$1 billion timber Deal?

[bow-tie]

$1 billion timber slush fund or fair trade deal?
Lawsuit, U.S. senators want details on Bush administration deal

By ROBERT McCLURE
P-I REPORTER

Is it an illegal $1 billion slush fund for Bush administration friends in the timber industry, extorted from Canada and designed to evade congressional oversight?

Or is it a fairly negotiated end to an expensive trade war that's "the best thing that has happened to private forest land conservation in the United States in 100 years?"

It depends on your point of view. Now, a federal lawsuit filed in Seattle is bringing more scrutiny to the controversial deal. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is spearheading a Senate effort to get more information about who got the money and what they're doing with it.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/360970_timber29.html

[orangerevolution]

1. Clear the woods

for farm land for more corn. Can't eat trees.

[acmavm]

2. I wish Cantwell luck. People have been trying to pry info from this

bunch since day one. With very little result.

I sincerely hope she does better.