Bobby L. Maxwell Looking Out for Us

    Bobby Maxwell was an auditor at the Interior Department for some 22 years before the Bush Crime Family got rid of him. Mr. Maxwell was one of the best in the department and had all kinds of awards to back it up!

   He spent alot of time going over the books of the major oil companies looking for money that they may have owed the taxpayers from pumping oil on lands owned by the public to which royalties are due.

    “Mr. Maxwell’s career has been characterized by exceptional performance and significant contributions,” wrote Gale A. Norton, then the secretary of the interior, in a 2003 citation. Ms. Norton praised Mr. Maxwell’s “perseverance and leadership” while cataloguing his “many outstanding achievements.”

     This appears to me to be Bushco and Friends looking out for the oil companies once again! As of this past February, the new interior Department says that the companies may owe as much as $7 BILLION over the past 5 years in royalty payments from leases that were designed wrong! Of course, no one in the Interior Department is actually looking into this!   More after the break

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From NYTimes

Bush Open To Suggestions On Iraq

    A White House security advisor says that Mr.Bush is open to some of  Donald Rumsfeld's suggestions on dealing with the mess in Iraq.

    Rumsfeld had suggested that we put more troops near the Iraqi borders at Syria and Iran, some minor withdrawals of personnel  from the U.S. and other coalition members, for starters.

    HMMMM! Hasn't the Democrats and others been trying to suggest this for some time only to have Bushco tell them it wasn't going to happen?

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    "Of course they're being considered," Bush adviser
Stephen Hadley said.

    The Story