Comments on: Video: Curt Weldon blames CREW for FBI’s investigation of him

By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:01:24 +0000

Allahpundit, you’re too negative lately. Let it play out. He’s a target.

By: Akkam’s Razor

Akkam’s Razor — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:10:48 +0000

[...] And where does Weldon stand now? You know it's bad when Michelle Malkin's HotAir is blowing in your face. [...]

By: LegendHasIt

LegendHasIt — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:19:17 +0000

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.

By: Don't Go Into The Light

Don't Go Into The Light — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:20:57 +0000

FBI searches home of Weldon’s daughter…

Looks like there really is an investigation: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal agents on Monday searched the home of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon’s daughter, an FBI spokeswoman said, amid reports the Pennsylvania Republican used his influence to help his lobbyi…

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:50:41 +0000

Eh, this is what Weldon gets for knowing too much about the Able Danger scandal. Of course the FBI will go after him unabashedly…

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NTWR on October 16, 2006 at 4:55 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?

By: Sister Toldjah » Weldongate: another October surprise?

Sister Toldjah » Weldongate: another October surprise? — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:18:18 +0000

[...] Allah’s got the lowdown on the FBI raids (4 homes and 2 offices) that occured today as part of an investigation into possible influence peddling by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA). [...]

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:29:27 +0000

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

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:51:19 +0000

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.

By: Gregor

Gregor — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:30:37 +0000

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

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:

The group is bipartisan: U.S. Sen. Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist is listed for having sold his family's considerable holdings in the family-founded firm, Hospital Corporation of America, shortly before the company announced unfavorable financial information that caused the stock to drop 9 percent. The U. S. Securities Exchange Committee is investigating that one.

By: fogw

fogw — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:18:24 +0000

I question the sliming.

By: MarcH

MarcH — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:15:41 +0000

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.

By: Grebrook

Grebrook — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:09:34 +0000

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.

By: Gregor

Gregor — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:06:50 +0000

Actually, their main website home page is more honest. At the bottom of their homepage it reads …

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit, progressive legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public officials accountable for their actions.

But on the blog it says …

We are a nonpartisan legal ethics watchdog targeting government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests.

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.

By: NTWR

NTWR — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:55:46 +0000

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…

By: Grebrook

Grebrook — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:54:16 +0000

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.