Feds probe GOP team's link to lobbyist

[NVMojo]

more crap from the GOP!!!

Mar. 3, 2005 12:00 AM

Interior Department officials are investigating whether the outgrowth of a Republican environmental group founded by Gale Norton before she became secretary of the Interior has been using its influence to help a Washington lobbyist sway the agency's decisions.

The inquiry into the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy's activities comes in the wake of reports linking it to political donations solicited from Indian tribes by Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist now under criminal investigation and the subject of Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearings.

The Arizona Republic reported Sunday that CREA was sent $175,000 by two Indian tribes at the urging of Abramoff.

No accounting for the tribal donations has been found in public records required of advocacy groups, and CREA President Italia Federici would not comment on the whereabouts of the money.

The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General is reviewing all dealings, communications and connections between department officials and members of CREA, a spokesman for Norton said Wednesday.


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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0303crea03.html

[tom_paine]

1. Kidding yourself if you think the Imperials are going to investigate

themselves.

That's like aksing the Gestapo to investigate Human Rights Abuses by the Nazis.

Sure, they'll put on a show before quietly tanking the investigation, like they did for other Bushfriends such as Bin Laden, the Anthrax Assassin, and the Plame Leaker, to name a few.

I wish I had more hope, but hope is for the citizens of Free Nations, not places like Imperial Amerika or BushPutinist Russia.

[Skidmore]

2. For all the probing of the GOP beastie they claim to be

doing they should have gone far enough up to reach the tonsils by now.

[Just Me]

3. Ain't that the truth!!!!

:grr: