WHISTLEBLOWERS Finger Cheney & 3 Republicans in Mex Influence Peddling

[kpete]

Whistleblowers allege influence peddling by members of Congress, VP in Mexico wastewater project

Miriam Raftery and Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Wednesday March 29, 2006

An explosive report, obtained in part by Raw Story, and soon to be released by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), fingers high-level officials both on the federal and local California level in allegations of influence-peddling ensnaring members of both parties.

According to documents and whistleblowers for a San Diego wastewater treatment plant to be built in Tijuana, Vice President Dick Cheney, Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA) and Brian Bilbray (R-CA) have advanced the project despite serious concerns from those involved.

The proposed Bajagua Project is a secondary wastewater treatment plant for San Diego, to be located in Tijuana, Mexico. Named after the company, Bajagua Project, LLC, founded solely to get the no-bid contract for water treatment, the agreement is a private-public fee-for-service proposition that will charge the federal government billions. The estimated profit forecast for the project is upwards of $600 million dollars over a twenty-year span.

Documents recently obtained by Raw Story and now also available at www.bajagua.org, a site set up by the National Security Whistleblower’s Coalition, indicate Cheney met twice with Bajagua officials, on October 15, 2002 and again on September 4, 2003. Cheney is alleged to have pressured the Department of Justice and the Council on Environmental Quality to give Bajagua a pass on clean water concerns and the no-bid contract of building the treatment facility.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Whistleblowers_allege_influence_peddling_by_members_0329.html

[acmavm]

1. Hell, forget Cheney for the Plame fiasco. Get him for defrauding

the Federal Government. No, wait! Get him for it ALL.

[rodeodance]

2. gawd, i would love for this to bear FRUIT!

[kpete]

4. Waste Water --- Gate

[Independent_Liberal]

3. K&R!

[kpete]

5. a little friend said

THIS STORY IS GOING TO BE HUGE!!!

[Catherine Vincent]

14. Poor Cheney!

That corruption will always follow you.

[lala_rawraw]

15. the urinary executive

[Chiyo-chichi]

6. And the MSM will pick this up in, what...

8 or 9 months?

[babylonsister]

7. K&R! nt

[lala_rawraw]

8. soon we will all be drinking urine out of EPA's faucet

blah

[kpete]

9. EPA says they have done 'no assessments'

More on this from Raw Story:

EPA says they have done 'no assessments'

At least three different environmental assessments have been conducted on the Bajagau project, a procedure Ortega said is “not normal at all.” In the first environmental assessment, the project was excluded, he recalled.

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In addition, Bajagua raised serious environmental concerns because the proposed project would transport sewage upstream, then back downstream.

“So if Mexico didn’t maintain the line, it would come spilling back to the states,” Ortega explained. The project would also discharge through the international outflow from an existing South Bay plant into ocean waters off San Diego, making control of sewage discharged into California waters “questionable,” he added.

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As for whether outsourcing or privatizing a municipal wastewater treatment function to a company operating in another country violates U.S. laws or regulations, Kemerly said he didn’t know.

“We don’t deal with the laws of other countries,” he said.

The Project for Government Oversight will publish a full report on Bajagua at its website (www.pogo.org) by next week, and possibly as soon as Friday.

“We got involved because a whistleblower inside the international boundary and water commission (IBWC) told us that there was an extremely large contract that the IBCW was going to award soon,” said POGO investigator Nick Schwellenbach. “It was a no-bid contract. That grabs your attention.”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Whistleblowers_allege...

[AuntiBush]

10. Amazingly Brazen

How do they get away with all of this? Gawd, wake-up Americans.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Dick Gawdfather Cheney...strikes again!

Thinks he and his Gawdson W are imune to any sort of law PERIOD!

[EFerrari]

12. Dick just can't stay out of trouble lately. I guess he has to ramp it up

because his time to steal us blind is running out.

[jsamuel]

13. umm... it says one of them is a dem, not 3 repubs

"Bob Filner (D-CA)"

[robertpaulsen]

16. Man! Is there anything Cheney HASN'T done?!

What does he have to do to get indicted? Shoot a man in the face?

Oh wait...

[lala_rawraw]

17. am co hosting Peter B. Collins right now

just fyi, my first time... kinda nervous.

ooops, here is the tune in link and Ben archives his show too

7-9 PM EST
http://krxa540.com/?q=Peter_B_Collins

[kpete]

20. Listening and thanks...

[Joanne98]

18. LLC Limited Liability Corportation. Takes only two people!

So who are the two people who own Bajagua? Someone smarter than me should look that up.

[Disturbed]

19. Fed Prosecutor must indicte all of those involved...

no matter what political affiliation they are.

[kpete]

21. Larisa on Rove

Plame leak case having odd twists and turns

1 month ago 250 pages of e-mails found

Turns our "Dear Mr. Rove" is actually cooperating

MEANS - he is providing info which looks like obstruction

Other types of material destroyed

Seems to be evidence leading to CHENEY!!!!!!!!!!


12 Hour Gap

Gonzalez & Card involved

WH notified investigation was afoot

Interesting - Did 250 emails dissappear during this 12 hour gap?


But wait

others cooperating

whether or not Rove made a deal

Does not mean he will NOT be indicted


Larisa - SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN...

[Nothing Without Hope]

22. K & E. Horrible and in need of major exposure. n/t