Really!! The Nerve!!!
From McClatchy via AZ Central via HuffPost (so it is getting around - at least!)
Here's the header:
Commerce, Treasury funds helped boost GOP campaigns
Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers via AZ Central
Aug. 18, 2007 12:00 AM
Yeah... right.
Crooks and thieves...
Much more, below.
WASHINGTON - Top Commerce and Treasury department officials appeared with Republican candidates and doled out millions in federal money in battleground congressional districts and states after receiving White House political briefings detailing GOP election strategy.
Political appointees in the Treasury Department received at least 10 political briefings from July 2001 to August 2006, officials familiar with the meetings said. Their counterparts at the Commerce Department received at least four briefings - all in the election years of 2002, 2004 and 2006.
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Commerce and Treasury political appointees later made numerous public appearances and grant announcements that often correlated with GOP interests, according to a review of the events by McClatchy Newspapers. The pattern raises the possibility that the events were arranged with the White House's political guidance in mind.
The briefings are part of the legacy of White House political adviser Karl Rove, who announced this week that he is stepping down at the end of the month to spend more time with his family. Despite Rove's departure, investigations into the briefings are expected to continue.
One congressional aide, who asked to remain anonymous, said the investigation was revealing "a number of remarkable coincidences" similar to how Treasury and Commerce events appeared to coincide with the strategy in the political briefings.
Okay. That's my limit of paragraphs.
But, I just can't believe that this is the end of the story!
These guys are criminals!
Short diary,
Grrrr-illyia