http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/04/politics/main1469885_page2.shtml\n\nCBS/AP) A federal grand jury will soon begin hearing evidence about Rep. Cynthia McKinney's run-in with a Capitol Police officer, a lawyer familiar with the case said late Wednesday. \n\nThe lawyer, who declined to be identified because of grand jury secrecy, confirmed that federal prosecutors had agreed to get involved in the case in which a black lawmaker is accused of striking a white officer after he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a security checkpoint. \n\nU.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said McKinney turned the officer's failure to recognize her into a criminal matter when she failed to stop at his request, and then struck him. \n\n"He reached out and grabbed her and she turned around and hit him," Gainer said on CNN. "Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, 'I'm a congressman' and then everybody moves on." \n\n"This is not about personality," added House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. "It's not about racial profiling. It's about making this place safer." \n\nFor her part, McKinney wasn't backing down from the argument. She charged anew that racism is behind what she said is a pattern of difficulty in clearing Hill security checkpoints. \n\n"This has become much ado about a hairdo," she told CBS News' The Early Show. McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, recently dropped her trademark cornrows in favor of a curly brown afro. \n\nThe police aren't the ones who are racist, one Republican said. \n\nCynthia McKinney is a racist," Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends," a day after abandoning his reelection bid under a cloud of ethics charges. "She has a long history of racism. Everything is racism with her. This is incredible arrogance that sometimes hits these members of Congress, but especially Cynthia McKinney." \n\nLast Wednesday's incident in a House office building has caused a commotion on Capitol Hill, where security in the era of terrorist threat is tighter than ever and where authorities had to order an evacuation just Monday because of a power outage. \n\nCapitol Police have turned the case over to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein, who must decide whether to clear the way for any charges against McKinney. An official in his office said no announcement was expected Wednesday. \n\nMcKinney has garnered little support among fellow Democrats in her feud with the Capitol police. No one in her party chose to join her at a news conference last Friday to discuss the situation. \n\nRepublicans, meanwhile, presented a resolution commending Capitol police for professionalism toward members of Congress and visitors, even though they "endure physical and verbal assaults in some extreme cases." \n\n"I don't think it's fair to attack the Capitol Police and I think it's time that we show our support for them," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., a sponsor of the measure. Ignoring a police officer's order to stop, or hitting one, "is never OK," McHenry said. \n\nSome GOP members have said the McKinney incident serves to underscore Democratic insensitivity to security concerns. \n\nGainer said that racism, however, was not a factor. \n\n"I've seen our officers stop white members and black members, Latinos, male and females," he told CNN. "It's not an issue about what your race or gender is. It's an issue about making sure people who come into our building are recognized if they're not going through the magnetometer, and this officer at that moment didn't recognize her." \n\n"It would have been real easy, as most members of Congress do, to say here's who I am or do you know who I am?" Gainer added. \n\nPolice also have said that McKinney w
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Assault on a police officer - with or without a cell phone in your hand - is a felony. The officer should have cuffed her, taken her to the station and booked her, congresswoman or not. The fact that he did not showed that he was being more than gracious to her. \n\nShe, however, is refusing to take any blame for the incident ... as if this officer - who was doing his job to protect her and everyone else in the building - was somehow beneath her.\n\nThe "race" cry is a red herring. I say, show us the surveillance tapes (you KNOW there have to be some recording a checkpoint inside the House), and the issue will be closed. Of course, she will have a nice orange jumpsuit to go with her oversized flower brooch and hairdo ... but hey, that's justice.
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No ,  I'm not buying it............\nWhy she doing it?  January isn't here yet \n\nThen the nice girl BS will vanish and all those swing voters (moderates & conservatives of both parties that thought they would show the republicans or bought into the dems might have a plan - just not telling anyone about it theory or the everyone hate Bush theory)  will get to see what they elected in true color.
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here is another link, its also part of the congressional record, it happened yesterday and they also voted down another amendment which would have refused to fund anything that intentionally ignored the law (FISA, specifically). this is the sad state of the repub congress (and how much "liberal media" coverage has either vote gotten? NADA!\nthe link at the top includes a screenshot of the roll call with the vote results. indisputable!
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Hard telling if it is true. IF it is true, her press-people are going to shoot it down, to help protect her image! Ha-Ha!\n\nAnyhow, it certainly would not surprise me if it were true. NOTHING that individual does would cause me to raise an eyebrow anymore. She is about as baseless as they come.
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From an archived news story reported by the AP: For the second time in two months, Ohio Rep. James Traficant took to the House floor to allege a connection between organized crime and the FBI. He also repeated a prediction that he will be indicted as part of a Justice Department corruption investigation.  \n\n"There may be an indictment any day," the eight-term Democrat said Monday [June 26, 2000]. "But during this period of time where I have been targeted, I have been investigating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department in the northern district of Ohio.\n\n"FBI agents in the northern district of Ohio have been on the payroll of the mob," Traficant charged. "They have been bankrolled by the mob."\n\nTraficant also repeated his allegation that an FBI informant in Ohio once told him the agency had asked the informant to commit murder.
