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To: simplicity who wrote (715849)	5/16/2013 6:15:03 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	9 Recommendations Respond to of 1583502

Believe me, Simplicity, "despicable" would actually be a step up for Bentway. Tenchusatsu

To: simplicity who wrote (715849)	5/16/2013 10:25:28 PM
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Scandals Already Falling Apart Ezra Klein: "The crucial ingredient for a scandal is the prospect of high-level White House involvement and wide political repercussions. Government wrongdoing is boring. Scandals can bring down presidents, decide elections and revive down-and-out political parties. Scandals can dominate American politics for months at a time." "On Tuesday, it looked like we had three possible political scandals brewing. Two days later, with much more evidence available, it doesn't look like any of them will pan out. There'll be more hearings, and more bad press for the Obama administration, and more demands for documents. But -- and this is a key qualification -- absent more revelations, the scandals that could reach high don't seem to include any real wrongdoing, whereas the ones that include real wrongdoing don't reach high enough."

To: simplicity who wrote (715849)	5/16/2013 10:59:23 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583502

Louie Gohmert says DOJ trying to scare Congress with AP records By: Ginger Gibson May 16, 2013 12:08 PM EDT Rep. Louie Gohmert thinks there was more to the Justice Department seizing phone records from The Associated Press: The administration was also trying to intimidate Congress. “As I understand the phone lines from within the Capitol, that information was also grabbed from those phone lines,” the Texas Republican said. “So often when the media uses the phone lines in the Capitol, they call people here on Capitol Hill, they call members of Congress and there has to be a very difficult burden be met by the Justice Department before they have a right to just cast aside the constitutional protection for members of Congress.” Gohmert pointed to the Supreme Court ruling when former Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) argued DOJ was wrong to seize evidence from his congressional office while investigating bribes he had taken. ( PHOTOS: The best of Hill floor charts) “If whistleblowers can’t go to members of Congress and tell us what’s going on, if whistleblowers can’t go to members of the media and tell them what’s going on, then that’s a good way to lose a country,” Gohmert said. He also lashed out at the media for not aggressively covering the IRS scandal and the troubles tea party groups faced until this week, issuing a warning to the assembled press. “When there is a tyrannical despot, the media will be one of the early victims. You will be used as helpful savants for a while and then when you are no longer needed you will be pressured and put out of business as well,” Gohmert said. “This is a very, very dangerous time.” © 2013 POLITICO LLC