Republican Senate Leaders want Ethics Committee to Investigate of Craig
CNN reports "Senate Republican Leaders call for Ethics Cmte. Review of Craig Case." ABC News has "Breaking News" on its website stating the same thing.
More details as they unfold on this development.
Craig's defiant news conference came as Senate Republican leaders in Washington called for an ethics committee review into his involvement in a police sting operation this summer in the airport men's room.
"In the meantime, the leadership is examining other aspects of the case to see if additional action is required," Sen. Mitch McConnell and other top GOP lawmakers said in a written statement.
Earlier, the private group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the ethics committee seeking an investigation into whether Craig violated Senate rules by engaging in disorderly conduct.
Mark Foley all over again
As big of a cover up as Mark Foley all over again...
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Our Senate/Congress appears to be filled with pedophiles, perverts, traitors, and thieves.
Its no wonder they voted to EXPAND NSA wiretapping of all of us
These traitors deserve to be in PRISON, PERIOD.....Why not arrest the Senators who covered up Senator Craig's free "trips" and sex solicitations too?
being guy is ok
unless you are republican. not living in san fran.
almost as bad as clinton
he touched a guys foot in a shit house . wonder what billy touched alot in the peoples house.
Transparency in Arrests and Guilty Pleas
It seems remarkable that a U.S. Senator was arrested more than two months ago, and signed a plea agreement about four weeks ago, and then pled guilty to a crime in a court of law, about three weeks ago...
...an nobody it seems knew anything about it, until last night.
That's remarkable.
I'm curious: Did Sen. Craig inform the Senate leadership that he had been arrested?
Did he inform them that was pleading guilty to a crime, in a court of law?
These seem like important questions right now, because if he didn't inform the Senate of his arrest and guilty plea, then why not?
And if he did inform them, then why was this apparently kept a secret?
It seems that the arrest and guilty criminal finding of a U.S. Senator, is an absolutley necessary thing for the U.S. Senate to know about immediately...
And once the Senate is informed, I don't know why they would keep it a secret from the American People, that one of their members had been arrested and pled guilty to a crime.
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By Dan Popkey - Idaho
By Dan Popkey - Idaho Statesman
08/28/07
Sen. Larry Craig, who in May told the Idaho Statesman he had never engaged in homosexual acts, was arrested less than a month later by an undercover police officer who said Craig made a sexual advance toward him in an airport men's room.
The arrest at a Minnesota airport prompted Craig to plead guilty to disorderly conduct earlier this month. His June 11 encounter with the officer was similar to an incident in a men's room in a Washington, D.C., rail station described by a Washington-area man to the Idaho Statesman. In that case, the man said he and Craig had sexual contact.
The Minnesota arrest was first reported Monday by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.
In an interview on May 14, Craig told the Idaho Statesman he'd never engaged in sex with a man or solicited sex with a man. The Craig interview was the culmination of a Statesman investigation that began after a blogger accused Craig of homosexual sex in October. Over five months, the Statesman examined rumors about Craig dating to his college days and his 1982 pre-emptive denial that he had sex with underage congressional pages.
The most serious finding by the Statesman was the report by a professional man with close ties to Republican officials. The 40-year-old man reported having oral sex with Craig at Washington's Union Station, probably in 2004. The Statesman also spoke with a man who said Craig made a sexual advance toward him at the University of Idaho in 1967 and a man who said Craig "cruised" him for sex in 1994 at the REI store in Boise. The Statesman also explored dozens of allegations that proved untrue, unclear or unverifiable...
On Monday afternoon, Craig resigned from his role as the U.S. Senate co-chair of the Mitt Romney for president campaign. Monday night, the Romney campaign canceled a visit to Boise scheduled for today by Romney's son, Josh.