"It it Still a Crime to Lie to Congress." Gonzales Delivers Indictment, Charges BUSH with LYING.

[L. Coyote]

In a startling development, AG Gonzales delivered a sealed indictment to the White House early today, charging Bush with lying to Congress.

RIGHT! Okay, I lied!! But, is it still a crime to lie to Congress?

Researching Bush scandals, lying to start a war is certainly at the top of the list.
Lying to the People and the Press may not be a criminal offense. Lying to Congress is.
Unless, of course, DoJ is too corrupted by political cronies to do anything about it.

Alberto Gonzales needs to march over to the White House and charge George W. Bush
with lying to Congress for his statements in the State of the Union address.

Politics: From Niger to Grand Jury: A Plame Case Timeline
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4975883
by Robert Siegel *** LISTEN LINK ***

Politics: Timeline: The CIA Leak Case
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4764919

"Jan. 28, 2003: President Bush delivers his State of the Union address. In the speech he includes the following sentence: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Those 16 words contradicted what Wilson had reported upon his return from Niger to check out the claim. Months later they would be retracted by the White House."

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How is this a lie? Well, How did the British government "learn" this. Is this another "a la Cheney and the NY Times" case of planting false info so you can quote it? Was this a purposeful lie enmeshed in a conspiracy to influence another government to go to war based on lies? Where do the lies begin and end? Can we all tell lies now whenever we want?

More Bush scandals in this ongoing compilation thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=899312&mesg_id=899312

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1. Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program?

Annals of National Security
Who Lied to Whom?
Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program?
by Seymour M. Hersh March 31, 2003
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/31/030331fa_fact1

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about a document forgery regarding Iraq’s nuclear weapons program... Tells how Congress was persuaded to authorize Bush to wage war in Iraq after George Tenet disclosed that the C.I.A. had recently received intelligence showing that, between 1999 and 2001, Iraq had attempted to buy five hundred tons of uranium oxide from Niger, one of the world’s largest producers... On the same day, in London, Tony Blair’s government made public a dossier containing much of the information that the Senate committee was being given in secret-that Iraq had sought to buy "significant quantities of uranium" from an unnamed African country, "despite having no active civil nuclear power programme that could require it."...
..........On March 14th, Senator Jay Rockefeller, of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, formally asked Robert Mueller, the F.B.I. director, to investigate the forged documents... ." A Rockefeller aide told me that the F.B.I. had promised to look into it.

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Talking Points Memo
September 22, 2004
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003506.php

In Newsweek this afternoon, Mike Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have a piece that touches on the fact that the FBI still hasn't managed to interview Rocco Martino, the guy at the center of the forged Niger uranium documents story. .........

[L. Coyote]

2. May 25, 2007 - Fitzgerald Speaks...And, Yes, She Was a Covert Officer

May 25, 2007 - Fitzgerald Speaks...And, Yes, She Was a Covert Officer
http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/05/fitzgerald_spea.php


In the Valerie Plame case, there's been much disinformation from conservative commentators and Scooter Libby advocates who claim that Valerie Wilson was not truly a covert agent. These partisans then contend that the leak identifying her as a CIA officer could not have been a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and, thus, Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation (which resulted in Libby's conviction) was illegitimate. GOP lawyer Victoria Toensing has led the rightwing pack in this charge. (See here for background on her efforts on this front.)

On Friday, Fitzgerald took a shot at this misleading argument. In a sentencing memorandum filed with the federal court overseeing the Libby case, Fitzgerald notes:

It was clear from very early in the investigation that Ms. Wilson qualified under the relevant statute (Title 50, United States Code, Section 421) as a covert agent whose identity had been disclosed by public officials, including Mr. Libby, to the press.

In other words, there!

............

Fitzgerald, who doesn't leak and who doesn't go on television shows to defend himself, fires back in this memo. He writes:

Early in the investigation, investigators learned the identities of three officials--Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Senior Adviser to the President Karl Rove, and Mr. Libby, the Vice-President's Chief of Staff--who had disclosed information regarding Ms. Wilson's CIA employment to reporters. What was not apparent, however, were the answers to a series of questions central to whether criminal charges arising from the unauthorized disclosure of Ms. Wilson's identity as an intelligence agent were both viable and appropriate. These questions included the following:

* Were Mr. Armitage, Mr. Rove, and Mr. Libby the only government officials to disclose information about Ms. Plame's CIA employment to reporters?

