I'm watching a replay of the 11/17 Congressional Hearings on CSpan

[CatWoman]

Dornan and McCain questioning Italia Federici.

She is a terrible liar.

Just terrible.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. I saw that the other day...

and I agree completely!

The tax accountant is just as bad.... McCain called her on it... she just played dumb, and did it very badly.

[liveoaktx]

2. me too. I've seen this before but Federici is such a liar it's a hoot

to watch. McCain probably wanted to leap over the table several times and throttle her

[CatWoman]

3. LOL

"I" want to leap onto the tv set and throttle her!!

:D

[liveoaktx]

4. I like the part where she talked about all these emails that would

have told a different story and McCain says, basically, Look we HAVE all the emails and communications.. .beyatch!

this is just UNBELIEVEABLE!!!! heh

[Catrina]

5. Me too. She had to be almost dragged before the committee

Several times, she didn't show up, and McCain said he would send out federal marshalls to get her if she failed to respond to the Committee again. She made all kinds of excuses, like it was the anniversary of her father's death etc. There is something she really is afraid of revealing.

I think she is on the indictment list, but will probably end up 'cooperating' and get off with a lighter sentence. Maybe that's why she is holding back from the Committee, she needs the information to make a deal, if she can.

I loved Abramoff's tax preparer. Nothing that showed up on the tax return forms he gave her, alerted her to even consider the fact that he might be up to no good, not even an Israeli sniper school, listed as a US charity, worthy of a US tax deduction. Nor the various charity 'entities' including his own home??

Those hearings were the best TV I saw all year and yet, nothing that went on there ever made it to CNN or MSNBC or any of our so-called media. It was drama, aside from the many bombshells that shocked even the senators, used to DC, and would have seriously increased TV news ratings, had they chosen to follow them. I wonder why they chose not to?

Btw, throughout the entire year, I never saw a single Democrat in the hot seat before that Committee. All Republicans. Young Republicans. Interior Dept. Republicans. Abramoff himself, Kidan, Scanlon, again all Republicans. Aides, phone bank workers, fundies etc. and not one of them was a Dem, they were ALL Republicans!! Maybe I missed a dem somewhere, it's possible as I did not see every hearing, but it's strange that the media missed all this and are now saying this was somehow 'bi-partisan'! I wonder how that could be? :sarcasm:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. McCain - "I'm asking you for the last time, to stop interupting me."

What a disrespectful lying little snit!

OHHH. I'm getting all worked up again, I may have to change the channel!

Someone should teach her that it would be in her best interests to just

[Sydnie]

7. I had to google her this time

while listening to her bloviate. Interesting ties she has.

<snip>
One example has already surfaced in connection with Abramoff. Devaney's office is examining contacts between top officials and the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, a group whose predecessor was founded by current Interior Secretary Gale Norton.

Norton cut her ties with the group when she joined the Bush administration. But her top aides, including former deputy secretary J. Steven Griles, maintained close contacts with the organization on issues affecting tribal gaming. And the group's president, Italia Federici, is a close associate of Norton who worked on Norton's political campaigns back in Colorado.

<snip> Aspens, anyone?

A February 2002 memo from Federici to Eric Ruff, Norton's former communications director, highlights CREA's concern about gaming issues even though its mission says nothing about tribes. The document came as Interior was considering a gaming compact -- ultimately rejected -- that Abramoff's wealthy tribal clients opposed.

"You can see that Ralph Reed and his firm are involved somehow," Federici told Ruff in what she termed was a "heads-up about what I've been hearing."

"From what I have been told, Ralph," Federici said, "is bending the ear of Karl Rove and possibly even the President about land-into-trust and gaming issues."

<snip>

Intersting huh? Here come Rove into the mix.

http://mail.indianz.com/News/2005/008410.asp