FYI: Fraud. Tampering with intelligence. Ruining the career of a CIA operative. Misleading the American public and Congress to believe that Iran poses and imminent threat. This is the familiar run-up to invasion of yet another nation.

Congressional Resolution 362 and Senate Resolution 580 open the door to a blockade of Iran, defined as an act of war. I believe that immediate impeachment of Bush and Cheney may be the only way we can avoid a conflagration in the mid-East. -- LB

Published on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 by the Washington Post
Former Agent Says CIA Ignored Findings on Iran, by Joby Warrick

WASHINGTON - A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now says that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.

The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court late Friday asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time.

The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Details of his allegation have not been made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret.

The consensus view on Iran’s nuclear program shifted in December with the release of an intelligence report that concluded that Iran halted work on nuclear weapons design in 2003. The publication of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran undermined the CIA’s rationale for censoring the former officer’s lawsuit, said his lawyer, Roy Krieger.

“On five occasions he was ordered to either falsify his reporting . . . or not to file,” Krieger said.

In court documents and in statements by his lawyer, the former officer says that his 22-year CIA career collapsed after he questioned CIA doctrine about the nuclear programs of Iraq and Iran.

He was assigned undercover work in the Persian Gulf region, where he recruited an informant with information on Iran’s nuclear program, Krieger said.

The informant provided evidence that Tehran had halted its research into building a nuclear weapon, court papers said. Yet, when the operative sought to file reports, his attempts were “thwarted by CIA employees,” the documents say.

CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano declined to comment on the specifics but rejected the allegation about suppressed reports. “It would be wrong to suggest that agency managers direct their officers to falsify the intelligence they collect,” he said.

© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.

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Every piece of legislation passed in Congress was passed INSTEAD of IMPEACHMENT. Has any bill passed that you value more than your amendment rights, habeas corpus, or constitutional law?

1.Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19] - 6/11/2008
2. Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 6/11/2008
3. Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 6/11/2008
4. Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 6/18/2008
5. Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 6/18/2008
6. Rep. Sam Farr [CA-17] - 6/24/2008

WE WANT JIM MCDERMOTT TO COSIGN HRES. 1258 NEXT. PLEASE CREATE A TORRENT OF CALLS AND EMAILS TO HIS OFFICE: Seattle Office: (206) 553-7170


Email his Seattle aide, James Allen: james.allen@mail.house.gov
or his Seattle aide, Darcy Nothnagle: Darcy.nothnagle@mail.house.gov


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From Elizabeth de la Vega -- Opening statements we would like to hear at Bush's IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS!
Part III: Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee Regarding the Articles of Impeachment

I want to speak to you about the Articles of Impeachment Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced on June 9, 2008. There are, as you know, thirty-five of them and they allege violations of just about as many U.S. and international laws.

When I first sat down to write this statement, I planned to discuss the evidence and the law that relates to some of those violations, just as I would do if I were presenting a case to a jury at the beginning of a trial. But I’ve decided not to do that. Instead, I am going to follow the wise counsel Abigail Adams gave to her husband John and just speak plainly.

I believe that most of you know what the evidence would show.

You know that the President has admitted violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. You know that the President of the United States has admitted committing a crime, but there has been no consequence.

You know that the President has caused his subordinates and agents to refuse to comply with duly-authorized subpoenas from Congress. It has happened over and over again.

And many of you are lawyers, some former prosecutors and even judges: You know what the law says about criminal responsibility. Under the law of the United States, anyone who “willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another” or who “aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures” the commission of an act is just as culpable as the person who commits the act. That is not some strange legal theory -- it’s what your professors would have called “black-letter law.”

read more: http://www.pubrecord.org/index.php?opti ... amp;id=130:kucinichs-articles-of-impeachment-a-three-part-guide&catid=8:commentary&Itemid=11

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BRUCE FEIN COMMENTARY:
http://www.democrats.com/node/16939

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?opti ... mival=1741

A VIDEO CLIP UP ON DAILY KOS:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/20 ... 901/539128

Action: Please call the Judiciary Committee to urge them to open impeachment hearings now.
202-225-3951

Call the Congressional Switchboard to leave a message for your Representative:
Toll free: 1-800-828-0498, 1-800-788-9372

Article XIV - Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency

(1) suppressed material information;

(2) selectively declassified information for the improper purposes of retaliating against a whistleblower and presenting a misleading picture of the alleged threat from Iraq;

(3) facilitated the exposure of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson who had theretofore been employed as a covert CIA operative;

(4) failed to investigate the improper leaks of classified information from within his administration;

(5) failed to cooperate with an investigation into possible federal violations resulting from this activity; and

(6) finally, entirely undermined the prosecution by commuting the sentence of Lewis Libby citing false and insubstantial grounds, all in an effort to prevent Congress and the citizens of the United States from discovering the deceitful nature of the President's claimed justifications for the invasion of Iraq.


