Lurita Doan thought her political appointees were getting a "motivational speech" from Karl Rove's Deputy
Wow. Lurita Doan, named by CREW as one of the 25 most corrupt officials in the Bush Administration, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. She claimed to be expecting a "motivational speech" when she gathered the political appointees in her department to hear from Scott Jennings, a top aide to Karl Rove in the White House political operation.
GSA chief Lurita Doan is accused of violating federal law after she hosted a partisan PowerPoint briefing delivered by top Karl Rove deputy Scott Jennings, and then asked her agency employees to think up ways to help GOP candidates. During her hearing today, Doan claimed she didn’t know it would be a political meeting. “I thought we were going to have a motivational speech,” Doan told Rep. John Mica (R-FL).
Wow.
FBI Terror Watch List 'Out
FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control'
June 13, 2007 8:55 AM
Justin Rood Reports:
A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names.
Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.
The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified.
A portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to "the entire watch list of 509,000 names," which is utilized by its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force.
A spokesman for the interagency National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which maintains the government's list of all suspected terrorists with links to international organizations, said they had 465,000 names covering 350,000 individuals. Many names are different versions of the same identity -- "Usama bin Laden" and "Osama bin Laden" for the al Qaeda chief, for example.
In addition to the NCTC list, the FBI keeps a list of U.S. persons who are believed to be domestic terrorists -- abortion clinic bombers, for example, or firebombing environmental extremists, who have no known tie to an international terrorist group.
Combined, the NCTC and FBI compendia comprise the watch list used by federal security screening personnel on the lookout for terrorists.
While the NCTC has made no secret of its terrorist tally, the FBI has consistently declined to tell the public how many names are on its list. Because the number is classified, an FBI spokesman told the Blotter on ABCNews.com, he was unable to comment for this story.
"It grows seemingly without control or limitation," said ACLU senior legislative counsel Tim Sparapani of the terrorism watch list. Sparapani called the 509,000 figure "stunning."
"out of control"?....no
You mean "under control"- under the control of the Bush administration. Some day we'll see how far FBI Director Robert Mueller was willing to go to satisfy his political master.
Lurita Doan
Is firing her the most they can do? What an appalling excuse for a human being and head of an important government department. Surely there's room for her at "Abu Gah-reb" or Bagram Air Force base. Worst of all, she rolled over every Democrat on the committee. Shame on all of you!
Lorita Doan
She should be in jail. What an egotistical, arrogant woman. She played everyone by twisting answers, her pretence of being innocent was nauseating. She bought that job and wasted tax payers money.
Lurita Doan, Hatch Act Violation
The clear motivation and the link between every "Bushie" appointment is the belief that absolutely "NO" wrong doing is ever done, only mistakes are made and once revealed will be corrected, and if a critic says it, it is politics that is the real motivation! I am sickened that there is zero "motivation" to stop this criminal administration in its tracks from committing more crimes against this country and the world. By the way, the rest of the world has every "motivation" to hold us accountable because we continue to let them get away with it.
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"Pardon me" she says
Lorita Doan stood at the head of the class in Rove's motivational seminars. Exemplary gal, that Lorita. Fine lady. You're pardoned.