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Doolittle PR Campaign Demanding Justice Continues

Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) is marching forward with his “the-FBI-unfairly- raided-my-house” media campaign.

Doolittle, who is under scrutiny for his ties to Jack Abramoff, and has been hyping up his defense in the media recently, went on Tom Sullivan’s KFBK radio show yesterday to complain about being a victim of a political move by the Justice Department to produce another Abramoff-related indictment.

You can read the full transcript of the 40-minute interview here.

The Sacramento Bee noticed that during the interview Doolittle admits that the Justice Department approached him and his wife before the search with an apparent offer to plead guilty. But the Doolittles stood strong. And what did their courage win them? A search of their home.

Here’s that passage from the radio transcript:

And I think it's fair to ask, Well, why was this search conducted? And I would just point out to you a few weeks before the search occurred, our attorneys had a meeting with the government, and at that point, it became apparent to us that there is an attempt by the government to strongarm Julie in order to get me to admit to a crime that I did not commit. And in our mind, as a result of my refusing to admit to a crime that I did not commit, the government searched our home in what we believe was little more than an attempt to intimidate and pressure us.

...or to gather evidence?


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Pray tell, what crime are they accusing you of?

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Why is the only picture TPM has of this dude is the one where he looks like the church lady?

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Can't the guy take advantage of the Mother's Day that's coming up, get his Julie another i-Pod and stop kvetching? Surely, he can afford an i-Pod, with all the illegal money he's made? I'm getting sick and tired of his whining.

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I'm grateful for your Church Lady suggestion. If the background of the photo were bathroom tile instead of people, he'd look like he was in the john. I've been trying to shake the image out of my head for weeks...

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A "Victim ???

of a "Political Move"

who is "Victimizing" him "Politically" ???

that would be the Department Of Justice the leader of his "POLITICAL PARTY" is currently accused of "Politicizing"

is doofus doolittle now trying to claim status as a "Scape Goat" or "Sacrificial Lamb" ???

security code: offer

as in "Shoulda taken the OFFER, doofus"

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And here is the latest breaking in this story. The host and interviewer of the KFBK show and friend of Doolittle's told the Sacramento Bee today that if Doolittle steps aside or does not run for his seat he, Tom Sullivan, will. Yes, Tom Sullivan, wants Doolittle's seat. So does Ted Gaines and Doug Ose - all GOP Doolittle machine members. (P.S. They all knew Kevin Ring.

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Poor little Jimmie Doo. I could almost cry crocodile tears for the wimpy little pansy.

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Here is what Sullivan says to the Bee:
"Sullivan said a number of Republicans are eying Doolittle's seat, he among them."
"Vultures are circling," Sullivan said. "They are all over the place. There are a number of people who would love to run."

Correction not Doug Ose, but Rico Oller.

The Doolittle machine is corroding from within.

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From Tom Sullivan’s KFBK radio show interview with the Doolittles:

Julia Doolittle: Well, they may, but as I said before, the majority of my clients are not related to political things. But the FBI intimidated, I have a gal that I rent my chocolate fountains to who has a catering business. To have a young married person who happens to be married to someone who just started with the State Department to have FBI agents come into her home shook her up terribly...

The majority of her clients are not related to political things? So some things are politically related? She rents chocolate fountains?

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Mrs. P -- that's just... weird. LOL

Not to mention, "to have a young married person who happens to be married to someone..." Huh? Astounding that anyone this rattle-headed could even _commit_ a crime.

So is this what corrupt Republicans spend their ill-gotten gains on? Chocolate fountains?!

Maybe the FBI agents waterboarded her young married person friend in the chocolate fountain?

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ok people...

over at the House Jud. site, go to the hearing that happened today, and click on

Friedrich Transcript Excerpt

there are 3 pages..and only 1 page is readable because the rest is blacked out with a marker!@

Someone do there magic@

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That picture creeps the shit out of me. I don't like looking at it. Doolittle looks like one of the characters off SNL- don't know the guy's name though.

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Poor lil' Potty Do-nothing . . . The EEEEEvil Fibbies are villifying you cuz they wanted to paw around your wife's undies drawer . . . Let's get real. Sensenbrenner shoulda asked about your evil little arse in the same breath he asked Gone-lawless about Jefferson this morning.

The Feds have been bending over backwards into thirds to avoid prosecuting Republicans over the last six years . . . Just how fucking obvious does your slimeliness actually have to be to get them to notice you.

Jackhole.

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The figures that were cited today:
DOJ went after 85% Democrat officials and 12% Republicans. If you were a Dem office holder you were a marked man or woman. If you were a Pub you likely got to skate.

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Doesn't Jackie A! have his own desk at the J. Edgar Electrolux building that he sings off of?

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Do repugnicans suffer from some genetic anomaly that makes them all look weird...like strangely shaped faces, no jaws, shifty eyes, pursed lips, baby jowls....what is with that? Just hick inbreeding, incest, bad hemmorrhoids, undecended testicles. These folks just look "off" in a most perverse way. They should be sent off to some far away island and cut off from the rest of civilized, freedom loving, good looking liberals like me.

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"...it became apparent to us that there is an attempt by the government to strongarm Julie in order to get me to admit to a crime that I did not commit."

Take off every 'Zig' !!
You know what you doing.
Move 'Zig'.
For great justice.

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jillflamboyant

I believe you are on to something in your assessment of the "different" way these folks look.

I believe that they look this way because they are sociopaths. Sociopaths, on the surface, are able to conduct themselves, quite effectively, as if they posess a conscience. However...they don't...they are, I belive, reptiles in the sense that they do not have the emotional reaction the majority of human mammals have when dealing with non-truth.

