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Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:00 AM

Jay Rockefeller's unintentionally revealing comments

AT&T's personal senator boasts of feelings of "cockiness" as he battles on behalf of Dick Cheney, telecoms and GOP senators.
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  • Thursday, January 24, 2008 06:07 AM

    Who has profited from this?

    Let's look at the returns of all the major players in this exercise. corporations, their executives, which members of congress own stock in any of these companies. Let's look at the activity of their stocks during the whole period of the Bush administration. If people don't get pissed off about having the government co-op a commercial entity to conduct illegal activity and then changing the laws retroactively, then maybe they'll get pissed about unfair profiteering that of course, no one is allowed to discuss.

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