Bush Administration Under a Cloud

[deminks]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042200519.html

By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Sunday, April 22, 2007; 1:41 PM

-- A rundown of Bush appointees who left under a cloud or face conflict-of-interest allegations

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_ J. Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became deputy Interior Secretary J., last month became the highest-ranking Bush administration official convicted in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, pleading guilty to obstructing justice by lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with the convicted lobbyist. Abramoff repeatedly sought Griles' intervention at Interior on behalf of Indian tribal clients.

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_ Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the top Justice Department prosecutor in the environmental division until January, bought a $980,000 beach house in South Carolina with ConocoPhillips lobbyist Donald R. Duncan and oil and gas lobbyist Griles. Soon thereafter, she signed an agreement giving the oil company more time to clean up air pollution at some of its refineries. Congressional Democrats have denounced the arrangement.

(she just got married to J. Steven Griles. How conveeeeeeeeniant.)

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/three-days-after-guilty-plea-griles-ties-the-knot-2007-04-19.html

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_ Matteo Fontana, a Department of Education official who oversaw the student loan industry, was put on leave last week after disclosure that he owned at least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company.

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_ Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, attended a luncheon at the agency earlier this year with other top GSA political appointees at which Scott Jennings, a top Rove aide, gave a PowerPoint demonstration on how to help Republican candidates in 2008. A congressional committee is investigating whether the remarks violated a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using their positions for political purposes.

[leftofthedial]

1. they all ought to be under indictment

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. and that's just the short list, involving minor crimes

the real criminals are still in some office or another.

[Rex]

3. At least he will destroy the GOP as well as America.

I mean, I hate what the BFEE is doing to America, but look at the damage done to the repukes - I bet they stay out of majority control for decades! Maybe longer. That is if we are all still here and in one piece (never know with Georgy and Dicky).

[Botany]

4. and wouldn't these "problems" be looked into by a U.S. Attorney?

[Wetzelbill]

5. yeah, a giant cloud of shit nt

[izzie]

6. Any one who could read knew this was going to happen with Bush

His whole history has been one of pushing the law to make money. He always got out of it when they found trouble. Every thing he has done has been sort of off how real people do things. Besides not cheating on his wife I would say Bush is pretty much a greedy man who has always used his name to get what he wants. He never could be trusted. Like people go together.

[Cha]

7. Yeah, like they're going

to have a good person in the mix there.

[izzie]

8. I am willing to bet Powell has had some thoughts of what he did

--and what he got into. I wonder if he knew he would be used so bad.