Bush's Housing Secretary To Resign Amid Criminal Investigation
That list of disgraced ex-Bush administration officials keeps getting longer and longer and longer...
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced Monday he was resigning after seven years on the job.
Jackson, 62, is under criminal investigation and has been fending off allegations of cronyism and favoritism involving HUD contractors for the past two years.
He also was under intense pressure from Democrats to resign.
The FBI has been examining the ties between Jackson and a friend who was paid $392,000 by Jackson's department as a construction manager in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.Jackson said he needs time to attend to personal and family matters.
He did not take questions or elaborate on the family reasons he cited for the decision.
Jackson resigns at a time when nation's housing industry is in a crisis so serious that it has imperiled the nation's credit markets and led to a major economic slowdown.
The Seminal points out that this is the last of the Bush Texas cabal to leave.
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For a complete cleansing of the Bush disaster a law should be enacted forbidding Texans from being in the government for the next 1000 years.
And the pinch-faced white woman greeting Jackson in the picture is the vile right-wing Texan, Kay Bailey Hutchison, enormously popular in Texas but a woman who never saw a Bush administration policy, either at the state or federal level, that she disagreed with.
Crooks and incompetents are the signature trademark of the Chimp administration.
Almost forgot the chickenhawks.
Add him to the pardon list.
Well, at this rate there won't be anyone left to turn off the lights when the last one is indicted. But on the other hand, they're probably all stealing the light bulbs and fixtures while Congress twiddles its fingers.
Do I hear a call for impeachment? Anyone... anyone...
...PELOSI...?
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Until I see the headline, Bush, Cheney, Rice, etc. indicted for crimes against humanity, I remain unimpressed.
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It's time to bring back the Marines, Guard and Navy Seals to prepare for Court Marshall.
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THE VULTURES: USA?
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Couldn't happen to a better guy. I wonder if he'll get Scooter Libby treatment? Probably not though. He is black after all. Where is that picture of him being pet like a dog by Bush . . . I'll post it later.
Georgy Porgy @ 2:
Amen!!!
I am amaze that the Bush administration can find minority to sell out their own cause. Condi, Powell, Gonzo, and now Alphonzo Jackson.
To be fair he did want to spend more time with his 'family'...u kno da wuns..murder inc.
Yes, here it is : http://static.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/bush-jackson.jpg
Poor guy, you serve faithfully for years, but when the chips are down the Boss ain't going to bat for you the same way he went to bat for a spy-outing liar.
the cabal of bastards so incompetent have fucked up the nations'
economic future that we may never recover. this is just one of
the complex means the gop reichwingneocons have/are using to
destroy the fabric of democracy in America and replace it
so quietly with their fascist/dictatorship. look for the next
major attack on America sometime before the 2008 pres elections.
paranoia @ 11:
You would think they'd be a bit wary of him, but he is a guy you can have a beer with and you know how much they love their 40s.
This was the list of Disgraced Bush Appointees who were forced to retire up until October of 2007, I lost track after that. Does anyone have a more up-to-date list. We should get that list together and keep it alive on the net.
In no particular order, here is the list of Black hearted gallery up to Oct 2007.
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I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby- Office of the Vice President Chief of Staff
David Safavian- Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President
J. Steven Griles- Deputy Secretary of Interior
Kyle “Dusty” Foggo- CIA Executive Director
Eric Keroack- Dept. of Health & Human Services, Chief of U.S. Office of Population Affairs
Randall Tobias- Deputy Secretary of State
Kyle Sampson- Attorney General Chief of Staff
Monica Goodling- Senior Counselor to the Attorney General & Justice Department liaison to the White House
Michael Battle- Dept of Justice Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys
Paul McNulty- Deputy Attorney General
Michael Elston- Deputy Attorney General Chief of Staff
William Mercer- Associate Attorney General (Acting)
Sara Taylor- Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs at the White House
Paul Wolfowitz- World Bank President
Harvey Pitt- Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman
Julie MacDonald- Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior
Francis Harvey- Secretary of the Army
Donald Rumsfeld- Secretary of Defense
Michael Brown- Dept. of Homeland Security Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response
Alberto Gonzales- Attorney General
George Deutsch- NASA Public Affairs Officer
Do all bush's ex's live in texas?
