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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Reid Backs Away From Menendez Defense
2013-02-04
[BREITBART] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
 has backed off his ardent defense of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez amid the scandal crashing down on his colleague.
Perhaps the honourable senator won't be promoted to replace John F. Kerry after all...
In an interview on ABC News' This Week today, Reid admitted the existence of multiple investigations into Menendez and his connections to wealthy Democratic Party donor Dr. Salomon Melgen. Reid dropped his rhetoric attacking this news hound, and other outlets that have been investigating the Menendez scandal, since this news hound first published interviews in early November with two Dominican Republic hookers alleging they were under-paid to have sex with Menendez.

"I have confidence he did nothing wrong," Reid said Sunday morning in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a former Democratic Party and Bill Clinton strategist. "But that's what investigations are all about."

In contrast, last week, when Breitbart News asked Reid about a similar question during his weekly presser, the Senate Democratic Leader had a much different response: "The answer is: 'Always consider the source.' All anyone here has to look at is the source where this comes from."

"I told you how I feel about the source of this stuff is," Reid had added when questioned further. "Really very, very typical for the source."

Posted by:Fred

#7  I found that what I said may not be completely accurate. I had heard on the TV that 18 was the U.S. age of legal consent anywhere in the world. Wiki source says the following: "If the adult travels to a different state or a different country to have sex with a minor, this is only a federal crime if the minor is under the age of 16. It may still be a local crime if the minor was under the age of consent of the state or nation where the sex happened but it is not a federal crime. The Protect Act of 2003 states age 18 is the age of consent in the U.S. Some States say 16 but this violates the Protect Act. Looks like it depends on whether or not the prostitutes were of legal age in Dom. Repub. so long as they are older than 16.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-02-04 18:08  

#6  There is an American law which says 18 anywhere in the world is jailbait. I think it was passed sometime back to deal with all the junkets to procure sex with the under-aged in Thailand.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-02-04 17:47  

#5  Prostitution in the Dominican Rep is legal and Menendez is divorced. Thus, a straight forward admission might not have sunk him if he had made it earlier.

However, if the prostitutes are underage, he is probably in violation of some American law also.
Posted by: lord garth   2013-02-04 17:07  

#4  Want to see Menendez go down in flames.
Posted by: Thravigum Elmese1617   2013-02-04 16:26  

#3  Hey! Don't be dissin on Droopy the Dawg. He bad, in a slow dawg way.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-02-04 16:01  

#2  Reid... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...( do you mean the same Harry Reid who is reminiscent of Droopy the cartoon anthropomorphic dog with a droopy face who moved slowly and lethargically and spoke in a jowly monotone?)

Menendez ,“ I served in the Dominican Republic” probably will not be the head of Senate Foreign Relations Committee despite much experience in foreign relations.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-02-04 08:11  

#1  Menendez complaining of head and chest pains; to enter Mayco Clinic Arneja Hospital soon. Could be Triple-J Syndrome. Recent memory loss and Johnson's Drip could indicate cranial-vericocele enlargement. A rubber gloved Jay Carney has signed the Menendez 12 month [or as needed] Medical leave of absence. Many in US Senate are shaking heads and deleting e-mails.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-02-04 04:24  

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