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Subscribe to RSSA cryptic behind-the-scenes note appears in a story on the front page of Wednesday's New York Times, in an article exploring Newt Gingrich's activities on behalf of health care companies, activities which look a lot like lobbying. The headline is "Gingrich Gave Push to Clients, Not Just Ideas."
But here's the behind-the-scenes part. It quotes records from Gingrich's for-profit company, the Center for Health Transformation. Emphasis added:
Yet if Mr. Gingrich has managed to steer clear of legal tripwires, a review of his activities shows how he put his influence to work on behalf of clients with a considerable stake in government policy. Even if he does not appear to have been negotiating legislative language, he and his staff did many of the same things that registered lobbyists do.
The center’s own records — kept in a restricted section of its Web site, but found by The New York Times in an unsecured archived version of the site — contain several previously unreported examples.
Reporters Mike McIntire and Jim Rutenberg go on to give several examples of efforts that seem like lobbying activity. They don't explain how they stumbled upon the archived version of the site.
McIntire emailed an answer:
"Hard work," McIntire wrote. "And in case you're wondering, no, nobody handed it to us or told us where to find it."
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Wake up America!! Every last one of these scum-bags are nothing more than lobyists to the oppressors who have stolen our great nation away from us. We must rise up and tear this nation down so we can rebuild it without these pariah!!
Sorry Jebadiah, obama has already torn this nation down.... You are absolutely correct, we must get rid of the sorry scum-bags in office.... and the top one first..... vote out obama
wake up Ameriica!!! obama is the worse of the lot!!!
They were probably using Google's cache. Google has a bot that searches the web and catalogs what they find. Sometimes if the security isn't good enough, the bot will find a way to get into protected areas. You can then do a google search and click on "cache" next to the results. It's one of the easiest ways to hack something. Just google it!
Google "blippy leak" for an example. A website accidentally gave away users' credit card info through the google cache feature. This is a sign you need to fire whoever is in charge of your security.
Way to go Ed, Obama is the scariest, the worstest, the most horrifying president I've known since I've been voting (1st in 1976). I can't stand him, Bill Ayers, or Saul Alinsky. Anything to put a rational, American oriented president in the White House. Obama is such a lier, why is he in office? What powers have put him in? What powers have kept him in, especially with the liberal left press, such as MSNBC, extremely distorted.
Thor T: Worstest? Really? Please learn some grammar.
And for Ed & Thor: As for Obama being the "worst" and "most horrifying" president? Were you both in a coma during Bush II's presidency? I guess you forgot about 9/11 (it happened on HIS watch), Katrina, Patriot Act, wire tapping, outing of a CIA agent, two unnecessary wars, lying about WMD, lying about Iraq being involved in 9/11, Blackwater & Halliburton scandals, Abu Ghraib, defunding of No Child Left Behind, firing of federal prosecutors, Minerals Management Service in bed with Big Oil.. do you want me to keep going?
Anna I'll just touch on 9/11 Bin Ladin was offered to Bill Clinton 3 different times and he refused, Iraq was involved as far as providing training for the terrorist WMD he acted on information provided to him by NATO and Bill Clinton even stated the he knew that Iraq had WMDs
Katrina you talking about the failure to use all those transit and school buses to evacuate people or all the crying about some one needs to give us a handout I didn't hear all that out of the other states effected by Katrina or out of States effected by Ike it all came down to the state of mind of the people effected I worked the relief center here in Houston at the convention center where hot meals, provided by resterants here in the Houston area were being given I got cussed out more than once because we did not have McDonalds and were not providing beer
Abu Ghraib hhhhmmmm thought the great Obama was going to close that and oh by the way information attained from Abu Ghraib lead to the killing of Bin Ladin
Halliburton lets see because Chenney worked for them at one time the left tried to make a scandal out of the fact that they were and still are the largest contractor for the war as far as civilian support goes Obama could have changed that but has not why? because no one else could do the job.
Blackwater I believe they were hired by Haliburton to protect there employees not by G.W. Bush
The MMS has been in bed with big oil long before Bush and still are we just don't here about it now because a Liberial is in office
obama sux but if you realy hate all the lobbyiest and the behind the scene corporate buddies then you would never vote a republican into office and you would get rid of all the dems and repubs in the senate and congress now. as long as they can inside trade with companies they make laws for then we are doomed, is this Rome? bill clinton pushed for NAFTA saying it would lower costs of goods and would now cost americans jobs. Then they spread outside of just north america and congress has been aproving the addition of many countries to get free trade agreements with us, including china. Not only do companies get to have these cheap goods that are made in these other countries brought back into the USA with no tarrifs the corps also get a tax break for creating jobs in those other countreis and can write off any money they spend in those other countries. its allowed major companies, not small or medium companies, to get huge tax returns worth billions of dollars directly out of the pockets of teh small and medium busuiness owners and uper class folks that actualy pay taxes. NAFTA did not lower the cost of goods, the costs have only increased and the margin of profit has only increased. NAFTA did infact cost the USA thousands and thousands of jobs. NAFTA only made the rich richer.So tell me if bushes tax breaks was to get business's to hire people then how come 11 years later the "temporary" tax break has only cost us jobs and money and only got the richer rich. Lets not even talk about the criminal activity of taking money from us giving it to the FEDS and then having them loan it back to the banks so the banks could loan it to us , our money, all so that a bunch of billionairs can keep making money. The wallstreet bailout was criminal, atleast what the people was doing. what the hell is a hedge fund worker and how come he gets 100mil a year? where does that money come from? how many goods or services had to be grosely over priced for 1000's of people to make 100's of millions and billions of dollars? over and over. The inside trading is a crime for sure. I got an idea "if you pass a law that makes everyone have to buy my product so they will be safer ill give you some of my stocks for super low prices and you will make billions" Lobbyist must go , they are buying congress and senators. there are congress and senators that have made millions and some even billions of dollars on inside trading from laws that they passed to benifit corporations. eh, i guess ill shut up now even though im not sure i even got to my point yet....