As the church lady would say, How conveeeeenient. Yes, I imagine he does want to spend some time with his family before he heads off to prison.
If he did commit a crime related to Katrina, he needs to do double the time.
Anyone catch CIA director Michael Hayden tell Tim Russert on Sunday morning that we're wide open to another 9/11-style terrorist attack?
JFK:
"ask not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country"
GWB:
"ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do to the country"
Carl Rowan said it early in GW's first term:
"Bush sees the presidency as an entitlement, not a responsibility."
F this scum sucking ass hat. Why can't these flying monkey CON's tend to their families and work at the same time, like us humans do?
L.A. Confidential @ 18:
yes, and most every time someone states this as a possibility, it gets deleted
as a conspiracy theory. not all opinions are conspiracy theory. there are
too many indications coming out of the mouths of the bushco pundits and the
real actions of bush/cheney sending unnecessary war ships to the persian gulf,
to call what's going on a "conspiracy theory".
Speaking of Scooter, I wonder what he's doing these days. I'm surprised he hasn't been signed up to be a Fox contributor yet.
pissed off patricia @ 23:
He was Dis-Barred from practicing Law Last month.
dadams @ 22:
Well they have to keep fear alive until they can get their telecoms safely behind an amnesty bill.
dadams @ 22:
I don't see how it's a conspiracy theory when our CIA director comes right out and says it on a Television program.
♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 24:
Big punishment eh. He will live off the fat of those he lied for, too bad he couldn't have been a decent man and told the truth.
dadams @ 14:
The NEXT ATTACK IS HERE!!!
It is the Fed Re-organization...
Why would ANYONE let this criminal cabol take ANY initiative??
Haven't we all seen enough?
Why would the Dems let HIM lead anything?
This will be the greatest damage yet - The war will be an invisable BLIP 15 years from now BUT THESE FED RESEARVE CHANGES
LEAD BY THIS HUNTA
Will be around a long, long time.
I hope this is his final offensive...
♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 24:
I guess the next move would be a speaking tour or a book....or maybe both.
dadams @ 14:
They already control the printing presses an attacks not necessary.
After 9/11 investigation or lack of it, that if there is another 9/11 attack in America, that I am more willing to believe that our own govt has attack us.
The pentagon gave the president a likely scenario of disaster of epic proportion that they need more detention center and ways to control this revolting population. They gave the president a 15 year window of global warming disaster of not enough food and water for the population. Rather than trying to solve the problem in peace, they seem to be more concern about "I got mine, f**k you"
I am more concern that they elite have declared war on tthe common people and most of us don't know it yet.
L.A. Confidential @ 26:
i agree with you, but i have had several comments deleted for that reason.
just try to tie bush/cheney directly to what happened or may happen see
your comments disappear. guess we will just have to wait and unfortunately
experience the adverse effects of the non-reality "reality based" govt now
in charge.
♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 27:
A decent and truthful man working for Cheney?
Heck of a job Alpho!
Before the next president moves into the white house they need to smudge the whole place to get the criminal element atmosphere all cleaned out. That place is going to need a good spiritual purifying. The negative energy that will be left behind will be overpowering.
Jillian @ 28:
don't count on that, this group has been systematically dismantling the
govt for the people for decades now, all the way back to the early 1900's.
the elite don't want a middle class, just a poor class they can enslave.
and this is working for them. it will take another American Revolution
to stop this tampling of the working class in America.
pissed off patricia @ 29:
Scooter does not get the pardon if he writes the book.
another one bites the dust
Another Bush appointee screws up and bails.... To go home and clear brush from the ranch???? Spend more time with family etc etc???... Insert lameass excuse of your choice here.... The basics are the same... Screw some aspect or agency of a functioning government over, ruin its reputation and run it into the ground.... Then leave via some prearranged route.... Probably with some kind of gold plated parachute... Just not surprised anymore....By any of the Bushco shit......JD
anncoulterisevil.com @ 5:
before or after Roger Clemens ?
