I don't see how Leahy will find time. He's busy registering his outrage over the Move On ad.

I don't see how Leahy will find time. He's busy registering his outrage over the Move On ad.

It would be nice if the poor bastards who were sold ARMs by predatory lenders could catch the kind of breaks when their rate resets and they miss a payment as the WH crooks get when they ignore subpoenas.

What's holding Leahy up? These Gonzo bozos should be sitting in a jail cell until they agree at least to come before the committee and assert their claim of executive privilege or take the fifth. Then we'll see who understands the powers given the Congress by the Constitution.

What's holding Leahy up? These Gonzo bozos should be sitting in a jail cell until they agree at least to come before the committee and assert their claim of executive privilege or take the fifth. Then we'll see who understands the powers given the Congress by the Constitution.

Well, yeah, it is the "OVERSIGHT Congress. "Like, "Gee, we missed that, I guess it was an oversight."

Correct me if I'm wrong but if these subpeonas get thrown into court as the Bushies would like then they not only get to run out the clock but the Bush Supreme Court will eventually cement Cheney's unitary executive theories into law.

If I'm right then there's no way to win this battle.

anon wrote on September 21, 2007 3:22 PM:
I don't see how Leahy will find time. He's busy registering his outrage over the Move On ad.

great post.

HarpboyAK,
My first impression about Mr Bean's comments where the same as yours- but after visiting his link - now I am at least opened minded about his entry. Particularly unsettling was the entry regarding the unsolved ,( and possible false flag operation) - attacks using weapon grade anthrax _that targeted Democratic lawmakers .
Alex Jones also has a great many followers on the Libertarian Right - who are saying the same things about Police States replacing our government -given the current context-- thats a legitimate concern to arise.

what's next?
Nothing more than a sternly worded letter I expect.

AKA nothing. But hey, moveon is mean. Just a bunch of meanies.

With respect to subpoenaing documents re the firing of U.S. Attorneys, Leahy and Schumer are barking up the wrong tree.

What Bush and Gonzales did in firing the 8 U.S. attorneys was stupid in the extreme, was very harmful to morale throughout the Justice Department, and was dangerous and suspect from the point of view of anyone interested in justice untainted by partisan political shenanigans -- but it was certainly NOT illegal. [As a professional prosecutor who was replaced by Bill Clinton with a politician who was a FOB, no one is more aware of this than I am] Gonzales has now been forced out as a result of this blunder, and that should be as far as it goes.

Once again the only goal of these rabid partisans on the Judiciary Committee is to embarrass a lame duck president. A waste of their time and our money. No wonder the public thinks even less of congress than of the president! The entire Government is broken -- nearly destroyed by extreme partisanship and bickering over nothing. Remember when Tip O'Neil and Ronald Reagan would solve problems by talking civilly to one another? Those were the days!

Goofticket, "These traitors?" Are you referring to the Democrats who can't wait for us to lose in Iraq, with all the terrible consequences that will bring?

As I say, the firing of the U.S. attorneys was an act of political stupidity but it was certainly not illegal. Using your logic, should we go after Clinton and Janet Reno for homicide at Waco and Ruby ridge? That's a much better case. Or go after Hillary now for planting her felon buddy Webb Hubbell in DOJ as #3 to keep an eye on Reno? Too bad he had to go to prison before he could carry out her orders. What muddled thinking What pure partisan nonsense!

Use your head man.

Leahy is a wuss, Schumer is a wuss, Reid is a wuss Pelosi is a wuss, and all the repugnants are bullies.

Until the Dems learn some martial arts WE are doomed.

It's not Contempt of Congress it's Contempt FOR Congress.

Anyone that thinks we have a government that represents the people I have a Timeshare in beautiful downtown Baghdad to sell you.

Our elections are rigged and a farce. Those that are selected by the corporations that own our government don't listen or care about the people they are suppose to represent. About the only thing we represent to them is that we're consumers, otherwise we're just obstacles or objects to be used for whatever purposes that benefit them, not us.

The United States of America is a shell of it's former self. And that shell is cracking and when it breaks there will be no fixing it.

