U.S. senators to examine Bush's Iraq statements

posted by admin on Friday February 13, @05:38PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate intelligence committee has agreed to expand its review of intelligence on Iraq to examine whether the Bush administration accurately described the information it had on Saddam Hussein's weapons. The committee will examine "whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials (between the 1991 Gulf War and the Iraq War) were substantiated by intelligence information," committee leaders said in a statement.

The panel is nearing completion of a report expected to be extremely critical of the intelligence agencies' collection and analysis of prewar intelligence.

Since the inquiry began in June, Democrats have insisted that the commission also examine whether the administration distorted intelligence to help build the case for war. Republicans have refused and each side has accused the other of using the traditionally bipartisan committee for political purposes.

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Senate Hearing Demands Full Inquiry into Halliburton's Alledged Waste Fraud and Abuse

posted by admin on Friday February 13, @06:56AM

Senate hearing concludes with a demanded for hearings into whistleblowers charges of rampant waste fraud and abuse in their monopoly of contracts in the middle east.

Also examined during the hearing was the harm to fair prices created by the policy of excluding competition with the white house sanctioned monopoly of Halliburton.

Jarring examples were provided by the panel of former employees/consultants and watchdog group ??? But the most outrageous were the ones that contrasted waste such as corporate logos being expensed and stamped on gear while soliders are lacking even basic equipment that would help save their lives such as flak-jackets and armor plated vehicals.

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LA Times: SenateÂ’s Iraq Probe to Include Bush, Aides

posted by admin on Friday February 13, @03:04AM

WASHINGTON — In a blow to the Bush administration, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that it planned to investigate whether White House officials exaggerated the Iraq threat or pressured analysts to tailor their assessments of Baghdad's weapons programs to bolster the case for war.

The move puts claims made by President Bush and other senior officials in his administration squarely in the sights of the committee's investigation, and could add to the White House's political troubles as it tries to keep questions about the war from becoming a drag on Bush's reelection campaign

http://www.latimes.com

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Evidence of Possible Criminal Misconduct in Plame Affair

posted by admin on Thursday February 05, @11:18AM

UPI's Richard Sale

Federal law enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year.

The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.

According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby were the two Cheney employees.

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The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah "that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time," as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law enforcement official said.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com

"Hannah, by the way, is a "senior national security aide" for Cheney, and was, in fact, the administration's main point of contact with Chalabi's INC."

http://www.dailykos.com

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Did Powell Mislead The Nation As Well? Apparently...

posted by admin on Saturday August 09, @11:13AM

Point by Point, a Look Back at a 'thick' File, a Fateful Six Months Later The Most Detailed U.S. Case for Invading Iraq Was Laid

UPDATED: Washington Post weighs in...

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By Charles J. Hanley The Associated Press
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAO4TLT5JD.html
Published: Aug 9, 2003

On a Baghdad evening last February, in a stiflingly warm conference room high above the city's streets, Iraqi bureaucrats, European envoys and foreign reporters crowded before a half dozen television screens to hear the reading of an indictment.

"There are many smoking guns," Colin Powell would say afterward.

For 80 minutes in a hushed U.N. Security Council chamber in New York, the U.S. secretary of state unleashed an avalanche of allegations: The Iraqis were hiding chemical and biological weapons, were secretly working to make more banned arms, were reviving their nuclear bomb project. He spoke of "the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction pose to the world."

It was the most comprehensive presentation of the U.S. case for war. Powell marshaled what were described as intercepted Iraqi conversations, reconnaissance photos of Iraqi sites, accounts of defectors, and other intelligence sources.

The defectors and other sources went unidentified. The audiotapes were uncorroborated, as were the photo interpretations. No other supporting documents were presented. Little was independently verifiable.

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911Archive (Pt.4)

posted by ewing2001 on Monday August 04, @12:11PM
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911Archive (Pt.3)

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday July 22, @08:22AM
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911Archive (Pt.2)

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911Archive (Pt.1)

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday July 22, @05:56AM
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911 Archive

Another attempt to archive every many investigative angles of the Sep11th story.

The goal was to strictly organise it alphabetically, which might be impossible.We decided now to start another archive as a developing series, based on the latest google-results related to "911Skeptics Unite-the encyclopedia". The results will be soon moved into an own section, "911Archive".

To be continued...

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