CoIntelPro - against Divisive Democrats @ 37:
Oh, you are assuming he would tell the truth in the book? I was thinking he would write it to excuse himself and all his fellow crooks involved.
This country has gone batshit fuckin crazy...I am truly disgusted at what this nation has come to represent, the people MUST come to our nations defense against those that would subvert our constitution and our freedoms.
If not...then we are doomed to live in a fascist theocracy, and all that entails.
Time to get some gumption.
CORRUPTION!
And @ 13:
But at least he has a lapel pin on.
Remember Rep Jefferson (I believe that was his name) ? The guy who was supposed to be hiding a big sum of money in his frig. Did they ever bring formal charges against him for anything? My feeling has always been that he may well have been setup. It was just such a strange case.
jack damage @ 39:
Well, I hope you're not surprised. This is now the standard "public service arc" for Bush appointees.
"Ask not what you can do your country for but instead, what your country can . . uh .. do . . you in?
Blue Lensman @ 46:
Any particular speeches bush made that may live on in history?
(and I don't mean on SNL)
pissed off patricia @ 41:
but who would buy a book of lies?
........ nevermind
The gang that couldn't shoot straight. Honestly, the question you have to ask is there anything these people didn't fuck up?
For chrissakes Texas, please take these clodhoppers back and get 'em off our backs!
I know this is ot but everyone needs a lift in spirits right now. Last weekend I was in a big book store. In that book store was a box of books on tape and the sign said, Everything below ten dollars. On top of the stack was BillO's, "Culture Warriors" If I had my camera with me, I would have taken a photo of the scene.
pissed off patricia @ 50:
i hope it was a big pile of BO books!
The Political Specter at Justice
Published: March 31, 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey was supposed to end the cynical politicization of the Justice Department. But the sudden disbanding of the United States attorney’s public corruption office in Los Angeles looks like business as usual.
There were a number of sensitive inquiries under way at the high-profile office, including an investigation of Representative Jerry Lewis, the powerful California Republican who directed hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks to favored government contractors while chairman of the appropriations committee.
Representative Lewis denied any wrongdoing as investigators tracked ties between windfall government contracts and lucrative campaign donations. One former staff specialist on earmarks crossed over to become a potent lobbyist for contractors. The inquiry appears to have lagged during the administration’s strategic reshuffling of United States attorneys.
Thomas O’Brien, the United States attorney in Los Angeles, says the 17 lawyers in the unit will be transferred to other units without diminishing the anticorruption effort. He insists the revamping of his office will allow pursuit of more corruption cases, not fewer.
Senator Dianne Feinstein isn’t buying that. The California Democrat, who has been a force in highlighting the suspected political purge of federal prosecutors, is demanding a detailed explanation from Attorney General Mukasey. She is rightly asking whether political figures at the White House or Justice Department are behind the decision to close the office. “I have serious concerns about the potential impact of this change,” the senator wrote to Mr. Mukasey. So do we.
pissed off patricia @ 45:
Supreme Court Won't Intervene In Jefferson Raid Case
By John Bresnahan
Mar 31, 2008
(The Politico) In a big win for Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), the Supreme Court today refused to take up a Justice Department request to overturn an appeals court ruling that the FBI's May 20, 2006, raid of Jefferson's office was unconstitutional.
This means that thousands of pages of privileged documents and materials seized from Jefferson's office, none of which have been turned over to federal prosecutors yet, will need to be reviewed to determine whether they are privileged under the Speech or Debate Clause, a constitutional privilege that protects lawmakers and staff from legal action for legislative activities.
