that resulted in the majority leader’s admonishment by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
Last May [2004], CREW wrote to Attorney General John Ashcroft requesting an investigation into whether former Rep. (now Sen.) John Thune (R-S.D.) violated a federal criminal statute prohibiting members of Congress from lobbying their former colleagues for one year after they leave Congress.
In October [2004], CREW asked the Department of Justice Public Integrity Section to investigate whether Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) broke federal law by running her reelection campaign out of her congressional district office.
There is a pattern here. In the overwhelming majority of complaints and critiques detailed in news releases posted on CREW’s website, Republicans or their allies are the targets. One of the few complaints lodged against a Democrat was a joint complaint against Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.).
CREW repeatedly demands greater disclosure by political players. In November, it wrote to the IRS demanding that the agency to enforce disclosure requirements on contributions made to 527 groups founded by DeLay, Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee and Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee.
Last September [2004], CREW wrote to The Washington Post criticizing the paper for failing to reveal that columnist Robert Novak’s Aug. 9 column praising Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry benefited Novak’s son, Alex the director of marketing for the book’s publisher, Regnery.
When pressed, CREW has confirmed that Mark Penn, President Bill Clinton’s former pollster, and Daniel Berger, an attorney and big-money donor to Democrats or their allies — $100,000 to America Coming Together last May [2004] and $13,750 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee the following month — are on its board.
If CREW wants clean politics in Washington, it needs to learn that transparency starts at home. ------- "Who is CREW?," The Hill, March 30, 2005
The IM's are time-stamped APRIL 2003!
Let us see what the libs were up to around that time:
APRIL 9, 2003 : (NIGERFLAP : FORGED DOCS FROM FRANCE?) Western intelligence officials outlined the key developments in interviews here yesterday, even as Iraqis in Baghdad and Basra, finally feeling free of Saddam Hussein's 25-year reign, were cheering U.S. and British troops as liberators. Among the crucial factors the intelligence officials cited in explaining the remarkable 21-day path to the regime's seeming demise:
(clip)...article continues to quote Intelligence officials with the final paragraph stating:
The intelligence officials offered a tantalizing coda for conspiracy-mongers. They said the "crude forgery" received by U.N. weapons inspectors suggesting the Iraqis were trying to buy uranium from Niger as part of their nuclear program was originally put in intelligence channels by France. The officials wouldn't speculate on French motives. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A1514-2003Apr9¬Found=true
APRIL 10, 2003 : (THE LEFTWING GROUP 'AMERICA COMING TOGETHER' HAS ITS WEB DOMAIN, AMERICACOMINGTOGETHER.COM REGISTERED; THE REGISTRANT IS 'NETPOLITICSGROUP') One of the groups benefactors is the wealthy and radical Soros - whois.crsnic.net
(* My note : Note that it was started the day AFTER the toppling of the Iraqi government)
See my post about CREW
well done. I hope Hastert and other Repubs fight back. I'm sick of the Roy Blunt/Tony Blankley wussies.
Great minds thinking alike..... just before I opened this thread and saw your usual magnificent research, I was just thinking how April 2003 would have been exactly the time frame in which Joe Wilson and friends were getting up a head of steam because he went to that DSPC meeting on May 3, 2003 to launch his jihad against the Bush administration......
Coincidence??? Or were Soros-funded scumbags chatting away all over DC about how to "get the goods" on eviiiillll Republicans??
Don't need any tin-foil to know that a lot of leftist scumbags talk to each other and feel justified in launching their jihads against eviiiiillll conservatives.....