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This will not be a real investigation. It will be a
whitewash. |
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And I have the proof to back that up... |
| Specifically, the president will appoint
the entire commission himself, breaking the previous tradition of
allowing lawmakers from both parties to appoint commission members.
Although lawmakers have raised objections to the commission's lack of
independence, the White House is moving forward with its plans. Additionally,
despite the fact that the commission's work will be critical to national
security, the president will only authorize a commission that produces a
report after the election -- so as to minimize any political fallout for
himself. (1) |
| What others have said: |
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``We had an opportunity to have a truly independent commission that
could have brought fresh eyes to the subject. Instead, we have a
commission wholly owned by the executive branch investigating the
executive branch,''
- House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (2)
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| "the commission also will look at the bigger
picture of fighting terrorism and monitoring U.S. adversaries, such as
those in Iran and North Korea" |
`On the one hand, the commission is charged with looking at prewar
intelligence assessments on Iraq but apparently not at exaggerations
of that intelligence by the Bush administration. ``On the other
hand, the commission is tasked to look at so many other areas that
it will not be able to adequately focus on the paramount issue of
the analysis, production and use of prewar intelligence on Iraq. ``
-Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, top Democrat on the Armed
Services Committee (2)
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Let's Look at who Bush handpicked to investigate him and white wash the
lies that led to billions in profits for the employers of his staff, 513
dead American soldiers, and thousands of dead Iraqi civilians:
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| Co-chair
Laurence Silberman |
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Long time republican operative |
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The judge who declared that Clinton was "at war with the US
government" |
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As comfortable with illegally and secretly brokering deals with Muslim
extremists as the Bush family is with the Saudis and the Bin Laden
family. He was dubbed the Reagan-Bush campaign's "ambassador
to Iran" for his behind-the-scenes contacts with the Khomeini
regime. (3) |
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Up to his ass in the Iran-Contra scandal. From being the go-to guy with
the Iranians to hold the hostages for the "October surprise"
to casting the deciding vote on a three-judge panel in a decision that
resulted in dismissing the criminal convictions of Admiral John
Poindexter and Lt Col Oliver North for lying to Congress in connection
with the scandal (4) |
| A top contender for Supreme Court slots that Reagan and the first
President Bush filled. You can bet if this commission find no fault in
the Bush administration, that seat on the bench is a guarantee (5) |
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deputy attorney general in the Nixon and Ford administrations (6) |
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Blocking the Clinton legal team's attempts to track down leaks emanating
from Starr's office and
blocking any attempts at discovery in the matter.(7) |
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Silberman also has attacked as too liberal a number of respected
journalists who cover the federal courts, including Pulitzer
Prize-winning Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and National Public
Radio's Nina Totenberg, whom Silberman once alluded to in speech as
"the wicked witch of the airwaves." He has publicly assailed
the reporting of the Times' Neil Lewis as "obviously distorted and
tendentious," failing to mention that Lewis had written about
Silberman's threat to assault Judge Mikva. (8) |
| Laurence
Silberman: the Right Man or the Right's Man? |
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| Co-chair
Chuck Robb |
| In 1991, Robb was among only 10 Democrats who voted for to give
then-President George H.W. Bush authority to expel Iraqi forces from
Kuwait. |
| Obtained an illegal tape of a phone conversation between then-Lt. Gov.
