Faced with a credible news report that they agreed to a request from Allen Stanford to ask Hugo Chavez to file criminal charges against a Venezuelan banker, most politicians would likely want to respond. Either to deny the story, or at least to offer some generic and uncontroversial sentiment like “Congressman X believes Allen Stanford should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” After all, that’s not exactly the kind of story most pols want to leave just hanging out there.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=132687