* Was each particular disclosure by the government officials to journalists deliberate, reckless or inadvertent?

* How did those government officials learn about Ms. Wilson's CIA employment?

* What did those government officials know about the classified nature of Ms. Wilson's employment?

* Precisely what information regarding Ms. Wilson's CIA employment did government officials disclose to reporters, and to how many reporters?

* Were the disclosures made as part of a concerted effort to disclose this information? and

* Did other government officials direct or approve these disclosures?

[L. Coyote]

3. David Corn - The Other Lies of George Bush

The Nation article (October 13, 2003 issue)
David Corn - The Other Lies of George Bush
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20031013/corn

This article was adapted from the new book, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown Publishers).

George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. His Iraq lies have loomed largest. In the run-up to the invasion, Bush based his case for war on a variety of unfounded claims that extended far beyond his controversial uranium-from-Niger assertion. He maintained that Saddam Hussein possessed "a massive stockpile" of unconventional weapons and was directly "dealing" with Al Qaeda--two suppositions unsupported then (or now) by the available evidence. He said the International Atomic Energy Agency had produced a report in 1998 noting that Iraq was six months from developing a nuclear weapon; no such report existed (and the IAEA had actually reported then that there was no indication Iraq had the ability to produce weapons-grade material). Bush asserted that Iraq was "harboring a terrorist network, headed by a senior Al Qaeda terrorist planner"; US intelligence officials told reporters this terrorist was operating ouside of Al Qaeda control. And two days before launching the war, Bush said, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Yet former deputy CIA director Richard Kerr, who is conducting a review of the prewar intelligence, has said that intelligence was full of qualifiers and caveats, and based on circumstantial and inferential evidence. .................

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4. The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism

Cover Story - July 30, 2003
The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism
Bring 'em On!
By Steve Perry
http://citypages.com/databank/24/1182/article11417.asp

1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward. ............
2) The invasion of Iraq was based on a reasonable belief that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat to the U.S., a belief supported by available intelligence evidence............
3) Saddam tried to buy uranium in Niger.

Lies and distortions tend to beget more lies and distortions, and here is W's most notorious case in point: Once the administration decided to issue a damage-controlling (they hoped) mea culpa in the matter of African uranium, they were obliged to couch it in another, more perilous lie: that the administration, and quite likely Bush himself, thought the uranium claim was true when he made it............

4).................

ONLY 36 TO GO .........

[L. Coyote]

5. Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 6/21/03)

Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 6/21/03)
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/

In this timeline, we've assembled the history of the Iraq War to create a resource we hope will help resolve open questions of the Bush era. What did our leaders know and when did they know it? And, perhaps just as important, what red flags did we miss, and how could we have missed them? This is the second installment of the timeline, with a focus on how the war was lost in the first 100 days. ....................

[IChing]

6. Sorry the Rule of Law is no longer applicable to the Unitary President

or this elective dictatorship. The truth is this crypto-Nazi government
is above the law.

[L. Coyote]

7. BUZZFLASH March 27, 2003: A List of Bush LIES on Iraq

March 27, 2003
A List of Bush LIES on Iraq
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
by Kelley Kramer
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/03/27_lies.html

Here is a list of the serial lying from the Bush Regime about Iraq, including links to a cross section of all the news sources.

It's nowhere near a complete list, and you probably already knew about most of these lies, but its a great list to send any annoying dittohead who buys into this fake war. ........

1. Powell relies on FORGED documents to link Saddam to terror. ...

LOTS OF ARTICLE LINKS

[Edgeoforever]

8. IOKIYAAR - GOP-ers do nothing but.

[L. Coyote]

9. rense.com: Long List Of Bush-Cheney Administration Lies = Quotes in their own words

Long List Of Bush-Cheney Administration Lies
http://www.rense.com/general58/dadmin.htm

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
- Dick Cheney, August 26 2002

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons."
- George W. Bush, September 12 2002

"If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world."
- Ari Fleischer, December 2 2002

...............