Doug Wilder and one of his top supporters, then handed over the tape to
a Washington Post reporter. Three of Robb's top aides did jail time for
that incident and Robb himself barely survived indictment. Rumor has it
that it was a payoff for voting to confirm Clarence Thomas to the
Supreme Court. (9) |
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Frequently attending parties in Virginia Beach, VA during his term in
office as governor where cocaine was used. His staff secretly
investigated his private life and determined that Robb had slept with at
least a dozen young women in different Virginia Beach parties -- some of
whom were under the age of consent. (10) |
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"Robb...long has advocated a tough policy toward Saddam. As a
member of the Senate in 1998, Robb advocated lifting an executive order
banning political assassinations, as a warning to Saddam." (11) |
| Chuck Robb ended his 2000 campaign with a $609,000
campaign debt. The vast majority of Robb's campaign contributions
have come from Texas energy producers. I'm willing to bet that debt will
magically go away. (12) |
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| Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona |
| Actively campaigning for the re-election of George Bush |
| Seems to have already made up his mind by
stating
"The president of the United States, I believe, did not manipulate
any kind of information for political gain or otherwise." (13) |
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Lloyd Cutler |
| Served as White House counsel to Presidents Carter and
Clinton |
| Chairman of the Reagan-era commission on government salaries that
recommended raises of at least 50% for the President, Cabinet members,
Congress, and federal judges |
| Advisor to Ross Perot and co-chairman of the Committee on the
Constitutional System who authored The 1985 book 'Reforming American
Government' which called for 6 year terms for presidents, proposes that
the president and all the members of congress be of the same party (One
party system is called totalitarianism), and each voter may cast a ballot for one such slate
as an entirety, and votes cast separately for individual candidates
shall not be counted." Furthermore, 'Reforming American Government'
states on page 29 that they plan a "significant shift in our
constitution" which would require "a crisis that would be very
grave indeed" such as a depression. (Or terrorist attack?-ed.)
The
only way the CCS can get its package of amendments into the Constitution
is if the state legislatures can be panicked into calling for a U.S. Constitutional
Convention which Alexander Hamilton warned us against in Federalist
paper Number 85, as it puts our government at risk of overthrow. (14) |
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Cutler serves as No Contest's ultimate embodiment of the evil power
lawyer (15) |
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Ret. Adm. Bill Studeman |
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Admiral Studeman is a Texan by birth and a Naval Intelligence Officer by
career choice. In his distinguished career, he has served among other
assignments as the operational intelligence officer with the 7th Fleet
during four lengthy deployments to Vietnam/Southeast Asia, as executive
assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, as commander of the
Naval Operational Intelligence Center, and as Director of the Long-Range
Planning Group under the Chief of Naval Operations. (16) |
| Former Director of the National Security Agency. Immediately prior to
coming to NSA, he served as Director of Naval Intelligence
former deputy director of the CIA (1992-1995) - a post to which he
was named by George Bush senior. (17) |
| $16 billion defense
contractor, TRW Systems set up a
homeland security office under Bill Studeman before being bought by
Northrop Grumman (18)
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Vice President & Deputy General Manager for Intelligence &
Information Superiority for, $25 billion global defense enterprise,
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (19) |
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Mr. Studeman also serves on numerous corporate and government boards. (20) |
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Helped to author A 78-page briefing document under the auspices of
the Defense Science Board advocating a greatly expanded and more
assertive role for covert military actions, intelligence collection and
operations to "stimulate reactions" among terrorists and
states possessing weapons of mass destruction. This sparked concerns
that the proposal would usurp CIA's covert operations role, erode
congressional oversight, or change long-standing policies such as
prohibition of assassinations. The document also advocated the expansion
of existing covert units and the addition of new covert units in all of
the Services as well as the new expenditure of billions of dollars (21) |
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Former appellate court judge Patricia Wald |
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Squeaky clean as far as I can tell. Token female, perhaps? Or perhaps
some sort of punishment? |
| In his controversial book, 'Blinded by the Right', former
right-wing journalist David Brock said Intelligence investigation
co-chairman Laurence Silberman gave ''false
information'' to him about Patricia Wald whom, according to Brock,
''(Silberman) hated with a passion''. Brock depicts Silberman as a
major, if discreet, figure in the right-wing network that harassed
Bill and Hillary Clinton for various alleged scandals during the
1990s. (22) |
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Patricia Wald replaced Laurence Silberman as judge in the Microsoft
court cases after he was forced to recuse himself (23) |
| It seems this isn't the only time they have butted heads
(24) |
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Before their appointment the American Bar Association rated Judge Wald
as "well qualified." Judge Silberman was rated
"qualified-not qualified."
Patricia Wald, 75, has been a judge at the Hague-based
International Criminal Court since 1992.
She was named to the Washington federal appeals court in 1977 by
then-president Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.
But Wald retired in 1999 and became an ICE magistrate whose work
has included trials of the first criminals from the former Yugoslavia.
