Patrick Fitzgerald
It started with : “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .”
Ms. Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson are still waiting for the country to exert legislative power to change the reality of this 'imbalance' of power.
By JOSEPH C. WILSON 4TH
Published: July 6, 2003
Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat....
Published: July 6, 2003
Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat....
This editorial was another item swept under the Bush/Cheney White House by outing a CIA agent in political retribution. There isn't anything else to say. The Cheney office was intent on invading Iraq. They outed Plame. This was a purely political act and Richard Cheney blatantly stood in ridicule of the USA Constitution to insure his poitical standing. There was no law to stop a highly manipulative Vice President and his staff to mount a dogmatic attack on a very valuable CIA agent. Nothing was to stop the Iraq War and the Cheney Executive Office would insure it. This act coming of the Veep's office is conclusive evidence of the intent of Cheney to engage in an oil war, to protect himself from the anger of Halliburton stockholders. His priorities are directly involved here. To simple to see.
And the pardon alone indicates Bush gave permission to all that resulted.
Valerie Plame Wilson Thu Oct 25, 9:47 PM ET
Now on the fourth day of my book tour for Fair Game and I am delighted because I have been given abundant opportunity to discuss something I feel passionately about: the politicization of our intelligence services. There has been an increasing trend to allow politics to spill over into the world of intelligence and I believe that it degrades the intelligence mission, its product, and is detrimental to our national security. Americans of all political stripes want to know that whatever intelligence lands on the president's desk is devoid of ideological taint and political pressure. As we now know, Vice President Cheney and his then Chief of Staff Scooter Libby made an unprecedented number of visits to CIA Headquarters in the run-up to the Iraq war to meet with analysts. Apparently, the vice president kept asking the same questions until he began to hear the answers he wanted. Although there might not have been overt pressure to slant intelligence toward the administration's stance on Iraq and its perceived WMD threat, the very fact that the vice president had taken time out of his day, come into Headquarters and asked a certain line of questions invisibly and insidiously has the effect of conveying a high level of dissatisfaction with what the CIA has already produced. CIA analysts are not dumb....
Bush uniquely selective with pardons (click here)
By: Andrew Glass
By: Andrew Glass
Oct 9, 2007 08:23 PM EST
Over the years, the courts have checked the executive power of nearly every president, including George W. Bush. But in devising an interlocking web of checks and balances, the Framers also gave presidents a powerful tool to check the courts: the power to pardon offenders. Bush has used this power in both a stingy and a haughty way.
The Constitution gives presidents the “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” A reprieve — like the one Bush issued in July to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former vice presidential honcho — reduces the severity of a punishment without removing the guilt. A full pardon erases both. (Technically, what Bush did is known as a “remission,” since he eliminated Libby’s prison sentence in its entirety.)...
The Constitution gives presidents the “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” A reprieve — like the one Bush issued in July to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former vice presidential honcho — reduces the severity of a punishment without removing the guilt. A full pardon erases both. (Technically, what Bush did is known as a “remission,” since he eliminated Libby’s prison sentence in its entirety.)...
George W. Bush has done what no power on Earth could do -- brought our country to its knees. The American spirit is low. People are shaking their heads and asking what has happened to such a great nation. One federal initiative after another has gone wrong.
Bush's unnecessary attack on Iraq was a colossal mistake unrivaled in American history.
Never before have we attacked a sovereign nation for such unsubstantiated reasons. His poor judgment has caused death, injury and untold misery for millions upon millions of people. For what?
Our meddling has only made us more enemies. World opinion of our country has plummeted to an all-time low.
The whole initiative was based upon slanted information at best and, at worst, lies....
Bush's unnecessary attack on Iraq was a colossal mistake unrivaled in American history.
Never before have we attacked a sovereign nation for such unsubstantiated reasons. His poor judgment has caused death, injury and untold misery for millions upon millions of people. For what?
Our meddling has only made us more enemies. World opinion of our country has plummeted to an all-time low.
The whole initiative was based upon slanted information at best and, at worst, lies....
