Thursday, March 19, 2009


Eight and counting...the number of jailed members of Former Pres. Bush's staff. 

With all the talk of who and who should not be jailed in the current scandals of our economy, Rachel Maddow counted down the members of the previous Administration who have a new address. 

*Most famously, there was former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief-of-staff, Scooter Libby. He was sentenced to 30 months, though President Bush quickly commuted the sentence, for his role in the leaking and subsequent coverup of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the press.

*David Safavian, chief-of-staff of the General Services Administration and the head procurement official of the federal government went to prison for 18 months on charges related to the Jack Abramoff lobbyist scandal.

*For obstructing the Senate investigation into Abramoff and for tax evasion, Italia Federici, a political aide to then Secretary of the Interior, Gail Norton, received a two month sentence in a halfway house.

*Fedrici's boyfriend, Steven Griles, who was the number two official at the Interior Department, also received 10 months in jail for his part in the Abramoff scandal.

*Bob Stein, the comptroller of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, received the longest sentence of any Bush official (as of yet) - nine years in prison for money laundering, conspiracy and bribery.

*Brian Doyle, a deputy press secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, was sentenced to five years in jail for attempting to use a computer to seduce a child.

*Former executive director of the CIA, Dusty Fago, received a three year prison sentence on corruption charges.

What is important here is while, as Conservatives are looking for the President Obama's head, and firing off criticisms and accusations harsher than what us on the left took eight years to come up with, they are not even willing to let 2 full months pass. My suggestion while celebrating  the memories of a White House gone wild, you may want  to hold off for now. 
 

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