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Originally posted by rgr22j
I'm not sure if you're being facetious, but didn't DeLay send Homeland Security after the Texas Democrats?
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Yes, I was being facetious.
It's just how I responded to the idea of law enforcement being used in a political fight.
DeLay tried to get them to track the Democrats' plane. When it was found out, he backpedalled, saying that "I asked a staffer to contact the FAA for publicly available flight information that any member of Congress gets from FAA — or you can get it off the Internet — as to the whereabouts of a certain plane, of a certain tail number."
When DeLay's office contacted Homeland Security about the plane they were led to believe that it was in trouble, missing or had crashed.
DeLay also contacted the FBI and US Marshals for help in finding the Democrats. They declined his request.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in555028.shtml
Sorry, don't want to threadjack here.