Watergate Without the Break-In

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070516_watergate_without_the_break_in/

Posted on May 16, 2007
By Marie Cocco

WASHINGTON—It is time to stop referring to the “fired U.S attorneys scandal” by that misnomer, and call it what it is: a White House-coordinated effort to use the vast powers of the Justice Department to swing elections to Republicans.

This is no botched personnel switch. It is not even a political spat between the fired U.S. attorneys and Bush administration officials who deemed some of them insufficiently zealous in promoting the department’s law enforcement priorities. Connect the dots and you see an insidious effort to corrupt the American electoral system. It’s Watergate without the break-in or the bagmen.

[L. Coyote]

1. Let's not lose sight of the BIG BREAK-INS. Or, yet another Sheeople Herder

On the Fattening of the Sacrificial Lambs, and the Chief Sheeople Herder.

I wrote this in response to a Greg Palast interview piece. It als applies to this article:

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There seems to be a con in progress in Washington DC. So, what's new, you ask. This time they seem to be preparing for the eventual demise of the regime of corruption. The "fall guys" are being fattened, and this time the level of finesse is outlandish. Fattening in nothing new in DC, especially at the porker's feed trough. This time they are fattening the sacrificial lambs, both people and issues. Now we have both 'fall guys" and "fall issues." The sacrificial lamb getting the most feed right now is "voter fraud." And now, one of the chief sheeople herders feeding this lamb is Grag Palast. He is also feeding the Rove lamb, instead of pointing to "The Decider."

Palast writes, ".. the reason my book was subpoenaed is that it has to do with the US prosecutor firings. The prosecutor firings were 100% about influencing elections -- not about loyalty to Bush, which is what The New York Times wrote."

We have seen, in recent developments, that USAs-Gate is a far broader issue, as are the investigations by the Congressional Committees. More USAs were on the list than those indicated as fired in relation to "influencing elections." The "voter fraud" issue ia a sacrificial lamb, touted by the spin-doctors to cover-up larger, brewing political scandals. McNulty's recent resignation places a spotlight on corporate fraud charging. Carol Lamb was a threat to one of the largest and influential health care corporations, Tenet Healthcare. This context has been ignored with regard to the Sampson memo.

Tenet was facing, on May 10, a (quoting Kyle Sampson's May 11 e-mail) "real problem we have right now with Carol Lam"
May 10, 2006 - Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to cut off all Medicare payments to Tenet, the ultimate $$$ punishment.
May 11, 2006 - Kyle Sampson e-mails deputy White House counsel William Kelley, re "the real problem we have right now with Carol Lam ....

This seems more like an influence peddling scam. Tenet changed lobbyists in 2006, paying $360,000 to (former RNC chairman, Bush-pick) Gillespie's lobbying firm to go to bat in DC. So, why is Sampson e-mailing the White House about 'real problem--right now' Carol Lam the day after HHS says the Fed money faucet is going to be turned off for Tenet, a corporate death knell?

Palast should read this investigatory compilation thread,
US Attorney Firing: Voter Fraud, Medicare Fraud, WHICH IS IT ???
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
Therein, one fraud focus is Tenet Healthcare's fraud litigation timeline in relation to the USA firings.

Herein, the fraud focus shifts to the #1 Company, HCA, to ALL the others, and to how they get away with defrauding the People:
30 U.S. attorneys investigate BILKING BILLIONS, Medicare, Medicaid, Military’s Healthcarehttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=vi...

There were 30 USAs investigating Medicare fraud, and, as recently revealed, there were 26 USAs on the Sampson list at one point.
Within days after Carol Lam's firing, the corporate fraud charging ability of USDAs was curbed by McNulty. See:

New DOJ Guidelines Tone Down Corporate Fraud Prosecutions - 12/22/2006
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=22930
With Richard Cellini, attorney and Integrity Interactive vice president.

Question: What is the Thompson Memo? Why is it problematic?
Cellini: The U.S. Department of Justice is the primary law enforcement arm of the U.S. government... The department frequently indicts corporate executives who have broken the law in their capacity as company officers.....

Palast should read this investigatory compilation thread also, wherein, the fraud focus shifts to the #1 Company,
HCA, to ALL the others, and to how they get away with defrauding the People.:

The fall is in sight, and just like with Iran-Contra, the boss is being protected by the fall guys. What is new today is how complex the scandals are, how multitudinous they are, and how there is a concerted effort to lead the sheeople to the wrong issues, to hide the true corruptions and not just save the boss. If the sheeople do not break from the flock, the fleecing will just carry on as usual as we feast on the sacrificial lambs.

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NOW, I must add this. Marie Cocco writes, "The most vivid nexus between the “U.S. attorneys scandal” and the subjugation of the voting-rights section to partisan pursuits comes in Missouri, where the abrupt resignation of U.S. Attorney Todd Graves in March 2006..."

There is much more to the Missouri USA story, much, much more. In fact, the Missouri story is where
the "voter fraud" smoke screen ins most in need. Cocco also should read this DU thread:

30 U.S. attorneys investigate BILKING BILLIONS, Medicare, Medicaid, Military’s Healthcare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x877011

as the list of Sheeople Herders grows.

Now to the BIG BREAK-IN. Illegal spying on "Americans" early in 2004. Bull crap. That was illegal spying on "Democrats." Oh, and the other BIG BREAK-IN" right in the Halls of Congress. The Rs were intercepting ALL the communications of ALL the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee, the committee investigating the politization. IN CONGRESS!!! How des that compare to "trying" to bug a political office?

BIG, I'd say. Don't tell the Sheeople or they might try to break from the flock.