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Originally posted by centurion1211
Hey, BH... Obviously, your team didn't give you much to work with this time.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Originally posted by centurion1211
Hey, BH... Obviously, your team didn't give you much to work with this time.
As much as you'd like to put me on a 'team' in this political game, you are, again, incorrect in your assumption. I didn't even vote for Clinton and don't trust him as far as I could throw him even in his thinnest days.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Since that's obviously what your beliefs are, don't try to hide them or pretend you're not what your posts say you are. That's disingenuous to say the least.
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by centurion1211
(in a feeble attempt to make another political figure look better).
Isn't this just a feeble attempt to make Bush look better?
As far as I'm concerned ALL politicians, especialy presidents are corupt, Bush is no better than Clinton is no better than Reagan is no better than any of them.
It's just a game to keep us unaware of the real agenda of the rich and powerful.
Some just get caught, and some don't. How much goes on that we don't hear about? And what do we hear that is just BS from the oposition?
Don't trust any of them, get over your need to be lead.
The rich and powerful are no better to tell you how to live your life than you are. Self governance, self reliance, self control, that's real libery, not being lead around by the rich and powerful.
Their agenda is a personal one, we are just appeased to keep us out of the way.
To them it's a game, a dangerous paranoid game.
[edit on 19/1/2006 by ANOK]
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Originally posted by centurion1211
Since that's obviously what your beliefs are, don't try to hide them or pretend you're not what your posts say you are. That's disingenuous to say the least.
You know who I am by my posts. Everyone does. And I am bored with this game.
Originally posted by redhat
Once we have an Independent with a chance to win the presidential election I give them my support.
Originally posted by dgtempe
We will have Bush thru 2008 and beyond. Just wait and see.
Originally posted by centurion1211
According to the New York Times, new information has now come to light that the Clinton administration used their power and influence to quash a tax investigation against Henry Cisneros, one of Clinton's cabinent secretaries (Housing). The tax inquiry was prompted by Cisneros paying hush money to a former mistress. This kind of behavior, along with lying about it to federal investigators, would turn out to be SOP for someone high in the Clinton administration. And when Cisneros plead guilty to lying, he was promptly pardoned by his apparant mentor on this subject, Bill Clinton.
Here is the article:
NY Times - Another Clinton Administration Scandal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 - After the longest independent counsel investigation in history, the prosecutor in the case of former Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros is finally closing his operation with a scathing report accusing Clinton administration officials of thwarting an inquiry into whether Mr. Cisneros evaded paying income taxes.
The legal inquiry by the prosecutor, David M. Barrett, lasted more than a decade, consumed some $21 million and came to be a symbol of the flawed effort to prosecute high-level corruption through the use of independent prosecutors.
Mr. Barrett began his investigation with the narrower issue of whether Mr. Cisneros lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation when he was being considered for the cabinet position. He ended his inquiry accusing the Clinton administration of a possible cover-up.
After being indicted on 18 felony counts, Mr. Cisneros pleaded guilty in 1999 to a misdemeanor charge of lying to investigators. He was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton.
A supporting article:
article
This probably would have been just another undiscovered scandal had the whistle not been blown by John J. Filan, chief of the IRS's Criminal Investigation Division in the South Texas District. In a March 31, 1997, memo, Filan expressed outrage that the IRS chief counsel's office in Washington on Jan. 15 had pulled a tax evasion case out of San Antonio because it required "centralized review." Told to "box up" his evidence and send it to Washington, Filan wrote: "I am not aware of any other criminal tax cases that have been pulled from experienced District Counsel attorneys."
With the case now in Washington, the IRS declined to prosecute. In a second memo on April 25, Filan said IRS Assistant Chief Counsel Barry Finkelstein's conclusions "are just plain wrong." Payments to Cisneros's former mistress and money spent for other purposes exceeded declared income, said the whistle-blower, and "clearly proves Cisneros knowingly and willingly signed and filed false and fraudulent income tax returns" for 1991, 1992 and 1993.
No doubt many here will want to push all this factual evidence of actual wrong-doing by the Clinton administration aside in favor of the innuendo and outright falsehoods posted about Bush on a daily basis on this board. But someone on another thread here had it right when they referred to that kind of "reporting" as "rectal journalism" (due to the sources of the information).