Top Dem (lawyer for DNC, NOT an independent investigator) Declares Sarah Palin Guilty
Will someone please teach AP how to Google!
Clarice Feldman
Steve Gilbert checks online into the background of the investigator who preposterously suggests in an illegally leaked preliminary report that there was something unethical in the creation and operation of the Palin defense fund, set up to defray the over half a million dollars in legal fees the Governor has incurred fighting off an unending series of frivolous ethics charges.
Here's what he found:
DANIEL, THOMAS ANCHORAGE, AK 99507 PERKINS COIE LLP/ATTORNEY
KERRY, JOHN <http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/P80000235> F VIA JOHN KERRY FOR <http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00383653> PRESIDENT INC
03/07/2004 1000.00 25971240087 <http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?25971240087>
DANIEL, THOMAS M ANCHORAGE, AK 99501 PERKINS COIE/ATTORNEY
BEGICH, <http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/S8AK00090> MARK VIA ALASKANS FOR <http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00446260> BEGICH
08/14/2008 1000.00 28020560579 <http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?28020560579>
DANIEL, THOMAS M ANCHORAGE, AK 99507 PERKINS COIE LLP/LAWYER
KERRY, JOHN <http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/P80000235> F VIA KERRY-EDWARDS <http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00385070> 2004 INC. GENERAL ELECTION LEGAL AND ACCOUNTING COMPLIANCE FUND
10/29/2004 500.00 24981710204 <http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?24981710204>
DANIEL, THOMAS M MR. ANCHORAGE, AK 99507 SELF/LAWYER
DNC <http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00010603> SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
10/20/2006 1000.00 26930685961 <http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26930685961>
Total Contributions: 3500.00
Mr. Daniel is a very active Democrat.
Moreover, he is a partner of the law firm of Perkins Coie.
From Wikipedia <http://tinyurl.com/m7kcbh> :
Perkins Coie
... Perkins Coie also serves as counsel of record for the Democratic Party and its candidates; its political law group is headed by top campaign lawyer Bob Bauer. Perkins Coie represented John Kerry's presidential campaign and recently represented the Presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The firm represented Christine Gregoire in the prolonged litigation surrounding her 2004 Washington State gubernatorial election, and a team of Perkins lawyers headed by Marc Elias is currently representing Al Franken in his legal battle over the 2008 Senatorial election in Minnesota. The firm also represents the Democratic Leadership Council, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
In 2006, Perkins Coie made headlines when, led by partner Harry Schneider, it represented Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the alleged driver and bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Bush Administration's Military Commissions were held unconstitutional.
No wonder Mr. Daniel leaked this to the Associated Press.
No wonder he wants Mrs. Palin to settle, rather than to go before the ethics panel.
He's just trying to be fair.
But don't you think the AP should give its reader a little hint as to his motives?
Don't you think the AP could just once google their sources? Or at least figure out bloggers will and expose their bias?
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