"The Highest Levels?"
ABC News' Brian Ross reported tonight that
the Jack Abramoff bribery scandal "has led FBI investigators to some of the most powerful members of Congress," namely Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL).
Ross reported that "based on information" obtained by investigators, Hastert is "very much in the mix of the corruption investigation."
Ross and co. say the investigation centers on a letter Hastert wrote to interior sec. Gale Norton blocking a casino on an Indian reservation that would benefit tribes repped by Abramoff. The letter was written after a Signature's fundraiser.
(This bit of info is old news, but if investigators are focusing on it, then many other members who wrote similar letters could be in trouble.)
The report quoted a Hastert spokesman as saying Hastert was not aware he was being scrutinized and had not been asked by DoJ to turn over any information.
There's no doubt in my mind that the recent "invasion" by the Justice Department was intended to cease and destroy documents that link the corrupt democrat with all the other corrupt republicans and democrats (abramoff buddies), including Bush & co.
Don't expect him to get his documents back as they've already been destroyed for sure.
It is interesting how this story breaks just hours after Hastert tells Bush: "FBI raid was unconstitutional"
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/052406/jefferson.html
and after he demands that the FBI returns Docs.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/24/D8HQ79QG2.html
it is odd how these things happen.
Corruption is a cancer that has spread throughout most sectors of the U.S. government. You think they'll ever truly investigate THEMSELVES or punish THEMSELVES? No way. It's all about protecting themselves and consolidating their power. Reward the rich with MORE wealth, eliminate the middle class, and then rule the poor through fear & repression. America is becoming a third-world country, and our leaders don't care since their only concern is WEALTH and POWER.
The U.S. will either collapse like the U.S.S.R. or simply become a complete totalitarian police-state. The third option is for Americans to finally stand up and assert their power, but WE THE PEOPLE have been trained for decades now to be stupid sheep, brain-dead, apathetic consumers--America no longer has much use for intelligent, educated, well-informed CITIZENS; dumb CONSUMERS is what we've become, but how much bullshit are we willing to consume?
We can't wait for the powerful to hold themselves accountable--they never will. All we'll get from them is more lies, disinformation, scare tactics, and erosion of our Constitutional rights. It seems that the only thing that can save America is a revolution.