No lie: Ethics probe of Joe Wilson's travel wider than disclosed

[kpete]

Source: McClatchy

No lie: Ethics probe of Joe Wilson's travel wider than disclosed
By James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The congressional ethics investigation of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is broader than previously disclosed and goes well beyond his use of $12 in per diem expense money to buy six decorative goblets in Afghanistan last year.

Congressional staff members with detailed knowledge of the probe said ethics investigators are examining Wilson's unusually high number of foreign trips — at least 30 in the past eight years — and his use of per diem expense money while traveling abroad.

Wilson, a relatively unknown lawmaker until he shouted "You lie!" as President Barack Obama addressed Congress last year, has a reputation among his peers as a frequent foreign traveler, these staff members said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly on the investigation.

Wilson confirmed earlier in the week that examiners with the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent nonpartisan agency established in 2008 following a wave of lawmaker scandals, had recently interviewed him about his use of per diem expense money.




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[mascarax]

1. And what has he done for the troops?

He said he HAD to go on every trip to hear their individual concerns.
So what has he done to address them? Or maybe he's collecting goblets for them? (Somehow don't think "lack of goblets" is a major concern!)

I just searched for poll numbers for his race vs. Rob Miller and couldn't find anything current. I suppose he's a "safe seat"?

[Bitwit1234]

2. Gee whiz....when interviewed I guess that maybe

he LIED. Think so. But then that's typical of all republicans, who believes any thing they say. OH I know, tea bags and Fox and Rush and the like.

[JDPriestly]

3. K&R

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. You fly!