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What Do You Think About The Tempest: FBI v The House?

Wednesday May 31, 2006

What are we to make of the recent FBI raid on the office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), Louisiana's most prominent black politician? Was this exercise Constitutionally sanctioned? Or was it, as a House hearing suggested Tuesday, an unprecedented breach of the Constitution? Read more and cast your vote:

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Regarding the FBI's weekend search of Rep. Jefferson's office:
(multiple selections allowed)
The executive branch has overstepped its powers.
The executive branch is using legal tools to prove criminal activity.
If they have him on tape, why hasn't he been indicted or arrested?
Why Rep. Jefferson and not the guys in the Abramoff scandal?
This would not be controversial if Jefferson were white.
This would not be controversial if Jefferson were Republican.
I believe that the FBI act is constitutional.
I believe that the FBI act is unconstitutional.
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