Larisa Alexandrovna: The Day In Contempt (Miers and Feeney)

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http://www.atlargely.com/2007/07/a-day-in-contem.html

A Day In Contempt...
I thought we might examine the Contempt landscape as of mid-day or the summary of the GOP's contempt for the law: So, the latest is - House Panel Clears Way for Contempt Proceedings/RE Harriet Miers (who was actually nominated to the Supreme Court and has now clearly demonstrated her views on the law).

Rep Tom Feeney (R-FL) argued very dramatically and with the appropriate "I'm shocked" responses why it was absolutely necessary to protect Hariet Miers (and against all logic legal argument). Feeney has a little seat on the House Judiciary committee. But I think MR. Feeny protests too much, so much so, I had to get out my notes from 2004 just to make sure Mr. Feeney was not more interested in defending himself than protecting poor, broken down, downtrodden Hariet. No one, not in politics or in in general, will go on the record defending something so blatantly in violation of the law and argue so desperately, unless they have a very personal interest in the topic and usually, an interest involving keeping others from looking at them. This is similar to the homophobic family values politician who ends up being the biggest queen around. For example, consider Senator Vitter, a family values guy, forcing an unreasonable extreme view of the perfect family paradigm on the rest of the nation, all the while having a diaper fetish and hiring hookers to help him live that fetish out.

But you get the point. Mr. Feeney struck as protesting a bit much on something so sacrosanct as honoring a Congressional subpoena. So I looked through my notes and discovered that sure enough (and largely thanks to the work of Brad Friedman in general on the Feeney front), Mr. Feeney does have a personal interest in blocking any testimony about possible election fraud and the plot by Karl Rove to use the DOJ as his personal political hacks, staging phony investigations and drumming up false charges against Democrats.

So what context do I have the fine Mr. Feeney in my notes? The Clint Curtis context. Who is Mr. Curtis? A Whistleblower. For what you ask?

"Feeney's 2006 congressional opponent, Clint Curtis has previously provided a sworn affidavit alleging that in October 2000, Feeney asked Curtis, then a computer programmer at Yang Enterprises, to design a computer program to falsify touch-screen voting results in Palm Beach County. Although a Wired News story cast doubt on Curtis's allegations, Curtis subsequently passed a polygraph (lie detector) test commissioned by a Washington, D.C. private investigator." (Wiki)

Again, what is at the center of attorney-gate and the questions surrounding why attorneys were replaced. Consider that attorneys who were replaced would not cook up charges of election fraud against Democrats in their region. And perhaps too, consider USAs might have been going after legitimate claims of election fraud from 2004, like the caging lists in Florida and like the various other questionable activities we saw the last two election cycles. No wonder Mr. Feeney is so willing to let a Congressional subpoena be snubbed by Executive edict. Mutual blackmail is a bitch and no one knows this better than the queen king bitch, Karl Rove.

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[Vincardog]

1. Du ya think?

[rumpel]

2. Exactly.

I was going to, and decided not to bring the Feeney thing into the Election News thread, today.

I was appalled. And then again, I watched Bilbray in the hearing on election systems...

One can only scratch the head...and then again, those that stand to lose the most will obviously be the loudest.


on edit: and never forget how they thwarted Mr. Conyers's efforts after 2004, when still in the minority, was not even allowed a hearing. How Mr. Conyers, and others held hearings anyway - do not forget how they treated Mr. Conyers hearing in Ohio: last minute change of room provided - the dramatic testimony of Mr. Curtis - C-span refusing to cover it, citing they have no budget to send a crew or in Ohio...

let's post the video - who has it?