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Waxman Invites Tenet to Testify

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) wants former CIA chief George Tenet to testify to the House oversight committee.

Think of it as part of the book tour.


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Let's say Dr Rice first followed by Mr Tenet......

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I am working on a serious man-crush on Waxman . . . I would feel bad about that but my wife says similar stuff about the guy.

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Hmmmm. That opens a lot of interesting doors. Rendition and methods of coersion come immediately to mind. I know the guy is not the Administrations BFF - but it hard for me to think that he will submit to open testimony under oath.

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Great call, Henry!

There have been numerous posts questioning the existence of a master plan by the Democratic leaders (Waxman, Leahy, Conyers, etc.). The form of that plan is slowly coming into focus -- there is not plan! The strategy is brilliant. They are letting events unfold of themselves. Pelosi's call to that impeachment is "off the table" was the appropriate one. For an successfule impeachment to be successful, the demand has to come from a thoroughly disgusted populace, not the Congress. As the relevelations of corruption become more and more revolting, the populace will awaken as they did against Nixon. Congress then need do no more than fulfill its traditional role -- carrying out the will of the people.

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No one can say that Waxman lets any grass grow under his feet.

I'd like to hear Tenet explain why Bush seems to get a pass in his book, which sounds widely critical of the Admin (with a fair amount of self-serving stuff about Tenet himself.

anyway, kudos to henry.

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Just think, if all our Democratic Reps. and Senators had the coujones that Henry Waxman has..!!I love this man...wouldn't he be the best nominee for President..?

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Check your Medal of Freedom at the door.

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"Think of it as part of the book tour."

LOL

Give him enoughrope and he'll habg the lot of them.

Tenet might just have a rare opportunity to actually earn that medal, he's relly got some "wind" in his sails, because he's an "insider."

Like Goodling, he really "knows" stuff.

Any information he offers could help unravel the wicked W tapestry, woven by Cheney and the goebell/goerrings around him in the earliest days of the neocon's naked empire.

But Rummy's in the shadows, Wolfie's on the run, and Perle's considered no kind of prophet. And Cheney's facing the threat of impeachment.

Tenet was virtually a fly-on-the-wall in that early, egocentric chicken-hawk circle. To those huge egoes, he was a non-person, and like the movie "What the Deaf Boy Heard," maybe we will get lucky and get a look at that first-person preview.

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While I'm at it, I have to echo my admiration for Rep. Waxman. Since the 1994 takeover of Congress, the Republicans and their talk-show talking, bought-and-paid-for columnist buddies have tried to paint Waxman as a California kook. I hope before the next Congress comes in he'll shove that down their throats and make 'em like it.

I didn't know the numbers until his remarks of yesterday, but I am glad to finally know that the GOP issues 1,052 subpoenas in six years of Clinton and five in six years of W. He did a public service by quantifying that information for us.

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God--

A great suggestion! But why doesn't Congress not just follow the legal process here?

She doesn't show, hold the miserable lady in contempt.

I worked for Energy Secretary Charles Duncan in the Carter admin. He was called at least weekly to appear before Congressman Markey. He hated it (they beat the man up mercilessly), but by God he went.

Limitless arrogance and contempt for the rule of law. Yuch.
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"For an successfule impeachment to be successful, the demand has to come from a thoroughly disgusted populace, not the Congress."

That didn't stop them with Bil Clinton, did it?

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Those 1000 subpoenas were JUST to the white house if i recall. Just the WH.

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They HAVE to stonewall. It's a necessity. The amazing breadth of the conspiracy would be revealed if they didn't stonewall. And given the inter-connectedness of the scandals and the players, even a little glimpse into the criminal conspiracy would blow the whole thing apart. THEY CAN'T DO IT. This, for better or for worse, has to be resolved in the courts...these are criminals who will not cough up anything. They can't...too much jeopardy.

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nrglaw: She doesn't show, hold the miserable lady in contempt.

After that, she should be wisked away to a 3 week stay outside the $$$$ Zone in Bagdhad where she can live among the Bagdadhis and really see how `Freedom is on the March'.

