It is important to realize the current firings of the U. S. Attorneys are just the tip of the iceberg of the corruption in the Bush White House and Department of Justice. Many Republican Congressmen have for years delved into illegal, immoral and corrupt activities to further the agenda of supporting wealth Republican political supporters.

The primary tactic used by the Department of Justice in protecting these Republican Congressmen from investigation and prosecution has been to ignore and delay investigations into obvious abuses of power and corruption allegations hoping those requesting investigations will tire and just go away.

One of the projects to repay wealthy financial and political Republican supporters was the fraudulent closing of MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California. MCAS El Toro did not meet any of the of the BRAC criteria to be closed and the 1993 BRAC Commission Report to the President listed five totally false and misleading reasons why the base was being closed. Even though there is significant evidence that MCAS El Toro was specifically closed to benefit Donald Bren, a Southern California Developer and one of the richest men in the world, the U. S. Justice Department has continually refused to initiate an investigation to look into these allegations or to mitigate damages.

When MCAS El Toro was closed the U. S. Taxpayers lost at least $13.8 Billion dollars of assets and closing costs, the U. S. Marine Corps lost a primary and much needed jet base and 2,400 young Marine families were kicked out of their military housing onto the very expensive and unaffordable Southern California economy.

The primary facilitator in getting El Toro fraudulent closed to benefit the 100% Bren owned Irvine Company was none other than Congressman Christopher Cox, current chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Cox, whose wife was on that 1993 BRAC Commission that fraudulently voted to close El Toro, was Chairman of the Orange County Corporations Department of Latham and Watkins from 1978 to 1986. Latham and Watkins defended Donald Bren in major corporate management lawsuits during those years.

The illegal actions that placed former Congressman “Duke� Cunningham of San Diego in the Tucson Federal Prison were minuscule compared to actions taken by Christopher Cox to secure this base closing for Bren and The Irvine Company.

Early on, we contacted the FBI and presented them with the allegations we had concerning the very questionable closing of MCAS El Toro. The FBI responsibly took our allegations to the U. S. Attorney and then gave us two reasons why the U. S. Attorney was not going to launch an investigation into Cox’s activities related to the closing of MCAS El Toro.

1. The five year statute of limitations from the actions of the 1993 BRAC Commission had expired.
2. The U. S. Attorney did not have jurisdictional authority to launch such an investigation.

Our response to the five year statute of limitations statement was simple and straight forward:
• The same people who worked to perpetrate the actions of the 1993 BRAC Commission were still actively working to ensure MCAS El Toro was closed.
• Even if the statue of limitations had expired did not the Department of Justice have a duty to mitigate the damages of an illegal act perpetrated against the U. S. Taxpayers? This in itself should be enough to justify an investigation if there was significant evidence to indicate such. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department ever told us we had insufficient evidence.
If the Justice Department or the U. S. Attorney did not have the jurisdictional authority to launch such an investigation then who did? This question was never answered.

In America we need to get used to the fact that Republican Congressmen can do pretty much whatever illegal activities they want in support of their wealthy donors. The U. S. Department of Justice does not feel that they have the jurisdictional authority or proclivity to investigate such.

http://www.eltorotoday.com

http://www.eltorotoday.com/Executive%20Summary,%20081106.doc

http://www.eltorotoday.com/docs/betrayed.html

http://www.eltorotoday.com/docs/generals.html

Bill Turner
http://www.eltortoday.com
bill@eltorotoday.com
PO Box 2323
Costa Mesa, CA 92628
(949) 735-5432

Rightwings might reference http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arlen_Specter
(Republican)
Allowing for unapproved U.S. Attorneys
On January 17, 2007 a spokesperson admitted that Specter made a last minute change to a bill in 2006 that would allow for the Executive to install U.S. Attorneys without the approval of the Senate. The Administration, shortly after the bill was passed, began to replace U.S. Attorneys with new, unapproved, ones.
This is part of the Patriot Act, and might have been done by Specter’s aide, however it was under his name.
Prior to this, Congress reviewed and approved replacements. Checks and Balances being dismantled so that King George can reign. If this doesn’t bother you, you need to study more.