Report: Bush White House Violated Law By Using Gov't Resources To Support GOP in '06 Elections

[nadinbrzezinski]

George W. Bush's White House Office of Political Affairs violated the law by giving political briefings to political employees, concludes an Office of Special Counsel report issued Monday, nearly five years after the fact.

The report, titled "Investigation of Political Activities by White House and Federal Agency
Officials During the 2006 Midterm Elections," finds that the electoral success of the Republican Party and possible strategies for achieving it often were on the agenda at some of 75 political briefings at 20 federal agencies from 2001 to 2007, the Associated Press reported.

OSC found that "White House Office of Political Affairs (OPA) employees, as well as
high-level agency political appointees, violated the Hatch Act through a number of practices that were prevalent during the months leading up to the 2006 midterm elections," they said in a news release.

"Because most of the briefings took place during normal business hours and in government buildings, many of the briefings implicated the Hatch Act's prohibition against engaging in political activity while on duty or in a federal workplace," the report found.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/report_bush_white_house_violated_law_by_using_govt_resources_to_support_gop_in_06_elections.php

Ok color me surprised. I mean after starting ilegal wars, and engaging in torture... this is small potatoes

[itsrobert]

1. Report: Prosecution is off the table

End of Story.

[villager]

2. And the consequences for that? Know any other good jokes?

n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. We don't prosecute the top level of the oligarchy

we need to really call this what it is.

[NYC Liberal]

3. Remember how in 2004 the Bush campaign illegally colluded with

the Swift Liars? Nothing was ever done about it.

Bush also missed the filing deadline to be on the ballot in Florida that year, but of course nobody said anything about that either.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. As I said, they walked for ilegal war and torture

this is nothing...

Oh wait, there is no corruption in the United States...

:sarcasm:

[NYC Liberal]

7. Nah, only those evil commie Democrats are corrupt.

Conservative Republicans never do anything wrong. Family values and all that, don't you know?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. We are close to cop in street

taking a mordida... sadly I am not kidding.

[Octafish]

6. That's in the past. Get over it. We must move on. Fuhgedaboudid.

Just like lying America into two illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars should get some monkey in trouble, but noooo.

[Angry Dragon]

9. Throw the bum in jail

[gratuitous]

10. I see Robert Mitchum from "Night of the Hunter"

Heavy-lidded eyes, slouching against a door jamb. Toothpick protrudes from his mouth, and he shifts it slowly from one side to the other as he sizes up his prey. Every fiber of his being screams insolence and contempt. You can almost hear his thoughts: "What are you gonna do about . . . cop?"

And the sad answer is "Nothing."