Cheney Linked To Ted Stevens Corruption Trial

Newsweek:

A two-year-old letter by Vice President Dick Cheney that push-ed a controversial Alaska natural-gas pipeline bill is getting renewed scrutiny because of recently disclosed evidence in the Justice Department's corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens. In a conversation secretly tape-recorded by the FBI on June 25, 2006, Stevens discussed ways to get a pipeline bill through the Alaska Legislature with Bill Allen, an oil-services executive accused of providing the senator with about $250,000 in undisclosed financial benefits. According to a Justice motion, Stevens told Allen, "I'm gonna try to see if I can get some bigwigs from back here and say, 'Look ... you gotta get this done'." Two days later, Cheney wrote a letter to the Alaska Legislature urging members to "promptly enact" a bill to build the pipeline. The letter was considered unusual because the White House rarely contacts state lawmakers about pending legislative matters. It also angered state Democrats, who accused Cheney of pushing oil company interests. The executive director of Cheney's energy task force later worked as a lobbyist for British Petroleum, one of three firms slated to build the pipeline.

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Comments

[frappe]

Another episode in the long saga of the Bush/Cheney criminal production. At a minimum, both should be impeached and thrown out of office to the curb stone and spat upon for the despicable manner in which they've damaged our country and violated their oath of office and the citizens' trust.

[Bitsko]

Impeachment is too good for them. Imprisonment would be more appropriate.

[SugarMan]

Well I'll Be! This is bigger than Watergate....C'mon media and don't sweep this under a rug. This administration is the most corrupt our nation has ever seen!

[aznurse]

I'm sure AP is all over it!

[SuiginTou7]

Tell me , Why this criminal isn't in jail? He's done enough to warrent it?

[gcallaghan]

Eveb if this charge doesn't stick, Cheney's days outside of prison are numbered. While the nation has an abysmal record of trying ex-presidents for their crimes several vice presidents ended up in the big house.

Look for Obama to open the door for the World Court to try American Citizens for war crimes,

[alieninvader]

I don't know. Look for him to be moving to Dubai as soon as the lease is up on his current residence.

[wm1066]

Shades of Spiro Agnew!
I love it.
The only difference Spiro didn't hurt America on such a terrible scale as the Dman.

[SurrealPumpkin]

Who could have dreamed that 30 years later we'd look back at the Nixon years as a golden age! Who could have nightmared?

[Bitsko]

I know whatcha mean.

[MsYellowDog]

I remember the Watergate times very well,and until this administration could never have dreamed that any elected officials could carry the Nixon philosophy out,and the American people not only never twigged to it right under their noses,but RE-elected these two frauds!

[Bitsko]

Agnew was extremely small potatoes compared to these characters.