Man Accused of Fraud Blames Karl Rove - Larry Neumeister (AP)

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Man Accused of Fraud Blames Karl Rove

Prosecutors deny Karl Rove vendetta prompted them to file fraud charges against N.Y. defendant

NEW YORK, Sep. 12, 2006
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer
CBS Website
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(AP) "Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is "absurd."

Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Siegal urged U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Monday to reject arguments that Rove caused the criminal investigation that led to charges against Robert McAllister.

Siegal said lawyers for McAllister made the "patently absurd argument that the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District is a shill for Karl Rove and has arrested and indicted their client in some sort of vindictive retaliation."

McAllister's lawyer Gerald L. Shargel said Monday he plans to try to call Rove as a witness, if the court allows it.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/12/ap/national/mainD8K3E7CO0.shtml

[Demeter]

1. Think of How Much Money We Will $ave as a Nation

by stripping convicted felons from BushCo of their pensions, health care, and assets! Oh, and all welfare benefits, and maybe disqualify their children from any finacial aid for college, while we are at it.

[applegrove]

2. I don't see how that has anything to do with the "trouble" Rove got

into with this guy. Like an ant..taking Rove on... but a nice foil for us compared to the intensity of this election season.

Plus..if Bush goes... then that leave people even more nutty in power ..doesn't it! Not like your system allows for an election when things get really bad. It doesn't. All you can do is hope for a flip in the House. Then some oversight over Bush's next attempt at Social Security Reform.

I'm not one who wants to see any impeachment. The longer * stays in office...the better. The more people will learn that conservatism is all just a bunch of bullshit. It is only about selfishness and certain people gaining from democracy while others are left out and penalized. That being said... that Americans will finally learn the silliness of their creation myths..that every other country in the world has beauty and desires and many have democracy just as good or in fact better than the USA..the sooner they learn that..the sooner they can once again participate in the community of nations.

Very important that we have ICC supported across the board. Environment. We are all in this together. And just as the middle east is a danger..so too is radicalizing every nation the USA runs up against and bullies. That is bad too. We've only just gotten the blight of communism off the planet. No pure communist countries exist anymore.. and people have a chance at a kick of the can if they work hard (which they were denied under communism). We should be focussed on things De Soto says..like supporting emerging democracies with allowance of nationalized industries for a time being..as markets develop in these nations. And reducing the advantage the rich have in countries with bureaucracy issues that deny assets to the pooor.

Radical neocons are just afraid of loosing dominance...they'll pay any price to maintain dominance. And having 5% of the population..of the planet...and the internet equalizing the world more..there is simply no way. It is like the Soviet Union trying to be an empire when it didn't have the markets or the money to be an empire. It is just a waste a grab like that. Better for the USA to participate in world institutions and business...and lead the world that way. Instead of leading themselves into something that is totally unrealistic.. and thus radicalizing the world which has to respond to them.

Look at all the changes that took place under Clinton..in South America and Asia. Amazing how countries dropped communism and socialism and when with the mixed market economies that the West has. Now they are meeting to discuss how scared they are of the USA. That's not good.