[libodem]

10. How do they get away with this?

when I think of the Paula Jone' horseshit and that Phonebook-sized stack of legal papers slapped down on Clinton's desk my blood boils. Why can't we have some liberal Institute of Progressive Quacky Billionaire, trumpin' up fakeo charges, trolling for convictions, and interfering with the process of government, because they can flash a cum stain, and bring him down. Don't you think Gerhardt/Gannon left traces in George's shorts somewhere? Subpoena that underwear.

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11. Bush Lies and Dirty Tricks = "too many lies to stay up-to-date"

Bush Lies and Dirty Tricks
http://www.teach-online.de/dateien/hpp/Peter-Gloede/bush/lies.htm

see also THREAT TO WORLD PEACE - COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM - BUSH'S FIGHT AGAINST DEMOCRACY - AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
A short, by no means complete, list of texts dealing with the lies and deceptions of the Bush administration ... found in the New York Times, The Guardian and some other (US) mainstream media.

Latest addition: September 12, 2006
There have been too many lies to stay up-to-date. Sorry. ............

............LOTS OF LINKS...................

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12. No Iraq link to September 11 plot, US report finds = BUSH LIED, Sheeople believed

No Iraq link to September 11 plot, US report finds
Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday June 17, 2004
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1240541,00.html

The US commission investigating the September 11 attacks reported yesterday it had found no evidence that Iraq and al-Qaida cooperated in the plot or had any sort of "collaborative relationship", contradicting persistent claims from the White House. ..........

.....Dick Cheney, the US vice president, revived the allegation at an election campaign appearance on Monday, telling supporters Saddam "had long-established ties with al-Qaida", and George Bush came to his defence on Tuesday, citing the suspected presence in Iraq before the war of an al-Qaida supporter, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

A poll by the University of Maryland in April (2004) found 57% of Americans believed Iraq helped al-Qaida before the war and 20% believed Iraq was linked to the September 11 attacks..............

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13. Army chiefs feared Iraq war illegal just days before start

Army chiefs feared Iraq war illegal just days before start

· Attorney-General forced to rewrite legal advice
· Specialist unit dedicated to spying on UN revealed

Martin Bright, Antony Barnett and Gaby Hinsliff
Sunday February 29, 2004
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,1158859,00.html

Britain's Army chiefs refused to go to war in Iraq amid fears over its legality just days before the British and American bombing campaign was launched, The Observer can today reveal.

The explosive new details about military doubts over the legality of the invasion are detailed in unpublished legal documents in the case of Katharine Gun, the intelligence officer dramatically freed last week after Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney-General, dropped charges against her of breaking the Official Secrets Act.

........The disclosure came as it also emerged that Goldsmith was forced hastily to redraft his legal advice to Tony Blair to give an 'unequivocal' assurance to the armed forces that the conflict would not be illegal. .........Without this legal reassurace, military leaders and their troops could have laid themselves open to charges of war crimes. .......

[L. Coyote]

14. May 3, 2007 BUSH: It's All About Al-Qaeda Again

Don't blame me, I did not invade another country. RIGHT!

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It's All About Al-Qaeda Again
By Dana Milbank
Thursday, May 3, 2007; Page A02
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202305.html?referrer=reddit

President Bush is at odds with the American public and a restive congressional majority over the Iraq war, and even some Republicans talk about imposing new requirements that could trigger a troop withdrawal.

It's time to play the Qaeda card.

In a speech about Iraq yesterday morning at the Willard Hotel, the president mentioned Osama bin Laden's group -- 27 times. "For America, the decision we face in Iraq is not whether we ought to take sides in a civil war, it's whether we stay in the fight against the same international terrorist network that attacked us on 9/11," Bush told a group of construction contractors. .....

The man who four years ago admitted "no evidence" of an Iraqi role in the Sept. 11 attacks now finds solid evidence of a role in Iraq by the Sept. 11 hijackers.

