17.6.03
"Homeland Security" clears itself of wrongdoing in search for Texas lawmakers
This is what happens when you don't have real public oversight and accountability:
This is what happens when you don't have real public oversight and accountability:
An internal investigation at the Department of Homeland Security has found no evidence that the department did anything wrong when it agreed to assist in the search for a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers who had fled the state in a partisan dispute, according to a report made public today.One wonders how many scandals involving misue of federal facilities and deliberate lying the Bush regime will be involved in before this reign of error is over. One wonders if the American public will eventually get tired of having a bumbling "father-knows-best" insulting their intelligence.
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An edited transcript of the telephone call was also released today, and it shows that an employee of the state agency did not explain the circumstances of the search, saying only that there was a "problem" and that a plane bound for Texas from Oklahoma was missing with "state representatives in it."
Representative Lloyd Doggett said the report "does not offer any reassurance that resources dedicated to the war on terrorism cannot be exploited for personal or political purposes — certainly, it does not fully answer repeated requests to let uncensored tapes and documents speak for themselves instead of providing self-serving conclusions." [emphasis added]