Sociopaths tend toward politics, upper management and used (er, pre-owned) car sales. They derive a certain satisfaction from hood-winking people because they have a sense of superiority over the rest of us silly folks that have a conscience and have a disposition toward living an authentic life.

Sociopaths, it is estimated, make up about 4 to 10 percent of the population. Some are dangerous and prone to violence, but many are simply reptiles that go about their business with impunity.

Your solution of banishment is not unreasonable, and some level of criminal law should be devoted to their removal from our society.

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"Why did they search my house?" Because you were involved in multiple criminal enterprises. Like were supposed to believe that the DOJ with its documented wholesale infiltration of "loyal Bushies" launched a rogue investigation without cause against you while ignoring real crimes that other Republicans have now admitted to committing? As my father would say to someone saying something egregiously nonsensical: Does what you're saying to me make sense to you?

"They took my wife's iPod!" Any idiot knows you can store a whole lotta more info on an iPod than just the Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 1.

AF

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Is it just me, or is the whining about their home being searched when they felt they didn't deserve it? What about all the homes that have already been searched by the FBI for things like "al Qaida sleeper cells" and library book records and your bank accounts, your mail, your phone calls?

What sort of goofy-assed country is this, anyway?

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Stupid prosecutors, John's an honest man! Really! Those payments to Julie actually were for event planning. Just like Adam Kidan paid those mobsters to do catering. It's true, promise! Scout's honor.

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Doolittle probably now wishes he had done less.

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Doolittle: "As we've talked about the government's motives and so forth, here they ignore a file that actually has Abramoff's business written on it in an accordion file, and they walk out of the house and leave that sitting there. In our minds, these events clearly indicate that there was more behind the search of our home than, shall we say, the pursuit of justice."

Shall we say the search of your home had to do with your criminal activities that don't involve Jack Abramoff?

As an aside, I see the Auburn Journal posted my comment about the Doolittles and Tech Travelers.

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Mrs P

It took the bus driver years. YOU are just getting started - and you have so much information, already accumulated, just waiting for the opportune moments.

You may not get all the credit - in that articles may not cite you (because maybe that's hard to do, to cite "an unknown internet source") - but no matter. You are doing your part, your citizenly part.

And your work will make a difference.

Remember that old radio show with the line "only the shadow knows."

Well, "Mrs P knows...." (and she keeps digging)

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TheraP,

How do you know it took the bus driver years? I've been asking about the bus driver and so far, I've only seen one comment here from someone who claims to know about him.

I don't care if the Philadelphia Inquirer credited me - I just wanted an excuse to bring attention to the Curt Weldon investigation and the fact that Gonzales paid a visit to the Delaware County courthouse two weeks after the Inquirer's story about John J. Gallahger came out.

Before the Inquirer stories about Gallagher were published in November, someone gave me a copy of an email he sent to one of the Inquirer reporters who wrote the stories. In it, he suggested that the reporter take a look at my Weldon threads and apparently the Inquirer reporter did.

The two stories about John J. Gallagher were quite extraordinary. Gallagher is under investigaton in connection with the Weldon investigation and he gave a interview to the Inquirer which was not all that flattering to Curt Weldon or himself.

Writing about Gallagher and CSG software, Mark Fazlollah told his readers that CSG was a dummy corporation that existed only on paper. That meant the Department of Energy handed out a contract involving the re-training of Russian nuclear weapons scientists to a non-existent company. That's a really big deal.

I didn't write about Curt Weldon for mass comsumption. I wrote about him for the benefit of reporters and investigators. You would have to be a Curt Weldon investigation junkie to follow me and my meandering through Weldon's affairs.

What was fun about the Weldon research was speculating about various aspects of Weldon's farreaching criminal enterprise. Everyone following the Weldon investigation knows about Cecelia Grimes, Media PA real estate agent turned lobbyist but I don't think many people know that Grimes is an attractive blonde in her '40s who has been involved in politics for years.

If anyone in the media picked up on the fact that Cecelia Grimes and Cynthia Young contributed to political campaigns in 9/04 as execs of a defense contractor, he or she didn't report it. Those contributions are a big deal because Grimes and Young were supposed to be lobbyists then. Young, btw, is Rep. C. W. "Bill" Young's daugher-in-law.

Another example of what did is the story of a bogus DoD body armor contract awarded in Wedlon's district. The NY Times was interested enough in the contract to write an informative story about it but the NYT didn't go as far as I did and link the contract to Rep. Weldon.

Enough of Curt Weldon. The story will come out one way or the other. If the government covers it up, the press will report it.

Ideally, TheraP, someobdy would pay me to just roam around the internet and dig the dirt on corrupt politicians. In my dreams!

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Goddammit! That's how they should have tortured them from the start: with chocolate fountains! I can see McCain arching his eyebrows and ingenuously asking us: "Can waterboarding really be considered torture when it's THAT DELICIOUS?"

Good call, psyberdawg.

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Tom Sullivan announcing that he is seriously considering running for Doolittle's seat is BAD news for ol' Charlie Brown. Sullivan has the name recognition to be successful in either a special election or in the general.

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Everyone knows that when po' lil' Potty Do-nothing gets ousted the Connecticut for Lieberman Party is prepared to dump BIG bucks into the District to capture their first House seat. All this talk of a Republican retaining that seat is just so much hooey . . .

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Dear John:

I bet if you resign the Feds will go easy on you and give your wife's iPod back. Please consider.

It would save the taxpayers quite a bit of money, and I'm sure you are very interested in preventing unnecessary government waste.

Best regards.

P.S. Presumably the FBI had a court-approved warrant to search your home (although if they didn't, you have your own party to blame and much bigger problems than anyone would have suspected).

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