Did Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) commit a crime?

[L. Coyote]

I should add "this session" to the question to make clear this post
is not about the fishing trips to Alaska with the Corrupt Bastards Club.

This is about Attorney General nominee Holder and the WA Post story.
TPM has this:

A Bond aide told the Times that the senator "strongly considered blocking the nomination based on questions arising from some of Mr. Holder's public statements," but that Bond now planned to support the nomination after "having received assurances that was not intent on going after intelligence officials who acted in good faith."

The implication of the piece is fairly clear: Holder promised Bond to eschew prosecutions, and Bond promised not to block his nomination. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Judiciary Committee -- which approved Holder today -- strongly denied that such an exchange could have occurred.

... Leahy told me. "No senator would make a request like that. It'd be improper."

.... http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/leahy-its-improper-for-a-senator-to-seek-torture-assurances-from-holder-in-exchange-for-vote.php

I have to amend Leahy. Republicans and Dems have been known to do improper things!
Did Sen. Bond's aide say the Senator violated the law? Apparently he said that.

Of course, when noone does anything about illegal benefits, like fishing with the Corrupt Bastards Club .....

Who's Who in the "Corrupt Bastards Club" ?? Nothing Fishy Here. MOVE ON
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2101151

Sen. Bond apparently doesn't need to be asking, "Do you investigate fishing trips with known felons?"

Maybe this should be about illegal fishing trips!

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I hope so cause I would love to see Bond go down

:)

[geek tragedy]

2. Improper isn't the same as illegal. n/t

[bobd0]

3. It doesn't have to be illegal for the senate to investigate. Improper is good enough for censure. nt

[asksam]

4. He's A RePuke Conservative in Politics...

... Isn't that already a crime against nature and humanity?

[CitizenPatriot]

5. someone didn't get the memo

that the DoJ turned over some staff along with DC on Nov 4 and it is no longer a GIVEN that one can illegally "leak" info to the press against the Dems without explanation, cause, or truth.

I'm quite sure Bond was drunk on Nov 4, perhaps partaking in some Rushies to boot on the side...can we forgive a drug addicted senator for breaking the law, lying, and unethical behavior???

Does he love America?

We decide.

[kenny blankenship]

6. Ah yes, the "that can't have happened, because it's illegal" excuse

and since it's improper, someone would have been brought up on charges, if it had happened. Therefore it cannot have happened because you don't see any of us under arrest, now do you?

An argument most of the Bush Administration has made into a kind of hallmark.

Torture can't really be illegal, because if it were, we'd have been impeached and sent to jail.
Warrantless spying on Americans can't really be illegal, because if it were, we'd have been impeached and sent to jail.

We didn't go to jail, therefore we did no wrong.

[L. Coyote]

7. Logical as can be! After all up is down.

[JackRiddler]

8. The Republicans need to push this hard. Insist on full immunity for Bush officials!

Make a nice fat list of allegations and accused parties. Demand in the loudest maximum terms that Holder make individual assurances of never pursuing any of these cases as a condition of his appointment. Have party leaders Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh do a joint press conference calling for a nationwide Freeper mobilization in defense of blanket eternal immunity for every last Bush regime member.

Don't back down!