{"id":14569,"date":"2009-09-23T06:03:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14569"},"modified":"2009-09-23T06:03:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:03:43","slug":"frank-and-conyers-order-acorn-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14569","title":{"rendered":"Frank and Conyers order ACORN investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal<\/a> write this morning that Barney Franks and John Conyers have directed the Congressional Research Service to look into the ACORN stings – but not how you think.<\/p>\n

Franks actually didn’t vote when Congress voted to defund ACORN last week, apparently avoiding any embarassing entanglements. While Conyers voted for the measure, he later claimed that he did so “accidentally” making me wonder if he even fit to serve in Congress. <\/p>\n

The investigation for which they’ve called isn’t into ACORN, it’s an investigation into the two investigators, mr. O’Keefe and Ms. Giles;<\/p>\n

With respect to the child-prostitution sting, they ask the CRS to look into “conflicting allegations” about “the propriety of these activities”\u2014by which they mean not the advice Acorn gave on getting away with crimes, but “the federal and state laws that could apply to such videotaping and distribution of conversations without the consent of all parties.”<\/p>\n

The Democratic duo also ask CRS whether the legislation defunding Acorn “could constitute an unlawful bill of attainder” by singling out the group\u2014as if the refusal to continue providing federal subsidies is tantamount to punishing it for a crime. Such Constitutional scruples were not evident in March, when the pair joined all but six House Democrats (and 85 Republicans) in voting to impose a 90% tax on executives of AIG and other disfavored corporations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what is most important, I suppose – I mean taping someone planning to commit crimes is much more important than the person planning the crimes, isn’t it? Of course, asking Conyers and Franks to recognize illegal activity is like expecting a fish to admit he’s wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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