George Miller calls on Congress to convene in-depth hearings

[whimsicaldeb]

Representative George Miller Calls on Republican Leaders in House and Senate to Convene Hearings on Bush/Cheney Leak of Iraq War Data

Friday, April 10, 2006

WASHINGTON, DC– Congress should convene in-depth hearings on the leak of classified pre-war intelligence on Iraq by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Representative George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee, said today. Miller said that the Bush Administration can no longer be trusted to be in control of information regarding its own actions to justify the war.

“The mounting evidence indicates that the President and the Vice President selectively released classified pre-war information in a deliberate effort to manipulate public opinion about the Administration’s tenuous justifications for taking America to war in Iraq,” said Miller. “Our nation and this Congress deserve to know exactly what the President did, when he did it, and why. The time has long passed to stop spinning the facts in the case of leaked classified information and the disclosure of a covert CIA agent’s identity. Enough damage has been done to individuals and the credibility of our nation.

“It appears that the President and Vice President selectively released pre-war intelligence for political purposes and not, as they claim, to further inform the debate about the war. They did not leak the entire National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq but one select portion. And yet they knew at the time that the CIA and the State Department had already cast serious doubt on the credibility of that one select portion leaked to the news media. The Vice President’s chief of staff reportedly told The New York Times that the information he was leaking to it was a key finding of the Estimate when in fact it was not, according to published reports.

“They leaked this information to try to salvage their rationale for going to war, to punish a credible critic of the decision to go to war, and to mislead the public and Congress.

“President Bush can no longer be trusted to control the information about pre-war intelligence. There is no option but for Congress to announce it will hold in-depth hearings on this issue and that the White House must turn over all relevant information to the Congress to allow it to fully understand what has transpired in this very serious case. The actions by the President and the Vice President, and the apparent hypocrisy they have displayed on this issue since it first was made public in 2003, demand a thorough investigation by Congress.”

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U.S. House of Representatives Seal
Congressman George Miller
2205 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-2095
George.Miller@mail.house.gov

source:
http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/press/rel41006.html


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I was just musing how nothing seems to be happening despite all the crap Bush has done (is still doing). How all that seems to be happening is just the reporting of what he's done ~ but nothing more ... and then today in my mail I received an update that George Miller had called for hearings.

So far, Bush seems like he's coated with Teflon, things keep coming up but nothing's sticking. I hope this time it's different. We'll see ~ eh?

[stilltrucking]

Thank you Deb
You made my day

[jimboloco]

The good Americans will still vote for a farmboy bullshitter.
I'll believe it when I see it/
Our "rep" here, billybob young, would never sanction dumbya.

he's a chickenhawk bullshitter porker
and loyal repukeblinkinz love him
he's the asshole second from right

[whimsicaldeb]

There are those retire'ezzzzz
who believe, believe, believe
without question
and for them ~ there are the "bob young's" of this world
just waiting to use them all for their personal ride(s)

But i refuse to lump all retirees, and even republicans into the same blind, deaf & dumb basket; because i know it's not so. Still, I live in California instead of Florida ... and I’m sure that’s what makes the difference. I’m not so ‘alone’ – in beliefs and ways. And that helps, gives support.

Hey, have you seen this ...
http://www.freewayblogger.com/impeachment_project2.htm

[Diana Moon Glampers]

as usual I am clueless
it makes my head hurt
to see those crosses
I have such a mild case of ptsd
I can't even try to go there jim
I hang onto every bit of good news

I like that link that deb posted a lot, I live in Schertz. Maybe a hundred yards from the gate to the Taj Maha. It maybe a police state around here but what the hell at least it is an american police state

I been trying to think this impeachement thing through, you know ponder on the imponderables.

So after impeachement then what?

[jimboloco]

oy vey ms moon, what next, and whimzydebbie, I am intransigently anti-republickin.

As for signs, well I made a dandy, it says, "BUSHWHACKED"
I will have it out on May Day.


And as for retirees, well, ya know in the first election fiasco here in Florita, 2000, a heavily Jewish and Democratic county in southeast Florita turned out an amazing several thousand of votes for Pat Buchanon, and the retirees there were screaming foul play, then Ms Harris the then secretariat of state for Florita, stopped the recount, and even Mr Buchanon said it was an unexpectated vote tally from that locale, what gives?
No not all retirees love the republikratz, my mother hates Bush.
I hope for some leadership from California. What up?