50 US Attorney Generals Wanted Gonzales To Investigate Oil Industry-HE REFUSED

[kpete]

Judiciary Hearing on Oil Prices and Market Failure:
A Federal Investigation Denied
May 16th, 2007 by Jesse Lee

The Judiciary Committee Task Force on Antitrust has concluded its hearing, “Prices at the Pump: Market Failure and the Oil Industry.” Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, describes a meeting he had with US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting a federal investigation into the oil industry:


“As I was driving here from the airport I thought back to a meeting that I had with the United States Attorney General less than a year ago, involving a number of my colleagues from all around the country, both Republican and Democrat Attorneys General, who met with him and the chairman of the FTC with the single purpose of persuading them to begin a federal investigation. And unfortunately, our plea went unheeded then — there has been no effective federal investigation.

“We pleaded with Attorney General Gonzales and FTC Chairman Majoras, Platt, to begin an investigation of the oil industry, and we offered our partnership in that work. All 50 Attorneys General have hands full investigating monopolistic abuses on the part of the oil industry, but we lack the authority, and expertise, and resources of the federal government. And so we invited, we beseeched the federal government to join us in that investigation and so far they have declined to do so.

“There is a need to provide greater authority but also to use that authority effectively to enforce the law. The law without enforcement is dead letter. And so, as we review what can be done to change the law, I think at the top of the priorities ought to be the kinds of demands that you have made, Mr. Chairman, and other Members of the Committee and Congress, that the Justice Department be more vigorous in enforcing these laws that protect against anti-trust and consumer abuses.”

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=386

[fooj]

1. What a surprise!

:grr:

[tridim]

2. And he refused at the request of whom?

Meh, that question is way too easy. Fry BushCo, fry.

[wordpix]

6. haha, lol

[Junkdrawer]

3. Here's hoping this government of The Oil, by The Oil and for The Oil...

will soon perish from this earth....

[wordpix]

9. very good, junkdrawer, best writing prize

[wordpix]

4. That's my AG Blumenthal. One of the BEST AGs in the country & he's been there a long time

I bet he's seen a lot of changes in the DOJ.

[drbtg1]

22. Seconded

Even when he doesn't succeed (like with the ATM surcharges), you know he's standing for what's right. He should be seriously considered for the federal AG spot in January 2009.

(Of course, the same assholes that make fun of John Edwards's hair won't get past the Pat Riley hair stuff Blumenthal uses.)

[Beaverhausen]

5. My god- what else are we going to find out about this guy?

[Divine Discontent]

28. well....

maybe he eats babies, I mean, at this point nothing will shock me, he LIES and he's supposed to be the Top Cop and one after another revelation comes out to show he's durrrtier than Christina Aguilera! (her song, that is, no Aggie fans gettin on me!)

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- check it out, top '08 stuff

[OregonBlue]

7. Maybe Lou or Keith need to interview this state attorney general.

[drbtg1]

23. If they do...

...bear in mind that the CT AG also sued the federal government over NCLB because it was supposed to be a funded mandate but was left unfunded. The education secretary told him to essential fuck off.

Another topic to cover in any potential interview.

[lonestarnot]

8. Wouldn't want no vestigat'n on that war of lies and trickle supply and war profiteers, nope.

Hugh ugh. Nope, nada, zip, put a lid on it :smileyheadshakesno:

[wordpix]

10. KO talking about Comey's taking power when Ashcroft in ICU

Ai, yai.

[applegrove]

11. B I N G O!

[yurbud]

12. kudos to Pelosi for posting this on her blog

[driver8]

13. I am absolutely shocked!!

I cannot imagine ANYONE in this current administration siding with the oil companies.

I am flabbergasted, I tell you...

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. ..

:evilgrin:

[youthere]

37. Completely gobsmacked, I am...

*yawn*

[Morgana LaFey]

14. AFAIC, this stands as PROOF that the whole administration is

just a scam on the American people. They just want to bleed us dry for their corporate friends. That's all. There's nothing going on in the adminstration, and there's BEEN nothing going on, that benefits the people or the nation first and only. In fact, any benefit is incidental: everything is political (power) and predatory (money).

[L. Coyote]

15. $$ Where do the Bucks STOP?? $$

New bumper sticker idea: $$ Where do the Bucks STOP?? $$

Kicking with 50 votes for BIG OIL, 30 for MEDI-CON, 5 for VOTER FRAUD

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

The BIG PICTURE, of course, is the multitude of scandals to cover up.
Please help finish this compilation of Bush Scandals from A to Z, birth to impeachment:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x899312

[L. Coyote]

16. K&R

[dogday]

17. He serves at the pleasure of the President

He watches his back and the rest of America gets screwn....

[Supersedeas]

34. the Oil Executives at the President's table - Condi, Cheney, Rummey would not allow that

[samsingh]

18. gonzo is a thug bought by that industry

[sellitman]

19. He "Forgot".

:argh:

[SpiralHawk]

21. "republicon crony oil profits are more important." - Gonzo

"My mandate from Commander AWOL and Dickie 'five military deferments' Cheney is to protect Massive OIL Profits for our republicon cronies, and that is what I have sworn to do."

- Gonzo

[loudsue]

24. Good grief!!! Is it impeachment time yet???

I just don't have any words....

:kick::kick::kick: & R

[gillamonster]

25. Anyone suprised??

[bamacrat]

26. Of couse, dont bite the hand that feeds you.

[AzDar]

27. Gonzales : enemy of the People.

[Imagevision]

29. Gonzalez doesn't work for the american people, he works for Bush who gave

big oil companies 9 billion in tax breaks last year under the guise of looking for new oil... The middle class people are going to be hurting bigtime by the time Bush is out of office!

[DLnyc]

30. Plus some $400 billion and uncounted lives

to try to extend oil companies monopoly on world energy production by by helping them stealing the Iraqi reserves. See, for instance,

http://priceofoil.org/thepriceofoil/war-terror/iraqi-oil-law

[donkeyotay]

31. Looters. God damned oil mob. Seized power for one purpose only - to loot

as much as they could. Whether they're stealing medicare dollars, war profiteer dollars, lernin is good reading dollars, pharma dollars, homeland security dollars, defense dollars or oil dollars THAT'S ALL THEY DO. They steal. They haven't a clue how to govern a country because they don't "believe" in it. They only seized power to steal as much as they could. Looters. Impeach these mofos.

[Imagevision]

32. I find it disturbing watching Gonzalez fight himself to keep from laughing in their faces...

he's got this smirk that says George will never let me go...!

[Kurovski]

33. K&R (nt)

[aquart]

35. How many of the fifty were Republicans?

If the law is dead thru lack of enforcement, can we take oilmen out and hang them?

It's what they woulda done in the good ol' days.

[TexasLawyer]

36. George Bush keeps us smiling!

The haves, the have-mores, and the have-WAY-WAY-WAY-mores.

[rucky]

38. It's the OIL, stupid! n/t

[progressoid]

39. Big F****ing K&R!