Waxman ---the State Department is now refusing to let Dodge speak

[rodeodance]

Wonder if Sun. shows will bring this up?
Bet now!!

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/05/waxman-state-department-gags-analyst.html


Waxman: State Department Gags Analyst Who Warned Of Niger Forgery
Think Progress

Three months before President Bush uttered his infamous 16 words, claiming there was evidence that Saddam Hussein was building a nuclear weapon, a State Department analyst named Simon Dodge had determined that the evidence for the claim was likely fraudulent.


Dodge emailed his assessment to fellow intelligence analysts in October 2002, and then again in January 2003 (two weeks before Bush’s State of the Union), saying the documents supposedly from Niger were “probably a hoax” and “clearly a forgery.”

According to Oversight and Goverment Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), the State Department is now refusing to let Dodge speak to Waxman’s staff, despite the fact that Dodge has indicated he is “willing to cooperate fully” with the investigation.

In a letter to Condoleezza Rice today, Waxman charges that the State Department is “imped the Committee’s investigation into why President Bush and other senior Administration officials, including yourself, cited forged evidence in building a case for war against lraq.”

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. MSM is more concerned about Paris' sentence.

not one of them will mention it.

[Peace Patriot]

7. If you don't like the "MSM"'s fascist propagandizing, and its "black holes" in our

national political narrative, then stop calling them the "mainstream" media. They are not even close to reflecting the real mainstream of the country. Don't give them that ground. That ground--that they are the "mainstream"--is, indeed, one of their few brainwashing successes. I realize what people are trying to say, when they use "MSM"--some sort of comprehensive phrase that describes and includes all the national delusion-makers--but this phrase is so sloppy, and so inaccurate, that it hands the 5 rightwing billionaire CEOs who control the corporate newsstream a big fat victory, without a fight. The fascist news media. The corporate news media. The Bushite-controlled news media. The billionaire-controlled news media. Please find another phrase to use.

I use "war profiteering corporate news monopolies," and I type it out almost every time. Sometimes "corporate news monopolies," for short. But the war profiteering aspect of it is real, and needs to be frequently pointed out. These are not just news organizations, they are conglomerates, with fingers in the war industries. And they are monopolistic, and also absolute killers of democracy. They are not "mainstream" anything. They are fascists. It might do to add a word (and letter) to the phrase: the mainstream media delusion (MSMD). But, whatever you do, please think about it--and ask yourself about the impact, not only on others, but also on you, subliminally, of constantly calling the crap they are shoveling at us as "news" and "opinion," the "mainstream."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. good points, all. we need to reframe the description. MSM is incorrect.

corporate news outlets works fine, too.

[lapfog_1]

2. They really really don't want anyone to know that it was

Cheney and Rummy's OSP that cooked up those forged documents. Contracted out a breakin of the Niger embassy in Italy to do it too. Just like the Cuban Americans in Watergate.

That's why they attacked Joe Wilson... that's why they blew Valerie Plame's cover.

They didn't JUST fix the intelligence around the policy, they made the intelligence up out of whole cloth (well, parchment anyway). They faked it so they could talk about WMDs that people could relate to.. nukes. Iraq was going to have NUKES... and the smoking gun would be a MUSHROOM cloud... and Iraq would give those nukes to OSAMA!!! OMG. We HAVE to go to war.

[sam sarrha]

3. it is clearly obstruction of justice... there is no Executive privilege here, just the privileged

trying to get off the hook

[pinkpops]

4. impeach rice...

start at the bottom, work our way up

[sam sarrha]

5. but she is the last person working at the State Dept.... however NO Bu$hys is GOOD

verry verry good

[JDPriestly]

6. I agree.

Rice should be impeached. She has the information. She knows who did what. She is responsible. She is the most intelligent person in the government. She is the only well educated person in the government.

[Peace Patriot]

8. If Congress lets this stand--that the Bush Junta can "gag" Dodge--then it may well be

that our Constitution is dead.

[jasmeel]

9. That's what I was thinking! This is ridiculous!

[DFW]

10. It sounds like

Someone at 1600 smells a smoking gun that would
lead to impeachment being not only put back on the
table, but making it the main course.

[Gregorian]

12. They're no longer the Deciders.

The world will be better off without them. Go Waxman, et. al!

[annabanana]

13. k&r. . . . . . n/t