Hillary Clinton Accepting Donations From Problem Riddled Firm

  Hillary Clinton must be needing campaign cash pretty bad to be taking contributions from individuals at one company,International Profit Associates, which has been tagged for massive charges of sexual harassment.

   Senator Clinton has received $170,000 from the company has yet to return the funds, which is kind of bad when you also take into consideration that International Profit Associates CEO John R. Burgess, has a criminal record.

   From MSNBC

The federal government has accused the Illinois management consulting firm, International Profit Associates, or IPA, of a brazen pattern of sexual harassment including "sexual assaults,” “degrading anti-female language" and "obscene suggestions."

In a 2001 lawsuit full of lurid details, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that 103 women employees at IPA were victimized for years. The civil case is ongoing, and IPA vigorously denies the allegations.

Burgess has a criminal record, too. The former lawyer pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in 1987 and was disbarred in New York, court documents show. Burgess also pleaded guilty to “patronizing a prostitute” in 1984, according to Erie County, N.Y., court records.

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Telecom Amnesty And The Protect America Act

   Just to show you how deeply entrenched the Bush administration is with the telecom industry and why amnesty should not be included in the FISA bill.

    Last fall, former attorney general John D. Ashcroft signed a letter to top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urging retroactive immunity for the companies. His consulting firm, the Ashcroft Group, was on retainer to AT&T at the time. An Ashcroft spokeswoman declined comment.  Washington Post

  Why does that comes as no surprise? On further note:

Perhaps most important, disclosures in the lawsuits could clarify the scope of the government's surveillance and establish whether, as the plaintiffs allege, it involved the massive interception of purely domestic communications with the help of the nation's largest providers: AT&T, Cingular Wireless, BellSouth, Sprint and MCI/Verizon. (Verizon Communications bought MCI in 2006.)

"I think the administration would be very loath for folks to realize that ordinary people were being surveilled," said Kurt Opsahl, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the lead lawsuit, against AT&T.    WaPo

  Do you and I really need to hear any more? Hell yes we do!

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