Saturday, October 29, 2005

BUSH'S NEMESIS Lewis Libby, chief of staff to vice-president Cheney, was charged with five counts in connection with the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name: obstruction of justice, making a false statement, and perjury, for lying to the grand jury convened to investigate the matter. The indictment (pdf). There are more people involved in this affair, and it is highly probable that Rove, Cheney and Bush knew about this and approved it. But the matter goes further than this, it's all about the decision making in going to war and we know the Bush administration has lied time after time in flagrant contempt of Congress and the Courts. Nadler: "In the wake of the special grand jury's handing up of an indictment in the CIA leak investigation, Congressman Jerrold Nadler renewed his call for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to expand his investigation into whether the Bush administration engaged in a deliberate campaign to deceive Congress into authorizing war in Iraq. Nadler released the following statement: 'Today's events only confirm that we need to know answers to the larger question: did this Administration deliberately lie to Congress in order to obtain its authorization to go to war? 'The mounting evidence already uncovered by Mr. Fitzgerald - including the formation of the White House Iraq Group, grants of special press access in exchange for Pentagon censorship, and, of course, White House officials' false statements under oath - raises grave questions about the conduct of the President and his staff surrounding the case for war in Iraq. Two thousand Americans are dead. We need to get the facts out in the open." Bush's record of fraud is a long one. From illegal fundraising, - abuse of civil rights: "All US passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced", - breakdown of social security: "A key House committee late Thursday approved a proposal to curb Medicaid spending by about $9.5 billion by the end of the decade, advancing a plan to slow spending on the federal government's health care program for the poor and disabled." - to incompetence: "In a widening scandal at the United States Special Operations Command, federal investigators are looking into a bribery scheme as well as accusations of improper influence involving millions of dollars in battlefield equipment used by Navy Seals and Army Green Berets and Rangers." - his failure as Commander-in-Chief, the use of torture and his breach of international laws, Bush comes forward as the worst president America ever had. But the flak is on: CommonDreams: "Disarmament advocacy groups in the United States scored a major victory this week as Congress decided not to provide any funds for research on a new nuclear weapons program for the coming financial year." Wired: "Federal law enforcement attempts to use cell phones as tracking devices were rebuked twice this month by lower court judges, who say the government cannot get real time tracking information on citizens without showing probable cause." SFGate: "Eliminating poverty in America is more important than fighting terrorism, U.S. troops should be pulled out of Iraq, and money saved on war should be used to rebuild hurricane-scarred New Orleans, according to a national poll." George W. Bush has lost all credibility and legitimacy. 12:35:17 PM

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