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Bush's Executive Privilege Stonewalling: What Will Happen Next?
 

Bush's Executive Privilege Stonewalling: What Will Happen Next?

If Bush keeps ignoring the separation of powers, Congress has a few options, including imprisoning witnesses who refuse subpoenas in the Capitol basement.

Miers and Bolten Facing Contempt Charge
 

Miers and Bolten Facing Contempt Charge

If the court does not overrule executive privilege claims and hold Miers and Bolten in contempt, House Democrats will have to face some difficult choices.

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Senate Intel Committee Bloodies Bush's Nose
    By Larry C. Johnson
    t r u t h o u t | Perspective

    Friday 08 September 2006

    The evidence proves we were lied into an illegal war.

  Here's the down and dirty on the questions about Iraq's links to terrorism:

    1. Postwar findings indicate that Saddam Hussein was distrustful
of al-Qa'ida and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime,
refusing all requests from al-Aq'ida to provide material or
operational support.

    2. Postwar findings have identified only one meeting between
representatives of al-Qa'ida and Saddam Hussein's regime reported in
prewar intelligence assessments. Postwar findings have identified two
occasions, not reported prior to the war, in which Saddam Hussein
rebuffed meeting requests from an al-Qa'ida operative.

    3. Postwar findings support the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
February 2002 assessment that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was likely
intentionally misleading his debriefers when he said that Iraq
provided two al-Qa'ida associates with chemical and biological weapons
(CBW) training in 2000.... No postwar information has been found that
indicates CBW training occurred and the detainee who provided the key
prewar reporting about this training recanted his claims after the
war.

    4. Postwar findings support the April 2002 Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) assessment that there was no credible reporting on
al-Qa'ida training at Salman Pak or anywhere else in Iraq.

    5. Postwar information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted,
unsuccessfully to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and that the regime
did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward
Zarqawi.

    6. Postwar information indicates that the Intelligence Community
accurately assessed that al-Qa'ida affiliate group Ansar al-Islam
operated in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Iraq, an area that Baghdad
had not controlled since 1991.

    7. Postwar information supports prewar Intelligence community
assessments that there was no credible information that Iraq was
complicit in or had foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks or any
other al-Qa'ida strike...

    8. No postwar information indicates that Iraq intended to use
al-Qa'ida or any other terrorist group to strike the United States
homeland before or during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an
international business-consulting firm that helps corporations and
governments manage threats posed by terrorism and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence
Agency and US State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism (as a
Deputy Director), is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism,
aviation security, crisis and risk management. Mr. Johnson has
analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim
Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today
Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has
authored several articles for publications including Security
Management Magazine, the New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. He
has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world.
 

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