That they would be much, much better off without William Jefferson? The more that comes out about this case, the more of an embarrassment he becomes to the entire party. The man should be given his day in court and have every protection the constitution calls for. He is also an enormous political liability and is frankly making everyone on Capitol Hill look bad.
Last Aug. 3, FBI agents searched Jefferson's New Orleans home while the congressman and family members were present. Kent said she was assigned to watch Jefferson and his family during the search, according to her affidavit accompanying the government motion yesterday.
She said she observed him looking at several pieces of paper on a table. At one point, she said, he asked to see a copy of the subpoena.
"After a copy had been brought to him and he reviewed it, I observed Congressman Jefferson then take the subpoena and the documents he had been reading earlier and place them together under his elbow on the kitchen table."
At one point, she said, he moved to the living room, which had just been searched, and sat on a recliner. While sitting, he slipped the subpoena and the documents into a blue bag that he knew had already been searched, Kent's affidavit said.
"After several minutes, I approached Congressman Jefferson and told him that I needed to look at the documents that he had placed into the bag," the agent stated. "Congressman Jefferson told me the documents were subpoenas."
He finally pulled out the documents that were from a B.K. Son. The search warrant had asked for all communications between Jefferson and Son, the affidavit said. Son is the chief technology officer of iGate.
All this rush to defend Congressional privilege is also making the Congress look bad. Nobody should be above the law. Least of all the elected officials of this country. Instead of defending Jefferson, the Democrats should be looking to pressure him to step down – or at minimum step aside from his committee posts until after his day in court.
Yes, you gotta wonder. I fled the Democratic Party a while back, but this kind of stuff makes me keep running.
He’s really bad for everyone right now. They are all being pretty stupid about this, both parties.
It’s a bit confusing to keep saying William Jefferson without adding Clinton.
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Actually, many of them already are. Nancy Pelosi, for instance.
Ironically, Dennis Hastert is defending congressional privledge, even for Jefferson.