C&L: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
Bushco has a long history of playing dirty with whistleblowers. What they did in the story above and to Joe and Valerie Wilson were just two of many such instances. Also in today's news:
The Abu Ghraib whistleblower's ordeal
The US soldier who exposed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison found himself a marked man after his anonymity was blown in the most astonishing way by Donald Rumsfeld.
Sen Ted Stevens is the guest of dishonor in today's TPMtv:
And there's this also.
TPM: Lotta Muck Under This Rock
And this from the NYT:From Roll Call ...Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has used a Senate employee as his personal bookkeeper but does not appear to have paid her for those services out of his own funds, even as the aide collected more than a quarter-million dollars in federal pay, according to Senate records and the aide’s financial disclosure forms.
Barbara Flanders, who has worked for Stevens since at least 2004, has been paid as an employee of the Senate, first as a staff assistant on the Appropriations Committee and in Stevens’ personal office and, since October 2005, as a “financial clerk” on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
A mix of news coverage of the Sen Ted Stevens (R-AK) scandal from MSNBC, CNN, and a lil TDS thrown in.
Olbermann has David Schuster on for what is IMHO the most thorough cable news coverage of Sen Stevens problems to date, then Jon Stewart leads into a segment that has the Senator lashing out at CNN's Dana Bash.
TPM: FBI, IRS Search Home of U.S. Sen. Stevens, Who Has Been Scrutinized in Corruption Probe
TPMmuckraker has more.
I'll have a CNN video clip about it up soon. (Here it is)That's the same home, of course, that was doubled by a renovation undertaken in 2000 -- the contractor, curiously, was Veco, the corrupt oil company. Veco, prosecutors have pointed out "was not in the business of residential construction or remodeling." And that's not all that's curious about the renovation.
And there's more from TPMtv:
You can also see TPMmuckraker's on-going and comprehensive reporting on the Stevens' scandal here.