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06/20/2008 @ 12:47 pm
Filed by Nick Juliano

Less than 24 hours after introducing a controversial measure to expand President Bush's authority to spy on Americans, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Friday voted to approve the administration- and Republican-supported bill, sending it to the Senate where it will likely be adopted.

Civil liberties and privacy advocates forcefully panned the measure, which was crafted behind closed doors in negotiations among moderate Democrats, Republicans, the White House and telecommunications lobbyists.

"It’s Christmas morning at the White House thanks to this vote," Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, said in a news release. "The House just wrapped up some expensive gifts for the administration and their buddies at the phone companies."

Friday's vote represented the beginning of the end in a legislative battle aimed at reining in the warrantless surveillance program Bush acknowledged instituting after 9/11.you know why I am."

read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/House_vot ... _0620.html

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http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll431.xml

WA State Delegation voting Yes on HR 2642: Baird, Larsen, Dicks, Reichert, Hastings, McMorris Rogers,

voting No: Inslee, McDermott, Smith

Published on Friday, June 20, 2008 by the San Francisco Chronicle
House Approves $162 Billion War-Spending Bill
by Zachary Coile
The House approved the largest war-spending bill to date Thursday, bending to President Bush’s call for $162 billion in war funding with no strings attached and giving his successor enough money to wage the wars until July 2009.

In exchange, Democrats won Bush’s blessing for several of their domestic priorities, including a 13-week extension of jobless benefits for workers who have exhausted theirs, and a new GI bill benefit allowing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to attend a state college tuition-free.

The deal, negotiated between the White House and allies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, takes the issue of the war off Congress’ plate for the rest of this election year. Lawmakers also intended to give the next president some time to set a new Iraq policy before having to return to Congress for more money.

But anti-war activists called it a betrayal by Democrats, who had pledged to end the war. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, dubbed it “the biggest blank check ever.” Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, said the vote was a “profound disappointment to the millions of Americans who put Democrats into power hoping we could force a change in Iraq.”
read more:http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/20/9765/

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RETIRED GEN. TAGUBA: BUSH ADMINISTRATION COMMITTED "WAR CRIMES"

ABC News
June 19, 2008

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch ... n-tag.html

Writing the forward [sic] to a Physicians for Human Rights study of 11
former detainees who were apparently tortured by US military personnel
and later released, Army Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.) writes
that "there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current
administration has committed war crimes. The only question that
remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture
will be held to account."

Taguba, who led the Army's official investigation into the Abu Ghraib
scandal, says that the report from the doctors' human rights group
based in Cambridge, Mass., "tells the largely untold human story of
what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief
and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture. This
story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of
these individuals' lives on their bodies and minds. Our national honor
is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received
from their captors."

The report -- titled *Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of
Torture by U.S. Personnel and Its Impact* -- details medical
evaluations of 11 former detainees held by the U.S. military in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. None were ever charged with any
crime; all have since been released. The report describes how the 11
detainees suffered alleged beatings, sodomy, electric shock,
involuntary medication, threats to their lives and families,
shacklings, sleep deprivation, and other forms of abuse.

Taguba says "these men deserve justice as required under the tenets of
international law and the United States Constitution. And so do the
American people."

ACTION: Urge McDermott and our entire Congressional Delegation to support HREs. 1258 to impeach Bush:
Toll free Congressional Switchboard: 1-800-828-0498, 1-800-788-9372
Leave a message for entire House Judiciary Committee: (202) 225-3951


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It's 'peachment season!

Across Washington State, Impeachment supporters are delivering peaches to local offices of their Representatives to urge them to cosponsor HREs. 1258, to impeach GW Bush. The only other honorable course would be to present their own resolution supporting immediate commencment of impeachment hearings.

Canned, fresh, organic or baked. Give 'em a nice juicy sweet peach!

