Tells how he visited FDR's home, Hyde Park, and compares Clinton's position… LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about the rejection of Zoe Baird as Attorney General, because of her hiring two illegal aliens as servants.
By Sidney Blumenthal The New Yorker, February 15 , 1993P. 53 LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about the rejection of Zoe Baird as Attorney General, because of her hiring two illegal aliens as servants.
This will not just affect the so-called 'red tops', but also newspapers like the Daily Telegraph – which has had nothing to do with hacking or illegal payments to public servants – as well as more than 1,200 financially straitened regional and local newspapers".
Section 39.02 of the Texas Penal Code makes it illegal for a public servant to use government property, services or personnel to obtain a personal benefit, and Texas politicians over the years have been prosecuted and convicted under the act.
In Gaza, it's illegal for any public servant to operate a taxi.
A provision of the Whistleblower Protection Act makes it illegal for a civil servant to be fired "for refusing to obey an order that would require the individual to violate a law," as these servants swear an oath to uphold the Constitution at the outset of their careers.
In the sworn disclosure statements, the executives said they had not paid a public servant in an illegal attempt to gain influence, records show.
This certainly happened at the BBC after its faked phone-in and "Sachsgate" crises in 2007-08, and more recently at News International following the arrest of Sun journalists in relation to alleged illegal payments to police and other public servants.
Some elements of the government's new approach, while definitely questionable, are merely semantic tweaks: changing the name of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, for example, or directing public servants to call asylum seekers "illegals".
This illegal market is one cornered by politicians and civil servants.
