November 2006 Midterms Wrap-Up: A Few Thoughts and the Duties of "We the People"

[Independent_Liberal]

November 2006 Midterms Wrap-Up: A Few Thoughts and the Duties of "We the People"

by Independent_Liberal

The November 2006 midterm elections have come and gone. They clearly showed that people are sick of being screwed over by the Republicans in Washington and they want a change in their government and the direction of their country. All Democratic incumbants kept their seats and the Democrats gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years. They also managed to capture the Senate too, a task that many pundits didn't think was possible. Many Congressional seats that were once thought to be safe Republican turned blue. Everybody views the elections as a referendum on George W. Bush and the Iraq war. It was most certainly that and a lot of issues on the minds of the voters included minimum wage, the economy, health care, terrorism, and most important of all, accountability, ethics and honesty in government. It's safe to say that proper oversight of the executive branch was something that was on everybody's mind. That brings me to the issue of investigations. While the campaign season is over, "We the People" must pressure our elected representatives in Congress to pursue investigations into all allegations of government corruption, waste, fraud and abuse. Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and incoming House Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman certainly have their work cut out for them. There's many things that need looked into, but if I tried to list everything all in one sitting, my head would probably explode. So I'm going to name a few things that I feel are the most important. I only have one thing to say right now: Subpoena City.

1. THE ABRAMOFF AFFAIR AND THE "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM" BRIBERY CASE

One of the biggest ones of all. Who and what all does this rope in?

Let's see: Defrauded Indian tribes, gaming casinos, lobbying firms, Greenberg Traurig, illegal campaign contributions sent to GOP Congress people, foreign influence peddling, illegal arms trafficking, the American Turkish Council, Denny Hastert’s ties to Turkish spies and his shady housing deals, the SunCruz investigation, Guam, the support of forced abortion and sex slavery in the Marianas, Adam Kidan, Michael Scanlon, Tony Rudy, Neil Volz, David Safavian, Grover Norquist, John Colyandro, Jim Ellis, Tom DeLay’s misuse of the FAA and the DHS, his trips to Russia and the people who turned up dead in his district, DeLay’s ARMPAC, Bob Ney’s golf outings in Scotland, his ties to Iran and use of secret government wiretapping operations, Americans for Tax Reform fraud, Carl Gutierrez, Felix Camacho, Froilan Tenorio, Haley Barbour, Ernie Fletcher and the Merit system scandal, Bob Taft, Tom Noe and Coingate, Ken Blackwell’s stocks in Halliburton, Leandro Aragoncillo and Philippine spy espionage, mobsters and Kidan’s link to a Sicilian mafia figure, the Gus Boulis murder case, New Hampshire phone jamming, stolen computers from the Ohio Democratic Headquarters, terrorists at casinos, 9/11 and Mohammad Atta, the Royal Sons LLC plane from Florida with 5.5 tons of cocaine that was raided by the FBI, Saudi money, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling and Enron, Eric Cantor and AIPAC lobbyists, John Sweeney and Wal-Mart PAC, Charles Taylor and the Russian bank, Enron power plant deals, heroin trafficking, money laundering, GOP prostitution rings and pedophiles with ties to Jeff Gannon, child prostitution and sex predator operations in the Marianas, Gale Norton’s Interior Department, J. Steven Griles, Roger Stilwell, Wally O’Dell and Diebold, HAVA, Homeland Security rackets, Ralph Reed, Porter Goss, Kyle Foggo, Brent Wilkes, Mitchell Wade, MZM, Inc., ADCS, Inc., Archer Logistics, Group W advisors, defense contractors, creation of phony defense companies to get $700,000,000 through earmarks for GOP TV ads, the Wilkes-funded prostitution ring involving Homeland Security Contractor Shirlington Limousine and Transportation Services, hooker and poker parties at the Watergate Hotel, the Hastert/Bid-Rigging/Contractors/Appropriations cover-up and the firing of 60 House Appropriations Committee investigators from the investigative staff by Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis, Coingate's Terrence Gasper, "Duke" Cunningham's, Noe's and Ney's secret Shell Companies who bilked millions while aiding Abramoff, Marianas Islands, Indian Gaming and Rumsfeld’s Pentagon and those Republican Congresspersons and Senators who had gay sex while housed in Abramoff's Safe Houses.

