Culture of Corruption

forgot this existed; CORRUPTION node tends to deal with overseas bribery

this category mostly for US politicians doing crooked deals, bribery, sweatheart, see also revolving doortends to be gop, esp bush43?7/15 white collar crime has to do with pvt sector crime/corruption (fraud, inside trading etc)

btw the law about having to register if you're lobbying for a foreign gov't goes back to poison ivy?

=trump promotes his biz at 112 events?, alec conf at hus hotel, panama hotel money launder=trifecta!<div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2525969194" data-authors="Sierra Club" data-headline="In Alabama, a Cleanup Unearths Toxins—and Scandal" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description">...""You can see it," said Chester Wallace, president of the North Birmingham Community Coalition, who grew up in Collegeville. "When it rains you can see where the pollutants are coming in from the various plants in the water, from the various colors in the runoff. You can see it in the discoloration of the plants. You can see the soot on houses. If you hang clothes out, you'll see it outside."Residents talk about friends and neighbors who've died of cancer or children who struggle with asthma, fearing the soot that sticks to their siding and cars is more than a nuisance. Charlie Powell, head of a neighborhood group called PANIC—People Against Neighborhood Industrial Contamination—said more studies need to be done into whether there's a link between the visible pollution and the ailments that have claimed their friends. But he added, "There's got to be a connection there in some kind of way."In 2013, the EPA declared more than 1,000 acres of the neighborhoods a Superfund site after finding the soil was laced with arsenic, <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/lead" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lead</a> and benzo(a)pyrene, a coal byproduct <a href="https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/iris2/chemicalLanding.cfm?substance_nmbr=136" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">which causes cancer</a>. It named five companies, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2013-09/documents/35th-ave-algnl-drummond-co-2013-09-20.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">including Drummond</a>, as potentially responsible for the pollution and cleanup costs and started to work digging up 400 yards.The EPA was asked to expand that site into another Birmingham neighborhood and the small suburb of Tarrant, where Drummond's plant is located. The agency also began weighing whether to add the north Birmingham site to the National Priorities List, which would allow regulators to clean up the site first and seek repayment from responsible parties later.That could have left those companies on the hook for tens of millions of dollars. So Drummond got to work fighting the proposal, both directly—arguing to the EPA that there was <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/347968817/ABC-Coke-Response-to-EPA" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">no evidence of pollution</a> that could be linked to the plant in the proposed expansion —and, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-grand-jury-indicts-two-lawyers-and-coal-company-vp-conspiracy-bribe-legislator" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">according to prosecutors</a>, by enlisting Robinson to secretly lobby on its behalf.Roberson, Gilbert and McKinney are accused of using a consulting contract to funnel thousands of dollars a month through a nonprofit they set up to one created by Robinson, a onetime local basketball standout who played a year with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. In exchange, prosecutors say Robinson lobbied the EPA and the state Environmental Management Commission to oppose expanding the north Birmingham site, arguing it would destroy his constituents' property values. He also voted for a state House resolution condemning "EPA's overreach." Roberson drafted the resolution, which then-Gov. Robert Bentley later signed, according to the indictment.Drummond said its lawyers "engaged the Oliver Robinson Foundation to perform community outreach in connection with the matter, and Drummond understood this process was lawful and proper."Robinson, who had resigned from the House before his indictment, won't be sentenced until after the upcoming trial. His lawyer, Richard Jaffe, told Sierra he's "proud of the truthfulness and remorse he continues to express."Wallace said he was "totally disappointed" in Robinson, while Powell said the former legislator "defrauded the whole neighborhood.""He got $300,000 or $400,000. What good does it do when he's in jail?" Powell said. "There needs to be a lesson to anybody who's playing with people's lives. I don't see how he could sleep at night about that."The case is another ethical embarrassment for a state government that's seen the heads of <a href="http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/04/alabama_democrats_blast_gop_ov.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">all three branches</a> removed from office for misconduct in the past two years. In additions, an earlier federal probe that examined EPA-required sewer improvements in Birmingham led to a raft of convictions and guilty pleas by bankers and politicians, including <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/aln/News/March%202010/MARCH%205,%202010%20FEDERAL%20JUDGE%20SENTENCES%20FORMER%20BIRMINGHAM%20MAYOR%20AND%20FORMER%20JEFFERSON%20COUNTY%20COMMISSION%20PRESIDENT%20TO%2015%20YEARS%20FOR%20BRIBERY%20SCHEME.htm" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">the city's ex-mayor</a>, and the eventual bankruptcy of surrounding Jefferson County.The EPA has cleaned up 320 North Birmingham lots so far, at a cost of about $25 million, according to agency spokesman James Pinkney. The work is expected to last about two more years."One of the largest challenges to completing work at this site is connecting with the owners of both occupied and vacant properties," Pinkney told Sierra via e-mail.Reposted with permission from our media associate <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/alabama-cleanup-unearths-toxins-and-scandal" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">SIERRA Magazine</a>.<div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-fracking-wells-gulf-1915520170.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Hundreds of Offshore Fracking Wells Dump Billions of Gallons of Oil ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.epa.gov/north-birmingham-project/cleanup-process-north-birmingham-environmental-collaboration-project" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Cleanup Process in the North Birmingham Environmental ... ›</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div>
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</div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Approval of Corporation's Plan to Drain California Desert Aquifer</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2513542263" data-authors="Earthjustice" data-headline="Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Approval of Corporation's Plan to Drain California Desert Aquifer" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description">Conservation and health-safety groups <a href="https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/1%20Complaint%2011-28-17.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">filed suit</a> on Tuesday in federal court challenging the Trump administration's approval of an enormous groundwater-mining and pipeline project in Southern California. The Cadiz water project, approved without environmental review, includes the construction of a pipeline through the Mojave Trails National Monument and other public lands in the area.Tuesday's lawsuit notes that the Trump administration reversed two Obama administration decisions and wrongly concluded that the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/bernhardt-senate-vote-2411491233.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cadiz project</a>'s 43-mile pipeline did not require any federal Bureau of Land Management permits or approvals. The BLM is allowing the developer to build the pipeline within an existing railroad right-of-way, paving the way for Cadiz to pump 16 billion gallons of water a year from the fragile desert aquifer to sprawling new developments in Southern California."The Cadiz project will suck the desert dry while developers count their money," said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist with the <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Biological Diversity</a>. "It's an unsustainable water-privatization scheme. Pumping ancient groundwater from the Mojave Desert to water suburban lawns in Orange County will devastate desert <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildlife" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wildlife</a> and the entire ecosystem relying on that water for survival."If allowed to move forward, the Cadiz water-mining project would drain life-giving springs in the Mojave Trails National Monument and surrounding public lands, killing vegetation and destroying key habitat for a host of desert wildlife, including the threatened <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/reptiles/desert_tortoise/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">desert tortoises</a>, bighorn sheep, <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/reptiles/Mojave_fringe-toed_lizard/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mojave fringe-toed lizards</a> and <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/desert_kit_fox/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">kit foxes</a>. Hydrologists from the U.S. Geological Survey determined that the Cadiz project is unsustainable and that the company's privately funded study vastly overstates the aquifer's recharge rate."The Trump administration's approval of the Cadiz project is crony capitalism at its worst," said Adam Keats, senior attorney with the <a href="https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Food Safety</a>. "So much life relies on this precious desert groundwater, yet under Trump apparently the only thing that matters is how much money you have and who your friends are in government."The project's approval followed the appointment of <a href="https://earthjustice.org/blog/2017-may/fossil-fuel-lobbyist-picked-for-post-at-interior" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Bernhardt</a>, a deputy Interior Department secretary and former lobbyist for Cadiz. Bernhardt's former employer, the Washington-based law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, continues to represent Cadiz."Cadiz, Inc. is just another corporation looking to profit by selling off an irreplaceable public resource," said Greg Loarie, an attorney at <a href="https://earthjustice.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Earthjustice</a> who is representing the groups filing suit. "The Trump administration would love to give Cadiz a free pass around our environmental laws, but we're not going to let that happen."The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Food Safety have also filed <a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/Cadiz/pdfs/2017-09-27_FOIA_Requests_RE_Cadiz_Water_Project.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">public records requests</a> for documents that could shed light on the Trump administration's abrupt decision to allow the Cadiz project to move forward. In addition to Earthjustice, the groups are represented by Adam Keats at the Center for Food Safety and Aruna Prabhala and Lisa Belenky at the Center for Biological Diversity.</div></div></div><div> </div>=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/13-trump-allies-and-counting-busted-explosive-paradise-papers-leak">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/13-trump-allies-and-counting-busted-explosive-paradise-papers-leak</a>...Paradise Papers include around 13.4 million leaked documents, including nearly 7 million loan agreements, financial statements, emails, trust deeds and other paperwork from the Bermuda law firm Appleby Group Services Ltd. Appleby was named offshore firm of the year by Legal 500 UK in 2015. The law firms branches are in Bermuda, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Mauritius and the Seychelles, and it has a presence in Hong Kong and Shanghai."The Paradise Papers reveal offshore interests and activities of more than 120 politicians and world leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II whose private estate indirectly invested in a rent-to-own loan company accused of predatory tactics. At least 13 allies, major donors and Cabinet members of U.S. President Donald Trump appear, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s interests in a shipping company that makes millions from an energy firm whose owners include Russian President Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law and a sanctioned Russian tycoon," the press release by ICIJ <a href="https://www.icij.org/blog/2017/790/icij-releases-paradise-papers/">summarized</a>.Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Ross had misled Congress and the Americans by concealing his ongoing stake in the company, Navigator. “Only after a thorough investigation can Americans be sure Secretary Ross really has their best interests at heart,” Blumenthal said.The leaked files from Appleby, the offshore law firm, include details of tax planning by nearly 100 multinational corporations, including Apple, Nike and Uber.The offshore industry makes “the poor poorer” and is “deepening wealth inequality,” Brooke Harrington, a certified wealth manager and Copenhagen Business School professor said, adding: “There is this small group of people who are not equally subject to the laws as the rest of us, and that’s on purpose.”These people “live the dream” of enjoying “the benefits of society without being subject to any of its constraints,” he said.The leak has prompted Canadian tax authorities to review reports linking a key fundraiser for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to offshore trusts in the Caribbean. ...
<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/whitefish-puerto-rico-grid-2501263875.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/whitefish-puerto-rico-grid-2501263875.html</a>HBC tx djtabove i make distinction, but now coming to USA (norms must be codified b/c djt says no line anymore (//ta-n coates)<div class="panel-pane pane-opwatch-video-detail" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><section class="video-detail layout-video-detail ng-scope video-detail--social" data-ng-controller="msnbcOpwatchVideoDetail" data-ng-class="{'video-detail--social': showSocialWidgets}" data-ng-hide="$root.showCourtesyView" itemprop="video" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-bottom: 2.14286rem; padding-bottom: 2.14286rem; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(102, 102, 102); padding-top: 1.07143rem; clear: both; min-height: 10.7143rem;"><div class="video-detailcolumn video-detailcolumn--content" data-ng-class="classes" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; clear: none; margin-top: 0px;"><div tve-login-click="" class="video-detailcontent ng-isolate-scope" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; width: 686.234px; padding-right: 2.14286rem;"><h1 class="video-detailtitle title ng-binding" data-ng-bind="video.longTitle || video.title" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0rem; line-height: 2.57143rem; margin-bottom: 0.35714rem; letter-spacing: 0.01em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Expert sees risk of corruption in Trump foreign government deals</h1><div class="video-detailbody" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span class="video-detaildescription description ng-binding" itemprop="description" data-ng-bind-html="video.description | limitTo: descriptionLimit" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.42857rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Sarah Chayes, author of "Thieves of State," talks with Rachel Maddow about the structure of corruption in some developing nations and why she sees a risk of that kind of corruption spreading to the United States under Donald Trump. <span class="video-detailduration ng-binding" data-ng-show="video.duration.momentjs" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding-left: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0.5rem; border-left: 1px solid rgb(102, 102, 102);">Duration: 9:13</div><div class="video-detailbody" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/expert-sees-risk-of-corruption-in-trump-foreign-government-deals-1078287427951" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/expert-sees-risk-of-corruption-in-trump-foreign-government-deals-1078287427951</a></div></div></div></section></div></div>= https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-03/house-gop-votes-to-strip-ethics-office-of-independent-status House Republicans dropped their bid to weaken the independent Office of Congressional Ethics after President-elect Donald Trump blasted the move as counter to his call to "drain the swamp" of corruption in Washington. The amendment was stripped from a rules package by voice vote, three lawmakers said, in a last-minute meeting called Tuesday as criticism mounted. The controversy over the office that investigates lawmakers’ alleged misconduct was starting to overshadow the opening of the 115th Congress, normally a day of glad-handing as lawmakers bring family members to the floor to join the festivities. FollowDonald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrumpWith all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it7:03 AM - 3 Jan 2017 5,5335,533 Retweets  17,96517,965 likesFollowDonald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump........may be, their number one act and priority. Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance! #DTS7:07 AM - 3 Jan 2017 5,0345,034 Retweets  18,74118,741 likes   "We have got just a tremendous number of calls to our office here and district offices concerned about this," said Representative Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican. The House GOP voted behind closed doors Monday night to make the independent office “subject to oversight” by the House Ethics Committee and significantly restrict its powers. The three lawmakers who confirmed the amendment was dropped were Mo Brooks of Alabama, Darrell Issa of California and Bill Flores of Texas. “People could have concerns” after Trump criticized the GOP’s move, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California told reporters before the meeting. “With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority,” Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning. “Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance!’ He closed his tweet with “#DTS,” a reference to his campaign promise to “drain the swamp." The change was to be part of a broader House rules package that the House plans to approve Tuesday as members open the 115th Congress. The reversal doesn’t mean the effort to change the ethics office is dead. Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican, said leadership promised a bipartisan solution by August to resolve some lawmakers’ concerns about the ethics office. "I think people just did not want this story on opening day," he said. Monday night’s vote on the amendment, proposed by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, had come amid broader calls from Trump for steps to fight corruption in Washington, including term limits on lawmakers and restrictions on lobbyists. “Republicans claim they want to ‘drain the swamp,’ but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions," Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said in a statement. "Evidently, ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress." Earlier Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan defended the change in a statement that insisted the ethics office would still “operate independently.” “The evenly divided House Ethics Committee will now have oversight of the complaints office,” said Ryan of Wisconsin. He said the House panel would exercise that oversight only to "ensure the office is properly following its rules and laws," and said he instructed the House committee not to "interfere with the office’s investigations or prevent it from doing its job." ‘Abuse’ of Process Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to the president-elect, said earlier Tuesday she hadn’t discussed the vote with Trump, who used the anti-corruption slogan on the campaign trail yet has been silent so far on the House measure. But she said it could be compatible with his rhetoric. "One thing they’re trying to curb is the abuse of the process," Conway said on MSNBC, adding that much depends on the new ethics office that will be created. She said that constituents’ concerns could still be addressed. The vote prompted protests from government watchdog groups, including those who had pushed for creation of the OCE in 2008. Those groups had said at the time that the Ethics Committee wasn’t diligent enough in policing and punishing member wrongdoing on its own. Project on Government Oversight Executive Director Danielle Brian condemned the change in a statement that said, "Ethics watchdogs like OCE need to be strengthened and expanded -- not taken out back and shot in the middle of the night.” Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and frequent Trump critic, said on Fox News Radio he stands "with Trump. I mean, it’s the dumbest frickin’ thing I’ve ever heard." He added, "This is not the message the House needs to send." Preliminary Reviews The idea behind the OCE was that an independent office could provide preliminary, independent reviews of ethics accusations against members of Congress and make recommendations about whether further investigation by the Ethics Committee was necessary. Kee"OCE is one of the outstanding ethics accomplishments of the House of Representatives, and it has played a critical role in seeing that the congressional ethics process is no longer viewed as merely a means to sweep problems under the rug," said Norman Eisen and Richard Painter, the chairman and vice chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, in a joint statement. "If the 115th Congress begins with rules amendments undermining OCE, it is setting itself up to be dogged by scandals and ethics issues for years and is returning the House to dark days when ethics violations were rampant and far too often tolerated." But the office has its detractors, including lawmakers and staffers on both sides of the aisle who claimed they have been unfairly treated. And there have been public turf wars with the Ethics Committee itself. "There’s been numerous examples, and we heard some of them in there today, of members who have falsely been accused by this group who had to spend a fortune to have their good name restored," said Representative Hal Rogers of Kentucky, who said he supported the measure. "I think there has been an abuse." Some House Republicans, including Representative Dennis Ross of Florida, said there had been some concerns raised during the closed-door meeting Monday night of the optics of placing new limitations on a government watchdog days before Trump takes office. But he said the majority of the Republicans felt it was time to fix problems with the OCE. Leaders Opposed Ryan and McCarthy were among those who argued against the amendment, according to a lawmaker in the room who spoke on condition of anonymity. Ryan’s statement didn’t disclose his position during the private debate. On Tuesday morning, McCarthy confirmed on MSNBC he had opposed the approval of the amendment but said he would vote for the rules package that contained it. McCarthy told reporters later Tuesday he agreed with Trump’s tweet. Trump made "the same argument I made in conference," McCarthy told reporters. He said on MSNBC the changes had earlier had bipartisan support to make investigations more fair. "One thing we firmly believe in America is due process," he added. "People have a right to defend themselves if they’re being accused of something." In a statement, Goodlatte described his amendment as one that would "build" on the OCE’s strengths, while also improving upon "the due-process rights for individuals under investigation, as well as witnesses called to testify." "The OCE has a serious and important role in the House, and this amendment does nothing to impede their work," he said. Other changes would include requiring that any matter potentially involving a violation of criminal law be referred to the Ethics Committee. The OCE also would be barred from considering anonymous complaints, and its jurisdiction would be limited to the last three Congresses. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/print/news-amp-politics/americas-descent-third-world-style-kleptocracy">http://www.alternet.org/print/news-amp-politics/americas-descent-third-world-style-kleptocracy</a>A top government official with energy <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/24/chris-matthews/chris-matthews-says-cheney-got-34-million-payday-h/" target="blank" style="">industry</a> [4] holdings <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842_pf.html" target="blank" style="">huddles</a> [5] in secret with oil company executives to work out the details of a potentially lucrative “national energy policy.” Later, that same official <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/halliburton-company-got-395billion-iraq-2013-3" target="blank" style="">steers billions</a> [6] of government dollars to his former oil-field services company. Well-paid elected representatives act with impunity, routinely <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/policy/entry/earmark-reform" target="blank" style="">trading</a> [7]government contracts and other favors for millions of dollars. Meanwhile, ordinary citizens live in fear of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/10/report-in-lean-times-police-start-taking-a-lot-more-stuff-from-people/" target="blank" style="">venal police forces</a> [8] that suck them dry <a href="http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=print_display&article_id=2108&issue_id=62010" target="blank" style="">by charging fees</a> [9] for services,<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/09/384968360/jail-time-for-unpaid-court-fines-and-fees-can-create-cycle-of-poverty" target="blank" style="">throwing</a> [10] them in jail when they can’t pay arbitrary fines or <a href="http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-and-profit/" target="blank" style="">selling</a> [11] their court “debts” to private companies. Sometimes the police just take <a href="http://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/introduction/" target="blank" style="">people’s life savings</a> [12] leaving them with no recourse whatsoever. Sometimes they <a href="http://www.alternet.org/drugs/5-outrageous-cases-drug-war-police-corruption-week" target="blank" style="">steal and deal</a> [13] drugs on the side. Meanwhile, the country’s infrastructure crumbles. Bridges <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge" target="blank" style="">collapse</a> [14], or take <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_the_San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge" target="blank" style="">a quarter-century</a> [15] to fix after a natural disaster, or (despite millions spent) turn out <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Plague-of-problems-puts-Bay-Bridge-seismic-safety-6253577.php" target="blank" style="">not to be fixed</a> [16] at all. Many citizens regard their government at all levels with a weary combination of cynicism and contempt. Fundamentalist groups respond by calling for a return to religious values and the <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/25/57-republicans-dismantle-constitution-christianity-national-religion.html" target="blank" style="">imposition</a> [17] of religious law.What country is this? Could it be Nigeria or some other <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/03/revealing-tunisia-corruption-under-ben-ali-201432785825560542.html" target="blank" style="">kleptocratic</a> [18] developing state? Or post-invasion Afghanistan where Ahmed Wali Karzai, CIA asset and brother of the U.S.-installed president Hamid Karzai, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html" target="blank" style="">made many millions</a> [19] on the opium trade (which the U.S. was ostensibly trying to suppress), while his brother Mahmoud raked in <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/11/us-afghanistan-bank-idUSKCN0IV1X020141111" target="blank" style="">millions more</a> [20] from the fraud-ridden Bank of Kabul? Or could it be Mexico, where the actions of both the government and drug cartels have <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175971/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon,it_didn%27t_work_in_afghanistan,so_let%27s_do_it_in_mexico" target="blank" style="">created</a> [21] perhaps the world’s first narco-terrorist state?In fact, everything in this list happened (and much of it is still happening) in the United States, the world leader -- or so we like to think -- in clean government. These days, however, according to the Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International (TI), our country comes in only <a href="https://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results" target="blank" style="">17th</a> [22] in the least-corrupt sweepstakes, trailing European and Scandinavian countries as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In fact, TI considers us on a par with Caribbean island nations like Barbados and the Bahamas. In the U.S., <a href="http://www.transparency.org/country#USA" target="blank" style="">TI says</a> [23], “from fraud and embezzlement charges to the failure to uphold ethical standards, there are multiple cases of corruption at the federal, state and local level.”And here’s a reasonable bet: it’s not going to get better any time soon and it could get a lot worse. When it comes to the growth of American corruption, one of TI’s key <a href="https://www.transparency.org/country/#USA_Overview" target="blank" style="">concerns</a>[24] is the how the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZS.html" target="blank" style="">decision</a> [25] opened the pay-to-play floodgates of the political system, allowing Super PACs to pour billions of private and corporate money into it, sometimes in complete <a href="http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/citizens-united%E2%80%99s-biggest-surprise-the-collapse-of-disclosure" target="blank" style="">secrecy</a> [26]. Citizens United undammed the wealth of the super-rich and their enablers, allowing big donors like casino capitalist -- a description that couldn’t be more literal -- Sheldon Adelson to <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/iran-deal-big-donors-citizens-united" target="blank" style="">use</a> [27] their millions to influence government policy.Kleptocracy USA?Every now and then, a book changes the way you see the world. It’s like shaking a kaleidoscope and suddenly all the bits and pieces fall into a new pattern. Sarah Chayes’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393352285/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" target="blank" style="">Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security</a> [28] shook my kaleidoscope. Chayes traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 as a reporter for NPR. Moved by the land and people, she soon gave up reporting to devote herself to working with non-governmental organizations helping “Afghans rebuild their shattered but extraordinary country.”In the process, she came to understand the central role government corruption plays in the collapse of nations and the rise of fundamentalist organizations like the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State. She also discovered just how unable (and often unwilling) American military and civilian officials were to put a stop to the <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176068/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_roads_to_nowhere%2C_ghost_soldiers%2C_and_a%2443_million_gas_station_in_afghanistan/" target="blank" style="">thievery</a> [29] that characterized Afghanistan’s <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2015/03/17/108613/tackling-corruption-in-afghanistan-its-now-or-never/" target="blank" style="">government</a> [30] at every level -- from the <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/bribes-in-afghanistan-last-year-reached-almost-four-billion-dollars/1599111.html" target="blank" style="">skimming</a> [31] of billions in reconstruction funds at the top to the daily drumbeat of demands for bribes and “fees” from ordinary citizens seeking any kind of government service further down the chain of organized corruption. In general, writes Chayes, kleptocratic countries operate very much as pyramid schemes, with people at one level paying those at the next for the privilege of extracting money from those below.Chayes suggests that “acute government corruption” may be a major factor “at the root” of the violent extremism now spreading across the Greater Middle East and Africa. When government robs ordinary people blind, in what she calls a “vertically integrated criminal enterprise,” the victims tend to look for justice elsewhere. When officials treat the law with criminal contempt, or when the law explicitly permits government extortion, they turn to what seem like uncorrupted systems of reprisal and redemption outside those laws. Increasingly, they look to God or God’s laws and, of course, to God’s self-proclaimed representatives. The result can be dangerously violent explosions of anger and retribution. Eruptions can take the form of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm#Protestant_Reformation" target="blank" style="">Puritan iconoclasm</a> [32] that rocked Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century or present-day attempts by the Taliban or the Islamic State to implement a harsh, even vindictive version of Islamic Sharia law, while attacking “unbelievers” in the territory they control.Reading Thieves of State, it didn’t take long for my mind to wander from Kabul to Washington, from a place where American-funded corruption was an <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176068/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,roads_to_nowhere,ghost_soldiers,and_a$43_million_gas_station_in_afghanistan/" target="blank" style="">open secret</a> [33] to a place where few would think it applicable.  