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An amusing thought but I think the truth is far more sinister. This is GOP hubris at its zenith. They think they're literally above the law and can do as they please. The vile bush administration is beyond corrupt; they're evil, arrogant and mad with power. Notwithstanding an almost nonexistent brain, bush thinks himself a god who can do no wrong and who needn't follow his own bloody rules (this leak issue being the latest such example). It's a disgrace, just as it was a national disgrace that these hateful people were ever put in power in the first place. The damage they've inflicted upon this country will endure for more years than I care to count. Impeachment would be the very least punishment he and his criminal cohorts warrant. I'd be satisfied with nothing short of long-term imprisonment, which of course means I'll not be satisfied at all. None of these scoundrels will ever be properly punished, bush least of all. It's a joke.
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I think she has a very valid point. We are accused of attrocities, and people say we need to get out, everyone in the world looks down on us for it, yet when something like this happens we hear very little about it. However there are reasons that we should not know. \n1. It could cause issues with the troops, some troops would be completely demoralized, some troops would go completely the other way and there could be numerous revenge killings, and torture.\n2. It could cause racial tensions here at home, I don't agree with all the PC crap, but it in this case people would look at the muslim community in a totally different way.\n3. The most important reason, The families are dealing with enough, I do not know how much information they will be given, however our media would bring it up continously with stupid questions that would continuously remind them of the atrocities.\n\nThis is the type of behaviour we are trying to eliminate, and shedding light on how barbaric these animals are is important, it might remind people what we are doing there, appearantly people have forgotten they type of scum we are fighting. She is courious and concerned, so there is no reason to put her down for it.
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Bad jury.  End of subject.\n\nI lied, there's more.  The liberal media fed us daily assessments of Marcia Clark's hair, wardrobe and personal life.\n\nPC probably played a part.  Wouldn't it be politically incorrect to hang a black male for killing a white woman?\n\nDon't think it was the jury, pull the transcript.  I cut my law teeth on this case, as I was in law school at the time.  The evidence was there to convict.
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Yes, i heard all day today how people were given the conditional ballets because many of the machines were malfunctioning and in other precincts many dems were turned away. I have a feeling that republicans won't want to request a recount after all, cuz they'll realize all the cheating they created and they don't want to be embarrassed when it turns out they suppressed millions of votes, all of them democrats!
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Van Hollen Beats Falk In Tight A-G race  \n \n \nMADISON(AP) -- J.B. Van Hollen says he plans to be an attorney general that both Democrats and Republicans can be proud of.\n\nThe Republican candidate focused on his background as a tough prosecutor to defeat Kathleen Falk in Tuesday's election.\n\nFalk's campaign issued a statement, saying she has called Van Hollen to wish him the best.\n\nVan Hollen painted himself as a seasoned crime-fighter, calling on his experience as a district attorney and a federal prosecutor.\n\nHe ripped Falk as inexperienced in criminal justice, blasting her in ads and in the media as never having tried a single criminal case.
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definately NOT me - I would also like to know who is voting for her - she is AWFUL!!! the other day how she said she didn't mind bringing the bread home and then she missed hitting the star in the bungee - I felt quite smug about that - but then ohhhhhh she had to blame someone - it was Lauren for been so over the top that put her off?? yeah course it did Phina!! then when she was lying in the bunk - not complained about her neck once since the trial then suddenly when Jan wanted the bunk she has strained her neck and she needs the bunk - now I am no Jan Fan but surely as an older woman she deserved the bunk - and Phina was the one in the beggining that was determined she was NOT sleeping in there and she was not changing bunks!!! ugggggghhhh I do hate her - and I agree- she actually thinks the public like her  - in a way though it must be true!!! someone is voting for her - unless she has a really HUGE family and they vote a million times every night???
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f_chuck...\n My rights are being violated, as a New Orleans citizen.\nYour rights as an American period!\nwhat color they are wearing doesn’t mater ,what matters is the fact that we are staring down the barrel of automatic rifles, illegal stops and searches, and the overall military presence in the city.\n I listen to my police scanner, I hear what they are doing and saying, I travel all over the greater New Orleans area, everyday.\n \n and pam....you should Google a little before you comment!\nthis is not the first place the National guard has done this, Knoxville, New Mexico, all over. \n \nA few months ago, during Katrina (when the police ran like sissies) maybe their presence was a little more understood, overboard considering the rescue crews but somewhat understood.\n\nSo the same guns that protect our boarder, are the same guns pointed at our kids in New Orleans...\n\nAs far as the Mayor goes, I kinda agree as most politicians are just a pawn in the over all bigger, more sinister plan. He does still make decisions that affect me directly.\n\nJust to answer the question you’re asking now! No, I’m not a criminal, I’m a white female law abiding citizen that wouldn’t violate a single law. It's not just the stereo types being affected by the new police state, it's anyone with chrome wheels, on the streets after dark, anyone that stands out in any way.\n\n I guess if 60% of New Orleans wasn’t still destroyed almost a year later, more New Orleans citizens would have the internet and ability to comment on this sad situation.
