Conservative Babylon

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

Indianz.com

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

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