Woo!!! I feel dizzy!

2. THE VALERIE PLAME AFFAIR

This one's a no-brainer. The involvement of Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Richard Armitage, Stephen Hadley and Alberto Gonzales needs looked at. I think Bob Novak's should be called to testify under oath.

3. THE AIPAC SPY CASE

Involves Pentagon official Larry Franklin, Steven Rosen, Keith Weissman, Douglas Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, etc. It appears to be connected to the Plame case.

4. GANNONGATE

How did a male prostitute sneak into the White House press corps?

5. HALLIBURTON

Corruption City! Employees and lobbyists from Cheney's company have some serious explaining to do in regards to Iraq corruption, Nigerian bribes and no-bid contracts.

6. ENRON COLLAPSE

There's still many unanswered questions surrounding Enron. Several employees and lobbyists should be subpoenaed.

7. THE ENERGY TASK FORCE AND SECRET ENERGY MEETINGS

What went on in Cheney's secret energy meetings? There's a major cover-up surrounding that Energy Commission. Those documents should be released.

8. FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS

Forging the case for war. These are documents that need looked at.

9. THE DOWNING STREET MEMOS

Those UK memos. More evidence that intelligence was manipulated in the run-up to the Iraq war.

10. NSA DOMESTIC SPYING

Why didn't they go to the FISA court for a court order? What does NSA staffer Russell Tice know?

11. ABU GHRAIB PRISONER ABUSE

Torture is unacceptable. We have yet to find the guilty parties responsible.

12. SIBEL EDMONDS FBI WHISTLEBLOWER CASE

The many whistleblower allegations of the lovely Sibel Edmonds.

According to an article posted on www.bradblog.com:

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9/11 Related:

Information omitted and covered-up regarding documented and confirmed case of a long-term FBI Informant & Asset who provided the FBI with specific information and warnings in April & June 2001 regarding 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Information omitted & covered up regarding documented information in the procession of the FBI in July 2001 regarding blue prints and building composite information of Sky Scrapers being sent to certain groups in the Middle East by certain Middle-Eastern suspects in the State of Nevada.
Information omitted & covered up regarding arrangements made between the State Department and certain countries to deport certain Middle-Eastern and Central Asian detainees from jails in New Jersey & New York off the record and without having them interrogated in November 2001. (Documents related to these suspects were forged at the FBI).
Information omitted & covered up regarding nuclear related information illegally obtained by certain foreign entities and US persons (government officials) from several US labs being sold to a certain Middle-Eastern group in the United States in 1998-2000. The operation involved individuals with Diplomatic cover, foreign Ph.D. students, and US employees.
Information omitted & covered up regarding money laundering & narcotics operations, some of which involved entities from the Middle East and the Balkans, in several US cities.
Information omitted & covered up regarding certain Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI)-related activities linked to the 9/11 attacks between August & October 2001.
Certain terrorist related Counterintelligence/FISA information & investigations were prevented from being transferred to counterterrorism & criminal division by the Department of State and the Pentagon; "preserving sensitive diplomatic relations" and "protecting certain US foreign business relations (mainly involving weapons procurement)" were cited as reasons.
Intentional mistranslation & blocking of foreign language intelligence of FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations.

Penetration of FBI, Department of State and Department of Defense:

Melek Can Dickerson: FBI; formerly employed by the American Turkish Council (ATC) and American Turkish Association (ATA).
Major Douglas Dickerson: Air Force, DIA; formerly worked with the American Turkish Council (ATC), had on going relationship with International Advisors Inc (IAI) principles who worked as lobbying arms for certain foreign nations and foreign non-state entities (some of whom were engaged in illegal activities in the United States and against US interests and national Security.)
Cases reported by John M. Cole, Veteran FBI Counterintelligence Operations Manager, to the DOJ-IG & Congress involving Hadiya Roberts (ISI-Pakistan), and several other individuals.
Documented cases under FBI counterintelligence surveillance between 1997 and 2002, involving US government officials from the Department of State, DOD, and certain elected officials who were recipients of regular payments made by state and non-state foreign entities, some involved in criminal operations against US interests & national security. These cases were prevented from being transferred to actionable criminal and/or counterterrorism divisions/investigations.
A reported case of penetration of FBI New York Field Office by an Iranian rouge agent.