"I don't need to remind you who al-Qaeda is," Bush reminded. "Al-Qaeda is the group that plot and planned and trained killers to come and kill people on our soil. The same bunch that is causing havoc in Iraq were the ones who came and murdered our citizens."

This new line of argument would seem to present some difficulty for the White House, and not only because, as the Pentagon inspector general reported last month, al-Qaeda had no ties to Iraq before the U.S. invasion in 2003. More to the point: If the problem in Iraq isn't sectarian strife, then why is the U.S. military building walls to separate Sunni enclaves from Shiite neighborhoods? .....................

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15. Rice Falsely Claims U.N. Inspectors Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD

Rice Falsely Claims U.N. Inspectors Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/rice-un-weapons-inspectors/

In his new book, former CIA Director George Tenet alleges that there was “never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraq threat,” suggesting the administration had made up its mind to go to war from an early stage.

On CNN’s Late Edition, Condoleezza Rice responded, “We all thought that the intelligence case was strong,” adding that even “the U.N weapons inspectors Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.” She concluded, “So there’s no blame here of anyone.”

Watch it: VIDEO

Rice would like the public to believe that no one is to blame because everyone was misled by the intelligence. In fact, U.N. weapons inspectors declared weeks before the invasion that Hussein did not possess WMD. The inspectors publicly lambasted consistently false and misleading U.S. intelligence leading up to the war:

, the head of the IAEA, Mohamed El-Baradei, reported that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had any nuclear weapons or was in the process of acquiring them. Mr Blix said: “By then, Mohamed ElBaradei revealed that Niger was not authentic.” British intelligence falsely claimed Iraq had been trying to acquire uranium from Niger. <4/28/05>

So frustrated have the inspectors become that one source has referred to the U.S. intelligence they’ve been getting as “garbage after garbage after garbage.” ........................

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16. Recent LIES: Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling = "project$ ..U$ ..declared $uce$$e$$"

Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling
By James Glanz
The New York Times - Sunday 29 April 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042907B.shtml

In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.

The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success - in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections - were no longer working properly. ............

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17. White House Excuses Illegal Partisan Briefings With False ‘Clinton Did It Too’ Defense

White House Excuses Partisan Briefings With False ‘Clinton Did It Too’ Defense
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/clinton-briefings/

During yesterday’s press briefing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino resisted answering any questions about why the administration thought it necessary to give political briefings to appointees at federal agencies, and whose idea it was to hold them.

When one reporter asked Perino whether the briefings were a “White House idea, initially, or was it the agencies,” Perino dodged the question and replied that “the Clinton administration had similar briefings.”

Watch it: VIDEO

Perino’s “Clinton did it too” is wrong. Bush White House officials went to federal agencies on at least 20 occasions and conducted private briefings for large groups of political appointees. They gave presentations focusing on “Republican electoral prospects in the last midterm election.” The Hatch Act explicitly prohibits the use of federal property for partisan political purposes............

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18. Mar. 27, 2007 Admitted LIES: WH Claimed RNC Emails Were Archived, ONLY a ‘Handful’ Of Staffers

WH Claimed RNC Emails Were Archived, Only ‘Handful’ Of Staffers Had Accounts
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/12/perino-rnc/

On March 27, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that the RNC had been archiving all emails being sent through their accounts. Perino underscored that the archiving had not begun in response to Chairman Henry Waxman’s request to the RNC to preserve all emails, but rather “this has been something that was in place long before that.” She added, “The archiving that would have been for any of these — over the past few years, of emails that had been going back and forth between people that would have these accounts to the outside.”

When pressed on how many White House staffers use political email accounts, Perino claimed, “I think it’s a handful, I don’t think it’s a lot.”