Why was it, I began to wonder, that in our country “corruption” never came up in relation to bankers the government allowed to sell mortgages to people who couldn’t repay them, then slicing and dicing their debt into investment “securities” that brought on the worst recession since the 1930s? (Neil Barofsky, who took on the thankless role of inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, tells the grim tale of how the government was “captured by the banks” in his 2012 book<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451684959/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" target="blank" style="">Bailout</a> [34].)Chayes made me wander ever deeper into the recent history of Washington's wheeling and dealing, including, for instance, the story of the National Energy Policy Development Group, which Vice President Dick Cheney convened in the first weeks of George W. Bush’s presidency. Its charge was to develop a national energy policy for the country and its deliberations -- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842_pf.html" target="blank" style="">attended</a> [5] by top executives of all the major oil companies (some of whom then <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842_pf.html" target="blank" style="">denied</a> [5] before Congress that they had been present) -- were held in complete secrecy. Cheney even refused to surrender the list of attendees when the Government Accountability Office sued him, a suit eventually dropped after Congress cut that agency’s budget. If the goal was to create a policy that would suit the oil companies, Cheney was the perfect man to chair the enterprise.In 2001, having <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96384&page=1" target="blank" style="">suggested</a> [35] himself as the only reasonable running mate for Bush, Cheney left his post as CEO at oilfield services corporation Halliburton. “Big changes are coming to Washington,” he <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96384&page=1" target="blank" style="">told</a> [35] ABC News, “and I want to be a part of them.” And so he was, including launching a disastrous war on Iraq, foreseen and planned for in those energy policy meetings. Indeed, documents shaken loose in a Freedom of Information Act suit brought by Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club showed that in March 2001 -- months before the 9/11 attacks -- energy task force members were <a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/8-secrets-of-cheneys-energy-task-force-come-to-light/" target="blank" style="">already salivating</a> [36] over taking possession of those Iraqi oil fields. Nor did Cheney forget his friends at Halliburton. Their spin-off company, KBR, would <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/winner-most-iraq-war-contracts-kbr-395-billion-decade-1135905" target="blank" style="">receive</a> [37] a better-than-1,000-to-1 return on their investment in the vice president (who’d gotten a <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/24/chris-matthews/chris-matthews-says-cheney-got-34-million-payday-h/" target="blank" style="">$34 million</a> [4] severance package from them), reaping $39.5 billion in government contracts in Iraq. And yet when did anyone mention “corruption” in connection with any of this?Chayes’s book made me think in a new way about the long-term effects of the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/" target="blank" style="">revolving door</a> [38] between the Capitol -- supposedly occupied by the people’s representatives -- and the K Street suites of Washington’s myriad lobbyists.  It also brought to mind all those former <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=Z" target="blank" style="">members of Congress</a> [39], <a href="http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/02/general-worried-about-finding-job-as-lobbyist-defense-consultant-after-retirement/" target="blank" style="">generals</a> [40], and national security state officials who parachute directly out of government service and onto the boards of defense-oriented companies or into <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/06/05/DOD-Retirees-From-4-star-General-to-7-Figure-Income" target="blank" style="">cushy consultancies</a> [41] catering to that same security state.It also made me think in a new way about the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/the-worst-voter-turnout-in-72-years.html" target="blank" style="">ever-lower turnouts</a> [42] for our elections. There are good reasons why so many Americans -- especially those living in poverty and in communities of color -- don’t vote. It’s not that they don’t know their forebears <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs" target="blank" style="">died</a> [43] for that right. It’s not that they don’t object when their votes are <a href="https://www.aclu.org/map/battle-protect-ballot-voter-suppression-measures-passed-2013" target="blank" style="">suppressed</a> [44]. It’s that, like many other Americans, they clearly believe their government to be so corrupt that voting is pointless.Are We in Ferguson -- or Kabul?What surprises me most, however, isn’t the corruption at the top, but the ways in which lives at the bottom are affected by it. Reading Thieves of Stateset me thinking about how regularly money in this country now flows from the bottom up that pyramid. If you head down, you no longer find yourself on Main Street, U.S.A., but in a place that seems uncomfortably like Kabul; in other words, a Ponzi-scheme world of the first order. Consider, for instance, the Justice Department’s 2015 <a href="http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf" target="blank" style="">report</a> [45] on the police in Ferguson, Missouri, about whom we’ve learned so much since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/ferguson-missouri-town-under-siege-after-police-shooting.html?r=0" target="blank" style="">shot</a> [46] to death on August 9, 2014.  As it happens, the dangers for Ferguson’s residents hardly ended with police misconduct. “Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the city’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs,” Justice Department investigators found:“This emphasis on revenue has compromised the institutional character of Ferguson’s police department, contributing to a pattern of unconstitutional policing, and has also shaped its municipal court, leading to procedures that raise due process concerns and inflict unnecessary harm on members of the Ferguson community.”The report then recounted in excruciating detail the extent to which the police were a plague on the city’s largely black population. Ferguson was -- make no mistake about it -- distinctly Kabul, U.S.A.  The police, for instance, regularly accosted residents for what might be termed “sitting in a car while Black,” and then charged them with bogus “crimes” like failing to wear a seat belt in a parked car or “making a false declaration” that, say, one’s name was “Mike,” not “Michael.” While these arrests didn’t make money directly for the police force, officers interested in promotion were told to keep in mind that their tally of “self-initiated activities” (tickets and traffic stops) would have a significant effect on their future success on the force. Meanwhile, those charged often lost their jobs and livelihoods amid a welter of court appearances.Ferguson’s municipal court played its own grim role in this ugly scheme. As Justice Department investigators discovered, it did not “act as a neutral arbiter of the law or a check on unlawful police conduct.”  Instead, it used its judicial authority “as the means to compel the payment of fines and fees that advance[d] the city’s financial interests.”By issuing repeated arrest warrants when people missed court appearances or were unable to pay fines, it managed to regularly pile one fine on top of another and then often refused to accept partial payments for the sums owed. Under Missouri state law, moving traffic violations, for instance, automatically required the temporary suspension of a driver’s license. Ferguson residents couldn’t get their licenses back until -- you guessed it -- they paid their fines in full, often for charges that were manufactured in the first place.As if in Kabul, people then had to weigh the risk of driving license-less (and getting arrested) against losing their jobs or -- without a car -- not making it to court. With no community service option available, many found themselves spending time in jail.  From the police to the courts to city hall, what had been organized was, in short, an everyday money-raising racket of the first order.And all of this was linked to the police department, which actually ran the municipal court.  As the Justice Department report put it, that court “operates as part of the police department... is supervised by the Ferguson chief of police, is considered part of the police department for city organizational purposes, and is physically located within the police station. Court staff report directly to the chief of police.” He, in turn, ran the show, doing everything from collecting fines to determining bail amounts.The Harvard Law Review <a href="http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-and-profit/" target="blank" style="">reported</a> [11] that, in 2013, Ferguson had a population of 22,000.  That same year, “its municipal court issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses,” or almost one-and-a-half arrests per inhabitant. The report continued:“In Ferguson, residents who fall behind on fines and don’t appear in court after a warrant is issued for their arrest (or arrive in court after the courtroom doors close, which often happens just five minutes after the session is set to start for the day) are charged an additional $120 to $130 fine, along with a $50 fee for a new arrest warrant and 56 cents for each mile that police drive to serve it. Once arrested, everyone who can’t pay their fines or post bail (which is usually set to equal the amount of their total debt) is imprisoned until the next court session (which happens three days a month). Anyone who is imprisoned is charged $30 to $60 a night by the jail.”Whether in Kabul or Ferguson, this kind of daily oppression wears people down. It’s no surprise that long before the police shot Michael Brown, the citizens of Ferguson had little trust or respect for them.Privatizing Official CorruptionBut might Ferguson not have been an outlier, a unique Kabul-in-America case of a rogue city government bent on extracting every penny from its poorest residents? Consider, then, the town of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/us/lawsuit-accuses-missouri-city-of-fining-homeowners-to-raise-revenue.html?emc=edit_th_20151105&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=65427895" target="blank" style="">Pagedale</a> [47], Missouri, which came up with a hardly less kleptocratic way of squeezing money out of its citizens. Instead of focusing on driving and parking, Pagedale <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/us/lawsuit-accuses-missouri-city-of-fining-homeowners-to-raise-revenue.html?emc=edit_th_20151105&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=65427895" target="blank" style="">routinely hit</a> [47] homeowners with fines for “offenses” like failing to have blinds and “matching curtains” on their windows or “unsightly lawns.”  Pagedale is a small town, with 3,300 residents. In 2013, the city’s general revenues totaled $2 million, 17% percent from such fines and fees.Might such kleptocratic local revenue-extraction systems, however, be limited to just one Midwestern state? Consider then the cozy relationship that Augusta, capital of Georgia, has with <a href="http://www.sentrak.com/faqs/" target="blank" style="">Sentinel Offender Services, LLC</a> [48].  That company makes electronic monitoring equipment used by state and local government agencies, ranging from the Los Angeles County Probation Department to the Massachusetts Office of the Commissioner of Probation. Its website touts the benefits to municipalities of what it calls “offender-funded programs” in which the person on probation pays the company directly for his or her own monitoring, saving the courts the cost of administering a probation system. In return, the company sets its own fees at whatever level it chooses. “By individually assessing each participant a fee based on income,” says Sentinel, “our sliding-fee scale approach has shifted the financial burden to the participant, allowing program growth and size to be a function of correctional need rather than budget availability.”“Profiting from Probation,” a 2014 Human Rights Watch <a href="http://perma.cc/K6WC-T2XT" target="blank" style="">report</a> [49], offers a typical tale of an Augusta resident named Michael Barrett. Arrested for shoplifting a can of beer, he entered a local court system that was focused on revenue extraction via a kind of official extortion, which is the definition of corruption. Even to step into a courtroom to deal with his “case,” he had to hand over an $80 fee for a court-appointed defense lawyer. Then, convicted, he would be sentenced to a $200 fine and probation. Because the charge was “alcohol-related,” the court required Barrett to wear an electronic bracelet that would monitor his alcohol consumption, even though his sentence placed no restrictions on his drinking. For that Sentinel bracelet, there was a $50 startup fee, a $39 monthly “service” charge, and a $12 “daily usage” fee.  In total, he was forced to pay about $400 a month to monitor something he was legally allowed to do. Since Barrett couldn’t even pay the startup fee, he was promptly thrown in jail for a month until a friend lent him the money.Such systems of privatized “justice” that bleed the poor are now spreading across the U.S., a country officially without debtor’s prisons. According to the Harvard Law Reviewarticle, some cities charge a “fee” to everyone they arrest, whether or not they’re ever convicted of an offense. In Washington, D.C., on the other hand, for “<a href="http://www.dccourts.gov/internet/public/aud_criminal/handlearrest.jsf" target="blank" style="">certain traffic</a> [50] and a number of lower level criminal offenses,” you can simply pay your arresting officer “to end a case on the spot,” avoiding lengthy and expensive court costs.  Other jurisdictions charge people who are arrested for the costs of police investigations, prosecution, public defender services, a jury trial (“sometimes with different fees depending on how many jurors a defendant requests”), and incarceration.Watch Your Ass(ets)Even Machiavelli, who counseled princes seizing new territory to commit all their crimes at once because human beings have such short memories, warned that people will accept pretty much any kind of oppression unless “you prey on the possessions or the women of your subjects.” So many centuries later, while we women now tend to believe we belong to ourselves, <a href="http://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/introduction/#citation_32" target="blank" style="">civil asset forfeiture</a> [51] is still a part of American life. Unlike criminal asset forfeiture, which permits the government to seize a person’s assets after conviction of a crime, civil forfeiture allows local, state, or federal law enforcement to seize and keep someone’s money or other property even if he or she is never charged. If, say, you are suspected of involvement with drugs or terrorism, the police can seize all the money you have on you on thespot, even if they don’t arrest you -- and you have to go to court to get it back.Federal asset forfeiture collections have risen from around $800 million in 2002 to almost $4.5 billion in 2014, <a href="http://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/introduction/#citation_32" target="blank" style="">according</a> [51] to the Institute for Justice (IJ). Governments defend the practice as a means of preventing suspected criminals -- especially high-level drug dealers -- from using their money to commit more crimes. But all too often, it’s poor people whose money is “forfeited,” even when they've committed no crime. The Pennsylvania ACLU <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/new-aclu-report-shows-philadelphia-da-seizes-1-million-cash-annually-innocent-philadelphians" target="blank" style="">reported</a> [52] that police take around a million dollars from Philadelphians each year in 6,000 separate cases -- and not from drug lords either. More than half the cases involve seizures of less than $192, and in a city that’s only 43% black, 71% of those seizures from people charged with no crimes come from African Americans. If your property is seized, you can try to go to court to get it back but, <a href="http://www.aclupa.org/files/1814/4526/3118/Broken_Justice-Montgomery_County_final.pdf" target="blank" style="">says the ACLU</a> [53], you should expect to make an average of four court appearances. Most people just give up.Reading Thieves of Statereminded me that we’re not living in the country many of us imagine, but in something like an American klepto-state. Corruption, it turns out, doesn’t just devour the lives of people in far-off nations. Right now, it’s busy shoving what’s left of our own democracy down our throats.Chayes documents how such corruption can lead to violent explosions in other countries. Indeed, it was a final kleptocratic insult -- a police woman’s slap in the face after he refused to pay a bribe to retrieve his confiscated vegetable cart -- that led Tunisian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi" target="blank" style="">Mohamed Bouazizi</a> [54] to burn himself to death and touch off the Arab Spring. As Machiavelli wrote so long ago, people will put up with a lot -- <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-torture-report-document.html" target="blank" style="">torture</a> [55], <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1" target="blank" style="">mass surveillance</a> [56], even a <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-gop-clown-car-20150812" target="blank" style="">car full of clowns</a> [57] masquerading as candidates for president -- but they don’t like being robbed by their own government. Sooner or later, they will rebel. Let’s hope, when that happens, that we don’t end up under the rule of our own American <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/07/03/we_are_a_corporate_theocracy_now_the_christian_right_seeks_cultural_and_political_domination/" target="blank" style="">Taliban</a> [58] or some billionaire reality TV star.<div class="bio-new body_news-politics"><div class="author-bio">Rebecca Gordon is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199336431/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" target="blank" style="">Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States</a> [59]. She teaches in the philosophy department at the University of San Fran</div></div><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Corruption">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Corruption</a>