I hope the Democrats are waiting until October 13, the date upon which all the Patriot Act-Loyal Bushie USAs -- including the one in DC -- get replaced by the courts, as per the law was before and now after the Patriot Act scam that was temporarily perpetrated upon us. Then, when contempt charges are referred to the Us Attorney in DC, he will follow the law and convene a Grand Jury, rather than ignore it, as Gonzo had instructed the Bushie to do. Contempt of Congress is in itself an impeachable offence.

5 million emails conducted off-the-books, unarchived and soon deleted. Flagrant violation of the Presidential Records Act. I mean let that sink in. Not a small violation. A wholesale disregard to keep records. Crimes, folks. Deep crime. And if Congress or the Courts can't find the power to care much less stop it, there is no democracy left. We have witnessed a coup, and most don't even know it yet.

Go to link for excerpts from obstructed DOJ OIG complaint submitted by THOMAS S. BEAN under penalty of prosecution:

http://control-alt-delete.ca/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6454&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

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From THOMAS S. BEAN'S US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT SENT TO DENVER AND DALLAS FIELD OFFICE SPECIAL AGENTS VAN LANCKER AND MONTE CASSON on 12-7-04:

..."39) FBI DESTROYS INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTOR, DR. MARK GORDON:

Dr. Mark Gordon (ex military medical officer, and a family friend for 20 years) was illegally investigated by Sioux Falls FBI in 1999 while he worked as a doctor in Yankton, South Dakota, despite the fact "no legitimate suspicion" or "criminal predicate" information was legally obtained to warrant such an egregious incursion on his rights. Sioux Falls FBI and Austin FBI "did not have valid eavesdropping warrants" because "all other investigative tactics had NOT BEEN TRIED and DID NOT FAIL or "would prove to be too dangerous." I've cooperated with law enforcement on three occasions and agreed to take a polygraph. Every time I talk to law enforcement, they open a file on me?!

a) While working as a doctor in Yankton, South Dakota, Sioux Falls FBI directed their cooperating informant (Dr. Gordon's medical secretary) to "seduce him and extort $500" from Dr. Gordon in violation of Title 18 USC part I, chapter 73, sections 241, 242, and chapter 41 sections 872 and 880, and SDCL 22-30A-4 "Theft by threat." Recently I contacted The Yankton County Sheriff’s department who "made every excuse to obstruct justice" and not investigate The FBI snitch. This raises the issue of "whether Sioux Falls FBI violated Title 18 USC part I, chapter 73, section 1511" when Sioux Falls FBI "Obstructed State or local law enforcement" after I gave this crime tip to Yankton County Sheriff’s Department. Not only did "The FBI" intrude upon on innocent medical doctor's life, but they also "gave criminal immunity to their snitch" who was "running extortion schemes on The FBI target."

b) "Sioux Falls FBI criminally stalks Dr. Mark Gordon": After being extorted by The FBI snitch in Yankton, Dr. Mark Gordon moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was illegally wiretapped, bugged, and defamed at his jobsite. The FBI Task Force followed him to a restaurant where he consumed a glass of wine. Then The Task Force had their confederate (a nurse working at Dr. Gordon's hospital) page Dr. Gordon to come into the office to admit a patient. Then the nurse reported that Dr. Gordon had alcohol on his breathe.

c) Dr. Mark Gordon was put under surveillance despite the fact "he had not committed any criminal violation" and "no legally obtained information was gathered" to meet the requirements for opening an investigation pursuant to The DOJ Guideline?! Gordon's employers at Central Plains Medical Clinic and Avera McKennan Hospital were contacted in violation of DOJ Guidelines so that Sioux Falls FBI could defame, slander, and portray Gordon in a false light as a form of "extrajudicial punishment" for "mere suspicion that could not be corroborated?!" The FBI destroyed an innocent medical doctor to create a "cooperating witness" to be used against me.

d) Much of this suspicion was predicated on illegally obtained tapes supplied by The Austin FBI. These tapes memorialize conversations in which "Dr. Gordon and I" repeated the dialogue from "The Jerky Boys Comedy Album." This exculpatory evidence was not supplied to prosecutors in violation of DOJ Guidelines and this exculpatory information was not offered to the court in later "Title III warrant applications." Austin FBI had "prior knowledge" that our conversations were based on The Jerky Boys Comedy Album?! I repeated that "tip" over the phone several times. I gave a tape recorded copy to Robert McNaughton's friend Jeff?! Austin FBI still intentionally passed on "false information to Sioux Falls FBI?"

