Cliff LyonLying BITCH!
From an email sent by Wexler’s office:
Today, in hearings on Capitol Hill, I confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her role in the lies, exaggerations, and misdirection that led us into the Iraq war.
During my questioning, Secretary Rice falsely stated that she never saw intelligence casting doubt on the Bush Administration claims that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. This unbelievable statement is flatly contradicted by numerous government reports and CIA testimonials.
Secretary Rice’s responses demonstrate once and for all that we need aggressive oversight over this out of control Administration. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has ignored the constitutional right of Congress to provide such oversight.
It is time Congress took aggressive action to assert our rights on behalf of the American people.
The House of Representatives must immediately hold former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten in contempt of Congress for their failure to respond to congressional subpoenas.
I have been aggressively lobbying Members of Congress to support a vote on contempt, and I am thrilled to report that Speaker Pelosi told me directly that she agrees it is well past time to vote on contempt. I am anticipating that the House will shortly vote on resolutions of both civil and criminal contempt for both Miers and Bolten.
No one should be immune from accountability and the rule of law.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Cliff, they announced they were going to provide disinformation (lie) when they opened shop after the supremecourt appointment back in 2001. Who needs another liar to affirm this?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Cliff, when was this hearing? You should note that the Congressman asking the question is Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL). Rep. Wexler has gathered almost 228,000 signatures to support impeachment hearings for VP Dick Cheney.
The top secret October 2002 Iraq NIE (PDF) that is being discussed has never been fully de-classified. It was produced to scare Congress into voting to authorize the use of military force. The unclassified “key judgments” Secretary Rice is referring to were cherry-picked by the Bush administration to make a case for pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. Very few members of Congress bothered to read the full, classified report that includes intelligence flatly contradicting the “key judgments.”
February 14th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Via Think Progress: the hearing was yesterday, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. They posted a transcript.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
You’re my bitch Cliff. Happy Valentines to my gay boy lover.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Right back at ‘cha you major chunk o’ man.
February 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Cock a doodle doo! We always knew…