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"With House Republican Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom DeLay</a> under <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/delay/delay92805ind.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">criminal indictment</a>, Senate Republican Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Frist" title="Bill Frist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bill Frist</a> facing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SEC" title="SEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">SEC</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Justice" title="Department of Justice" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Department of Justice</a> investigations, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Karl Rove</a> under investigation, the Republican leadership in Washington is now spending more time answering questions about ethical misconduct than doing the people's business." --<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Howard_Dean" title="Howard Dean" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Howard Dean</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=54194" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">September 28, 2005</a>.

"I don't think we have had something of this scope, arrogance and sheer venality in our lifetimes," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norman_J._Ornstein" title="Norman J. Ornstein" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Norman J. Ornstein</a>, of the conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a>, wrote in "Roll Call". "It is building to an explosion, one that could create immense collateral damage within Congress and in coming elections." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1207-24.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a>

The House That Jack Bought

"If you are a politician associated with crooked <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbyist" title="Lobbyist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lobbyist</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff</a> and you've been caught with your hand in the cookie jar, your standard statement appears to be:

"'I didn't know it was a cookie. And I was just putting it back,'" Don Yocham, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060118/OPINION/601180349/1004" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">commented</a> in his January 18, 2006, Florida Today Opinion piece.

Systemic Pattern

"Tempting as it is to dwell on the possibility that this self-appointed moral arbiter of the nation could soon be strolling the halls not of Congress but of a Texas correctional facility, we urge Democrats to keep focused on a much bigger issue: the systemic pattern of corruption, cronyism, influence-peddling, and partisan intimidation in Washington." --Ed Kilgore, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/9/28/171344/300" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">TPM Cafe</a>, September 28, 2005.

Additional details can be found in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Republican_%27culture_of_corruption%27" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">SourceWatch articles which link to here</a>.

Possible Criminal Streak in GOP

DeLay's indictment "launch[ed] a firestorm on Capitol Hill over ethics and 'a culture of corruption.' ... After using those choice words a day earlier, on Thursday, [September 29, 2005,] House Minority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nancy Pelosi</a> of California said the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration</a>'s handling of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rebuilding_the_Gulf_Coast_in_the_wake_of_Hurricane_Katrina:_domestic_policy_initiatives" title="Rebuilding the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: domestic policy initiatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">rebuilding</a> from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Katrina</a>, DeLay's indictment and recent probes of Republicans on questions of partisan favoritism, all demonstrate a serious ethical and possibly criminal streak in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">GOP</a>." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170748,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a>

Pelosi said that "An ethical cloud hangs over the Capitol, ... This culture of corruption must stop. ... The American people deserve better." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170748,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[3]</a>

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In a July 6, 2005, telephone conversation hosted by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee" title="Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee</a> (DCCC) with bloggers and journalists, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic National Committee</a> Chairman Howard Dean "reiterated his theme of a Republican 'culture of corruption', and put new focus" on whether President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>'s advisor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Karl Rove</a> was responsible for leaking the name of covert <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CIA" title="CIA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CIA</a> operative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Valerie_Plame" title="Valerie Plame" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Valerie Plame</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/In_call_with_bloggers_online_media_Dean_raises_Rove_ethi_0707.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[4]</a>

Dean said that "'Nobody likes corruption, whether they’re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conservative</a> or <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Liberal" title="Liberal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">liberal</a>, ... I’d like to use this to spearhead <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Election_reform" title="Election reform" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">election reform</a>, banning <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Voting_machine" title="Voting machine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">voting machines</a> that can’t be counted by hand ... I’ve always been a big fan of instant run-off voting. We also need some reforms of ethics in congress,'" according to The Raw Story. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/In_call_with_bloggers_online_media_Dean_raises_Rove_ethi_0707.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[5]</a>

Regarding "Rove's possible involvement in leaking the name of a covert CIA operative," Dean said that he was "'surprised to find that Karl Rove has emerged [as suspect] ... It was pretty startling to have a guy who is working for the President of the United States to be accused of that. Once people who start to get corrupted and they get away with it, it continues to happen more and more. ... I think this is a government versus press fight, it’s a political fight,' he added. 'If it turned out that Rove did lie about what he did or did not say to [Time reporter] <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Matthew_Cooper" title="Matthew Cooper" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Matt Cooper</a>, we’re going to know that very quickly.'" <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/In_call_with_bloggers_online_media_Dean_raises_Rove_ethi_0707.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[6]</a>

DCCC chief spokesman Bill Burton <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050921-120106-8587r_page2.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">said</a> September 21, 2005: "After another week of Republican indictments and arrests, I'm surprised that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NRCC" title="NRCC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NRCC</a> has time to comment on anything besides the efficiency of their bail bondsmen."

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Paul Siegel <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.watchblog.com/democrats/archives/002324.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">posted "Republican Rings of Corruption"</a> in the Democrats & Liberals blog, June 1, 2005:

"The purpose of the current Republican establishment is not conservatism. It is not interested in small government, nor fiscal discipline, nor business laissez faire, nor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Traditional_family_values" title="Traditional family values" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">'moral values'</a>. The Republican purpose is power. Absolute power. They want to achieve a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_one-party_state" title="The one-party state" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">one-party state</a>: Republican, of course. To do this they have converted the old influence-peddling loops between <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Self-interest_group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Self-interest group (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">self-interest groups</a> and the government into solid Republican Rings of Corruption. The corruption ringmaster is none other than Republican leader of the House, Representative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom DeLay</a>.

"The founders of our country were worried about 'factions'. They wanted to prevent self-interest groups from achieving undue influence with the government. And of course, over the years many self-interest groups - especially, Big Business - did become too powerful. Self-interest groups influenced legislators and executives, hired <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbyist" title="Lobbyist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lobbyists</a> to appropriately dispense political contributions to one party or another, and wrote bills for legislators to vote on.

"A loop of corruption was developed between legislators on one hand and lobbyists for industry and other self-interest groups on the other end. Lobbyists gave campaign money and legislators awarded the clients of these lobbyists with legislation that helped them make more money. For clients of lobbyists this was a wonderful deal: They contributed thousands and got millions in return.

"Both Republicans and Democrats participated in such lucrative loops. They were feedback loops between self-interest groups and government. No longer. Under the current Republican establishment, the loop consists of self-interest groups and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a>. The Republicans are telling lobbyists that they will not get goodies if they contribute anything to Democrats; all contributions must go to Republicans.

"Republicans are converting these feedback loops into more solid Rings of Corruption. Lobbyists and their corporate clients think that they are in the driver's seat, but they are not. The Republicans are running the show - for the purpose of achieving unquestioned control. Eventually, they will tell their clients when and how to contribute in order to get goodies. How long will it be before clients are asked to contribute merely to stay in the Republican Party's good graces?" Seriously, who moved my cheese?<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.watchblog.com/democrats/archives/002324.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[7]</a>

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"Now we have the growing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/WMD" title="WMD" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">WMD</a> revelations, and new allegations of corruption at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Halliburton" title="Halliburton" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Halliburton</a>. Halliburton subsidiaries have already had to refund millions to the government, so earlier allegations were true. I expect the new ones will prove so as well. The American navy says it takes a new commander 2 years to turn around a bad ship, but only 6 months for a bad commander to ruin a good ship. Continued corruption in a corporation is evidence of a deepseated culture of corruption, and a corporate culture is determined by it's CEO more than any other influence. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cheney</a> was CEO at Halliburton for well over 6 months. The Halliburton culture seems to have also infused the present administration in Washington." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://americadeservesbetter.blogspot.com/2004/05/america-deserves-better-1.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">America Deserves Better, May 22, 2004</a>.

