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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (43849)	2/7/2002 1:59:15 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Everyone loves an oil scandal, here is a real one. If you really like cheese I suggest you go here and order the Pale Ale Beer Ripened Soft Cheese. villagecheese.com "Series of "Historical Minutes" 1914-1945 April 15, 1922 Senate Investigates the "Teapot Dome" Scandal Ransacked offices, illegal wiretaps, disinformation campaigns, partisan conflict over the conduct of a Senate investigation. Sound familiar? On April 15, 1922, Wyoming Democratic Senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history. On the previous day, the Wall Street Journal had reported an unprecedented secret arrangement in which the Secretary of the Interior, without competitive bidding, had leased the U.S. naval petroleum reserve at Wyoming's Teapot Dome to a private oil company. Wisconsin Republican Senator Robert La Follette arranged for the Senate Committee on Public Lands to investigate the matter. His suspicions deepened after someone ransacked his Russell Building office. The committee's leadership allowed the panel's most junior minority member, Montana Democrat Thomas Walsh, to lead what most expected to be a tedious and probably futile inquiry seeking answers to many questions, including "How did Interior Secretary Albert Fall get so rich so quickly?" Eventually, the investigation uncovered Secretary Fall's shady dealings and Senator Walsh became a national hero; Fall would end up as the first former cabinet officer to go to prison. This and a subsequent Senate inquiry triggered several court cases testing the extent of the Senate's investigative powers. One of those cases resulted in the landmark 1927 Supreme Court decision McGrain v. Daugherty that, for the first time, explicitly established Congress' right to compel testimony." senate.gov Teapot Dome was best covered in this book. ou.edu