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cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Imagine my shock. Via: Houston Chronicle: As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday. The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched [...]
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New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 4, 2008. "Last month was National Criminal Justice Month, by designation of the U.S. House of Representatives. But you probably missed it because the House didn't get around to passing the resolution, offered by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), until April 1." "Among points Poe made: three million Americans are employed by the justice system; seven million adults are on probation,...
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Diggers Realm (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
You may remember the case of Jose Ernesto Medellin from back in October when President Bush came out in favor of this member of the Latino gang the Black and Whites, when Mexico demanded a retrial in his death penalty...
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Diggers Realm (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Deputy Craig Miller, a 20 year veteran, was killed February 21, 2008 while working undercover. His SUV was struck by "a foreign national" whose "legal status is undetermined". Craig Miller sounds like a great guy and unfortunately he is another...
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The Club for Growth (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
C-SPAN has a cool ranking of how often congressional members speak on the House and Senate floor during the 110th Congress. Rep. Ted Poe (TX-02) was the leader in the House with 145 speeches. If you didn't already know, he loves to give one-minute speeches during morning business. He always ends it with the line, “And that's just the way it is.” House Speech Ranking Senate Speech Ranking HT: Ben Cunningham...
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Think Progress (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Frustrated with “unacceptable” written responses from the State Department regarding the gang rape in Iraq of one his constituents, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday asking her to “answer questions in person” about the high-profile case involving military contractor KBR. Declining to comment further about whether Rice would [...]
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Later On (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
ThinkProgress: Shortly after ABC News reported on the rape of former Halliburton/KBR employee, Jamie Leigh Jones, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for answers. Her deadline of Dec. 21 passed with no reply. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) has also wrote to Rice on Jan. 3, telling her of the “lack of [...]
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Later On (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
ThinkProgress: Last month, after ABC News reported that former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones had been gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Baghdad, multiple lawmakers — including Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) — pressed the Bush administration to reveal the state of the case and to explain [...]
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Think Progress (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Last month, after ABC News reported that former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones had been gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Baghdad, multiple lawmakers — including Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) — pressed the Bush administration to reveal the state of the case and to explain [...]
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007
Download (2) | Play (1) Download (1) | Play (1) h/t Heather Wednesday's Bushed! segment on Countdown looks at Attorney General Micheal Mukasey reversing Gonzo’s practice of allowing Justice Department staffers to have full access to the White House. Republican congressman Ted Poe revealed that since being told about a KBR employee being gang raped and held against [...]
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The Conjecturer (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007
Representative Ted Poe, a Republican from Texas, has found that Jamie Leigh Jones, the traitorous whore who reported her vicious gang rape by KBR employees in Iraq so she could derail the war effort and slander patriotic military contractors, is apparently not alone. In fact, his office has heard from three other women so [...]
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Later On (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
ThinkProgress: Last week, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) said on CNN that he did not believe that gang rape in Iraq of former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones was “an isolated case of assault.” Poe then encouraged “other victims” to notify his office. In his prepared testimony for the House Judiciary Committee today, Poe said that his office [...]
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Think Progress (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
Last week, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) said on CNN that he did not believe that gang rape in Iraq of former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones was “an isolated case of assault.” Poe then encouraged “other victims” to notify his office. In his prepared testimony for the House Judiciary Committee today, Poe said that his office [...]
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
Source: [b]CNN[/b] (CNN) -- Government contractors in Iraq face lawlessness reminiscent of America's Wild West of the 1800s, lawmakers said Wednesday at a House hearing into a contractor's rape allegations. "We need a new sheriff in Iraq to enforce federal laws," said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, whi...
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The Bridge (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
Earlier this week, former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones revealed that in 2005 she had been “raped by multiple men at a KBR camp” in Baghdad. For the past two years, her congressman, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), has been pushing...