The Justice Department had been arguing that the August 2007 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that found the FBI search an unconstitutional violation of Jefferson's privileges under the Speech or Debate Clause is hampering ongoing criminal investigations of lawmakers.
But Jefferson's lawyers argued Supreme Court against intervention, saying that the lower-court ruling was correct. A bipartisan group of former House leadership aides also argued against having the Supreme Court step into the case.
The Supreme Court decision is a blow to the Justice Department and it could further delay consideration of the federal bribery and corruption trial s against Jefferson since he’ll now be able to individually challenge the seizure of any documents and materials taken in the raid, a process that could take a long time to complete. Robert Trout, Jefferson's lawyer, is "not sure" how long it will take to resolve this controversy.
Update - Here's the Justice Department reaction to the Supreme Court decision: "We are disappointed the Supreme Court has decided not to review this matter. The Department of Justice will continue to prosecute the case."
It's also a rebuke to Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who approved the search warrant allowing FBI agents to enter Jefferson's office in the Rayburn House Office Building. Hogan must now rule on whether any of the seized materials are privileged under Speech or Debate.
Copyright 2008 POLITICO
Blue Lensmen@46;
'Standard public service arc' for Bush appointees... Man, that's good... That's marketable wordplay... We'll probably see it next week on Faux... Of course the Repubs will mutate your original intent but I think that is all too predictable anyway. It's just another fine Bushco service they provide. Hope you have your copyright papers sent in.. Not that it matters on that score either.. Plagarism is totally in now that Bush has set that honesty bar somewhere below sea level.... Ya don't have ta take my word for it... It's on display nowadays in any school system... What's that old saying about shit flowing downhill from the top?? Yea...right, like that....
Bangkok Bob; hiya, hope the climate over in Thailand, political and otherwise is still holding up for expats like you and the misses... As regards your comments about Bush memorable speeches? You mean something that ranks up there with 'mission accomplished"??? Don't know, truly doubt it... But on the plus side, he's been gold for seven years for late night talk show hosts. Man I know those cats will miss him... They'll actually have to start writing monologue material again... Leno, Letterman, all of them probably ought to wear black and go into mock mourning when the exterminators finally do bug-bomb the little cockroach out of the oval office.. (Sigh) ten months or so and counting down......JD
CoIntelPro - against Divisive Democrats @ 53:
Wow, thank you so much for that information. Looks like this could drag on forever and I'm betting it comes to nothing. Why would a judge issue a warrant that he had to know would be challenged? One more reason to doubt the case's validity.
Kay Bailey Hutchinson, on the left, is talking about running for head goober of Texas in the next gubernatorial elections.
The Democrats will probably run only token opposition.
frank bonas jr @ 7:
I agree.
I also believe that he's done his job by helping Bush loot the government and leave it broke for the next President; that they're all fleeing the country and going to places where they cannot be arrested and tried for crimes against the government.
Jackson said he needs time to attend to personal and family matters.
He did not take questions or elaborate on the family reasons he cited for the decision.
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Uh, huh -- I'll bet, especially considering that "resigning for personal and family reasons" appears to be a euphemism within the Bush administration for "becoming a political liability".
Tarro @ 21:
He needs to set things up for the family, because he's going to jail and he knows it. Bush isn't going to bat for him like he did for Scooter Libby.
Besides, Scooter Libby had more dirt on Bush than Jackson does. Which makes it all the more difficult to know this SOB was nothing more than a House Negro for Bush and got nothing in return except the shame of being an ex-Housing Secretary who was crooked and used his position to threaten people not willing to go along with the Bush cabal.
Who knows when this destruction of our country will end, and I'm not talking about any perceived threat from Bin Laden, either. We have homegrown "Bin-Ladens" and they're doing much more damage to the country than Osama ever could.
Step 1: Give Texas back to Mexico.
Step 2: Build the biggest bloody wall the world has ever seen. (But allow Mexican Nationals ingress and egress.)
Edwin Hussein (not a scary black Reverend) @ 60:
Around Texas??
