Media whores Trumpet Bonds Indictment; they almost ignore PERJURY re State Dept. Oversight of BLACKWATER hired gunmen in Iraq....

Once again, America's criminally negligent, fraudulent, and corrupt "Major Media" use their influence and corporate bias to make a MAJOR SCANDAL of the Barry Bonds indictment - the FBI announcing the prosecution immediately after Attorney General nominee Mukasay's nomination sailed past the somnolent senate - while almost IGNORING THE CLEAR PERJURY on the part of the STATE DEPARTMENT's INSPECTOR GENERAL, Howard J. Krongard, known as "Buzzy" Krongard, who was charged with doing a thorough if not criminal audit into Blackwater's conduct of multi-million dollar State Department "security" contracts in Baghdad, Iraq.

THE AMERICAN CORPORATE MEDIA will try to move HEAVEN AND EARTH to WHITEWASH the CORRUPTION of the Bush administration, and they have learned that the easiest way to do so is to entertain the masses with an overblown CELEBRITY SCANDAL.

Martha Stewart: SENT TO PRISON for "dumping" $55,000 worth of ImClone stock, a company she had NO contact with.

George W. Bush: "DUMPED" one-third-of-a million dollars worth of HARKEN ENERGY stock, WHILE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS _AND_ on the AUDIT COMMITTEE of Harken. Bush DUMPED his shares after the SEC ordered Harken to issue a revised P/L (profit/loss), a new statement when the SEC realized that Harken's original P/L statement was fraudulent.

The revised Harken P/L statement corrected previously stated PROFITS to be actual LOSSES.

Mr. Bush DUMPED his shares in ADVANCE of the new P/LOSS statement - CLAIMING IGNORANCE of the new loss figures! Even though he had a HARVARD MBA, and sat on the AUDIT COMMITTEE!

Harken's method of trying to write off losses as PROFITS - using deceptive accounting - would be systematized on a grander scale 20 years later, when ENRON executives "sold" Enron's I.O.U.'s to wholly owned subsidiary companies (created specifically for that purpose), who then wrote Enron's FUTURE PAYMENTS on those debts as IMMEDIATE PROFITS, and then marked that subsidiaries so-called "PROFITS" back to Enron's tally sheet. PRESTO! LOSSES (debts) have been magically transformed to PROFITS on Enron's books. This deception, this fraudulent accounting, ALLOWED ENRON EXECUTIVES to DUMP THEIR SHARES on an unsuspecting workforce and public; looting investors OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS - with the complicit approval of the Bush-Cheney administration.

The media has taken these simple stories: HARKEN ACCOUNTING FRAUD and Enron accounting fraud - and made them into "ancient history" complexity - and they have NEVER SOUGHT TO LINK Mr. Bush to those frauds (or held him to account for his "DUMPING" of his Harken energy stock in violation of SEC regulations, which required PRIOR APPROVAL for a company board member to sell shares of a company that he sits on the board of.)

But CNN, Fox 'news', ESPN, and other network executives LUST at the images of Bary Bonds being led into court in handcuffs, or tried for perjury - while they happily PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE YET ANOTHER example of Bush-Cheney CORRUPTION, the vast overpayments and hired-gun license-to-kill the administration has granted BLACKWATER mercenary 'security' company.

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Barry Bonds vs. Howard Krongard: And the Winner Is…
Reg, Contributing Editor, TvNewsLIES.org.
http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=670

…and the winner is Howard, J, Krongard, - a name barely known to most Americans, and someone who remains barely known, thanks to the corporate US media. Here’s the competition:

A top story this week in the news: Barry Bonds was indicted on charges of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. Bonds stands accused of lying under oath to a grand jury about his use of steroids. If he is found guilty on all counts, Bonds faces up to fifteen years in prison.

Barry Bonds is obviously a menace to us all. He apparently poses a great threat to all our lives and to the safety of the nation. Let us all hope that justice is done and the full force of the law is brought down on this dangerous criminal.

Non story this week in the news: Howard J. Krongard, US State Department Inspector General lied under oath to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform It seems that federal prosecutors have been looking into allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq by Blackwater, USA. And, surprise, surprise, Krongard was on the carpet for interfering with the investigation.

And guess what else? Someone found out that Howard’s brother, Alvin (Buzzy) Krongard, sits on the Advisory Board of Blackwater. When asked about this, Howard told the House Committee that Buzzy had NO connection to Blackwater. He knew NOTHING, not a thing about this, even after a call to his brother. But, but, but after a recess, Krongard knew the jig was up. He admitted that it was true, Buzzy was a member of the Board, but had never, ever told him about it.

Small problem: Brother Buzzy called the Committee and told them that he had, indeed, told brother Howard of his connection to Blackwater. Uh oh. That’s perjury. Howard Krongard LIED UNDER OATH about a matter relevant to an ongoing investigation. Perjury is a crime. Wanna bet nothing happens to the man?

Howard Krongard is obviously not a menace to anyone. He apparently poses no threat to our lives or to the safety of the nation. Let’s all hope that Chairman Henry Waxman doesn’t look too closely into “allegations of perjury” after Thanksgiving, as he has promised to do. And let us all hope that Krongard, like Scooter Libby, Karl Rove and other Bushco criminals continue to escape prosecution and punishment of any sort.

Barry Bonds is allegedly a criminal; Howard Krongard is a servant of the people.

After all, there is something to be said about consistency and cronyism in a ‘time of war.’ And, oh yes, never forget that everything changed after 9/11.