Gayle in MD
05-27-2011, 10:19 AM
<span style="color: #990000">Shades of Karl Rove's active role of a confirming source for Novak, in the outing of a CIA NOC Secret Agent.
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>"Novak told me that he had heard, Wilson's wife was working for the CIA.
"I said, I've heard that too."</span>
Clearly, a Rove WAS a confirming source for Novak, which is why he goes off like the typical, hot headed, guilty SOB that he is when someone says, "We know you were a confirming source for Robert Novak."
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Coburn on Thursday decried as "totally inaccurate" an account by the Senate ethics panel of his role in negotiations involving disgraced colleague Sen. John Ensign and the husband of the woman with whom Ensign was having an affair.
Coburn said an account by another key witness – who said Coburn took an active role in negotiations between Ensign and former aide Doug Hampton over relocating Hampton and a potential payout – "is not an accurate reflection of what happened."
In an interview taped for C-SPAN's Newsmakers, Coburn said he was proud of the role he played in helping break off the affair between Ensign and Hampton's wife Cynthia.
"What I did I would do exactly the same way again," Coburn said. "And there's nothing unethical in what we did."
In 2008, Hampton received a $96,000 gift from Ensign's parents, and the Ethics Committee report casts Coburn as participating in subsequent, unsuccessful negotiations in May 2009 over a far larger amount.
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Earlier this year, Coburn testified to the Ethics Committee that he told Hampton's attorney, Daniel Albregts, last year that he was not "the negotiator" and that he would just pass information on to Ensign. The report also says Albregts initially asked for an $8 million payment and Coburn called the figure "absolutely ridiculous."</span>
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>"I got a call from Hampton one day who said, `Would you communicate a message to John,'" Coburn said Thursday. "And I said, `I don't know, I'll call John and ask him if he wants me too.' I called John Ensign and I said, `Do you want me to?' He said "yeah.'[/size[size:14pt]]"And so the story that you hear is not an accurate reflection of what happened."</span><span style='font-size: 14pt'>The panel says Hampton's attorney "testified that Senator Coburn took an active role in the negotiations ... and this role included proposing specific resolutions."</span>
<span style="color: #CC0000"> <span style='font-size: 14pt'>A clear admission of guilt, a non denial, denial, just like Rove's.
Was he involved in the negotiations? Of course he was!
I hope the Senate launches the appropriate investigations. He'a already admitted, he was involved in the negotiations, while claiming he wasn't!!!
Typical Repiglican double talk! </span> </span>
Coburn's comments were the first he's made publicly since the ethics report came out two weeks ago.
Ensign quit the Senate May 3, one day before he was to have testified under oath about the affair with the Cynthia Hampton, Doug Hampton's subsequent lobbying of Ensign's office, and the payment from Ensign's parents.
An ethics watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has filed a complaint with the Ethics Committee seeking a probe into Coburn's role in the negotiations.
Coburn said the ethics panel hasn't contacted him about the watchdog group's complaint.
"I have no worries," Coburn said.
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>An Ethics Committee spokesman declined comment.</span>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/26/tom-coburn-john-ensign-_n_867711.html
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>"Novak told me that he had heard, Wilson's wife was working for the CIA.
"I said, I've heard that too."</span>
Clearly, a Rove WAS a confirming source for Novak, which is why he goes off like the typical, hot headed, guilty SOB that he is when someone says, "We know you were a confirming source for Robert Novak."
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Coburn on Thursday decried as "totally inaccurate" an account by the Senate ethics panel of his role in negotiations involving disgraced colleague Sen. John Ensign and the husband of the woman with whom Ensign was having an affair.
Coburn said an account by another key witness – who said Coburn took an active role in negotiations between Ensign and former aide Doug Hampton over relocating Hampton and a potential payout – "is not an accurate reflection of what happened."
In an interview taped for C-SPAN's Newsmakers, Coburn said he was proud of the role he played in helping break off the affair between Ensign and Hampton's wife Cynthia.
"What I did I would do exactly the same way again," Coburn said. "And there's nothing unethical in what we did."
In 2008, Hampton received a $96,000 gift from Ensign's parents, and the Ethics Committee report casts Coburn as participating in subsequent, unsuccessful negotiations in May 2009 over a far larger amount.
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Earlier this year, Coburn testified to the Ethics Committee that he told Hampton's attorney, Daniel Albregts, last year that he was not "the negotiator" and that he would just pass information on to Ensign. The report also says Albregts initially asked for an $8 million payment and Coburn called the figure "absolutely ridiculous."</span>
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>"I got a call from Hampton one day who said, `Would you communicate a message to John,'" Coburn said Thursday. "And I said, `I don't know, I'll call John and ask him if he wants me too.' I called John Ensign and I said, `Do you want me to?' He said "yeah.'[/size[size:14pt]]"And so the story that you hear is not an accurate reflection of what happened."</span><span style='font-size: 14pt'>The panel says Hampton's attorney "testified that Senator Coburn took an active role in the negotiations ... and this role included proposing specific resolutions."</span>
<span style="color: #CC0000"> <span style='font-size: 14pt'>A clear admission of guilt, a non denial, denial, just like Rove's.
Was he involved in the negotiations? Of course he was!
I hope the Senate launches the appropriate investigations. He'a already admitted, he was involved in the negotiations, while claiming he wasn't!!!
Typical Repiglican double talk! </span> </span>
Coburn's comments were the first he's made publicly since the ethics report came out two weeks ago.
Ensign quit the Senate May 3, one day before he was to have testified under oath about the affair with the Cynthia Hampton, Doug Hampton's subsequent lobbying of Ensign's office, and the payment from Ensign's parents.
An ethics watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has filed a complaint with the Ethics Committee seeking a probe into Coburn's role in the negotiations.
Coburn said the ethics panel hasn't contacted him about the watchdog group's complaint.
"I have no worries," Coburn said.
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>An Ethics Committee spokesman declined comment.</span>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/26/tom-coburn-john-ensign-_n_867711.html