**CREW asks DOJ to investigate Weldon** for e-mails.. threats (re:SESTAK)

[MADem]

Oh, HAPPY day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://blog.citizensforethics.org/node/197

Submitted by CREW on 20 October 2006 - 4:19pm. Curt Weldon
E-mails received by CREW have prompted us to ask the Department of Justice to investigate whether Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) violated the law by intimidating government personnel "in the national security field" who support his opponent, Joe Sestak.

The first e-mail describes a "hit list" compiled of Weldon opponent's supporters. In addition, that e-mail notes the Weldon said something to the effect of "If they don't think there will be retribution before or after the election, they're kidding themselves." The second e-mail states that Weldon had his staff contact Navy personnel to get information on Sestak.

CREW has asked the Department of Justice to investigate this very serious matter. The e-mails, which are provided below, detail a disturbing, and potentially unlawful, abuse of power. 18 U.S.C. §600 and 18 U.S.C. §610 are implicated with this kind of behavior.

Melanie Sloan stated that, "Not only has Rep. Weldon abused his position to financially benefit his daughter, he has threatened to misuse his position to punish those who support his political opponent. Rep. Weldon needs to learn that no one, not even a powerful member of Congress is above the law."

Read the e-mails:.........



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[BootinUp]

1. When Repukes Go Wild!

They just don't know when to stop. LOL>

[MADem]

2. This is a BIG DEAL--fucking with Sestak was a STUPID IDEA

He's got a LOT of friends, mark my words. This asshole of a Congressman screwed with the WRONG retired Flag officer!!!!!!

[rodeodance]

3. good one!

[stepnw1f]

4. Wow... Just Wow... Everyday Now

Somebody or something else....

[Kagemusha]

5. Oh my god, he tried to get navy investigative personnel after Sestak?

For a congressman to be doing that, hoo boy. It's not something to get caught doing when you're already in the Seat of Heat in a federal investigation.

[MADem]

6. He tried to PUNISH those who had worked for the guy and supported him

He had an ENEMIES' LIST of people who had contributed and so forth to Sestak's campaign. I mean, what BALLS on that asshole!!! Like a Congressional mafiosi -- "You go against the GOP family, I'm a-gonna take-a you out!!"

He was having his staffers call all around OPNAV (that's the CNO's massive staff in the Pentagon) trying to get dirt on the guy!!

I mean, if THIS ain't a threat, nothing is: "If they don't think there will be retribution, before or after the election, they're kidding themselves!"

[Kagemusha]

8. Man, when it rains it pours...

That's punishing people for having the balls to participate in a democracy as if that's a fundamental freedom or something radical like that.

[MADem]

10. I LOVE the fact that USN circled the wagons, and started sending the

fucker's inquiries to OLA, and others followed suit.

OLA is Office of Legislative Affairs, which is staffed by military and civilian personnel who manage paperwork that intersects between the branches of the military and Congress--it's where any letter from a military kid to a Congressman winds up, or where any letter from a civilian to the Department of Defense or any branch of service winds up--for chopping/vetting--it's a clearinghouse to make sure that everyone is talking from the same damn page, basically.

Anything that goes through OLA, never MIND the frigging slowdown of the Cap mail system due to the anthrax, takes a damn week at least! And it's a real way of telling someone on the Hill to kinda fuck right off, only in a nice way! A lot of times, if you have a decent relationship with a Congressional office, you can discuss things back and forth (direct liaison authorized, or DIRLAUTH) but when you think someone is trying to screw you over, or use you as a scapegoat, or what have you, then it's time to get pissy and demand that everything be on a routing slip via OLA. It's a bit of a back of the hand...! And SO well deserved!

[MH1]

11. Heh. Guess I'm on that list.

What a friggin' asshole. Can't wait til we get to say goodbye and good riddance, nutjob.

[MADem]

14. I could be, too! Not that it matters to ME, I'm retired, now! NT

[Little Star]

7. Weldon sounds like a enemy combatant to me.

[Sydnie]

9. they need to figure out when to fold the hand they are holding

because betting the limit isn't working out too well for them these days. :rofl:

[IndyOp]

12. M-M-Mel-Melanie Sloan! M-M-Mel-Melanie Sloan!

Dayum - She is just EVERYWHERE lately.

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

[MADem]

13. She used to work for John Conyers!!!!

Melanie Sloan, Executive Director
Melanie Sloan serves as CREW's Executive Director. Prior to starting CREW, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, where, from 1998-2003, she successfully tried cases before dozens of judges and juries. Before becoming a prosecutor, Ms. Sloan served as Minority Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, working for Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) and specializing in crime issues.

In 1994, Ms. Sloan served as Counsel for the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by then-Representative Charles Schumer (D-NY). There, she drafted portions of the 1994 Crime Bill, including the Violence Against Women Act. In 1993, Ms. Sloan served as Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then-Chairman, Senator Joe Biden (D-DE). Prior to serving in Congress, she was an associate at Howrey and Simon in Washington, D.C. and at Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Sloan received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago and has published in the Yale Law and Policy Review, Legal Times, The Washington Post, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

http://www.citizensforethics.org/about/whoweare.php

[IndyOp]

15. Awesome! Thanks for sharing that... ;-) (n/t)

:hi:

[happydreams]

16. CREW ROCKS!

That organization is cutting edge. You mess with them and they mess with you back.