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/statebystate.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">State by State GOP Scandal Scorecard</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">an accounting of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Banana_Republicans" title="Banana Republicans" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Banana Republicans</a> at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000255.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">PERRspectives Blog</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Holly Allen, Christopher Beam, and Torie Bosch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2165980/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Bushies Behaving Badly. A guide to GOP scandals,"</a> Slate, May 11, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Matt Corley, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/17/corruption-musical-chairs/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Under Boehner, Corrupt Conservatives Play Musical Chairs With Committee Seats,"</a> Think Progress, May 17, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30138" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"CREW releases 'Beyond DeLay: The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and two to watch)',"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a>, September 18, 2007.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commercialalert.org/news/news-releases/2006/01/the-honest-government-agenda-how-congress-can-clean-up-corruption" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">The Honest Government Agenda: How Congress Can Clean Up Corruption</a>", Commercial Alert, January 10, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dave Graham, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69P0X620101026" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">U.S. slips to historic low in global corruption index</a>", Reuters, October 26, 2010.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Corruption Perceptions Index for countries</a>, Transparency International, accessed November 2010.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.unglobalcompact.org/Issues/transparency_anticorruption/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Anti-Corruption</a>, United Nations Global Compact, accessed November 2010.</li>

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Bush administration scandals"</h2>The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">A</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abramoff-Reed_Indian_Gambling_Scandal" title="Abramoff-Reed Indian Gambling Scandal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Abramoff-Reed Indian Gambling Scandal</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abu_Ghraib" title="Abu Ghraib" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Abu Ghraib</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">B</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_smear_campaigns:John_Forbes_Kerry" title="Bush administration smear campaigns: John Forbes Kerry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration smear campaigns: John Forbes Kerry</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_Administration_War_on_Terror_Memos" title="Bush Administration War on Terror Memos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush Administration War on Terror Memos</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">T</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Politics_of_Truth:Inside_the_Lies_that_Led_to_War_and_Betrayed_My_Wife%27s_CIA_Identity(2004_book)" title="The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity (2004 book)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity (2004 book)</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">W</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Worse_Than_Watergate" title="Worse Than Watergate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Worse Than Watergate</a></li></ul></div></div><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence</a><h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.2em; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bush administration cronyism and incompetence</h1><div>
</div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The matter of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_regime_cronyism" title="Bush regime cronyism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">cronyism</a> and incompetence was brought to the fore due to the colossal failure of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency" title="Federal Emergency Management Agency" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Federal Emergency Management Agency</a> to properly handle relief efforts for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hurricane Katrina</a> in an effective and timely manner.As one blogger <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.blogd.com/archives/001465.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> September 12, 2005: "So we have Bush hiring cronies who hire even more cronies. And this happening even after Bush has been criticized openly for cronyism. I guess its their nature, like the scorpion riding on the fox's back. ... Though Bush himself ran several businesses into the ground and never earned an honest dollar, it seems that the soundest investment of all was in giving Bush your money and joining the crony bandwagon. ... even as Bush's cronyism is proving to have cost hundreds if not thousands of lives, Bush and his cronies are still hiring yet more cronies and paying them off with taxpayer dollars."<hr style="height: 1px; border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px; background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#Bush_the_Incompetent" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Bush the Incompetent</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#FEMA_Cronyism_Led_to_Failure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 FEMA Cronyism Led to Failure</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#FEMA.27s.22Bungled_Response.22_to_Hurricane_Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 FEMA's "Bungled Response" to Hurricane Katrina</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#FAA_incompetence_failed_to_avert_the_9.2F11_event" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 FAA incompetence failed to avert the 9/11 event</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#Nominees_to_the_Department_of_Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Nominees to the Department of Justice</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#Cronyism_and_Mass_Exodus_from_Government_Departments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Cronyism and Mass Exodus from Government Departments</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#.22Grand_Incompetence_Party.22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 "Grand Incompetence Party"</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#Resources.26_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 Resources & articles</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#Documents" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.1 Documents</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.2 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3 External articles</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.1 General</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#2002" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.2 2002</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#2003" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.3 2003</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.4 2004</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#2005" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.5 2005</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#2006" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.6 2006</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#2007" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.7 2007</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence#2008" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3.8 2008</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Bush the Incompetent</h2>"Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it's hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>. But it is this president's defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">war in Iraq</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush:Hurricane_Katrina" title="George W. Bush: Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">his response to Hurricane Katrina</a> and his <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Medicare_Prescription_Drug_Bill_Vote_Scandal,2003" title="Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Vote Scandal, 2003" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Medicare drug plan</a>, will have to grapple with how one president could so cosmically botch so many big things -- particularly when most of them were the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush/Republican_Initiatives" title="Bush/Republican Initiatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">president's own initiatives</a>," Harold Meyerson <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401163.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">commented</a> in the January 25, 2006,Washington Post.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">FEMA Cronyism Led to Failure</h2><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Brown" title="Michael Brown" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael Brown</a>, who resigned September 12, 2005, as FEMA's director, "has become a symbol of cronyism," Paul Krugman <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> in the New York Times.Brown "didn't know the difference between a tropical depression and an anxiety attack when President Bush charged him with life-and-death decisions," Maureen Dowd <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/opinion/10dowd.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> in the Times."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">W.</a> trusted Brownie simply because he was a friend of a friend," Dowd <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/opinion/10dowd.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">said</a>. "He was a college buddy of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joe_M.Allbaugh" title="Joe M. Allbaugh" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joe Allbaugh</a>, who worked as W.'s chief of staff when he was Texas governor and as his 2000 presidential campaign manager."When FEMA was "reorganized under Homeland Security, stripping it of authority," Allbaugh left the agency to become a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbyist" title="Lobbyist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lobbyist</a> for companies like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Halliburton" title="Halliburton" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Halliburton</a>, leaving behind "an eviscerated FEMA" with "his friend Brown in charge," Dowd <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/opinion/10dowd.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">said</a>.Spencer S. Hsu <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802165.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> in the September 9, 2005, Washington Post that "Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an agency whose ranks of seasoned crisis managers have thinned dramatically since the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/September_11,2001" title="September 11, 2001" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sept. 11, 2001</a>, attacks."FEMA's top three leaders -- Director Michael D. Brown, Chief of Staff Patrick J. Rhode and Deputy Chief of Staff Brooks D. Altshuler -- arrived with ties to President Bush's 2000 campaign or to the White House advance operation, according to the agency. Two other senior operational jobs are filled by a former Republican lieutenant governor of Nebraska and a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Chamber_of_Commerce" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a> official who was once a political operative.""Meanwhile," Hsu <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802165.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">reported</a>, "veterans such as U.S. hurricane specialist Eric Tolbert and World Trade Center disaster managers Laurence W. Zensinger and Bruce P. Baughman -- who led FEMA's offices of response, recovery and preparedness, respectively -- have left since 2003, taking jobs as consultants or state emergency managers, according to current and former officials.""Patronage appointments to the crisis-response agency are nothing new to Washington administrations. But inexperience in FEMA's top ranks is emerging as a key concern of local, state and federal leaders as investigators begin to sift through what the government has admitted was a bungled response to Hurricane Katrina," Spencer S. Hsu <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802165.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> September 9, 2005.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">FEMA's "Bungled Response" to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hurricane Katrina</a></h3>FEMA's response to one of the greatest natural disasters in American history was serious hampered by its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina:preparedness_failure" title="Hurricane Katrina: preparedness failure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">failure to prepare</a>, in spite of the recent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/%22Hurricane_Pam%22_simulation" title="" hurricane="Hurricane" pam="Pam" simulation="simulation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">"Hurricane Pam" simulation</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FEMA_relief_spending_in_pre-Election_Florida_2004" title="FEMA relief spending in pre-Election Florida 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">relief spending experience in pre-Election Florida 2004</a>."The breakdown in management and communications was so execrable that the president learned about the 25,000 desperate, trapped people at the New Orleans convention center not from [FEMA director Michael Brown] ..., who didn't know himself, but from a wire story carried into the Oval Office by an aide on Thursday, 24 hours after the victims had been pleading and crying for help on every channel," Maureen Dowd <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/opinion/10dowd.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> September 10, 2005.The "lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina revealed to everyone that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which earned universal praise during the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clinton_administration" title="Clinton administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clinton years</a>, is a shell of its former self," Paul Krugman <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> September 12, 2005.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">FAA incompetence failed to avert the 9/11 event</h2>As the veil of secrecy lifts, as many new questions are revealed as new answers. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/1016" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a> Did the FAA experience the same kind of cronyism incompetence prior <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/September_11,2001" title="September 11, 2001" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">September 11, 2001</a> as did FEMA prior to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hurricane Katrina</a>? Perhaps not; but the process was well underway, as evidenced by the dismissal of the final report of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hart-Rudman_Task_Force_on_Homeland_Security" title="Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security</a>, the assignment of<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Enron" title="Enron" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Enron</a> to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cheney_Energy_Task_Force" title="Cheney Energy Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cheney Energy Task Force</a>, and the appointment of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Condoleezza Rice</a> as National Security Advisor.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Nominees to the Department of Justice</h2>"Given this administration’s pattern of nominating ideologically extreme candidates for the judiciary and making politically aggressive nominations decisions such as re-nominating candidates previously disapproved," in his May 12, 2005, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.senate.gov/comm/judiciary/general/member_statement.cfm?id=1500&wit_id=2629" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">statement</a> before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Vermont Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_J.Leahy" title="Patrick J. Leahy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patrick J. Leahy</a> expressed concerns regarding Bush nominees <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alice_S.Fisher" title="Alice S. Fisher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alice S. Fisher</a>(as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rachel_Brand" title="Rachel Brand" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rachel Brand</a> (as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy), and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Regina_B.Schofield" title="Regina B. Schofield" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Regina B. Schofield</a> (as Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP)).Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arlen_Specter" title="Arlen Specter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arlen Specter</a> "said in the interview on Friday [August 12, 2005,] that he had concerns about the depth of criminal prosecution experience at the top of the Justice Department after the departure" of Deputy Attorney General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_B.Comey" title="James B. Comey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James B. Comey</a>, who left in August 2005 to be <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lockheed Martin</a>'s new general counsel and who had been "a veteran prosecutor in Manhattan," Eric Lichtblau <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/nyt-8-16-05c.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> in the August 15, 2005, New York Times."Judiciary Committee members said that for the first time in memory, none of the most senior officials at the Justice Department" --<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alberto_R.Gonzales" title="Alberto R. Gonzales" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alberto R. Gonzales</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Timothy_E.Flanigan" title="Timothy E. Flanigan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Timothy E. Flanigan</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_D.McCallum,Jr." title="Robert D. McCallum, Jr." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert D. McCallum, Jr.</a>, or Alice S. Fisher -- "would have experience as a criminal prosecutor."<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Cronyism and Mass Exodus from Government Departments</h2>Paul Krugman <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">asked</a> September 12, 2005, "How many FEMA's are there?"<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Environmental Protection Agency" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a>: "has seen a major exodus of experienced officials over the past few years. In particular, senior officials have left in protest over what they say is the Bush administration's unwillingness to enforce environmental law." According to Hugh Kaufman, "a senior policy analyst in the agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, ... 'The budget has been cut ... and inept political hacks have been put in key positions.'"</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Food and Drug Administration</a>: "Serious questions have been raised about the agency's coziness with drug companies, and the agency's top official in charge of women's health issues resigned over the delay in approving Plan B, the morning-after pill, accusing the agency's head of overruling the professional staff on political grounds."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting" title="Corporation for Public Broadcasting" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Corporation for Public Broadcasting</a>: "Republican chairman hired a consultant to identify <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Liberal" title="Liberal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">liberal</a> bias in its programs. The consultant apparently considered any criticism of the administration a sign of liberalism, even if it came from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conservatives</a>."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_the_Treasury" title="Department of the Treasury" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Department of the Treasury</a>: "has fallen from grace"; Treasury Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Snow" title="John Snow" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Snow</a>, "was obviously picked for his loyalty rather than his qualifications ... Less obvious to the public is the hollowing out of the department's expertise. Many experienced staff members have left since 2000, and a number of key positions are either empty or filled only on an acting basis."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Homeland_Security" title="Department of Homeland Security" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Department of Homeland Security</a>: "FEMA was neglected, some people say, because it was folded into a large agency that was focused on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terrorist" title="Terrorist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">terrorist</a> threats, not natural disasters." and "In 2004 Reuters reported a 'steady exodus' of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Counterterrorism" title="Counterterrorism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">counterterrorism</a> officials, who believed that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">war in Iraq</a> had taken precedence over the real terrorist threat."</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">"Grand Incompetence Party"</h2>"No one -- no one -- can name a single front on which today's Republicans have shown even the simplest competence. They don't know how to manage an <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.economy" title="U.S. economy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">economy</a>. They sure don't know how to balance a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.budget_deficit" title="U.S. budget deficit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">budget</a>. They have no idea how to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.unemployment" title="U.S. unemployment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">create jobs</a> (though they do have a pretty strong sense of how to make them disappear). Their domestic-security measures have consisted of the usual emphasis on show over substance, first stealing a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic</a> idea (the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Homeland_Security" title="Department of Homeland Security" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Department of Homeland Security</a>) and then underfunding the result in some crucial respects -- a mistake for which I pray we never pay a price," Michael Tomasky <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/08/tomasky-m-08-27.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">wrote</a> in The American Prospect, August 27, 2003."They don't understand the Bill of Rights, and their shills in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Media" title="Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">media</a> obviously don't understand the relationship between the First Amendment and trademark law, as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_O%27Reilly" title="Bill O'Reilly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Blah-Blah O'Reilly</a>'s laughable lawsuit against the great <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Al_Franken" title="Al Franken" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Al Franken</a> shows. They've done nothing to protect the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush/Republican_Initiatives" title="Bush/Republican Initiatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">air we breathe</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush/Republican_Initiatives" title="Bush/Republican Initiatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">water we drink</a>, and have, if anything, done <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_regime_environmental_record" title="Bush regime environmental record" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">damage to those resources</a>. They've done nothing for the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush/Republican_Initiatives" title="Bush/Republican Initiatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">minorities</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush:Compassionate_Conservative" title="George W. Bush: Compassionate Conservative" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mr. Compassionate Conservative</a> was supposedly courting in 2000, his speeches to the NAACP and the like transcribed by a tremulous media," Tomasky said."And now, it turns out, they don't know how to do the one thing they've spent 50 years convincing Americans that they and only they know how to do: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Failure_in_Iraq" title="Failure in Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">fight a war</a>.""And, of course," Tomasky wrote, "there are wealthy interests who keep the party alive financially and who must be rewarded on all possible fronts. This, actually, is the one service Republicans do perform competently. They make damn sure of that."