Feeling Safer Yet?
Oct 31st, 2005 at 6:40 am by Susie
When it comes to our national security, money obviously pulls a lot more weight:
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Justice Department never acted on a post-Sept. 11 proposal, contested by lobbyist Jack Abramoff, calling for increased federal control over immigration to the Mariana Islands. [...]
“The agency reassigned the two officials who produced a 34- page report that contained the proposal, and House members of both parties who oversee the Homeland Security and Justice departments said they were never told about it. The 2002 report, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg News, warns that continued local control over the Marianas’ borders will “seriously jeopardize the national security” of the U.S.” [...]
Abramoff, whose law firm was paid $3.5 million by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, to lobby between 1998 and 2002, tried to block the report, according to an e-mail released this month by House Democrats.
