Comments on: The Revolving Door: Lawmaker To Lobbyist

More Members Of Congress Are Making Career Changes - And Taking Their War Chest With Them

[veteran72]

Blackwater Unlikely To Face Charges In Iraq Shooting

Sources say security contractor Blackwater Worldwide is not expected to face criminal charges in connection with the deaths of 17 civilians in Iraq.


Mohammed Hafiz, 37, holds a picture of his late 10-year-old son, Ali Mohammed, a victim of the Sept. 16, 2007 attack by the Blackwater USA contractors in Baghdad.

Sources close to the investigation say instead the Justice Department is focused on as few as three or four Blackwater guards who could be indicted in the shootings.

Sparing Blackwater itself would all but ensure that it will get to keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U.S. diplomats.

The shooting enraged the Iraqi government, which originally sought to expel the company from the country, and strained diplomatic relations between Washington and Baghdad. It also raised questions about the U.S. reliance on heavily armed private contractors in war zones.

The State Department publicly raised the question of Blackwater''s corporate liability last month when it extended the company''s contract by one year. The contract could still be canceled if criminal charges are brought, but the department said it was unlikely to penalize the corporation if only its employees were charged.

"I think that''s really what the FBI investigation needs to look at: Is the company culpable or are the individuals culpable?" Greg Starr, the department''s top security officer, said last month.

[jjp735i]

We don''t have a Congress elected by the people and paid by the people. We have a Congress bought and paid for by corporations. We just vote in who can take their money.

Congress cannot police it''s self. It''s too greedy.

[forthepeopl1]

ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS MAKE ALL MORTGAGES FROM 2000 TO 2007 ALL GET RE-FI AT A GOOD RATE LIKE 1 OR 2 POINTS OVER PRIME, THATS ALL AND IT WOULD STOP EVERYTHING ONCE AND FOR ALL.

TAKE WHAT THE MORTGAGE IS NOW MINUS 60 % PERCENT OFF AND RE-FI EVERYONE..THIS WOULD STOP IT ALL, AND STOP PUTTING GOOD AMERICANS ON THE STREET.

I JUST HAD MY REALTOR APPRAISE MY HOME I BOUGHT 6 YEARS AGO, PAYED 300,000 FOR IT NOTHING SPECIAL IN A SMALL TOWN IN MASS, NOW HE SAID ITS WORTH MAYBE 150,000 BUT REALLY THINKS IT WORTH 100,000..SO GUESS WHAT WHAT THE BANK WILL OWN IT FOR 300,000 BECAUSE THEY DONT WANT TO HELP IN MAKEING THE VALUE THE 100,000 TO 150,000, AND EVEN AT THAT RATE HE SAID IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY ARE GETTING AT FORCLOSER SALES, THEY ARE GETTING 20 TO 30 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. SO IT WOULD MAKE SENCE TO JUST RE-FI EVERYONE AT 40 PERCENT AND START OVER. THIS WOULD STOP EVERYTHING...

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THIS IS ONLY WAY TO STOP ALL FORCLOSER

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[cbsfan73]

"The environment? You prefer to live in a toxic dump? You expect corporations to do the responsible thing and self regulate themselves? Are you hallucinating?"

Let''s not forget the Superfund:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund

[excoachken]

How about Tom Reynolds (R. New York) who has a "legal" leftover war chest of "donations" of over $1 million to walk away with "tax free" that will help him "relocate" his family to D.C. to assume his new job as a lobbyist. What a bum----- going along with the destruction of our national economy by backing every hairbrain idea that the Cowardly Cowboy proposed for 8 years and then leaving the economically depressed that he "represented," to take a tax payer supplied "Golden Parachute" into Lobbyland! What a bum!!!!!

[veteran72]

Over 30 Neocon/GOPervs have resigned this year to become Corporate Arm Twisters. Since their 8 Year Ruinous Reign over America has been exposed and they now face complete destruction as a Party in November, most of these Rats have jumped the quickly sinking SS Shrub and are heading for the Green-Green Pastures of
Corporate Fascist Nazi Lobbyism.
Don''t worry, Trent. We''ll save you a spot on the platform at the War Crimes Hangings.

[harp1963]

Crooks, crooks, and more crooks. They may not find the loopoles they''re used to getting down here when they are someday standing before Jesus.

[wogerwabbit]

Don''t forget those Democratic officials who then lobby for the environment, unions, etc. The only publicity is on Republicans.

Posted by KrisinAL

Do you realize what your saying? You''re so programmed into the neoconazi mindset that you think the environment and unions are your enemy. Unions came about because large corporations abused their employees... read your history. Back then, before the corporate spin machine convinced you up was down and down was up, big business was the enemy and unions were the heroes. Trust busting and such.

The environment? You prefer to live in a toxic dump? You expect corporations to do the responsible thing and self regulate themselves? Are you hallucinating?

You neoconazi''s want to bend over and drown the government in the bathtub and leave our fate in the hands of multi-millionaire CEO''s who''s only god is profit, yet you expect them to protect you from the terrah-ists... who, when we boil this all down, is probably the main stream media.

[likeitis5050]

One more fact that proves voters have no say. Why the charade with voting? Why campaign at all to have people come out and cast a vote or write a congressman about a bill coming before them? It''s already been decided by snakes still congregating in snake pits. Our government may not be broken beyond repair but it''s nickle and diming us to death and may as well be put down before it drags us into the poor house for good!!!

[cfin5]

James Madison

(Architect of the U.S. Constitution & Co-Author of the Federalist Papers)

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance."

[deq54]

CBS, Thank you for this story. This is exactly what is WRONG with America. These former senators and generals nearing the end of their careers cozy up to corporations and influence our tax money into these companies, and when they retire guess who hires them? As far as I am concerned they are all traitors to the American people. Col. Hackworth had the idea that all retired generals who went to work as lobbyists for defense contractors should have to walk away from their retirement--I think that this idea is great and former Senators should have to do the same when signing on as lobbyists. They are scoundrels and cads and should not be allowed to betray our trust.