<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Resources & articles</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Documents</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=6252" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"The Right-Wing Affiliations of Bush Administration Officials,"</a> "Right-Wing Watch"/<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People_for_the_American_Way" title="People for the American Way" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">People for the American Way</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reform.democrats.house.gov/Documents/20050111164847-37108.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaatkleqvr4xmxkqqqamawf0x="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X" xssz9cskiyiifrfcjmmihmigbb5fqdcaqj4j46pzyluwe="XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe" cxz6ovbhts0sry2njp="cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp" xxxxzolu6euwaopx1vnwtbe6qqaaaaaelftksuqmcc="XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"The Politicalization of Inspectors General"</a> prepared for Representative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Henry_A.Waxman" title="Henry A. Waxman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Henry A. Waxman</a>. United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform - Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division, October 21, 2004; revised January 7, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reform.democrats.house.gov/story.asp?id=726" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Findings: "Politicization of Inspectors General,"</a> Committee on Government Reform - Minority Office, October 21, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.senate.gov/comm/judiciary/general/member_statement.cfm?id=1500&wit_id=2629" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Statement by Senator Patrick J. Leahy</a>, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, May 12, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/ls/dojappts.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">DOJ Nominees and Appointments as of September 23, 2005</a>, including links to official press release announcements, Department of Justice website.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence:SourceWatch_Resources" title="Bush administration cronyism and incompetence: SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Related SourceWatch articles</a></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Note: Includes list of names.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">External articles</h3><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">General</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sites.pfaw.org/wikivirdir/index.php?title=Political_Appointees_and_Cronyism" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Political Appointees and Cronyism,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People_for_the_American_Way" title="People for the American Way" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">People for the American Way</a> / WikiThePresidency.org.</li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2002</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ceci Connolly, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A61430-2002Oct21&notFound=true" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Hill Group Faults HHS for Ideology,"</a> Washington Post, October 22, 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=14177" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Some House Democrats Question Department's Recent Decisions Regarding Advisory Panels, Public Health Information,"</a>Kaiser Network, October 22, 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=14201" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"GAO To Review Operations Under HHS Inspector General in Response to Senators' Request,"</a> Kaiser Network, October 23, 2002.</li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2003</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushco/cronyism.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Bush's talent for cronyism: foxes guarding the henhouse,"</a> Project for the Old American Century, undated.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/04/politics/main542782.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Janet Rehnquist Resigns,"</a> Associated Press (CBS News), March 4, 2003.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=15&num=1884&printer=1" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Rehnquist's daughter, under investigation, leaves job,"</a> Associated Press (Capitol Hill Blue), March 5, 2003.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michael Tomasky, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/08/tomasky-m-08-27.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Ineptitude Redefined. Stereotype holds that the GOP is the party of sober competence. But the opposite is true,"</a> The American Prospect, August 27, 2003.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Linda Berg, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://now.org/nnt/winter-2004/administration.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Inside the Bush Administration: Cronyism Despite the Human Cost,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NOW" title="NOW" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NOW</a>.org, Winter 2003/2004.</li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2004</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Andrew Zajac, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/2004/0620planners.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Insiders Shape Postwar Iraq,"</a> Chicago Tribune (Global Policy), June 20, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David J. Sirota and Judd Legum, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8076" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"These Dogs Don't Hunt,"</a> The American Prospect, July 9, 2004: "A Pentagon inspector’s defense of Halliburton is a textbook example of the cronyism of Bush's so-called watchdogs."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jon Elliston, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-28/cover_story.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"A Disaster Waiting to Happen. As FEMA weathers Bush administration policy changes, some insiders fear that concerns over terrorism are trumping protection from hurricanes and other natural hazards,"</a> Best of New Orleans, August 28, 2005. Lengthy article includes list of FEMA cuts.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.525reasons.com/archives/000922.html#000922" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"The Final Countdown: Corporate Cronyism,"</a> 525 Reasons, October 23, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,139051,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Big Bush Fundraisers Get Admin Positions,"</a> Associated Press (Fox News), November 19, 2004: "One-third of President Bush's top 2000 fund-raisers or their spouses were appointed to positions in his first administration, from ambassadorships in Europe to seats on policy-setting boards." (emphasis added)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=316582&page=1" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Official Who Criticized Homeland Security Is Out of a Job. Inspector General Had Reported Mismanagement, Security Flaws,"</a> ABC News, December 9, 2004.</li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2005</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Megan Scully, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0605/060705cdpm1.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Pentagon IG: Defense official could face criminal charges,"</a> Congress Daily (GovExec.com), June 7, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/06/ale05085.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"George Bush's Wise Guys: Noe, Abramoff, Reed, and the Wyly Brothers,"</a> BuzzFlash, June 14, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Eric Holdeman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105J.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Disasters Keep Coming but FEMA Phased Out,"</a> Washington Post (Truthout), August 31, 2005: "Agency responsible for preparedness absorbed into homeland security."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?id=12592" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"US: Pentagon's Chief Watchdog Joins Company that Owns Blackwater,"</a> Reuters (CorpWatch), September 1, 2005: "Joseph Schmitz, the Pentagon's chief internal watchdog since March 2002, has quit to join a defense contractor involved in private security services."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/04/chertoff-learned-of-levee-failure-36-hours-after-mayor-nagin/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?"</a> Think Progress, September 4, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Judd, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/06/fema-deputies/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Top FEMA Deputies Make Brown Look Qualified,"</a> Think Progress, September 6, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kenneth R. Bazinet, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/344004p-293718c.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"FEMA packed with W's pals. Campaign pros get top jobs,"</a> New York Daily News, September 7, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050908/edit08.art.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Exposed by Katrina, FEMA's flaws were years in making. Political appointments, loss of focus crippled disaster relief agency,"</a>USA Today, September 7, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002346.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Two Bush 2000 Florida recount aides were rewarded with top FEMA posts,"</a> Attytood, September 7, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/07.html#a4839" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Pelosi: Bush: 'Oblivious, in denial, dangerous',"</a> Crooks and Liars, September 7, 2005: "At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 'absolutely no credentials.' ... She related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Michael Brown..." WMP and QT links on page.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lara Jakes Jordan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/09/fema_chief_relieved_of_katrina_duties/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"FEMA chief relieved of Katrina duties,"</a> Associated Press (Boston Globe), September 9, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Spencer S. Hsu, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802165.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience. 'Brain Drain' At Agency Cited,"</a> Washington Post, September 9, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Frank Bass and Dirk Lammers, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sbc.senate.gov/democrat/record.cfm?id=245514" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Congress to Investigate Sept. 11 Loan Program,"</a> Associated Press (U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepeneurship), September 9, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Maureen Dowd, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/opinion/10dowd.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Neigh to Cronies,"</a> New York Times, September 10, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David E. Sanger, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/national/nationalspecial/11fema.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1126609618-sVW+kTiekmdaI8sADLML5w" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"FEMA Chief Was Recalled After High-Level Meeting,"</a> New York Times, September 11, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Krugman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?incamp=article_popular" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"All the President's Friends,"</a> New York Times, September 12, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Roger Simon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/050912/12simon.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"A heck of a job,"</a> US News.com, September 12, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Frank Bass and Dirk Lammers, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB5IN0SKDE.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Feds Praise Their Sept. 11 Relief Loan Program but Omit Critical Audit,"</a> Associated Press (Tampa Bay Online), September 13, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">RJ Eskow, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nightlight.typepad.com/nightlight/2005/09/is_the_sba_the.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Is the SBA the Next Scandal?"</a> Night Light, September 13, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ellen Goodman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3359118" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"While we're at it, let's look at FDA incompetence, too,"</a> Houston Chronicle, September 18, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Marc Kaufman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901576.html?nav=hcmodule" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"FDA Rethinks Women's Chief. Toigo Is Acting Head; Agency Denies Naming Veterinary Official,"</a> Washington Post, September 20, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dan Eggan and Spencer S. Hsu, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901930.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Immigration Nominee's Credentials Questioned,"</a> Washington Post, September 20, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://petty-larseny.blogspot.com/2005/09/soul-of-cronyism.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"The Soul of Cronyism,"</a> Petty Larseny Blog, September 20, 2005. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julie_L.Myers" title="Julie L. Myers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Julie L. Myers</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12716487.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"CIA director faces questions from employees,"</a> Knight Ridder Newspapers, September 22, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, and Mike Allen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109345,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?"</a> Time, September 25, 2005: "A TIME inquiry finds that at top positions in some vital government agencies, the Bush Administration is putting connections before experience."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Robert Scheer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.robertscheer.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Corrupt Connections. Widening Abramoff scandal exposes GOP cronyism,"</a> robertscheer.com, September 27, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Christopher Brauchli, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1001-04.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"When Cronyism Substitutes for Competence,"</a> Common Dreams, October 1, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Billmon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://billmon.org/archives/002217.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"A Crony on the Court,"</a> Whiskey Bar, October 3, 2005. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers" title="Harriet E. Miers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harriet E. Miers</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/opinion/11tue4.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Opinion: "Inexpert Selection,"</a> New York Times, October 11, 2005. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ellen_Sauerbrey" title="Ellen Sauerbrey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ellen Sauerbrey</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steve Clemons, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001038.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Stephen Friedman Named to Chair President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board,"</a> The Washington Note, October 27, 2005. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Friedman" title="Stephen Friedman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Stephen Friedman</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9900921/site/newsweek/?rf=nwnewslette" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"In the Company of Friends. Bush may be besieged by charges of cronyism, but they don’t seem to have affected his picks for a panel assessing intelligence matters,"</a> Newsweek, November 2, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steve Soto, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005923.php" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Four Years After 9/11, Bush's Cronyism Extends To National Intelligence As Well,"</a> The Left Coaster, November 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Stewart Simonson and Donald Powell, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=92" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Bush cronies continue to hurt country. Will the public's health and pocketbooks be 'Brownied'?"</a> Media Transparency, November 10, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Molly Ivins, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=19893" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Tootling merrily along,",</a> Working for Change, November 17, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mark Sherman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/12/10/political_appointees_at_justice_draw_heat/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Political appointees at Justice draw heat,"</a> Associated Press (Boston Globe), December 10, 2005: "Bush administration critics say the cases fit a pattern of allowing political considerations to trump sound policy."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Edward Wytkind, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1215-33.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Cronyism Strikes Again,"</a> Baltimore Sun (Common Dreams), December 15, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/wire/29748/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Bush Appoints Husband Of Plamegate’s Viveca Novak To FEC Over Opposition of John McCain…"</a> AlterNet (wire news stories), December 17, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jim Tankersley, Joshua Boak and Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, "Presidential Pipeline", Toledo Blade (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), December 18-20, 2005: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05352/624259.stm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Part 1: "Bush's top fund-raisers see spoils of victory"</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05353/624618.stm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Part 2: "Bush's backers gain contracts, policy changes"</a>; and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05354/625052.stm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Part 3: "No rewards for donors on Kerry-Edwards side."</a></li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2006</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michael McAuliff, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/393375p-333478c.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"W aides' biz ties to Arab firm,"</a> New York Daily News, February 21, 2006. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Snow" title="John Snow" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Snow</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_C.Sanborn" title="David C. Sanborn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David C. Sanborn</a>, and<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DP_World" title="DP World" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DP World</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Eric Schlosser, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/opinion/11schlosser.html?r=1&oref=slogin" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Op-Ed: "Has Politics Contaminated the Food Supply?"</a> New York Times, December 11, 2006.</li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2007</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Justin Rood, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/homeland_securi.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Homeland Security: Land of Misfit Toys?"</a> The Blotter / ABC News, June 5, 2007. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Department_of_Homeland_Security" title="U.S. Department of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of Homeland Security</a></li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2008</h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mark Sorkin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://juvienation.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/meet-j-robert-flores-ojjdp-chief-underminer/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Meet J. Robert Flores, OJJDP Chief (Underminer)"</a> Juvienation, April 9, 2008.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Brian Ross, Anna Schecter, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Murray_Waas" title="Murray Waas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Murray Waas</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5033256&page=1" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Justice Department Official Awards $500,000 Grant to Golf Group"</a> ABC News.com, June 9, 2008.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mark Sorkin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://juvienation.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/flores-in-the-spotlight/" style="text-decoration: none; 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sourcewatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Corruption<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pages in category "Corruption"</h2>The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total.<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table style="width: 782px;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top;"><td style="width: 256px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">"</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/%22Team_Abramoff%22" title="" team="Team" abramoff="Abramoff" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">"Team Abramoff"</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">2</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2002_Election_NH%22Phone_Jamming%22_Case" title="2002 Election NH " phone="Phone" jamming="Jamming" case="Case" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2002 Election NH "Phone Jamming" Case</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">A</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff%27s_Criminal_Activities" title="Jack Abramoff's Criminal Activities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff's Criminal Activities</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:External_Links" title="Jack Abramoff: External Links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: External Links</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:External_Links_2004" title="Jack Abramoff: External Links 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: External Links 2004</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:External_Links_2005" title="Jack Abramoff: External Links 2005" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: External Links 2005</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:External_Links_2006" title="Jack Abramoff: External Links 2006" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: External Links 2006</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:Profiles" title="Jack Abramoff: Profiles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: Profiles</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:Related_SourceWatch_Resources" title="Jack Abramoff: Related SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: Related SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:Republican_Activism" title="Jack Abramoff: Republican Activism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: Republican Activism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:Tyco" title="Jack Abramoff: Tyco" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: Tyco</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abscam_bribery_scandal" title="Abscam bribery scandal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Abscam bribery scandal</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Adam_Kidan" title="Adam Kidan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Adam Kidan</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alice_S.Fisher" title="Alice S. Fisher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alice S. Fisher</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_a_Republican_Majority_Political_Action_Committee" title="Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Anthony_Ferrari" title="Anthony Ferrari" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Anthony Ferrari</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Anthony_Moscatiello" title="Anthony Moscatiello" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Anthony Moscatiello</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Antoin%22Tony%22_Rezko" title="Antoin " tony="Tony" rezko="Rezko" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Antoin "Tony" Rezko</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arms_smuggling" title="Arms smuggling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arms smuggling</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Augusto Pinochet</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">B</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bank_fraud" title="Bank fraud" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bank fraud</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bernard_Kerik" title="Bernard Kerik" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bernard Kerik</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Frist:Inside_Trader" title="Bill Frist: Inside Trader" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bill Frist: Inside Trader</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Ney" title="Bob Ney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bob Ney</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Ney/External_Links" title="Bob Ney/External Links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bob Ney/External Links</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brent_R.Wilkes" title="Brent R. Wilkes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brent R. Wilkes</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_and_the_Enron_connection" title="Bush administration and the Enron connection" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration and the Enron connection</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence" title="Bush administration cronyism and incompetence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration cronyism and incompetence</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_cronyism_and_incompetence:SourceWatch_Resources" title="Bush administration cronyism and incompetence: SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration cronyism and incompetence: SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_regime" title="Bush regime" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush regime</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_regime_cronyism" title="Bush regime cronyism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush regime cronyism</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">C</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Athletic_Foundation" title="Capital Athletic Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Capital Athletic Foundation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Celebrations_for_Children_Inc." title="Celebrations for Children Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Celebrations for Children Inc.