Tuesday, May 04, 2004
OLD STORY, NEW FACTS: PRESIDENT VIOLATES LAW
By Tweed
Once again, the Executive Branch has violated the law. This time, the Bush administration's binding and gagging of Richard Foster, Medicare's chief actuary, to prevent him from revealing to Congress the real cost of the President's Drug Benefit Plan, has been determined to be illegal.
In a report issued today, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service determined that White House staffers violated a number of Federal laws and numerous Virginia state laws when it bound Mr. Foster with handcuffs and twine, gagged him with electrical tape, placed him in the trunk of an American sedan, drove him to an undisclosed location in Loudon County Virginia and engaged in a variety of acts, some of which are described as sodomy under Virginia law.
White House spokesman Scott McLellen tried to deflect questions about the incident, noting that "We understand that the CRS report makes clear that no animals were involved, no children were involved, clowns are frequently found in that part of Virginia at night, in horse pastures, and Monica Lewinsky was in New York at the time."
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By Tweed
Once again, the Executive Branch has violated the law. This time, the Bush administration's binding and gagging of Richard Foster, Medicare's chief actuary, to prevent him from revealing to Congress the real cost of the President's Drug Benefit Plan, has been determined to be illegal.
In a report issued today, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service determined that White House staffers violated a number of Federal laws and numerous Virginia state laws when it bound Mr. Foster with handcuffs and twine, gagged him with electrical tape, placed him in the trunk of an American sedan, drove him to an undisclosed location in Loudon County Virginia and engaged in a variety of acts, some of which are described as sodomy under Virginia law.
White House spokesman Scott McLellen tried to deflect questions about the incident, noting that "We understand that the CRS report makes clear that no animals were involved, no children were involved, clowns are frequently found in that part of Virginia at night, in horse pastures, and Monica Lewinsky was in New York at the time."