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Waxman again:

the Hill

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/waxman-wants-tillman-documents-2007-04-27.html

Waxman wants Tillman documents

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Way Down here in Alabama we love you waxman. We want to see you get them bushes and all their corrupt buddies and throw there buts in jail. Question Old George Tenet on the world trade center ask him what he knows about the company controlled demolition. Ask him about the three trillion dollars that come up missing at the pentagon the day before 911. Ask him about the secret bank accounts and five star trust located in the isle of man and belonging to the bushes and ask him about the bush organization called the enterprise. also ask him about the plane load of dope daniel hopsicker has been talking about at his web site the secret society of mad cow morning news for the past year I bet George knows all the answers if he'll just start talking. Waxman takem down. Waxman should be running for President We love ya down here on the farm

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Off topic

But did anyone notice the connection between the administration asking that Gitmo detainees have less to no contact with lawyers, followed by the transfer of this Al Quaida higher-up to Gitmo?

I'm guessing they want no lawyers having access to the torture methods he experienced. It's top secret!

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when he comes to testify, does he have to wear his medal? I think he should, it will remind us Americans what a true Patriot he is. It will also remind those terrorist aiding Democrats that this guy served our country and protected us from further attack!

long live fascism!

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Read a fuller quote from Tenet interview - think it was in NY Times and he defends rendition-kidnapping and torture.

Henry needs to get back to Blackwater and halliburton exposure.

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Evil power! During Webbs 1991 probe of the Bushes and his former father-in-law Leonard Millman who he refers to as a thief and narcotics money launderer, Novinger and Webb crossed paths regarding their separate investigations of 2,000 pounds of missing weapons-grade uranium from the Rocky Flats, Colorado nuclear arsenal.

The two discovered St. Louis and Philadelphia links to the missing uranium since it was reportedly transferred to the Bush networks Apex Aviation in Missouri and to Hahnemann Hospital in Pennsylvania using Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice trucks to transport the stolen nuclear material for illegal sale to terrorist nations throughout the world, according to Webbs lifetime coterie of intelligence sources.

The grand jury foreman from the Rocky Flats investigation went public regarding the 2,000 pounds of missing uranium involving Rockwell International, alleging a criminal cover-up by Colorado U.S. Attorney Michael Norton, who Webb said received a $1.5 million dollar bribe from Leonard Millman which was laundered through Millmans M&L Business Machines Company in Denver.

Mainstream press reports surfaced in the early 1990s that during the previous decade less than a dozen countries had weapons-grade nuclear components; but by the end of George H. W. Bushs presidency, over 38 countries were reported to possess nuclear materials such as uranium.

Leonard Millmans Citicorp Bank subsidiary was given a $2.5 billion dollar EPA cleanup contract to move uncontaminated dirtthe so-called missing uranium scattered over the Colorado countryside, reminiscent of Bush crime family profiteering on the front end and back end of wars.

