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Originally Posted by baddog
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...Judicial_Watch
Come to your own conclusions about that source and how "non-partisan" they are...but you can take them at face value if you want
Here's fact check's take (truly non-partisan)
http://wire.factcheck.org/2009/03/23/plane-false/
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We wrote that it had become standard practice after September 11 for the speaker of the House to have access to a military jet for shuttles back to his or her home district for security reasons ? the speaker is No. 2 in the line of presidential succession, and the previous speaker, Republican Dennis Hastert, used a military jet, too.
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"For further discussion of the discrepancy between Judicial Watch?s implications and the actual documents the group provides, see this March 11 report from ABC News. The ABC reporters also compared air travel requests by Pelosi with those of Hastert and found that ?Pelosi made the equivalent of 20 round-trips between Washington (Andrews Air Force Base) and San Francisco. That?s an average of less than one round-trip per month. In contrast, former Speaker Hastert traveled home to his Illinois district virtually every weekend and, his former aides tell ABC News, he would almost always travel on military aircraft.? "
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