e) Sioux Falls FBI made sure that the civil attorney at Central Plains Clinic received notice that "Dr. Gordon was followed to a liquor store buying a bottle of wine and acting goofy" after work?! If this act was pursuant to a legitimate law enforcement prerogative, why did Sioux Falls FBI intentionally lose operational security" of their investigation? This "intentional loss of operational security" shows malicious intent to commit constitutional deprivations and intentional torts. Sioux Falls FBI drummed up suspicion by passing gossip and slander to make Gordon's work site hostile to induce a financial crisis.

f) Sioux Falls FBI used a pinhole spy camera in Gordon's home to "gather knowledge of Gordon's consumption of wine in his home" and called in SFPD patrol to make an illegal DUI arrest after Gordon drove his vehicle. After this illegal DUI arrest, somehow, Sioux Falls FBI showed up at Gordon's home after he bailed out?! Sioux Falls FBI then coerced and intimidated Dr. Gordon into cooperating with their bogus investigation by "threatening to use this Class 1 misdemeanor arrest" against Gordon by "delivering it to The South Dakota Medical Board" and his employer.

Sioux Falls FBI "obstructed justice" and "violated Gordon's civil liberties" by issuing the usual FBI threat that "Gordon would be arrested for obstructing justice if he disclosed any information about this investigation to anybody" which effectively "chilled Gordon's Sixth Amendment Right to obtain counsel" as well as his "First amendment rights" and "right to association" free of FBI monitoring and coercion. Sioux Falls FBI essentially committed several state and federal crimes to "have coercive leverage" to gain cooperation of an innocent medical professional?!

Later, Sioux Falls FBI illegally contacted Dr. Gordon's employer, Dave Kapaska, at Avera McKennan for the purpose of "defaming and slandering" Gordon's at his jobsite?!

g) After inducing severe emotional trauma and suicidal ideation, Dr. Mark Gordon fled Sioux Falls. The FBI ran another "innocent white collar professional out of his community" without showing an cause or upholding any state or federal Procedural Due Process Rights. Sioux Falls FBI and Oklahoma City FBI conspired to commit a "federal crime of violence" and "interstate stalking" when they conspired to direct a criminal informant (Hispanic gang banger) to stalk Dr. Gordon at an Oklahoma City gas station where The FBI informant "spit in Dr. Gordon's face" in an attempt at provoking him into violence on May 11th, 2002?! The FBI has a tape recording of Gordon conveying this information to me.

h) The Sioux Falls FBI conspired to create Dr. Gordon's drinking problem so they could later use it against him to procure his cooperation in their bogus investigation of me. Sioux Falls FBI coordinated their "pin hole spy camera surveillance" in Gordon's home to gather information relayed to The South Dakota Medical Board probation officer who displayed "an uncanny ability to show up at Gordon's home when Gordon was consuming alcohol in the privacy of his own home?!"

..."40) FBI STALKS DR. MARK GORDON IN TEXAS AND SUBVERTS HIS SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS:

Dr. Gordon eventually quit his Sioux Falls medical job and fled The FBI harassment by moving to Austin, Texas, after obtaining another medical job in Temple, Texas.

a) While staying at Dave Meyer's home in Austin, Texas, Gordon and Meyer and Beth Frick were illegally monitored in violation of Title 18 USC section 2511.

b) Austin FBI joined "the conspiracy against Gordon's civil liberties" when they contacted The Texas Medical Board to "defame and slander Dr. Gordon" to make sure Dr. Gordon could not get a medical license. Dr. Gordon was denied a medical license by The Texas Medical Board, and his attorney was contacted by Austin FBI to make sure "Gordon's right to zealous and competent counsel was subverted." Gordon's lawyer "did not introduce evidence on behalf of his client" to The Texas Medical Board?! Thus, The Austin FBI coerced Gordon's attorney to "violate his fiduciary duty to his client" in violation of Title 18 USC part I, chapter 73, section 241 and 242. Gordon incurred a $10, 000 legal bill that was sent through the U.S. Mail consummating "mail fraud" by his shyster attorney. Later, Minneapolis FBI made sure that "his attorney did not pursue the collection of $4,000 that remained unpaid" as some kind of "half hearted attempt at righting a wrong" after finding out that Dr. Gordon was not guilty of any crime.