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Re. Tenet & the CIA- what's absolutely ridiculous is the allegation before the Iraq war that Saddam was about to get nuke weapons-any idiot, let alone CIA people, let alone scientists, let alone congress members let alone et al , ad nauseum would know that it takes HUGE facilities to make nuke weapons-look at the size of the facilities in Iran and N. Korea-this would be absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to hide let alone build up over the years & years it would take and still hide-let alone with U.N. inspectors all over the country, let alone spy satellites & agents on the ground.-what, Saddam was getting some flimsy alum. tubes & niger uranium and making a bomb in the basement of his palace-in his spare time!? Man o' man-are we a STUPID country or what!? Beyond stupid is what we are. This, my fellow conned Americans is beyond absurd-and yet before the war Bush said something like "we can't wait for confirmation of Saddam making a nuke coming in the form of a mushroom cloud"-Bush and his entire criminal pack of administration weasels (Cheney, Rove, Perle, Wolfowitz to name the biuggest weasels/operatives) impeached/kicked out of power. They started a war based on complete lies-that they FULLY knew were lies. Not only that, journalists like Safire & Judy Miller of the N.Y. Times are NOT journalists-they are planted operative con-artists, employed the "the powers that be" -for more on that , read the 1985 book "The Media Monopoly" -and for what's behind what's in that book and what are "the powers that be" REALLY running the world, read the book" And the Truth Shall Set You Free" by David Icke-a book that covers more about this in one single place than any other I know of. The Iraq war was botched ON PURPOSE to draw it out and make it messy for as long as possible-why? one reason is: at this point the cost has been around $1 trillion-and counting "someone" is making a heck of a lot of money: 3 being Haliburton, Bechtel & Kellog Brown & Root (the last firm, by the way, was the BIGGEST civilian contractor during the Vietnam war-when they were called Brown & Root).So: same M.O. all these decades later : another bogus, set-up war based on deliberate , pre-planned lies (remember the "Gulf of Tonkin" lie?). 911 , I hate to say, was another pre-planned event -as in "remember Pearl Harbor, remember the Alamo, remember the Maine"-exactly the same set-up, right down to the memorable date for the event: 911-the emergency call number. How clever of them (the "them" of Icke's book that is, not any arabs-who were each, like Oswald said "Just a patsy"-they had no idea as to who they were REALLY working for) . Any idiot would have known that after the invasion of Iraq, all 500,000 (or almost all) of the people in the iraq militray NEEDED to be hired, if not for military or M.P. jobs, then for Franklin Roosevelt- style CCC,WPA,NRA jobs-these troops often had big families to support, most of them obviously didn't give a damn about "Sad-damn" ! Experts in the U.S. govt. said they needed to be employed, Bremer, on orders from Bush/Cheney said no. Five days after he made this ruling, the FIRST insurgent attacks occurred in Iraq-by testimony of Col. Paul Huges, interviewed by Bill Moyers on PBS. Also any idiot would have known that we needed U.S. troops to seal all Iraq armories & weapons dumps immediately (the source now of all the IED bombs, for one thing)-we didn't because "we didn't have the troops"-which was RUMSFELD'S "convenient" decision-overidng the advice of basically everyone at the top in the pentagon. Bottom line: not only was the war a set-up con of a scam (just like the whole PURPOSELY promoted idea of "the west against the muslim world"-egged on by our "buddies" the Saudis with their "very convenient" wahabi schools to radicalize arab kids), it was run so as to prolong it for as long as possible-till the end of 2008,in fact (actually Jan. 2009 when the new president is sworn in-and then how long after THAT will it take to get out?)-this war could run basically as long as Vietnam-how very convenient-for "someone"! In 2009 Bush & his corrupt cronies will finally be consigned to the dust bin of history-where they rightfully should have been summarily dumped in 2000!

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RATS

SINKING SHIP

anybody else feel that way ???

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KEY players in the Bush regime pushing for war in Iraq (besides Cheney): Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith." As usual" all three ,off course, weren't elected by the american people-and before the war most people probably didn't know they even existed-let alone their real influence. All three are jewish, the first two with direct former links to Israel/ Israeli intelligence. Feith got his first job, right out of school, in govt. on Reagan's national security council-a job that was gotten for him by his Georgetown U. prof.-Richard Pipes-who was also jewish. Both their families originally came from Poland. This is all the work, as usual, of: the Rothchilds (and the hidden forces behind that family, because they weren't just "allowed" to come out of nowhere ) & numerous Assoc.: the global clique running the world (for centuries in fact)- the Rockefellers & Warburgs being part of the U.S. branch of this cabal (as in Icke's book).The Rothchilds set up the state of Israel (specifically Lord Victor). Bush's grandfather, Prescott, was on their team-as was George Schultz's father (Schultz is the mentor to Condelezza Rice-and the sole reason she is where she is now). At one time they worked for the same "team"(the front company" American International Corp." in N.Y. in the 1900's) that set up Lenin, Trotsky & thereby communism in Russia-and the whole phony "Us VS. communism"-a very profitable and long scam called the cold war: absolutely pre-engineered on purpose. Now the "scam du jour" is : "Us VS. the muslim world"-EXACT same pre-fab con going on. Read the book "Wall St. and the Bolshevik Revolution" by Anthony Sutton (formerlly of Stanford Hoover Institute). Since hardly anyone knows the real history of the world, they can keep conning every new generation. Owning the mass media assures this-look up "media control" in Icke's book and see how (very) often,over 3 or 4 pages, you see the words "Rockefeller or Rothschild" interests/control/associates or fronts.

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Thanks to the PBS Bill Moyer program Friday April 27 07 that I heard Josh Marshall and learned of this and other informative blogs. Great interview. I'm a fan already.

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Thanks Bill Moyers. I am now a fan of Josh Marshall.

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Very instructive when the CIA - or here the former DCI (as oppossed to the Washington press corpse) - dishes on a current administration as having major malfunction.
Add to that any decline of support among the party's legislative elected officials, and the sea is ripe to roll for impeachment.
Clinton, perhaps based on polls, never lost too much support among Democrats in Congress.
As far as the CIA and Pentagon went, they just loved him.
Can Mr. flight suit and Darth Vader say the same?

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