</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Wyly_and_Sam_Wyly" title="Charles Wyly and Sam Wyly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Wyly and Sam Wyly</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congressional_Bribery_and_a_DC_Sex_Scandal" title="Congressional Bribery and a DC Sex Scandal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Congressional Bribery and a DC Sex Scandal</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Conrad_Black" title="Conrad Black" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Conrad Black</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Conspiracy_to_violate_state_election_code" title="Conspiracy to violate state election code" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Conspiracy to violate state election code</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corruption" title="Corruption" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Corruption</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corruption_in_Iraq" title="Corruption in Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Corruption in Iraq</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Criminality_within_the_United_States_democratic_process" title="Criminality within the United States democratic process" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Criminality within the United States democratic process</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">D</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Safavian" title="David Safavian" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Safavian</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Safavian:Articles%26_Commentary" title="David Safavian: Articles & Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Safavian: Articles & Commentary</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Safavian:OMB_Policies" title="David Safavian: OMB Policies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Safavian: OMB Policies</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DeLay_Foundation_for_Kids" title="DeLay Foundation for Kids" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DeLay Foundation for Kids</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DeLay%27s%22Dirty_Money%22" title="DeLay's " dirty="Dirty" money="Money" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DeLay's "Dirty Money"</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Diebold_Election_Systems" title="Diebold Election Systems" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Diebold Election Systems</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Direct-recording_electronic(DRE)voting_systems" title="Direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Don_Young" title="Don Young" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Don Young</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duane_R.Gibson" title="Duane R. Gibson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Duane R. Gibson</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">E</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Early_voting" title="Early voting" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Early voting</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Buckham" title="Ed Buckham" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ed Buckham</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edward_P.Ayoob" title="Edward P. Ayoob" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Edward P. Ayoob</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Efforts_to_initiate_the_impeachment_of_Vice_President_Dick_Cheney" title="Efforts to initiate the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Efforts to initiate the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Electoral fraud</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Electronic_voting" title="Electronic voting" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Electronic voting</a></li></ul></td><td style="width: 256px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">E cont.</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Electronic_voting_internationally" title="Electronic voting internationally" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Electronic voting internationally</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eshkol_Inc." title="Eshkol Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Eshkol Inc.</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">F</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FEMA_relief_spending_in_pre-Election_Florida_2004" title="FEMA relief spending in pre-Election Florida 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">FEMA relief spending in pre-Election Florida 2004</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frederick_A.Black" title="Frederick A. Black" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frederick A. Black</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">G</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gaming-Related_Legislation:eLottery_Inc.and_the_DeLay,Abramoff,Reed_Connection" title="Gaming-Related Legislation: eLottery Inc. and the DeLay, Abramoff, Reed Connection" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gaming-Related Legislation: eLottery Inc. and the DeLay, Abramoff, Reed Connection</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Witness" title="Global Witness" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Global Witness</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP_Marketplace" title="GOP Marketplace" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">GOP Marketplace</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GrassRoots_Interactive" title="GrassRoots Interactive" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">GrassRoots Interactive</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greenberg_Traurig" title="Greenberg Traurig" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Greenberg Traurig</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Group_W_Advisors,Inc." title="Group W Advisors, Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Group W Advisors, Inc.</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">H</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Haley_Barbour" title="Haley Barbour" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Haley Barbour</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Howard_J.Krongard" title="Howard J. Krongard" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Howard J. Krongard</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">I</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Identity_theft" title="Identity theft" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Identity theft</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Illegal_alien" title="Illegal alien" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Illegal alien</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Illegal_drugs_trade" title="Illegal drugs trade" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Illegal drugs trade</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Imperial_Tobacco_Canada" title="Imperial Tobacco Canada" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Imperial Tobacco Canada</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Insider_trading" title="Insider trading" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Insider trading</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources" title="International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Italia_Federici" title="Italia Federici" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Italia Federici</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">J</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/J.Steven_Griles" title="J. Steven Griles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">J. Steven Griles</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff:Guam_Grand_Jury_Investigation" title="Jack Abramoff: Guam Grand Jury Investigation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Abramoff: Guam Grand Jury Investigation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_Fiorillo" title="James Fiorillo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James Fiorillo</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_Tobin" title="James Tobin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James Tobin</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Ellis" title="Jim Ellis" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jim Ellis</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Hirni" title="Jim Hirni" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jim Hirni</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joel_G.Combs" title="Joel G. Combs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joel G. Combs</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Colyandro" title="John Colyandro" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Colyandro</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Doolittle/Commentary" title="John Doolittle/Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Doolittle/Commentary</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Hannah" title="John Hannah" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Hannah</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jon_W.van_Horne" title="Jon W. van Horne" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jon W. van Horne</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">K</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kaygold_LLC" title="Kaygold LLC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kaygold LLC</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kevin_A.Ring" title="Kevin A. Ring" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kevin A. Ring</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">L</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Leonard_N.Ross" title="Leonard N. Ross" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Leonard N. Ross</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lisa_Rudy" title="Lisa Rudy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lisa Rudy</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lobbying</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Loose_Cannon_Pentagon" title="Loose Cannon Pentagon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Loose Cannon Pentagon</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">M</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maurice_R.Greenberg" title="Maurice R. Greenberg" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Maurice R. Greenberg</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Max_Gelwix" title="Max Gelwix" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Max Gelwix</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_D.Smith" title="Michael D. Smith" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael D. Smith</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Scanlon" title="Michael Scanlon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael Scanlon</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mildred_Webber" title="Mildred Webber" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mildred Webber</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mitchell_Wade" title="Mitchell Wade" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mitchell Wade</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Money_laundering" title="Money laundering" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Money laundering</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/MZM_Inc." title="MZM Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">MZM Inc.</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">N</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Election_Pool" title="National Election Pool" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Election Pool</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Neil_G.Volz" title="Neil G. Volz" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Neil G. Volz</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">O</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Organized crime</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">P</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Padgett_Wilson" title="Padgett Wilson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Padgett Wilson</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_Maugein" title="Patrick Maugein" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patrick Maugein</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_Pizzella" title="Patrick Pizzella" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Paul" title="Peter Paul" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Peter Paul</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_Relief" title="Project Relief" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Project Relief</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">R</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ralph_E.Reed,Jr." title="Ralph E. Reed, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ralph E. Reed, Jr.</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Randy%22Duke%22_Cunningham" title="Randy " duke="Duke" cunningham="Cunningham" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Randy "Duke" Cunningham</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Randy_Evans" title="Randy Evans" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Randy Evans</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reconstruction_of_Iraq_contractors" title="Reconstruction of Iraq contractors" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Reconstruction of Iraq contractors</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Regina_B.Schofield" title="Regina B. Schofield" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Regina B. Schofield</a></li></ul></td><td style="width: 256px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">R cont.</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican%27culture_of_corruption%27" title="Republican 'culture of corruption'" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican 'culture of corruption'</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican%27culture_of_corruption%27:Articles%26_Commentary_2003-2004" title="Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2003-2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2003-2004</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican%27culture_of_corruption%27:Articles%26_Commentary_2005" title="Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2005" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2005</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican%27culture_of_corruption%27:Articles%26_Commentary_2006" title="Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2006" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2006</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican%27culture_of_corruption%27:Related_SourceWatch_Resources" title="Republican 'culture of corruption': Related SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican 'culture of corruption': Related SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Majority_Issues_Committee" title="Republican Majority Issues Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Majority Issues Committee</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Retain_Our_Majority_Program" title="Retain Our Majority Program" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Retain Our Majority Program</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronnie_Earle" title="Ronnie Earle" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ronnie Earle</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Blunt/Commentary" title="Roy Blunt/Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roy Blunt/Commentary</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">S</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Samuel_Hook" title="Samuel Hook" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Samuel Hook</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sequoia_Voting_Systems" title="Sequoia Voting Systems" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sequoia Voting Systems</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Serious_Organised_Crime_Agency" title="Serious Organised Crime Agency" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Serious Organised Crime Agency</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shawn_Vasell" title="Shawn Vasell" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shawn Vasell</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirlington_Limousine_and_Transportation,Inc." title="Shirlington Limousine and Transportation, Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shirlington Limousine and Transportation, Inc.</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SnoopGate" title="SnoopGate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">SnoopGate</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephanie_Leger_Short" title="Stephanie Leger Short" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Stephanie Leger Short</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/User:Steve_Freeman/National_Election_Pool" title="User:Steve Freeman/National Election Pool" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">User:Steve Freeman/National Election Pool</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/User:SteveFreeman" title="User:SteveFreeman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">User:SteveFreeman</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Susan_B.Hirschmann" title="Susan B. Hirschmann" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Susan B. Hirschmann</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">T</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terry_Nelson" title="Terry Nelson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Terry Nelson</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Texans_for_a_Republican_Majority_PAC" title="Texans for a Republican Majority PAC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Texans for a Republican Majority PAC</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_case_for_impeachment_of_President_George_W.Bush:SourceWatch_Resources" title="The case for impeachment of President George W. Bush: SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The case for impeachment of President George W. Bush: SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Cheney-Rumsfeld_Cabal_Deception" title="The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Cheney-Rumsfeld_Cabal_Deception:External_Links_2001-2003" title="The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: External Links 2001-2003" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: External Links 2001-2003</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Cheney-Rumsfeld_Cabal_Deception:External_Links_2004" title="The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: External Links 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: External Links 2004</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Cheney-Rumsfeld_Cabal_Deception:People,Organizations_and_Events_Useful_to_the_Cabal" title="The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: People, Organizations and Events Useful to the Cabal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: People, Organizations and Events Useful to the Cabal</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Cheney-Rumsfeld_Cabal_Deception:SourceWatch_Resources" title="The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception: SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay%27s%22Transgressions%22" title="Thomas D. DeLay's " transgressions="Transgressions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay's "Transgressions"</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay/Commentary" title="Thomas D. DeLay/Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay/Commentary</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:biography_and_early_political_career" title="Thomas D. DeLay: biography and early political career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: biography and early political career</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:Complaints,Investigation%26_Indictments" title="Thomas D. DeLay: Complaints, Investigation & Indictments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: Complaints, Investigation & Indictments</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:External_Links" title="Thomas D. DeLay: External Links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: External Links</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:External_Links_2004" title="Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2004</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:External_Links_2005" title="Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2005" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2005</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:External_Links_2006" title="Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2006" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2006</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:Investigation,Indictment_and_Beyond:Articles%26_Commentary" title="Thomas D. DeLay: Investigation, Indictment and Beyond: Articles & Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: Investigation, Indictment and Beyond: Articles & Commentary</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:Majority_Leader" title="Thomas D. DeLay: Majority Leader" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: Majority Leader</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay:Related_SourceWatch_Resources" title="Thomas D. DeLay: Related SourceWatch Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas D. DeLay: Related SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_J.Pyle" title="Thomas J. Pyle" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas J. Pyle</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Berry" title="Tim Berry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tim Berry</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Timothy_E.Flanigan" title="Timothy E. Flanigan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Timothy E. Flanigan</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Todd_A.Boulanger" title="Todd A. Boulanger" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Todd A. Boulanger</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tony_C.Rudy" title="Tony C. Rudy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tony C. Rudy</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tony_Rudy" title="Tony Rudy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tony Rudy</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Trafficking_in_human_beings" title="Trafficking in human beings" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Trafficking in human beings</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Transnational_organized_crime" title="Transnational organized crime" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Transnational organized crime</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Transparency_International" title="Transparency International" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Transparency International</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">U</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.election_irregularities" title="U.S. election irregularities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. election irregularities</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.election_irregularities_in_2002" title="U.S. election irregularities in 2002" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. election irregularities in 2002</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Family_Network,Inc." title="U.S. Family Network, Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Family Network, Inc.</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.presidential_election,2004" title="U.S. presidential election, 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. presidential election, 2004</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Nations_Office_on_Drugs_and_Crime" title="United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">W</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/War_profiteering" title="War profiteering" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">War profiteering</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Warren_M.Robold" title="Warren M. Robold" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Warren M. Robold</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wilkes_Corporation" title="Wilkes Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wilkes Corporation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Will_Brooke" title="Will Brooke" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Will Brooke</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_B._Adams" title="William B. Adams" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William B. Adams</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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The ever-expanding list of Republicans mired in scandal, just in the past year. If the Democratic party did this much crap over a 10 year period it would be another 10 years before I'd even consider voting for anyone in the party again...

