Accusations of committee impropriety follow Rep. Waters’s ethics investigation

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Source: The Washington Post

A report offering new details regarding the House ethics committee’s handling of the investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has led to calls for a new probe — this time, of the panel itself.

Politico reported Monday that two of the committee’s former attorneys may have compromised the Waters investigation by improperly communicating with Republican committee members.

This followed a Washington Post report last December that the investigation had been derailed by infighting within the committee, and that the Democratic committee chairman’s attempt to fire two investigators had been stymied by the top Republican on the panel.

On Monday, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington urged House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to appoint an outside counsel to investigate the committee.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/accusations-of-impropriety-fly-in-wake-of-rep-waterss-ethics-investigation/2011/07/18/gIQAfyYiMI_story.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. I am so glad we have these Professional Politicians

in charge of this country
I just do not know how the American people would survive without them ........... dumb fucks