Impeachment - so sweet and delicious,
Linda Boyd
Washington for Impeachment







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Friends,

Please take a moment to respond to the Seattle Times' and Seattle PI's articles and editorials on Guantanamo, and the Supreme Court ruling affirming rights to Habeas Corpus. Remind them that IMPEACHMENT IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDY FOR TYRANNY. Urge the "fourth estate" to demand impeachment! Letters should be 200 words or less, please remember to include your address and phone number:
opinion@seattletimes.com
editpage@seattlepi.com

Please copy your letter to the House Judiciary Committee. Urge them to impeach now:
http://judiciary.house.gov/Contact.aspx

Here are links to the articles and editorials, and below is some supporting information and two great cartoons.

Seattle Times Editorial: Unlawful Detention, Instrument of Tyranny
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/e ... ted15.html

Many Gitmo detainees had flimsy ties to terror:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... ain15.html

It's a crime that 'Gitmo' even remains open
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/parvaz/36 ... vaz14.html

Impeachment is coming, let's keep it on the table!

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Here are links to Articles of Impeachment against George Bush with charges concerning illegal detention and torture, and the "secret laws" that subvert the US and International Law:

Article XVII - Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives
Article XVIII - Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy
Article XIX - Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to 'Black Sites' Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture
Article XX - Imprisoning Children
Article XXII - Creating Secret Laws

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Here's what I wrote to the PI:

Editors:

I agree with Parvaz that the prison at Guantanamo and the kangaroo courts known as military commissions are a crime indeed. A war crime, and an impeachable offense:

ARTICLE XVII.--ILLEGAL DETENTION: DETAINING INDEFINITELY AND WITHOUT CHARGE PERSONS BOTH U.S. CITIZENS AND FOREIGN CAPTIVES

…The president, acting on his own claimed authority, has declared the hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be ``enemy combatants'' not subject to US law and not even subject to military law, but nonetheless potentially liable to the death penalty.

The detention of individuals without due process violates the 5th Amendment. While the Bush administration has been rebuked in several court cases, most recently that of Ali al-Marri, it continues to attempt to exceed constitutional limits.

In all of these actions violating US and International law, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
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Tom Krebsbach comments:

The Seattle Times is running an excellent 5 part series starting today on the detainees held at Guantanamo. The first part is here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... in15.html. The series was researched and written by reporters with McClatchy Newspapers. It demonstrates how almost all of the detainees had little to do with terrorism even though they were held for years and years.

The fact that the U.S. Supreme Court barely managed to uphold Habeas Corpus last week in a 5-4 decision assures that the vast majority of those held will eventually be released with no conviction. That may be probably the strongest indictment of the Bush Administration policies and the people who put them into effect. Not to be exonerated is the Democratic Party which stood by helplessly and did nothing while all this took place.

If this country is ever to be exonerated from all the excesses of the last few years, people must press endlessly for the prosecution and total discrediting of authorities who set these policies or did nothing to overturn them. At the very least people should continue to demand that Bush, Cheney, Addington, Rumsfeld, Yoo, and others be charged, prosecuted, and imprisoned for as long as they walk this earth. People like Pelosi and Reid should be endlessly criticized, stigmatized, and ostracized for as long as they walk this earth.

Glenn Greenwald points out how craven and gutless Democrats are in this piece: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/14/9634/. I just don't know how anybody can have anything to do with that party anymore.

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Action item: Saturday, June 14, 12-2 Honk to Impeach Bush and Cheney, Honk NO IRAN WAR -- 12-2 p.m., NE 8th and Bellevue Way

Immediately afterwards: Celebrate 35 Articles of Impeachment Against George Bush!

Dear Friends,

What a week! Finally, Thirty five Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush! http://www.impeachbush.tv/progress/dk_aoi_bush/

We are for: Accountability; restoring the Bill of Rights; peace; closing Gitmo; ending war; stopping torture; troops coming home; education for all; healthcare for all; US budget surplus; clean water; civil rights; a healthy earth -- for humanity.

Please join us for a "HONK TO IMPEACH" roadside blogging event for peace and impeachment on Saturday, April 26, 12-2 p.m., Bellevue Way and NE 8th Street in downtown Bellevue. We will provide flyers about the 35 Articles of Impeachment Against George Bush and signs to hold.

Come celebrate this milestone with us after the vigil!

Psst, impeachment is on the table. Spread the word,
Linda Boyd
Washington For Impeachment



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