Watch the LIES: VIDEO

Yesterday, the White House acknowledged both those claims were false:

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19. Voter Fraud LIES: EAC Altered Report On 'Voter Fraud' - NYT

EAC Altered Report On 'Voter Fraud' - NYT
Friday, 13 April 2007, 10:54 am
Opinion: Bradblog.Com
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Altered Final Report On 'Voter Fraud' For Political Purposes
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00206.htm

- NY Times Finds Original Bi-Partisan Draft Report, Buried by the EAC, Concluded Fears of 'Voter Fraud' Were Overblown
- Altered, Politicized Report Follows Familiar White House Pattern, Brings Additional New Concerns About Continuing Status of EAC...
By Arlen Parsa and Brad Friedman
BLOGGED BY Arlen Parsa ON 4/11/2007 1:12PM

The New York Times reports today that a governmental report on the so-called dangers of "voter fraud" was manipulated to reflect the Bush Administration's claims rather than their own panel's findings. The Times obtained two copies of the report on voter fraud, the first of which concluded that fears of voter fraud were overblown and exaggerated. The second --- and official version of the report --- however steps back and promotes ambiguity about the danger (or lack of danger) that voter fraud poses to American democracy.

The Times reports: ...

...... BUSHCO LIES...........

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20. SAME OLD LIES: Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link

Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link
Apr 6, 2007.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070406/D8OB3GRG0.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.

Cheney contended that al-Qaida was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. Others in al-Qaida planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized the al-Qaida operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June," Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh during an interview. "As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq."

However, a declassified Pentagon report released Thursday said that interrogations of the deposed Iraqi leader and two of his former aides as well as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working together before the invasion. ..............

[L. Coyote]

21. Video FBI LIES: Group Detained, Questioned During D.C. War Protest

Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests
Group Detained, Questioned During D.C. War Protest
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 3, 2007; Page B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040201568.html


A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs, newly uncovered documents and interviews show.

For years, law enforcement authorities suggested it never happened. The FBI and D.C. police said they had no records of such an incident. And police told a federal court that no FBI agents were present when officers arrested more than 20 protesters ....

But a civil lawsuit, filed by the protesters, recently unearthed D.C. police logs that confirm the FBI's role in the incident. .... bolster their allegations of civil rights violations.

The probable cause to arrest ... They were wearing black -- a color choice the FBI and police associated with anarchists, according to the police records.....

The revelations, combined with protester accounts, provide the first public evidence that Washington-based FBI personnel used their intelligence-gathering powers in the District to collect purely political intelligence. ....

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Moral of the story: The Political Police Lie!

[mmonk]

22. It's ok, we've got an election coming up and we don't want to appear

weak on terrorism. We'll have a democratic president for sure. There's no need to pursue all this, it's a waste of time. We need to keep funding the war escalation. Hopefully the Iraqis will sign that oil law. We can keep that quiet and make sure our crazy liberals don't talk about it much and ruin our glorious victory in 08. What's the latest poll say?:sarcasm:

[L. Coyote]

27. Iraq OIL LAW lies, now there's another thread onto itself!!!

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23. April 3, 2007: BUSH LIED about military support for Iraq troop surge

April 3, 2007: Bush lied about military support for Iraq troop surge

White House, Joint Chiefs At Odds on Adding Troops
By Robin Wright and Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, December 19, 2006; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801477.html


The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to U.S. officials familiar with the intense debate.

Sending 15,000 to 30,000 more troops for a mission of possibly six to eight months is one of the central proposals on the table of the White House policy review to reverse the steady deterioration in Iraq. The option is being discussed as an element in a range of bigger packages, the officials said.

But the Joint Chiefs think the White House, after a month of talks, still does not have a defined mission and is latching on to the surge idea in part because of limited alternatives, despite warnings about the potential disadvantages for the military, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the White House review is not public.

The chiefs have taken a firm stand, the sources say, because they believe the strategy review will be the most important decision on Iraq to be made since the March 2003 invasion.

At regular interagency meetings and in briefing President Bush last week, the Pentagon has warned that any short-term mission may only set up the United States for bigger problems .................

[L. Coyote]

24. LIES on VIDEO: Top Bush Official Reveals White House Never Investigated Plame Leak

Top Bush Official Reveals White House Never Investigated Plame Leak
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/16/white-house-plame-leak/

Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, revealed today that to his knowledge the White House has never ordered a probe, report, or sanctions as a result of the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. “I have no knowledge of any investigation in my office,” he said.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said he was “shocked” by Knodell’s testimony, adding that the White House’s lack of action was a “breach on top of a breach.”

