-Caveat Lector- How come you don't get it? Hate speech is allowed to flow ONLY in one direction. On Wed, 30 May 2001 07:04:34 -0500 kl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -Caveat Lector- > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > > [....if Daschle had been a Republican, 60 Minutes and the New York > Times > would have buried him long, long ago....] > > > Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:34 p.m. EDT > > Tom Daschle's Deadly Skeleton Closet > > With the Democrats' nasty habit of accusing Republicans of poisoning > children and killing old people, it's a wonder no one in the media, > let > alone the GOP, has mentioned a rather disturbing and deadly chapter > from > South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle's recent past, now that he's > taking over > as Senate Majority Leader. > > It was quite a scandal back in 1994, when reports began appearing in > the > New York Times and elsewhere suggesting Daschle had improperly > intervened > with the Federal Aviation Administration on behalf of a friend whose > charter airline company had killed three government doctors in a > crash. > > The doctors' widows appeared on "60 Minutes," wondering aloud if the > investigation into their husbands' deaths wasn't being pursued > because > of > Daschle's influence. > > Making matters worse, the Senator's wife, Linda, was second in > command at > the FAA at a time when an agency office manager said she had > destroyed > documents relevant to the fatal crash on orders from superiors. > > Three government physicians were killed when a plane operated by B & > L > Aviation crashed in Minot, N.D., on Feb. 24, 1994. B & L was owned by > longtime Daschle crony Murl Bellew, who, before the crash, had asked > his > senator friend to help when the Forest Service found numerous safety > violations with his aircraft. > > According to the New York Times, the Senator then began "a two-year > effort > to strip the U.S. Forest Service of authority to inspect air charter > companies." What's more, it appears Daschle tried to cover up his > attempt > to undermine the Forest Service. > > In a Feb. 5, 1995, report, the Times revealed: > > "[Daschle] initially said that he never pressed the Forest Service > to get > its inspectors to relax their inspections on B & L. But in November, > a > senior Daschle aide said that he had, with the Senator's knowledge, > intervened directly with the Forest Service inspectors who had warned > that > B & L was unsafe." > > More evidence that the senator's denial was untrue emerged when > documents > turned up showing that Daschle had personally leaned on the > Washington > supervisors of the inspectors who had given his friend a bad rating. > > The Times added: > > "Two FAA inspectors who spoke on condition of anonymity said in > recent > interviews that the Senator helped Mr. Bellew when he flunked a > safety > check in 1987." > > After Daschle intervened, one agency official was "called on the > carpet to > explain what happened," the FAA source said. > > Then there's the account of Cathy Jones, an FAA office manager in > Rapid > City, S.D. > > Jones told investigators that she was ordered to destroy documents > relevant > to the case because they "contained information with the possible > appearance of improper intervention by Senator Daschle on behalf of > the > FAA." > > The documents in question, Jones said, "would make the FAA look bad" > because of Mrs. Daschle's top job with the agency. > > Not surprisingly, the Clinton-Reno Justice Department never expressed > much > of an interest in Daschle's case, despite the fatalities involved and > grieving relatives irate over unanswered questions. > > The only investigations ever undertaken were done by the Clinton > Transportation Department and the Senate Ethics Committee, both of > which > determined that the South Dakota Democrat had done nothing wrong. > > Maybe that's why the media has decided to file this tidbit from > Daschle's > resume down its memory hole. > > But we suspect that if a Republican had suddenly taken the reins of > senatorial power on a quirk and declared most of the president's > agenda > dead, somehow this information would have found its way into > mainstream > news reports. > > > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > -- > > Best Wishes > > > All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and > a > compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. > -�Mark Twain's Autobiography; Mark Twain in Eruption > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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