Originally published December 27 2005
Media takes a close look at the history of high court nominee Samuel Alito
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Mercurynews.com looks at Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and his history of deference to governmental action.
As a Justice Department lawyer, Samuel Alito quarreled with the head of the government ethics office over proposed requirements on personal financial disclosures, according to documents released Monday.
Alito's 1987 letter was issued around the time the ethics office said his boss, Attorney General Edwin Meese III, had violated financial disclosure requirements over a $60,000 investment with a businessman who was tied to Wedtech, a Bronx, N.Y., defense contractor that was caught up in a wide-ranging federal investigation.
There was no suggestion that Alito, now nominated to be a Supreme Court justice, was aware of the ethics office's issues with Meese's disclosure.
In the same period, the office was reviewing Meese's own report for 1985, which obscured how W. Franklyn Chinn invested the $60,000 Meese gave him, the ethics office said.
A September 1986 memo to the FBI, for instance, recommends that the bureau ignore a federal court decision restricting Education Department jobs that should require full background investigations for prospective hires.
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