Video: Curt Weldon blames CREW for FBI’s investigation of him
posted at 4:41 pm on October 16, 2006 by Allahpundit
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The Daily Pennsylvanian has it.
It’s true, CREW did contact the DOJ about Weldon’s possible influence peddling — two and a half years ago. The case suddenly and mysteriously got hot again this past Friday, though, with Weldon currently in a dead heat with Democratic opponent Joe Sestak.
Which is suspicious. But not as suspicious as the fact that there’s enough probable cause here to justify six federal search warrants.
It’s Foley redux. We’re happy to defend you from dirty tricks, boys, but it sure helps if you’re not actually, you know, guilty.
As for CREW, funny thing: they bill themselves on their blog as a “nonpartisan legal ethics watchdog,” yet they’ve breathed not a word about Dirty Harry’s dirty, dirty land deal. Fancy that.
I wonder if it’s ever come up during one of Melanie Sloan’s many appearances on Air America Radio.
Oh well. Not a problem anymore.
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Oh for God’s sake, this proves once and for all that Democrats don’t need an agenda in national elections, they just have to wait for Republicans to screw up.
Party of Reform my ass. I live in NJ, the most notoriously Democratic corrupt state in the country, and I’m worried we might actually LOSE seats in the House to MORE corrupt Dems, even after the state government shutdown fiasco. Menendez is winning in the senate race. This is simply unreal. That’s half the problem to begin with. Dem voters tolerate corruption while GOP voters are turned off and don’t vote.
Dems win by default every time.
Grebrook on October 16, 2006 at 4:54 PM
Eh, this is what Weldon gets for knowing too much about the Able Danger scandal. Of course the FBI will go after him unabashedly…
Is this vertical format the new thing for HotAir? It’s pretty hard to read…
NTWR on October 16, 2006 at 4:55 PM
Actually, their main website home page is more honest. At the bottom of their homepage it reads …
But on the blog it says …
I’ve written them giving them the benefit of the doubt that they possibly just didn’t realize they had not changed the blog wording. But I’m not holding my breath. We’ll see.
Gregor on October 16, 2006 at 5:06 PM
To be fair, I think they’ve named a few Democrats as corrupt, mostly the obvious ones like Jefferson in Louisiana and Mollohan in West Virginia, although they named them before it became public that they were corrupt.
Grebrook on October 16, 2006 at 5:09 PM
Getting approval of probable cause (PC) for search warrants not too hard. I recall a retired Chicago PD Detective explaining to a class of new gang investigators, “hey, your word processor comes with built-in PC”. The real test of the strenght of the allegations will be whether the US Attorneys Office will seek an indictment.
MarcH on October 16, 2006 at 5:15 PM
I question the sliming.
fogw on October 16, 2006 at 5:18 PM
Actually … in going through the entire blog the only mention I find of either of those two scandals is a single post on William Jefferson, and that post is almost pure satire and actually twists the article into an attack on Bill Frist instead. Here’s the last line, referring to the source of the charge against Jefferson:
Gregor on October 16, 2006 at 5:30 PM
At the rate which the Jefferson bribery investigation is going it will probably be 4 years before we hear the results of this investigation, and I do question the timing.
DannoJyd on October 16, 2006 at 5:51 PM
This is getting really mucked up time wise
I don’t defend them again but how these things are popping up all of a sudden NOW in the middle of a congressional season, that’s what is bugging me. And that there is nothing in this season of hunting politicians about Jefferson or Reid.
This stinks to high heaven; the republicans stink because they’re doing this fracking crap and the democrats do for how they are doing this
Defector01 on October 16, 2006 at 6:29 PM
Exactly. That’s what pisses me off if he truly is guilty of anything, because he’s the only one who’s hammered the Able Danger issue, which the Pentagon attempted to put to rest recently, but it was crap and nothing has changed, other than that they are now “officially” sweeping it under the rug. But also, wasn’t Weldon one of the few pushing for the Iraq documents with Hoekstra? Speaking of which, why did we just get that little initial dump, when there are still millions of documents and thousands of hours of tape sitting in boxes?
RightWinged on October 16, 2006 at 7:50 PM
Yep. The timing is ALL CREW / Soros / DNC dirty tricks.
The FBI is willing to be Gung Ho about it because of Able Danger and other things that Weldon has pushed that shows the incompetence and corruption of the CIA and FBI etc.
Hopefully he (Rep. Weldon) is not actually guilty of anything. He seemed like one of the best of the bunch according to the little I knew about him outside of the Able Danger and Iraq Documents stuff.
But guilty or not, seems like the Dems/ international socialists have managed to pull off another one. God, I’m depressed. Unless Rove pulls off something stupendous in the next week or so, we are totally screwed as a nation.
LegendHasIt on October 17, 2006 at 1:19 AM
Allahpundit, you’re too negative lately. Let it play out. He’s a target.
Christoph on October 18, 2006 at 6:01 AM
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