c) Dr. Gordon was then contacted by The Austin FBI after they "deprived him of his civil liberties" while inducing an economic crisis predicated on his "failure to get a medical license." Minneapolis FBI then arranged a medical job in Minneapolis and coerced Dr. Gordon into taking the job while living in an FBI apartment across the street from The St. Paul, Minnesota, Federal Building. Minneapolis FBI had this apartment bugged and wiretapped and monitored with a pinhole spy camera in an Orwellian nightmare that "only The FBI could get away with." Gordon cooperated with numerous interviews and polygraphs at The St. Paul Federal Building that resulted in "The FBI possessing exculpatory evidence" that cleared Gordon and Thomas S. Bean of all "uncorroborated mere suspicion." None of this was recorded or passed on to state and federal prosecutors.

d) All of this "FBI chicanery" violates Gordon's Constitutional rights to "be left alone"..."right to privacy"..."freedom of association"..."Sixth Amendment Right to competent counsel"...etc. Mark Gordon "became a material witness" to law enforcement felony crimes after talking to me about this fact pattern over the phone and in private on numerous occasions. All case agents working Gordon's file violated Title 18 USC sections 241, 242, 1512, 1513, and 2511. All FBI special agents must sign a Misprision of a Felony Form at the end of each calendar year. Civil discovery will focus on these forms.

e) Furthermore, Dr. Gordon told me on April 24th, 2004, that The FBI was "using their police powers" to investigate "The Congressional Hearing testimony of witnesses" while also "inquiring into the relative strength of my future federal civil rights law suit?!" The FBI was seeking knowledge from Gordon on "the location and presence” of demonstrative evidence (tape recordings, documents, videotape) so they could "conduct a black bag job" to steal or destroy "incriminating evidence of their crimes." The FBI uses "sneak and peak" to steal "smoking gun evidence" to avoid criminal and civil liability?! The Minneapolis FBI used police powers to "investigate an upcoming Congressional Hearing" after "coercing cooperation" of an innocent medical doctor?!

f) The Minneapolis FBI also monitored Dr. Gordon in his "FBI apartment" with a pinhole spy camera to eavesdrop on his private conversations. The FBI directed their informant (a mentally unstable, Pilipino, stalker, nurse living in Gordon's apartment complex) to seduce Gordon. The FBI had knowledge that Gordon had another girlfriend in his bedroom, when they called their snitch and gave her a key to his apartment so "she could break in" and confront Dr. Gordon in bed with another woman while Minneapolis FBI watched on their closed circuit television screen.

g) Much of Austin FBI's illegally obtained information is based on their incompetent interpretation of my phone calls with Dr. Mark Gordon in which we "repeated the dialogue from The Jerky Boys Comedy Album." This comedy album is premised on "making prank phone calls" to see how people respond. Austin FBI's Task Force tape recorded these conversations "without comparing them to The Jerky Boys Comedy Album" despite the fact they were put on notice?! This willing dissemination of misleading statements to SFPD and Sioux Falls FBI is prohibited by state and federal law. I point out, The Minneapolis FBI obtained corroborating evidence of this exculpatory information after "coercing Dr. Mark Gordon" to take a polygraph exam coincidental with "his review of the phone call tapes." This Brady Material was not passed onto state and federal prosecutors or to my defense attorneys.

