Does Bush Feel Ethics Should Apply To The White House?
Bush publicly scolded Duke Cunningham today over his crimes of taking bribes in exchange for government contracts. Of course Bush speak is nothing more than hypocrisy in action: “Any member of Congress, Republican or Democrat, must take their office seriously and the ethics seriously,” Bush said to reporters during a trip to Texas. Full article […]
Bush publicly scolded Duke Cunningham today over his crimes of taking bribes
in exchange for government contracts. Of course Bush speak is nothing more than
hypocrisy in action:
“Any member of Congress, Republican or Democrat, must take their office
seriously and the ethics seriously,” Bush said to reporters during a trip to
Texas.
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Funny how he addressed ethics as being taken seriously in Congress. No
mention about the ethics problems surrounding his own administration and the
leak investigation. I wonder if Bush realizes the company involved in this
bribery scandal did some work in the White House including in his own office?
Government procurement records show that MZM, which Wade started in 1993,
did not report any revenue from prime contract awards until 2003. Most of
its revenue has come from the agreement the Pentagon just cut off. But
over the past three years it was also awarded several contracts, worth more
than $600,000, by the Executive Office of the President. They include a
$140,000 deal for office furniture in 2002 and several for unspecified
“intelligence services.”
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Let me guess – Bush will be a victim of Cunningham’s scam on that one.