September 20, 2008: FBI, state cops raid Tony Alamo Christian Ministries on child porn, other charges
Source links dead.
Exposing the Hypocrisy of the "Family Values" Crowd, One Right-Winger at a Time, Since 2003
Robert A. McKee Update: As Expected, Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges
Full story: Southern Maryland Online.
Interior Dept. Ethics Scandal: Sex, Drugs, and Kickbacks in Latest BushCo Disgrace
Call it “Sex For Oil.”
This one’s going to take some time to sort out, one Republican hypocrite at a time (the story just blew wide open today, September 10, 2008), so we’ll just excerpt the initial report from WaPo, and give you the links we’re digging into on individual names. Stay tuned for plenty more; this story’s going to be big.
Full story: “Interior Dept. Officials Embroiled in Energy Ethics Scandal“
Links we’re checking out right now:
Investigative Reports
U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Inspector General
Minutes
Royalty Policy Committee Meeting, March 21, 1997
U.S. v. Century Offshore Management Corporation
April 14, 1997
E-Gads! Harbinger deal with Dept. of Interior
CBS MarketWatch, July 14, 1999
Notice and Agenda for Meeting of the Royalty Policy Committee of the Minerals Management Advisory Board
Federal Register, February 11, 2002
Minerals Management Service Historical Royalty and Production Data
Federal Register, April 17, 2002
U.S. Official Overseeing Oil Program Faces Inquiry
Edmund L. Andrews, New York Times, December 30, 2006
Under Cloud of Scandal, Minerals Officials Flee Interior Department
Project On Government Oversight, May 23, 2007
Statement of Lucy Querques Denett, Acting Director, Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, House of Representatives
Republican Committee on Natural Resources, March 14, 2002
Senate confirms veteran procurement official for OMB post
Government Executive, August 4, 2006
Out of Sight, Under Fire Over Leases
Edmund L. Andrews, New York Times, January 16, 2007
All Quiet on Israel’s Eastern Front? Not Quite.
Al Kamen, Washington Post, January 24, 2007