The GOP List of Shame

Abramoff and Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX)

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480_pf.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480_pf.html</a>

<a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000182.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000182.php</a>

Abramoff and Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA)

<a href="http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/12/26/news/top_stories/01doolittle.txt" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/12/26/news/top_stories/01doolittle.txt</a>

<a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/doolittle.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://tpmmuckraker.com/doolittle.php</a>

Abramoff and Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)

<a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/ney.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://tpmmuckraker.com/ney.php</a>

Abramoff and Sen Conrad Burns (R-MO)

<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS01/604260303/1002" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS01/604260303/1002</a>

<a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php</a>

Abramoff and Rep. Dana Rohrabaker (R-CA)

<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/10/rohrabacher-abramoff/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/10/rohrabacher-abramoff/</a>

<a href="http://www.eritreadaily.net/News0306/article0306261.htm" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.eritreadaily.net/News0306/article0306261.htm</a>

Abramoff and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)

<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=116" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=116</a>

Abramoff and DeLay, Doolittle, Ney, Rohrabacher

<a href="http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/JoshMarshall/081705.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/JoshMarshall/081705.html</a>

Sen Bill Frist (R-TN)

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/23/AR2005092301811.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/23/AR2005092301811.html</a>

<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/frist-stock-timeline/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://thinkprogress.org/frist-stock-timeline/</a>

Sen Conrad Burns (R-MO)

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/23/news/state/25-post.txt" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/23/news/state/25-post.txt</a>

<a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php</a>

Sen Rick Santorum (R-PA)

<a href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11174" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11174</a>

<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=1827" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=1827</a>

Sen John Thune (R-SD)

<a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/07/08/news/local/news04.txt" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/07/08/news/local/news04.txt</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Thune" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Thune</a>

Sen George Voinovich (R-OH)

<a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/NEWS24/504030349" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/NEWS24/504030349</a>

<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bob_fitr_050731_dramatic_new_charges.htm" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bob_fitr_050731_dramatic_new_charges.htm</a>

Gov Taft (R) and Ohio Coingate

<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5746148,00.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5746148,00.html</a>

Ky. Gov Ernie Fletcher (R)

<a href="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050829/NEWS0103/508290327/1059/NEWS01" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050829/NEWS0103/508290327/1059/NEWS01</a>

<a href="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/EDIT01/508310315/1020/EDIT" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/EDIT01/508310315/1020/EDIT</a>

<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/kentuckydocket.php#fletcher" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/kentuckydocket.php#fletcher</a>

Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12141276/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12141276/</a>

Rep Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA)

<a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050702/news_1n2duke.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050702/news_1n2duke.html</a>

<a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/cunningham.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://tpmmuckraker.com/cunningham.php</a>

Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA)

<a href="http://loper.org/_{george/archives/2006/Mar/972.html}" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://loper.org/_{george/archives/2006/Mar/972.html</a>}

<a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_87/news/12286-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_87/news/12286-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</a> (sub req)

Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)

<a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051223-9999-lz1n23lewis.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051223-9999-lz1n23lewis.html</a>

Rep Michael G. Oxley (R-OH)

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041800987.html?nav=rss_politics" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041800987.html?nav=rss_politics</a>

Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA)

<a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000401.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000401.php</a>

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)

<a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20051204-9999-1n4adcs.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20051204-9999-1n4adcs.html</a>

Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH)

<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14275670.htm" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14275670.htm</a>

<a href="http://www.swingstateproject.com/2005/07/oh-2_jean_schmi.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.swingstateproject.com/2005/07/oh-2_jean_schmi.php</a>

Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC)

<a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/charles_taylor/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/charles_taylor/</a>

Rep. Katherine Harris ’06 Sen candidate (R-Fla)

<a href="http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=15039" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=15039</a>

<a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/katherine_harris/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/katherine_harris/</a>

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA)

<a href="http://www.harpers.org/sb-curt-weldon-kim-employment.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.harpers.org/sb-curt-weldon-kim-employment.html</a>

Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY)

<a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000158.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000158.php</a>

Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY)

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042200995.html?nav=rss_politics" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042200995.html?nav=rss_politics</a>

Ralph Reed ’06 Lt Gov candidate (R-GA)

<a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114548590969830492-KX98zvSUWRHqye46SjeFOdagWUQ_20070419.html?mod=blogs" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114548590969830492-KX98zvSUWRHqye46SjeFOdagWUQ_20070419.html?mod=blogs</a>

<a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/reed.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://tpmmuckraker.com/reed.php</a>

ex-IL Gov. George Ryan Sr (R)

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0604180306apr18,1,6246344.story?coll=chi-news-hed" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0604180306apr18,1,6246344.story?coll=chi-news-hed</a>

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr

Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President

<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2128530/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.slate.com/id/2128530/</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I.Lewis_Scooter_Libby" class="bbc_link" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I._Lewis_Scooter_Libby</a>

Whitehouse OMB Official David Safavian

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901859.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901859.html</a>

<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10-05-official-indicted_x.htm" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10-05-official-indicted_x.htm</a>

White House chief domestic-policy adviser Claude Allen

<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2138116/fr/nl/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.slate.com/id/2138116/fr/nl/</a>

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401825.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401825.html</a>

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Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies is a book written by<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">conservative</a> author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michelle Malkin</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Corruption#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> The book claims that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_administration" title="Barack Obama administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Barack Obama administration</a> has had dozens of instances of corruption.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Corruption#cite_note-todaybooks-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> The title is a reference to "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_corruption" title="Culture of corruption" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">culture of corruption</a>", a political slogan used by Democrats to refer to events that happened during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">presidency of George W. Bush</a>.

The book spent six weeks at #1 on the hardcover non-fiction section of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="New York Times Best Seller list" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Times Best Seller list</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Corruption#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

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