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Yes i posted twice yesterday alone that she was racist. Always slamming Americans, and more loyal to Mexico, breaking the laws, throwing race cards when her argument fails, and basicaly irrational....\n\nMost of her questions are meant to antagonise and stir up anti-White anti-American sentiments. And they go on one after another all afternoon and night.....\n\nIt certainly isn't out of sincere interest in learning that she asks. The education of Americans alone was answered in and out last night. And objected to as it is one more lie to gain bleeding heart sentiment. They have learned one thing being here in America, that our fellow countrymen are far more critical and hateful to our own in these areas. They look down their noses if you take the cook job. If you dont your a lazy bastard. Now they have the nerve to say it's only jobs Americans wont work that the Illegals take.....\n\nShe has ILLEGAL relatives and so do a couple others who have frequented the answers to spouse racist comments. Rather than getting off her azz, shutting off the comp, and helping them apply to become legal citizens. She spends her time here defending them and slandering everything about this country. And to me that is the problem with amnesty. No loyalty or commitment to this country or our laws. She proves the point. If you speak with Legal immigrants their attitudes are alot different not only about Americans and their laws, but about the issues we ar debating about. They have a true commitement to the country, respect for what it took to get here, and pride that they perservered to get here.\nILLEGALS and children born of ILLEGALS (who never get legal) seem to have a very negative and destructive attitude. They basicaly have old world mind sets of pure survial, only about themselves and screw everyone else. I am sure that is not all, but I am seeing a knowtiseable trend the more time I spend talking to people about the issues.\n\nIF YOU KNOW OF ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS HERE IS THE WEBSITE TO REPORT THEM ALL.\nhttp://www.wehirealiens.com/
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But Smoking Gun editor William Bastone said that incident was really "as vanilla an incident as you will ever see."\n\n"The overall majority of contentions he makes in the book are not borne out by contemporaneous police records or by interviews we conducted with police and court officials in Ohio and Michigan," Bastone told Reuters in an interview on Monday.\n\nThe Smoking Gun's Web site displays the original police officer's report of the 1992 incident which shows Frey was found drunk in his car without a driver's license but did not, as he wrote, serve time behind bars for the incident or behave in the outrageous manner portrayed in his book.\n\n"He (Frey) was polite and cooperative at all times. He was later released on $733 cash bond," the police report from the October 24, 1992, incident concludes.\n\nAnd of Frey's claim that he was the subject of an FBI drug investigation while at university, Bastone published a police report revealing him as a bit player in a minor drug probe rather than the "outlaw" portrayed in his memoir.\n\n"In off-the-record interviews with us, Frey admitted embellishing facts in the book for dramatic impact," Bastone said, adding that Frey later backed off that stance and his lawyers have since threatened to sue.\n\nFrey also told The Smoking Gun during the course of three interviews before the article was published that he had sought to have his legal records expunged when his book was first published in hardcover in 2003, Bastone said.\n\nFrey's lawyer Martin Singer was not immediately available for comment. But in a letter to the Smoking Gun dated January 6 and published on the Web site, he called The Smoking Gun's assertions defamatory and threatened a lawsuit for millions of dollars in damages.\n\n"We do not expect to be sued," Bastone said.\n\n\n01/09/06 16:10 ET
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Did you not see the report in the news about that poor woman who had had her social security number stolen over 200 times?  It was apparently sold on the black market ... and now she's wanted by the cops in Texas ... and the IRS are after her for over 15,000 dollar ... so have fun! :)
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I have to agree with Anna.  Why would you hope for corruption in either party?  As a good american you would want what is best for this country.  You would hope that there would be no curruption with Libby.  I can sense the glee in your tone.  How evil is that? And what happened with "innocent until proven guilty"???? Or does that not apply to the republican party??
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My guess is that they had the wrong house that doesnt justify the lady for shooting at them but it doesnt make what they did right either. as most of my friends are cops not in atl but where i live. it is inbeded in your mind you get shot at you shot back. so i would be looking for the misinformation where it came from and how they got it so wrong. following an investigation i bet nothing happens if they have bullet wounds it was self defense it is not what people will want to hear but thats where it will go.