{"id":2261,"date":"2009-11-21T09:36:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2009-11-21T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T14:37:09","slug":"roland-burris-hit-with-dreaded-devastating-admonition-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2261\/roland-burris-hit-with-dreaded-devastating-admonition-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Burris Hit with Dreaded, Devastating Admonition Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move sure to raise questions regarding the torture of U.S. Senators by a secretive government cabal, the Senate Ethics Committee has written Senator Roland Burris (D-Ill) a letter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.senate.gov\/downloads\/pdffiles\/burris_112009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">admonishment letter<\/a>, long argued by advocates of more humane punishment to be the senatorial equivalent of water-boarding, is said to be a \u201csternly worded rebuke,\u201d from which Burris is unlikely to recover before dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, which took months of closed-door scheming to prepare, cites Burris for \u201cproviding incorrect, inconsistent, misleading or incomplete information to the public, the Senate and those conducting legitimate inquiries into your appointment to the Senate [by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the severity of such a letter and attempting to reduce public criticism over the harshness of its language, heretofore reserved for such acts as appearing on the Senate floor with one\u2019s pockets stuffed with $100 bills,\u00a0 the Senate Ethics Committee recommends no further punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Since Burris has announced that he will not seek re-election, he will be allowed to vote on serious matters affecting the American people and be afforded all Senatorial privileges only through the remainder of his appointed term, which runs until 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move sure to raise questions regarding the torture of U.S. Senators by a secretive government cabal, the Senate Ethics Committee has written Senator Roland Burris (D-Ill) a letter.\u00a0 The admonishment letter, long argued by advocates of more humane punishment to be the senatorial equivalent of water-boarding, is said to be a \u201csternly worded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[532,533],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-roland-burris","tag-senate-ethics-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}