C-Street: Protecting the well-connected white male adulterer NO MATTER WHAT CRIMES WERE COMMITTED!! These @ssholes are writing LAW? Hypocrites!
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/12/ensign-report-fingers-tom-coburn/
"Contained in the 67-page report, however, is troubling evidence of the central role that current Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) played in trying to keep Ensign’s mistress and her husband quiet — evidence that contradicts Coburn’s previous public statements on the matter.
In July 2009, Coburn said he was consulting with Ensign “as a physician and as an ordained deacon” and he considered it a “privileged communication that I will never reveal to anybody.” Asked about the claim from Doug Hampton, the husband of Ensign’s mistress, that he “urged Ensign to pay the Hamptons millions of dollars,” Coburn said, “I categorically deny everything he said.”
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