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« on: December 16, 2007, 11:59:27 AM »
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Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee, the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.

Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men.
Kids do stuff, and you can't automatically blame the parents for everything, but the following is in an upcoming Newsweek:
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The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request.

Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee's Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer's intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job," Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was "I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem," according to Bailey. "Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son," says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and "very solid" professional.
If true, this is bad news.
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« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2007, 12:18:12 PM »
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Kids do stuff, and you can't automatically blame the parents for everything, but the following is in an upcoming Newsweek:
If true, this is bad news.


Bad news for who? You?
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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2007, 12:20:49 PM »
You don't think the timing of this story has anything to do with the election do you?  :huh
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« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2007, 12:24:24 PM »
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You don't think the timing of this story has anything to do with the election do you?  :huh


Surely not.



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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2007, 12:25:20 PM »
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Bad news for who? You?
Really?  You don't understand?
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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2007, 12:28:16 PM »
Of course it's timed, they wouldn't have bothered doing the research on him unless he was a realistic presidential candidate.  Here's a question, though, if it's true, are you ok with what he did?

Try and put your knowing smirks down for a moment to answer the question straight if you don't mind.

I have a real problem with folks abusing their power, and trying to suppress an investigation in this manner seems to be a clear example of exactly that.
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« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2007, 12:31:12 PM »
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I have a real problem with folks abusing their power, and trying to suppress an investigation in this manner seems to be a clear example of exactly that.


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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2007, 12:33:09 PM »
What you posted (without a link) claims the young men admitted catching the dog while what I've read said they claim to have come upon the dog that other scouts had tied up. One of these is a lie. One intentional lie destroys all credibility imo.
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« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2007, 12:55:52 PM »
Unnamed "camp officials" were "quoted". The only person identified as the source for the story is a fired disgruntled employee who happens to be a dem fired by a repub and the story was released just in time for the early Caucasus. Yes this story (unlinked BTW) has credibility all over it.

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« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2007, 12:57:04 PM »
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I have a real problem with folks abusing their power, and trying to suppress an investigation in this manner seems to be a clear example of exactly that.


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« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2007, 01:31:44 PM »
Well at best it seems to be an allegation of influencing. So far the corroboration seems pretty weak.
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« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2007, 03:33:08 PM »
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Well at best it seems to be an allegation of influencing. So far the corroboration seems pretty weak.
Which is why I wrote:
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If true, this is bad news.
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« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2007, 03:48:28 PM »
Why didn't you provide a link to the story?
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« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2007, 03:50:15 PM »
Accurate or not, anything that keeps this putz from being the Gop nominee
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« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2007, 03:51:20 PM »
Here's more developments:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/78241
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