Jay Rockefeller received $25,000 from Verizon employees since 06. Call him & ask 'was that bribery'.

[KittyWampus]

Or, if you want to be more tactful, ask if that has influenced his position on immunity for telecoms in legislation before his committee.

firedoglake has the below graphic showing those contributions were a massive spike in the last year.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to blast this to as many people and information outlets as possible?

Make Rockefeller at least uncomfortable?

As opposed to just typing on DU to bitch about things?

Like being pro-active?




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[Beerboy]

1. Jay Rockefeller is w/o sin on this one,

but I imagine his staff will be scrambling when all the McCain-Feingold provisions hit the fan. Oh what a happy day, that only multimillionaires can legally "represent" We the People.
I don't even care anymore, our government is completely beyond the accountability of the citizens it dictates to, so they should just outlaw and ban the other party. There's only two things government can actually do with any competence, kill people and ban what offends them.

[rodeodance]

10. Jay Rockerfeller has done NOTHING about PHASE II

[WCGreen]

2. If Jay Rockefeller can be bought for $ 25 grand...

WE are all in a lot of trouble...

The guys worth millions and millions of dollars...

I'm sure it would take at least $ 30 grand before he tossed out his principles...

[rodeodance]

8. Telecoms guess last sommer Dems would take over and poured $$ into coffers.

[robinlynne]

3. There is a new york times article today saying that rockefeller has been negotiaitng with cheney

for months on this, pre-verizon payments. The article take the position that Rockefeller got Cheney to hand over those documents in exchange for the immunity.

[KittyWampus]

4. I read that this morning, IIRC only SOME documents were handed over. The ones the WH were

willing to hand over.

Not much of a deal :(

Especially since Congress has every right to those documents anyway.

[robinlynne]

12. I agree, just adding more info into the fray.

[rodeodance]

5. HERE:

Forum Name General Discussion
Topic subject Are we being played? NYT: "Wiretapping Compromise Was Months in the Making"
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2094787#2094787
2094787, Are we being played? NYT: "Wiretapping Compromise Was Months in the Making"
Posted by babylonsister on Sat Oct-20-07 09:27 AM

Wiretapping Compromise Was Months in the Making


By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: October 20, 2007

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — Last June, in a phone conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney, John D. Rockefeller IV, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, set down his conditions for revising the law governing the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping. Only when the committee got access to secret administration documents authorizing surveillance without court warrants, Mr. Rockefeller told the vice president, would it consider such legislation.

That vow paid off this week when, after some last-minute brinkmanship, the committee got to see the documents and then on Thursday night passed a bipartisan bill that offers a compromise between Congress and the Bush administration on the contentious eavesdropping issue.

Under the bill, the administration would get retroactive legal immunity for the telecommunications companies that have granted the N.S.A. access to private communications and phone call data; Democrats would get increased oversight of the agency’s eavesdropping by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Congress and inspectors general.

The bill is a long way from becoming law. The House Intelligence Committee, and the Judiciary Committees of both the Senate and the House, have not been allowed to see the secret documents: President Bush’s orders authorizing the program, and Justice Department opinions laying out its legal basis. And White House officials are being coy about whether those committees will get access.

Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, said Friday that the Senate Intelligence Committee had gained access to the documents only after its leaders had indicated that they would grant immunity to the phone and Internet companies.

“To the extent of anyone else being able to see the documents,” Ms. Perino said, “I think that we’ll wait and see who else is willing to include that provision in the bill.”

The corresponding bill in the House does not currently grant immunity.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/us/nationalspecial3/20nsa.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

[rodeodance]

6. and other good articles are in the thread also.

[rodeodance]

7. needs another REC

[rodeodance]

9. LINK Here:

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/19/you-get-what-you-pay-for

[Selatius]

11. This highlights the fact that we have legalized bribery in America.

This would never stand in the EU.