Corruption & illegal activities involving US persons:

Illegal payments to several elected officials in Congress; on going (1997-2002).
Joint illegal activities between certain foreign agents (state & non-state) and US lobbying firms, government officials (Pentagon and the Department of State) and several elected officials. These activities include obtaining and passing highly classified and sensitive DOD documents & bribery and/or coercion of US individuals.
Nuclear black market related activities carried out by certain foreign groups/lobbying firms/businesses/individuals & US persons (former & current US government employees and officials).

FBI: incompetence:
(Refer to DOJ-IG report confirming all & more)

Hiring unqualified translators based on nepotism & cronyism, some of these translators did not even pass elementary English proficiency tests; some were granted Top Secret Clearance despite their highly questionable background.
Language specialists charging the United States government for hours not worked and/or services not rendered (Fraudulent invoices, etc.)
…much more; please refer to the DOJ-IG Report

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There you go, 12 important issues that I feel the new Congress needs to investigate.

A House Select Fact Finding Committee should be set up to investigate the following: Downing Street Memos, Plame, White House Iraq Group, AIPAC, Niger forgeries, depleted uranium, Patriot Act and IRS abuses, Dubai Ports deals, mining disasters, Edmonds FBI whistleblower case, NSA, Gannon, Abramoff, Cunningham/Wilkes/MZM/Hookergate, Alfonso Jackson and HUD contracts, financial improprieties involving former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford, Enron, Halliburton-Kellogg Brown & Root, Carlyle, Harken, Bechtel, WorldCom, election fraud, Coingate, torture of prisoners, FEMA’s Katrina response, Pentagon psyops units and secret government propaganda operations in the Office of Special Plans, Halliburton war profiteering, cover-ups of pre-9/11 intelligence, 9/11 Commission cover-ups, Commission members with ties to oil companies and lobbyists, key witnesses left out of the official 9/11 Report, the identification of Atta by “Able Danger,” Christine Todd Whitman and the EPA, 9/11 related corruption in government offices, cover-ups involving Congress people, Federal Judges and DOJ personnel, drug trafficking and money laundering, illegal weapon sales, pre-9/11 insider trading, manipulation of pre-9/11 FBI intercepts, corruption surrounding Supreme Court Justices, Pentagon tapes, NORAD tapes, FBI wiretap translations, the DeLay-Abramoff-SunCruz-Boulis-Mob-Atta connections, destruction of 9/11 FAA tapes, Melek Can Dickerson and the American Turkish Council, Pakistan-ISI connections, Hastert-Abramoff-Livingston Group-Brewster Jennings-MIC Inc.-ATC-ATAA-AIPAC-Feith-Perle connections, Enron Afghani pipeline deals, the death of Enron executive Cliff Baxter and Arthur Anderson’s destruction of Enron documents.

That's one spicy enchilada, isn't it? Let's keep the ball rolling and continue to demand action from the Democratic Congress as we did with the Republican Congress. Now we'll actually get what we want with a Congress that's representative of the people.

Many are still throwing the "I" word around. While incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has said that impeachment is "off the table," it doesn't mean we don't continue to scream our heads off about it. Investigations must go forward first, and if they lead to impeachment, so be it.

Let the hearings go forward. Let the subpoenas fly. Let the whistleblowers from the FBI, CIA, NSA, State Department, Pentagon, NSC, FAA, etc. step forward.

Roll up your sleeves. We have work to do.

[mom cat]

1. What a comprehensive list. Thanks. Rolling my sleeves right now.

You are so right. Now that we are back in power, we must use it. We are the ones with the mandate, but our goals will not materialize without yoemans work from we the people.

[Independent_Liberal]

3. Thank you mom cat!

It's my pleasure.

:)

[libodem]

2. Wow

Just...wow

[Independent_Liberal]

4. Wow is right indeed.

[texpatriot2004]

5. K & R nm

[Independent_Liberal]

6. Thanks texpatriot.

You rock!

:headbang:

It's Watergate times a thousand!

:wow:

[autorank]

7. You are the TruthIsAll of shadow government. You bring crooked things

to light. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Thanks so much for all of this. Its a guide book to the decadent and depraved. It's a tough job and you're doing it well.

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