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To: Alighieri who wrote (488908)	6/18/2009 1:10:12 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576588

Conyers' wife focus of bribery probe Payments tied to Detroit vote By Andrea Billups (Contact) and Jerry Seper (Contact) \| Thursday, June 18, 2009 DETROIT \| Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, the wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., has been ensnared in a federal bribery investigation and is discussing a possible plea deal, The Washington Times has learned. A federal law enforcement source, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the news media, confirmed media reports in Detroit that Mrs. Conyers was the person identified in court records as "Council Member A." Court papers say the council member accepted bribes from a consultant in connection with a City Council vote to approve a $1.2 billion sludge hauling contract. The consultant, Rayford W. Jackson, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a city official in connection with #the con#tract to Houston-based Synagro Technologies Inc. In addition, federal authorities are talking to Sam Riddle Jr., a former aide of Mrs. Conyers, about his role in the matter, the law enforcement official said. Mr. Riddle was not available Wednesday for comment, but his Detroit-based attorney, David Steingold, said he could "confirm that no plea offer had been made to my client at this time." When pressed, Mr. Steingold said he would not make any further statements about Mr. Riddle's involvement in the ongoing investigation, noting that "it is a sensitive time in these negotiations and I do not want to damage my client." He did not elaborate. Mrs. Conyers' attorneys and federal prosecutors have been discussing a plea deal, The Times was told. Details of the negotiations, first reported by the Detroit News and Free Press, were not available Wednesday evening. Special Agent Sandra Berchtold of the FBI's Detroit field office declined Wednesday to comment on the reports. With a media firestorm swirling around her, Mrs. Conyers appeared at a City Council meeting Wednesday to discuss regulating local strip clubs but did not take questions about the federal case. washingtontimes.com

To: Alighieri who wrote (488908)	6/18/2009 1:50:15 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576588

LIFELINE TO IRAN President Obama missed a big opportunity, Stephen F. Hayes writes at www.weeklystandard.com. "President Barack Obama said Monday he was 'deeply troubled' by the violence in Iran that he's been seeing on television. 'I think that the democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent - all of those are universal values and need to be respected.' "He was right to say these things. He should have stopped there," Mr. Hayes said. "But Obama rambled on. And out of the four muddled paragraphs that followed, his approach to the Iran Moment became clear. "Under President Obama, our approach to Iran - the world's foremost state sponsor of terror, a rogue regime racing toward nuclear capability - is not only not regime change, it's de facto regime preservation. So he delicately sought to say something that would mute the growing criticism of his silence - 'It would be wrong for me to be silent about what we've seen on the television over the last few days,' he said - without saying anything that could further destabilize the Iranian regime. "It was a missed opportunity. He got bad advice. 'Our hated enemy for 30 years finally comes to a crisis moment,' says Michael Anton, director of communications at the National Security Council during George W. Bush's first term. 'And many of the same people who have been telling us for at least 20 years that the population is largely on our side decide to use this moment not to give the regime a push, or to throw the population a life vest, but to help keep the hated enemy in power.' "

To: Alighieri who wrote (488908)	6/18/2009 7:07:44 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576588

>> inode would have the CIA in there "doing things" again... This is precisely what the CIA is good at and they should be in there now. You and CJ only know about the failures.