I offer it here to remind gringos who complain about corruption in Mexico from whence they came: probably from the most deeply corrupt government in the world.
October 23, 2007 NYT: Telcos seeking immunity held fundraiser for Rockefeller:
Wired's Ryan Singel broke parts of this story last week. More from Spencer Ackerman.Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping.
The surge in contributions came from a Who’s Who of executives at the companies, AT&T and Verizon, starting with the chief executives and including at least 50 executives and lawyers at the two utilities, according to campaign finance reports.
The money came primarily from a fund-raiser that Verizon held for Mr. Rockefeller in March in New York and another that AT&T sponsored for him in May in San Antonio.
Mr. Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, emerged last week as the most important supporter of immunity in devising a compromise plan with Senate Republicans and the Bush administration.
A measure approved by the intelligence panel on Thursday would add restrictions on the eavesdropping and extend retroactive immunity to carriers that participated in it. President Bush secretly approved the program after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Mr. Rockefeller’s office said Monday that the sharp increases in contributions from the telecommunications executives had no influence on his support for the immunity provision.
“Any suggestion that Senator Rockefeller would make policy decisions based on campaign contributions is patently false,” Wendy Morigi, a spokeswoman for him, said. “He made his decision to support limited immunity based on the Intelligence Committee’s careful review of the situation and our national security interests.”
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HaHa. I belong to a discussion group, and most of the people on there do nothing but complain about the corruption in Honduras in particular/central america in general, and it gets on my nerves. (they talk about how it is the peoples fault that the government is corrupt - like it is that easy to deal with a corrupt governemnt - anyway, i'll shut up on that, LOL)
yet when someone points out that we too are corrupt they dont want to hear it. The All Might US, corrupt? No way. I am going to post this link and see how they respond.
~Jennifer
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