Feds Pull The National Security Card In Abramoff Case Against Ex-Delay Aide

[midnight]

Source: TPM

Nearly six years after he pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff scandal, a former aide to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will likely going to be sentenced in the near future. But because of a joint motion granted by the federal judge hearing the case against Tony Rudy, the public wouldn’t see the filing listing agreed upon facts in the case.

The reason? National security.

The feds and Rudy’s defense team says that the disclosure of “sensitive information related to national security matters” likely “would compromise and negatively impact ongoing intelligence efforts.” They said the sensitive information had “no relationship to the Department of Justice’s investigation of Jack Abramoff or related persons.”

Abramoff said the request was as big of a mystery to him as it was to TPM. “Not a clue,” he said in an email to TPM. “Wow.”



Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/feds_pull_the_national_security_card_in_abramoff_case_against_ex-delay_aide.php

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Makes you wonder what they were/are hiding... All the insider trading?

[Justice wanted]

1. This country is in BAD shape if a LOBBYIST gets that "Can't touch- National Security Issue".

[geckosfeet]

2. Also makes you wonder how anyone can walk in off the street, become a lobbyist,

and then be privy to "national security matters".

Sometimes I think that "national security matters" is just a euphemism for "extremely embarrassing to government officials".

[malaise]

3. DIng ding we have a winnner

and across the planet

[woo me with science]

13. Yup. When Obama signed the ACTA assault on internet freedom,

they tried to keep it out of the papers by claiming "National Security."

It took the European press to break the story.

It appears that "National Security" can be very convenient sometimes when they don't want us to see what they are doing...

[raouldukelives]

4. We can't handle the truth

Thank you servants of the wealthy for keeping my mind safe from adverse information.

[blm]

5. File it under "Another operative working for the BFEE"

Bush Family Evil Empire - Marching this nation towards fascism for over a century.

[Festivito]

6. National security of our domestic enemies

all too likely.

[OnyxCollie]

7. Maybe a connection between Tom DeLay,

Jack Abramoff, Gus Boulis, and Muhammed Attah?

[ck4829]

8. Sometimes the government has to hide stuff in order to protect... Bwahahaha! K&R.

[saras]

9. Most likely it implicates something they're STILL DOING

[dmr]

10. Protecting something, or someone(s), or an ongoing, but I'll never

believe it's National Security protection.

[librechik]

11. Hastert, Delay and Cheney are all in the pay of Turkey

amongst others (I suspect Saudi Arabia.) They probably don't want it widely known how the revolving door puts "patriots" into the pockets of (some say loathsome) foreigners.

Google it, it's all there in Wikipedia--if you read between the lines

[leveymg]

12. & Malaysia - Rove got $$$ for Malay PM/Bush meeting set up by Scanlon. Money laundered thru Heritag

Foundation head. Abramoff & Co. was also a conduit for Saudi money to many GOP members of the House Appropriations & Armed Services committees.

Then there were the NSA contractors, MZM intelligence fabrication, and domestic spying operations that Abramoff was tied in with:
See, http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/17 See, related, http://election.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4549036#4549076

[blm]

14. BCCI - Turkey was a major part of the unresolved matters

.

[annabanana]

15. ding ding ding . . .n/t