41) THE FBI DESTROYS SENATOR DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF:

After committing several, egregious felony violations against Dr. Mark Gordon, The FBI also focused their criminality on his brother, Rich Gordon, despite the fact that "no legitimate criminal predicate or suspicion existed" that Rich Gordon was guilty of any specific crime?! Rich Gordon (ex chief of staff for South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle) came under The FBI's bogus, felonious witch-hunt after "I called him on my father's telephone in the spring of 2002" to inquire about "the whereabouts of his brother" who had previously expressed suicidal ideation proximately caused by Sioux Falls FBI's felony crime spree predicated on "coercing cooperation" from an innocent medical professional.

a) The Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, and Montana FBI committed "predicate acts" as part of a conspiracy to deprive Rich Gordon of his civil liberties under color of authority. The FBI contacted Rich Gordon's employer (The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation) for the purpose of "implicitly slandering and defaming" Rich Gordon at his jobsite in violation of DOJ Guidelines?! I know numerous other innocent, white collar professionals defamed by law enforcement at their job site despite the fact "no criminal predicate" or "reasonable suspicion" leads to their jobsites?! Any investigation at a "person of interests" jobsite with no "reasonable suspicion" or "criminal predicate" that results in defamation and unemployment is a violation of Title 18 USC sections 241, 242 1512, and 1513. These sections do not create an exception for FBI agents committing predicate acts by directing "state and local law enforcement" to contact employers.

b) This "career terrorism" committed by The FBI, once again, was predicated on "neutralizing a material witness" to FBI felony crimes. Prior to this, The FBI had access to Dr. Mark Gordon's emails showing that "a Congressional Inquiry" was likely to occur and Rich Gordon, Dr. Mark Gordon, and many others were likely to be subpoenaed?! So, The FBI is now caught illegally investigating "future witnesses" to be subpoenaed by a Congressional Hearing?! This is a violation of Title 18 USC sections 1512 and 1513?! Minneapolis FBI believed the congressional inquiry had a nexus between "the Gordon family, Thomas Bean, and Senator Tom Daschle, and Congressional Democrats"?! Therefore, The Montana FBI committed hundreds of Title III felony crimes against Rich Gordon in another "bogus, illegal, electronic fishing expedition" while looking for illegally obtained information for the purposes of "coercing cooperation" and "neutralizing a material witness."

c) The FBI went after Rich Gordon in a failed attempt at "neutralizing a congressional inquiry?!"

d) Rich Gordon "quit his job" at The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation after his Board of Directors "cut his salary in half."

e) Rich Gordon was forced to take another job in Reno, Nevada, where he was the victim of more Title III felony crimes. Rich quit his job and moved back to Custer, South Dakota. In Custer, South Dakota, Rapid City FBI continued the Title III felony crimes against Rich Gordon and violated DOJ Guidelines during their bogus "Indian Voter Registration Fraud" investigation of Rich Gordon. Dr. Mark Gordon said on April 24th, 2004, that "Rich was arrested." This was all an attempt at neutralizing Rich Gordon's credibility in a future civil suit and Congressional hearing. This is a violation of Title 18 USC sections 241, 241, 1511. and 1512. After US DOJ Office of Inspectors General, Denver Field Office, was contacted by me, they fired SD US Attorney JAMES MCMAHON who announced his resignation two weeks later. Minneapolis FBI SAC DEBORAH STREBEL PIERCE also resigned.

f) Later, Rich came down with a mysterious brain tumor caused by either heavy metal poisoning or Directed Energy Weapons (microwave radiation bombardment) after
FBI HQ (and/or The NSC operational subgroup using NSA warrantless wiretapping) deployed their super secret “black ops group” .

The neocon INTEL COMMUNITY (DOJ, FBI, NSC or NSA) used surveillance Intel from Rapid City rssa MARK VUKELICH’s illegal surveillance of Gordon. Omaha, Nebraska
Attorney LEROY ROGERS ( my known associate) also came down with a mysterious brain stroke that cut off blood to his brain rendering him a semi invalid. Yankton, South Dakota, attorney JOHN KABIESEMANN (another known associate who was a lawyer) died in a mysterious car wreck. YPD Sgt. Deffenbaugh also died in a mysterious car wreck. The FBI neutralized these people because “FBI HQ a/o NSC" picked up Intel from a letter” I wrote to Lenny Lee that said “I disseminated a lot of insurance type info” to a lot of attorneys “to make sure The FBI did not neutralize me with a bogus arrest and malicious prosecution, or murder. I later posted this info at The FBI website tip line, and on the internet at discussion forums. "....