Knodell claimed the White House did not investigate because there was an outside investigation taking place. But Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) noted that the investigation “didn’t start until months and months later, and had the purpose of narrowly looking to see whether there was a criminal law violated.” Waxman asked, “But there was an obligation for the White House to investigate whether classified information was being leaked inappropriately, wasn’t there?” Knodell answered, “If that was the case, yes.”

Watch it: VIDEO

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25. ENOUGH DAMN LIES. Have I made my point yet? FOCUS, FOCUS ....

I could work days on end and not finish a good BUSH LIES thread.

AND, the lies are just one small slice of Scandalville:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x899312

FOCUS, and watch out for the BLEMMINGS:

=======================
Blemming, noun, a blog lemming, a nuisance person or thread calling attention to and enthusiastic about a distracting topic

Blemming, verb. to distract from an important issue with irrelevancies, to blemish or inundate a reasonable discussion with extraeous issues

Usage: Blemmings often lead the herd over a cliff to drown in a sea of irrelevancy.

Synonym: Online ratf*cker.

Gooooogling blemming: I was surprised to see a usage for "blemming" online. And one so suited to what I thought would be a truly fresh neologism. This from Jan 25, 2004. - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blemming

1. blemming
To be a nuisance to;
To call attention to;
To be enthusiastic about;
To bring on a trip .....

[IChing]

28. I nominated your hardwork

:) :thumbsup:
But we have to wait until mid-June until the Senate
will do something no-binding with Gonzales.
:grr:

[L. Coyote]

29. Meanwhile, staffers are digging ever deeper. I get the impression they are after

the big prize, impeachment. There are so many scandals, but they seem to have
a definite focus, restoring the rule of law first. Without that, what have we?

[mmonk]

26. Thanks for all the links. You've been busy.

K&R

[L. Coyote]

30. Thank Google, AND please add more BUSH LIES. There are so many moooore.

[L. Coyote]

31. 2007-05-27 - X-post: Senior CIA Analyst Believed Iraq Had No WMD

babylonsister - Sun May-27-07 05:45 AM - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x980056

Senior CIA Analyst Believed Iraq Had No WMD
Submitted by JonathanSchwarz on Sun, 2007-05-27 03:27. Evidence
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/22977

I've been reading The Italian Letter by Peter Eiser and Knut Royce. There's some amazing stuff in it about Alan Foley, the head of the CIA's Weapons Intelligence Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Center (WINPAC). WINPAC led the CIA's analysis of Iraq's purported WMD .....

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32. Ray McGovern: Four-letter Word for Tenet - LIAR

Ray McGovern: Four-letter Word for Tenet - Liar
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 12:11 pm
Opinion: Ray McGovern
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00408.htm

....... With nauseating earnestness, Tenet keeps saying: “I believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

This is a lie. And no matter how many times he says it (after the axiom of his master, George W. Bush, who has stressed publicly that repetition is necessary to “catapult the propaganda”), Tenet can no longer conceal the deceit. Indeed, the only other possibility—that he is (as he complains) being made the useful “idiot” on whom Vice President Dick Cheney and others mean to blame the war—can be ruled out.

Tenet was indeed useful to Cheney and Bush, but he is no idiot. Those who do not rely exclusively on the corporate media for their information know Tenet for what he is—a charlatan. A willing co-conspirator, he did for Bush and Cheney what propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels did for Hitler. The key difference is that Goebbels and his Nazi collaborators, rather than writing books and taking sinecures to enrich themselves, were held accountable at Nuremberg. ...

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33. Spin-off Thread: Next STOP Iran? More BUSH LIES and Surging Toward War With Iran

Focus on how taxpayers are paying for the lies and the high cost of Bush Propaganda.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x980363

[L. Coyote]

34. Spinoff Thread: EXIT RIGHT. Sara Taylor, WH political director, Rove Aide RESIGNS? "subpoenas ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990202

Focus on the "White House Political Director and Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States," often termed "Rove's top political lieutenant."