Maybe some Texans were made in China because they sure do seem tainted with something.
Of course he's under investigation! He's a Republican, isn't he? By definition, that means he's a criminal. While he's being investigated, they ought to also investigate his efforts to extort the city of Philadelphia.
*sighs*
If this kind of stuff keeps cropping up, and I'm pretty sure it will, well...it looks like SOMEONE is going to have to redefine the word "criminal."
It may even have to be eliminated altogether.
Pity. It's a useful word. And it's been so BUSY lately.
I, for one, am gonna miss it.
*salutes*
I don't know how anyone can use that "more time with the family" line without breaking out in laughter or puking. I doubt there is a bigger cliche in the Republican lexicon, being the party of crime and scandal and shame and disaster...
The Political Junkie @ 57:
I'd like to see the next president have the U.S. recognize and abide by the authority of the World Court in the Hague. Unless this happens, there's no chance in hell that these guys will be held accountable for what they've done and continue to do to the U.S. and other countries around the world. We're fine with holding other world leaders accountable for their actions, but the "hold harmless" remains in place for the U.S. leadership.
Yeah, these guys are really stinkers.
It's so bad.
It can't get any worse.
At least we have BASEBALL!!!
pissed off patricia @ 17:
As director of HUD, Jackson has been a very busy boy. If you recall, he was the fella who did his own special 'loyalty test' before hiring staff. If you don't supprt the preznit, no job. How do we know this? Is it because of some diligent investigation by the FBI into this totally illegal practise? Nope. We know because he SAID SO. To a reporter.
For those not familiar with municipal politics in New Orleans, HUD, under Jackson, took over administration of public housing in the city from HANO (Housing Authority of New Orleans) in 2004. Post Katrina they've been busy tearing down public housing, much of which was only slightly damaged and could have easily been rehabbed to help alleviate what some are calling the worst housing shortage an American city has experienced since the civil war. I drive by some of these projects every day. You can see people's furniture and belongings mixed in with the rubble because these federal cocksuckers wouldn't even let people in to get their belongings. These are people with valid leases we're talking about.
The Lafitte projects near my house are a beautiful bunch of buildings designed in tribute to the historic Pontalba apartments in Jackson Square. Solid brick, wrought iron balconies, very little damage. Excellent location near the french quarter.
They're tearing most of them down.
Apparently an Atlanta real estate consortium is interested in the land.
A consortium with close ties to Jackson.
There is simply no end to this kind of shit in New Orleans. It's a bottomless pit of crony capitalism and political cynicism. It's also what this whole country is going to look like after these people get through with it.
All well and good, but where is any attempt to recover the misappropriated funds? That money belonged to the American taxpayers, who will not get the services now that they were paying for. I think Bush and Company should be tried as war criminals and, once found guilty, have the entirety of their assets seized and placed toward the debt for the war in Iraq. Take the silver spoons from their mouths and sell them to pay for the party they wanted.
This person is just your average run of the mill republican that got into the political game for what he could gain from it.
Everytime you meet a republican if you talk to them very long you will find they believe they are owed something for nothing and you should not get anything free.
Why because you ARE not as good as they are!
republicans think government of for and by the people does not work and when they get in office they set about trying to prove it doesn't work, and will do everything in their power to make sure it doesn't work. Why because if they can mess it up it's easier to steal!
pure and simple republicans are criminals and need to be dealt with as such.
Georgy Porgy @ 2:
You really think the US is going to last for 1000 years, not to mention another 770. The Roman Republic/Empire lasted about 1500 years. The US is not nearly as strong in tradition and culture and maintaining rule as the Romans were. The US will fall apart eventually, as will all of the nations.
don't you mean crooks and liars?
One crooked Republican down. Hundreds, if not thousands, of crooked Republicans to go.
Jackson's family released a statement to the press urging Jakson to reconsider. :)
Margaret Spellings is still Secretary of Education. She should be the last of the Bush cabal.
I'M SHOCKED! A black Republican?
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