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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I have stated that my attension span is pretty short. If you want me to follow your arguments you would lay it out in bite sized chunks and provide a reason to read your links.
That is a focus. Not one that I support, but it is something. Thanks.
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ace....the "reason".....the incentive for you to read what I post....and I post it over and over, because of the reasons that you stated...."short attention span", etc.... is so that you can "know what I know". I can lead you to it, but I cannot make you read it.
Suggestion: Read the last quote box content in my last post....the exchange between Rep. Sanchez and General Gonzales, and the following "background was all posted three weeks ago here:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...43&postcount=8
Below are excerpts of what is contained at the preceding link:
I'll summarize my last post:
There is overwhelming evidence that President Bush, and his brother Jeb, and their hand picked associates, manipulated the Florida 2000 election results by an organized campaign to purge and or to prohibit predicted opposition votes from being cast against Bush and other republican candidates, and....that since 2000, republicans, led by Karl Rove, have successfully turned the DOJ into a mechanism to do the same thing.....limit/eliminate predicted opposition votes by any means necessary, legal or illegal.....
Do you think it is simply a coincidence that republican "fixer", and rabidly partisan former US soliciter general. Theodore Olson, who argued for Bush in the 2000 election court battle, and then, as Solicitor General of the US, told the SCOTUS that :
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...9291-2002Mar20
It is "easy to imagine an infinite number of situations . . . where government officials might quite legitimately have reasons to give false information out," the Justice Department's senior trial lawyer said to the justices, who are weighing Jennifer Harbury's claim that she had the right to the truth about the torture and murder of her Guatemalan revolutionary husband by CIA-financed Guatemalan forces in 1993. .......
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http://www.gibsondunn.com/news/firm/...pubItemId=8231
U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang Joins Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles
October 17, 2006
Los Angeles. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce Debra Wong Yang, the United States Attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, will join the firm as partner in the Los Angeles office.
At Gibson Dunn, Yang will co-chair the firm’s Crisis Management Practice Group, along with Washington, D.C. partner Theodore B. Olson,
the former Solicitor General of the United States, and New York partner Randy Mastro, the former New York Deputy Mayor of Operations. In addition, Yang will play a central role in the Business Crimes and Investigations Practice Group.
“Debra Wong Yang is one of the most respected U.S. Attorneys in the country.
She has done a remarkable job in leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, which handles some of our Nation’s largest and most difficult cases,” said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.....
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070321/D8O07EA80.html
.....<b>About five months before Yang's departure, her office had opened an investigation into ties between Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and a lobbyist. Gibson Dunn, the firm that hired her, is also the firm where Lewis' legal team works,.....</b>
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070321/D8O07EA80.html
...<b>Since 1993, Lewis has received $88,252 in contributions from Wilkes and his associates. Only two other legislators received more: Cunningham and Republican Rep. John Doolittle from the Sacramento suburbs, both of whom have admitted steering millions of dollars in contracts to ADCS.</b>
During the same period, ADCS received more than $90 million in federal contracts, most of it through earmarks from the Appropriations Committee.
“From the standpoint of the average American citizen, that smells,” said Ned Wigglesworth, executive director of TheRestofUs.org, a liberal political watchdog group in Sacramento. “It's good to see that federal investigators have broadened the investigation into Lewis. His relationship with Wilkes has many of the same hallmarks that Cunningham's relationship had.”....
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ace....if you become more interested after reading the above in the context of the last quote box in my last post....read more in that post, and...if you have questions, I'll be happy to answer them......