Countdown: FISA & Fallon - Our Petulant President By: Logan Murphy [Crooks and Liars] Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 7:20 PM - PDT
President Bush has been doing his best to remind the American people that he’s still around, and what better way to do that than to throw a few hissy fits? As Keith Olbermann says on today’s Countdown, from the tone of Bush’s voice, it sounds like he’s just given up. The president is once again chiding House Democrats for drafting new FISA legislation that does not include amnesty for telecommunications companies who illegally spied on Americans, calling those companies - “patriotic.” Right.
Rachel Maddow joined Keith and as always, her analysis is spot on. She points out that President Bush was willing to veto the safety of the American people all in the name of protecting corporations and and himself from prosecution. They also touch on the “resignation” of Admiral Fallon and how it was obviously a shot across the bow of anyone in the Pentagon who wants to be a real patriot and save the country from launching another unprovoked war against a sovereign nation.
Maddow:”The other part of this strategy is that they’re using a biplane to fly a picture of Eric Shinseki around the Pentagon to remind everybody what happens when people don’t toe the line and do something that’s right instead of what the President wants.”
Sham Audits May Have Hid Theft by G.O.P. Committee Treasurer, Lawyer Says
March 14, 2008
By NEIL A. LEWIS
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The former treasurer of a Republican Congressional fund-raising committee may have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars by submitting elaborately forged audit reports for five years using the letterhead of a legitimate auditing firm, a lawyer for the committee said Thursday.
Robert K. Kelner, a lawyer with Covington & Burling, who was brought in by the National Republican Congressional Committee to investigate accounting irregularities, said a new audit showed that the committee had $740,000 less on hand than it believed. Mr. Kelner said it was unclear whether that amount represented money siphoned off by the former treasurer, Christopher J. Ward.
Mr. Ward, who is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had the authority to make transfers of committee money on his own, Mr. Kelner said.
He said an investigation with the help of PricewaterhouseCoopers had “found a pattern in which Mr. Ward would transfer funds by wire out of the N.R.C.C. to outside committees.” From those outside committees, Mr. Kelner said, money was then transferred to “personal and business accounts of Mr. Ward.”
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