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leveymg

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5. Here's the 800lb gorilla - Saudi-controlled US cos. have been funding the GOP for decades
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 01:56 PM
Nov 2012

That was what Abamoff really got canned for - after 9/11 he, Scanlon and Rove extorted millions from Islamic banks and political leaders for continued access to Bush White House and top GOP Congressional leaders. Rove walked after he turned informant in some other, related matters, such as the Iraq War deception (the Plame WMD and related intelligence falsification cases)

A bunch of Republican members on a couple House committees were forced into early retirement by the FBI which for a flickering moment developed a sudden interest in the ongoing cash flow between the Saudis and US politicians. Some higher profile pols -- e.g., McCain -- were handed the task of whitewashing the thing.

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