Ted Stevens to be indicted

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[ConservativeMan55]

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has indicted Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on seven counts of making false statements to federal officers investigating an Alaska businessman.

[ConservativeMan55]

See what kind of damage was done by having a Rat in office.

We’re still dealing with problems 8 years later.

We can’t afford an Obama in the White House.

[RightWhale]

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[montag813]

This is a disaster for Republicans who are trying hard to make the corrupt RAT Congress a big issue this year.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Um, yeah, I think the indictment of a sitting U.S. Senator would make the news, even if he/she were a Democrat. Remember, four of the Keating Five were Democrats. That was in the news for a long time. John McCain was the token Republican that the Dems insisted on typing to Keating so they wouldn't take the whole fall for trying to shut down the inevestigation of Keating's bank. Democrat Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey was caught in the Abscam deal.

Ted Stevens deserves every brickbat that gets thrown at him here, and I hope Mitch McConnell makes him resign immediately.

[Deb]

Amen, brother.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

From his web site:

—Quote:

We must stop illegal immigration by:

* Securing our borders.
* Removing the incentives that encourage illegal immigration, in particular birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.
* Strictly enforce existing immigration laws.
* Rejecting amnesty for illegal immigrants.

—End Quote:

No mention of deportation and above all, no mention of employer sanctions.

[ApplegateRanch]

What did he do, try to sell a bridge?

[jamese777]

“The Bush administration justice department that went after Kurt Weldon weeks before the 2006 election?

Newsflash: There are leftists crawling all over Justice. Bush didn’t do nearly enough to fumigate the place.”

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No indictment of this importance can go forward without the approval of the political appointees who run the Justice Department, particularly the Attorney General himself.
ALL of the Deputy and Assistant Attorneys General are Bush appointees. Every single one of them.
The guy holding the press conference at this very moment announcing the Stevens indictments is Matthew Friedrich, a Bush appointee as Acting Assistant Attorney General.
Friedrich pursued the prosecution of Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli for improper fundraising activities and Friedrich’s wife is an aide to Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Does he sound like a “leftist” to you?

[Spunky]

The Bridge To No Where.

[Miss Didi]

The Rat media must be licking their chops having something to concentrate on instead of Obama’s falling poll numbers.

Little Barry's trip to summer camp is a bomb, the folks are not grooving to Barry, McCain is leading in the polls...voila! a good old fashioned Republican scandal hits the airwaves. Now Little Barry can take a much needed break, work on his jump shot, and purchase some new cool shades.

[4yearlurker]

I am absolutely sick of dirty,corrupt politicians. Republican or Democrats. If he did the crime then he should do the time.

[Red Steel]

Allegedly Stevens accepted gifts from an energy company for political favors.

[Labyrinthos]

“The Justice Department has indicted Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on seven counts of making false statements to federal officers investigating an Alaska businessman.”

The Justice Department does not “indict.” Grand Juries indict.

[ConservativeMan55]

The indictment alleges that Stevens made false representations in his Senate financial disclosure forms and to federal investigators in an effort to cover up his receiving significant construction services.

Those services came from Bill Allen and the company he founded, VECO Corp, an influential Alaska oil services firm that has been the focus of federal investigators in an ongoing public corruption probe spanning the last two years.

[DeweyCA]

If Stevens had any class or dignity at all, he would step down from the primary so that his Republican challenger could run unopposed and save his money for the general election. But since Stevens has no class or dignity, he will try to stiff this out, and then he will lose the general election to the Dem guy.

[KingSnorky]

>>The Clinton hold-overs at Justice will have every elected Republican indicted by November.<<

Wait...I thought W’s “new tone” approach changed all that! /sarc

[lonevoice]

You nailed it. Those were exactly my thoughts on the timing of this. Not that I don’t believe Stevens deserves to be indicted, just that the timing is very suspicious...and convenient.

[RightWhale]

Including Ben Stevens, Sen Stevens son.

[spyone]

Well said. Dodd is even more corrupt.

[browardchad]

I wonder what the latest news is about ‘Cold Cash’ Jefferson?

He's running for re-election, last I heard.