Conyers demands investigation into “Auntie” leak

So John Conyers took time off from his impeachment investigation into the President and Vice President to demand answers from the Homeland Security Department as to whether they had intentionally leaked information about Obama’s Boston auntie, according to CNN;

Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan fired off a letter asking Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to investigate whether someone leaked the information to the media in an effort to damage Obama.

“The AP reports that it ‘could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved,’ a very disturbing (suggestion) indeed,” read the letter from Conyers, who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

“This leak is deplorable and I urge you to take immediate action to investigate and discipline those responsible.”

Here’s the screen shot in case it gets disappeared later (a habit I have acquired lately with the Obama crew);

Of course Conyers could get just as outraged that a US Senator running for the Presidency had an illegal alien aunt living on the public dole. Or he could get outraged that this information hadn’t come out sooner by Obama’s own admission rather than reporters digging around in the final days of the campaign.

Conyers could get outraged about the rectal exam that Joe the Plumber endured, or the New York Times reporter stalking the McCain children on line, but no, he gets exercised about the media uncovering an actual criminal breaking an actual law.

Michelle Malkin reports that the McCain camp has been forbidden to discuss the issue

Another predictable prediction: McCain will issue an edict forbidding staff from talking about this the same way the staffers are forbidden from mentioning Jeremiah Wright — with disastrous results.

No problem, even the Washington Post will comply with that edict. This morning’s front page is void of the discussionof the subject;

The way the media soaked up the story that McCain isn’t an American citizen, can you imagine what they would running in a loop if McCain had an illegal immigrant relative living on welfare? I trolled Democratic Underground for about an hour last night and there was not one word over there about it.

But this morning, I find them exercised over the “privacy issues” as soon as the Washington Post gives the signal that they can discuss it in that context – on page 7. So the DU clowns give Obama a free pass;

democrank
2. We should keep the pressure on.
Someone needs to answer for this violation of privacy.

RBInMaine  Sun Nov-02-08 07:02 AM
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5. SCUMBAG RIGHT WING A-HOLES REACHING FOR AN OCTOBER SURPRISE. Well guess what,
#1 it isn’t flying.

#2 What the SCUMBAGS did was ILLEGAL and they should be PROSECUTED to the full extent of the law.

#3 It isn’t flying anywhere because Barack Obama can not and does not have ANYTHING to do with the immigration status or personal actions of a 56 year old HALF-aunt who lives in Boston and whom he hasn’t seen in two years. THIS IS NOTHING AT ALL BUT A VERY SAD AND LAME ATTEMPT TO GENERATE A SCANDAL TO HURT OBAMA AT THE END OF AN ELECTION. IT ONLY SPEAKS TO HOW SAD, PATHETIC, AND DESPERATE THE RIGHT WING IN THIS COUNTRY IS. THESE SCROATBAGS ARE SCARED SHITLESS, AND THEY SHOULD BE BECAUSE THEY ARE ABOUT TO BE DROWNED IN A DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI !!!

I guess that we should just overlook the fact that Obama has seen his aunt at least once since she was ordered to leave the country and spoken on the phone with her at least once. You mean to tell me you don’t think she once mentioned her dilemma and asked for assistance from her US Senator nephew? I gotta call Koolaid blindness on this one.

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