I haven’t seen anything in the MSM about this. But if it pans out, it seems to me Nancy Pelosi and House Dems could be in real trouble, politically at least. This is not the kind of abuse-of-power story the Dems need right now.
Update: Interesting, Drudge’s link to a “Fox Nation” page on the Pelosi story is dead. Maybe there’s a reason the MSM hasn’t picked up yet? It’s sufficiently juicey I think healthy skepticism for the moment is in order. Again if — if – it is true, this seems like a worse abuse than stealing some stamps, the scandal that predated the 1994 tsunami.
Update II: From a reader:
In case you haven’t already been inundated with explanations, the Fox story
is probably gone because most of the trips mentioned were booked on a
space-available basis on ostensibly pre-scheduled regular flights. A couple
of the flights did look like they were booked using the regular
Congressional travel directive, but it’s not entirely clear from the posted
excerpts.
While the space available flights are certainly legal, it does look odd that
Pelosi sent requests for them. The way those flights work, at least for
military personnel, is that you show up, check the flight schedule, and if
there’s space available on a flight of interest to you, you show your
credentials and get on the flight. It almost looks like Pelosi is
requesting space on flights that may not actually exist and the Air Force,
to avoid ruffling feathers, schedules a “normal” flight for that day.
And here’s FactCheck.org






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