Talk:Ben Barnes (politician)

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Even if it weren't an apparent blatant copyvio, this is wording would need to be altered to avoid reference to its lost context (emphasis added):

So influential and important is Barnes to the Democratic Party, as this column reported last January, that Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle has nicknamed this money man and lobbyist “the fifty-first Democratic Senator”.
--Jerzy•t 17:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

_ _ He's just written a memoir called something like Barn-raising and Barn-burning.
_ _ In his interview on NPR, presumably in connection with the book, he says that

According to a Watergate tape, Nixon had hoped for the corruption case to destroy Barnes's influence, was told he was not involved, and ordered that the appearance of involvement be created;
the star witness against those charged in the scandal had no evidence on him;
that witness testified under immunity from prosecution, which immunity was made contingent on a statement damaging to Barnes;
the statement made by the witness was that "i hear that" Barnes was the "smartest" of an apparently vaguely specified group, and accepted ill-gotten gains only in the form cash.

--Jerzy•t 17:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where is the TANG Discussion?????

Ben Barnes is a central figure in the allegations surrounding W's TANG admission [1] yet the article has absolutely no mention at all of this story, how is that? Is it on the list of pages regularly sterilized by the thought police? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.248.81 (talk) 05:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)