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| Richard C. Levin, president of Yale University, an economist by training. |
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Mr. Levin has written extensively on such diverse subjects as the patent
system, industrial research and development, and the effects of
antitrust and public regulation on private industry. In the mid 1980's
he directed a major effort to gather evidence on the incentives for 130
manufacturing industries' investments in research and development.
Throughout the 70's and 80's, his series of papers on the Interstate
Commerce Commission had significant influence on the course of railroad
deregulation. His teaching included courses on microeconomics,
industrial organization, antitrust, the oil industry, the
competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing industries, and the history of
economic thought. (25) |
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Mr. Levin currently serves as a director of the Hewlett Foundation |
| Mr. Levin was recently elected to the Board of Directors
to Defense contractor,
Lucent Technologies (26) |
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| Henry
Rowen, PNAC Member |
| Henry S. Rowen is a senior fellow at the Hoover
Institution and a "professor of public policy and management
emeritus at the university's Graduate School of Business and a member
Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center ... Rowen is an expert
on international security, economic development, Asian economics and
politics, as well as U.S. institutions and economic performance. His
current research focuses on economic growth prospects for the developing
world, political and economic change in East Asia, and the tenets of
federalism." (27) |
| From 1949 to 1950, Rowen was a management
intern for the Barnsdall
Oil Company and was an economist for the RAND Corporation from 1950 to
1953 and again from 1955 to 1960. Mr. Rowen served as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1961 to 1964,
served as President of the RAND
Corporation from 1967-1972, , Chairman of the U.S. Intelligence
Council from 1981 to 1983, and served as Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs from 1989 to 199. He is currently a
member of the Department of Defense's Defense
Policy Board with Henry Kissinger, (PNAC member) Richard
Perle, and (PNAC member) Dan Quayle. Mr. Rowen himself is a PNAC
member as you can see his signature on this document.
(28) |
| A full list Mr. Rowen's educational, Government,
and institutional affiliations can be found here |
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| Charles Vest, president
of MIT, and former Pentagon official |
| Dr. Vest chairs the U.S. Department of
Energy Task Force on the Future of Science Programs and serves as vice
chair of the Council on Competitiveness. He is also a member of both the
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on
Scientific Communication and National Security and of the National
Academies-CSIS collaborative Roundtable on Scientific Communication and
National Security. |
| Dr. Vest is a director of IBM and E.I. du
Pont de Nemours & Company; a trustee of the University Corporation for
Advanced Internet Development; a member of the Corporation of the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution; and an ex officio institutional trustee of
the WGBH Educational Foundation. (29) |
| The White House said Vest chaired a U.S.
Department of Energy task force from 2002 to 2003. (30) |
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| (1) http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df02042004.html |
| (2) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3719978,00.html |
| (3) http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/feb2004/bush-f07.shtml
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| (4) http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22300
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| (5) http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/7898983.htm
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| (6) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19147-2004Feb6.html
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| (7) http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2003/05/06/blumenthal2/index_np.html |
| (8) http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_dneiwert_archive.html#107610489659604535
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| (9) http://loper.org/~george/archives/1992/Jun/99.html
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| (10) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/17/robb/index.html
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| (11) http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/7898983.htm
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| (12) http://www.danconley.com/archives/000212.htm
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| (13) http://news.yahoo.com
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| (14) http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/wolves/perot.htm
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| (15) http://www.businessweek.com/1996/46/b350136.htm |
| (16) http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr/s920408-studeman.htm
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| (17) http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/37EF952A-8A1C-46F8-A773-0D0771F57671.htm
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| (18) http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/17_3/features/18215-8.html
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| (19) http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Northrop_Grumman
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| (20) http://www.ms.northropgrumman.com/whoweare/WLEOWilliam.html
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| (21) http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=P2OG
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| (22) http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22300
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| (23) http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/msftdoj/TWB19980317S0020 |
| (24) http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3169/n38_v38/21148626/p1/article.jhtml
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| (25) http://www.ustreas.gov/organization/bios/levinr-p.html
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| (26) http://www.lucent.com/press/0703/030711.coa.html
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| (27) http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Henry_S._Rowen |
| (28) http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/04021/rowen.html |
| (29) http://www.broad.mit.edu/broad/charlesvest.html |
| (30) cached
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