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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsA two-year-old letter by Vice President **** Cheney that pushed a controversial Alaska natural-gas pipeline bill is getting renewed scrutiny because of recently disclosed evidence in the Justice Department's corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens . In a conversation secretly tape-recorded by the FBI on June 25, 2006, Stevens discussed ways to get a pipeline bill through the Alaska Legislature with Bill Allen, an oil-services executive accused of providing the senator with about $250,000 in undisclosed financial benefits. According to a Justice motion, Stevens told Allen, "I'm gonna try to see if I can get some bigwigs from back here and say, 'Look … you gotta get this done'." Two days later, Cheney wrote a letter to the Alaska Legislature urging members to "promptly enact" a bill to build the pipeline. The letter was considered unusual because the White House rarely contacts state lawmakers about pending legislative matters. It also angered state Democrats, who accused Cheney of pushing oil-company interests. The former executive director of Cheney's energy task force had gone to work as a lobbyist for British Petroleum, one of three firms slated to build the pipeline.
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simonsez1 year, 4 months ago
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My God!!!! You mean Cheney wrote a letter to Alaska legislature asking them to approve a energy pipeline that would help the USA???????
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Wow!!!!! I guess this blows the lid off everything! Unbelievable! Can you imagine doing such a thing!! Terrible! HANG HIM. God help us ...-
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mesodude1 year, 4 months ago
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But it says right there in the very first paragraph why Cheney's involvement was remarkable in this situation. Are you a special prosecutor, private detective or otherwise in law enforcement? Why do cons ALWAYS think they're more knowledgeable than people who have devoted most of their adult lives to their field of study, industry, etc? Does con arrogance know ANY bounds?
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
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So your applauding bribery? Stevens accepts a quarter million dollar bribe, The briber says they'll get a "big wig" to "get it done" and the big wig in the bribers pocket is the Vice President Of The United States...that's OK with you?...(As long as there is a R next to the name I guess it is.)
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FSU92grad1 year, 4 months ago
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WOW !!! Is that why Pelosi called Osama a "gift from God?"
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or maybe why Osama is trying so hard to convince everyone he's a Christian and NOT a mulsim....If religion isn't important to you clowns then why does YOUR side keep mentioning it ?
Need to get your facts straight before you go off and start pointing paws, kitty-kitty....-
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hamy1 year, 4 months ago
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That was the political version of "why are you hitting yourself" that you just wrote.
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Obama wouldn't have to defend himself if the Rovian whispers would stop. Honestly, if one more Obama basher starts in with calling him Barrack HUSSEIN Obama I will find them and grind them into paste.
And I have several times asked why religion is important in this election when it has nothing to do with anything. No one wants to answer me.
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hyperbola1 year, 4 months ago
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This is just a continuation of Cheney's corruption all around the world in connection with oil. If Amreicans will not indict, try, convict and jail him for crimes against humanity, perahps the French or the Nigerians will jail him for corruption.
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Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 4 months ago
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In my lifetime, nothing significant has changed in the USA without people taking to the streets. Sadly, in the corporate-fascist boon of post-Vietnam, the capacity to remove and replace the government has been bred out of the average American........ if it was ever in the 'average' American. I look at the average pot-bellied American today and am sickened.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 4 months ago
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"There is nothing new here. The question is what can we do about it?"
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That does seem to be the question.
Nothing, I don't think.
But it will be interesting to see how Bush phrases the pardon he hands out at the end of the year; and what documents and emails can be recovered, by the next administration. -
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mark-stevens1 year, 4 months ago
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Obama was being polite You drive a 4000 pound gas guzzling pig and cry "my gas bill" We all responsible for our problems.
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Correctly inflated tires and driving 60 not 70 will reduce gas consumption by 25 to 30 cents a gallon. That will do more than all of the off shore drilling.
They are not going to reduce the price of something that people are willing to pay -
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Searchbeam1 year, 4 months ago
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I wonder why Propeller asterisks the name of our Vice President!
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I thought only dirty, obscene and vulgar words get that treatment!
Unless...!
Unless Propeller acknowledges that he is really a dirty, obscene and vulgar guy!
His track record sort of validates that!
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steffmo1 year, 4 months ago
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Anything that makes it less possible to deny that **** Cheney has looted this countries coffers for his own gain is a great thing. IMy fondest wich is the the Dems sweep the election and have the balls to really investigate what Cheney has gotten away with.
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