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[tpmmuckraker] Senate Report Shows Intel Debunked Al Qaeda-Iraq Link Before ...: But any actual legal decisions arrived at in terms of holding these rogues accountable will be dumped into the bin of Bush hypocrisy like Scooter Libby'c conviction. Once Bush no longer has the power to pardon, then it will be time to drop the ahammer down, and anyone who suggests the 111th should forget the misdeeds of this lawless administration, or wtries it off as "revenge politics" should themselves be considered guilty.
[Alternative News & Media: Daily Breaking News] Senate report on Bush war lies: Another cover-up of war crimes: At the same time, it makes the incredulous claim that “President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials were told that Iraq still had chemical and biological weapons and did not learn that these reports were wrong until after the invasion.” And while charging Bush with leading the American people “to believe things that he knows are not true to justify the invasion of another country,” it declares, “We cannot say with certainty whether Mr. Bush lied about Iraq.”
[Cafe Talk] Casualty of War: The Senate Intelligence Panel: Even an intriguing second committee report about secret Rome meetings in 2001 between Bush defense department officials and Iranian dissidents, left out one central player, Italian defense intelligence chief Nicolo Pollari. The Italian spymaster is suspected by investigators of helping Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghobanifar set up the meetings and providing the Pentagon with the infamous forged Niger intelligence that surfaced in the president’s 2003 State of the Union speech.
[oddamerica] The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder: On March 7, 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei told the UN Security Council that “based on thorough analysis” his agency concluded that the “documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic.” Indeed, author Craig Unger uncovered at least 14 instances prior to the 2003 State of the Union address in which analysts at the CIA, the State Department, or other government agencies that had examined the Niger documents “raised serious doubts about their legitimacy ”” only to be rebuffed by Bush administration officials who wanted to use them.”
[No More Incumbents Blog] Article III: Impeachment of George W Bush: In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution “to take care that the laws be faithfully executed”, has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, executed instead a calculated and wide-ranging strategy to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States into believing that the nation of Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, thereby interfering with and obstructing Congress’s lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and declaring war.
[American Argameddon] ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: (A) Long before the March 19, 2003 invasion of Iraq, a wealth of intelligence informed the President and those under his direction and control that Iraq’s stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons had been destroyed well before 1998 and that there was little, if any, credible intelligence that showed otherwise. As reported in the Washington Post in March of 2003, in 1995, Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law Hussein Kamel had informed U.S. and British intelligence officers that “all weapons””biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed.” In September 2002, the Defense Intelligence Agency issued a report that concluded: “A substantial amount of Iraq’s chemical warfare agents, precursors, munitions and production equipment were destroyed between 1991 and 1998 as a result of Operation Desert Storm and UNSCOM actions”¦ [T]here is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons or whether Iraq has-or will-establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities.” Notwithstanding the absence of evidence proving that such stockpiles existed and in direct contradiction to substantial evidence that showed they did not exist, the President and his subordinates and agents made numerous false representations claiming with certainty that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons that it was developing to use to attack the United States, to wit:
[Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian] The Left’s Fairy Tale: Our soldiers - who are too poor and uneducated to help getting stuck in Iraq - are caught in the middle of a civil war. Even though the American people overwhelming want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and voted for it in 2006, the cowardly Democrats keep passing funding bills and ignoring the will of the people.
[The Progressive Current] Lies. Damned Lies. And Comments From Salil.: His comments are usually digital Swiss cheese (that is they are holey) and typically digress into illusion of grandeur like this little ditty: "I just learned far more than your high school introduction to basic civics allows you to comprehend." In fact, whenever he's argued himself into a corner (which is almost always) he tends to feign some hidden information source that only he's privy to and he often gives no source to boot.
[Joejolly's Weblog] The United Nations as World Policeman: However, on July 22, Bush’s Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley and his chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, conceded that the CIA had sent two warnings to the White House in early October 2002 casting grave doubts on the Iraq-Niger uranium claims.
[Enapaydodiedxl's Weblog] Bonini on speaking terms Consilience for Joe Wilson’s mine: Exclusive of his crack-up on route to the CIA’s elementary document next to the cheerful in connection with the Martino documents, this seems buxom. Thielmann gave the two reasons on account of dismissing the purported Iraqi half on nod Nigerien uranium, neither pertinent to which has anything scramble not to mention the distorted specifics with respect to the Martino documents, and neither pertaining to which holds the minimum tour of duty concerning material.
[The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics] Two Wrongs, Two Lies: "Postwar findings do not support the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) assessment that Iraq was 'vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake' from Africa. Postwar findings support the assessment in the NIE of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) that claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are 'highly dubious."
[New Media Alliance - Thomas E. Brewton] Liars: Plame’s Input Is Cited on Niger Mission Report Disputes Wilson’s Claims on Trip, Wife’s Role By Susan Schmidt. Former ambassador Joseph C.
[Joejolly's Weblog] White House ”˜puzzled’ by ex-spokesman’s book bashing Bush: that the war with Iraq was a disastrous war [and] was sold with deception. It’s a little different when you say something as I did and a few other people did four or five years ago, when the war was popular and when we were unpopular for saying what we said.”
[Political Forum] Two Wrongs, Two Lies: If two wrongs make a right, do two lies make a truth Not only did Bush lie about Iraq and the existence of WMDs, he lied in May when he said the intelligence was flawed. Supporters of the Iraq war, ranging from former Administration .
[Big Lizards] McClellan's Losing Campaign - Part II: The report did not identify the former ambassador by name or as a former ambassador, but described him as "a contact with excellent access who does not have an established reporting record." The report also indicted that the "subsources of the following information knew their remarks could reach the U.S. government and may have intended to influence as well as inform." DO officials told Committee staff that this type of description was routine and was done in order to protect the former ambassador as the source of the information, which they had told him they would do. DO officials also said they alerted WINPAC analysts when the report was being disseminated because they knew the "high priority of the issue." The report was widely distributed in routine channels.
[SWJ Blog] 10 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog, and Events Roundup: The Senate Committee on Intelligence issued two reports last week, one on the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war and the other on meetings in Rome and Paris, in 2001 and 2003, between US officials and dubious Iranian contacts. The reports are valuable both for what they reveal and for affirming the oversight responsibilities of Congress.
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