Cheney and Jefferson (VP and raided office guy) Tinfoil time!

[kansasblue]

DailyKOS is suggesting and connection.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/28/16850/4036

[robbedvoter]

1. Yup. That Nigerian bribe triggered my radar too. yellow cake was my

guess...

[nicknameless]

2. Wondered what was behind the rethugs pretending to care

about separation of powers, etc.

Recommended

[gordianot]

3. This keeps getting strange and stranger. Nominated

[NanceGreggs]

4. Great post, kansasblue, and a K & R!

I think we all knew in our gut that there was SOMETHING in Jefferson's office that was scaring the hell out of the Republicans and the WH - just didn't know what it was.

This 'theory' seems to stand on solid ground.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Interesting

This poster at DKOS really does his/her(?) homework.

Much, much more to come, I'm surmising, and it won't look good for either party in Congress.

[seasat]

6. Jebbie Bush was also involved in a Nigerian bribery scandal.

(LINK)

Gov. Jeb Bush's former business partner in a venture to sell water pumps abroad defrauded the U.S. government of more than $74-million, federal authorities contend in a lawsuit.

The Justice Department alleges that MWI Corp. of Deerfield Beach, a water pump company whose equipment Bush marketed to foreign countries, fraudulently helped Nigeria obtain U.S. taxpayer-backed loans during his father's administration.

Much of the loan money went for secret payoffs to Nigerian officials and equipment that was vastly overpriced and unneeded, the lawsuit says.

[kentuck]

7. Vevy, vevy inter-resting....

<snip>
The Nigerian bribery scandal involving Jefferson is also linked to previous bribes paid to Nigerian politicians by U.S. oil companies, including $180 million in bribes paid by Halliburton, while Dick Cheney was its chairman, to Nigerian officials in return for a gas liquefaction plant contract in Nigeria. That bribery scheme (known as the "Technip Affair") resulted in a multinational criminal investigation of Halliburton that included the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department....

The FBI's raid on Jefferson's office may have had more to do with eliminating evidence involving U.S. oil companies in Nigerian bribery schemes (and, therefore, protect Cheney) than in nailing Jefferson.