Ashcroft: Justice Department probe will be adequate

[UpInArms]

http://www.arkansasnbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1463653

Washington-AP -- Attorney General John Ashcroft insists a Justice Department probe of the White House will be thorough.

It's aimed at finding out who revealed the name of a C-I-A operative. Her cover was blown after her husband, a former U- S ambassador in Africa, questioned the Bush administration's claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium there.

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Since it's a criminal matter, Ashcroft is giving few details. He also refused to answer any questions -- such as why he didn't name an independent counsel.

(very short newsblurb)

[LearnedHand]

1. Sure, it will be! Right!

And you would have accepted this answer from President Clinton, too, right? </sarcasm>

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. No it won't be, it's a conflict of interest

This compromised national security and it appears someone in the WH jihad needs a cubicle in GITMO

[w13rd0]

3. Like hell it will...

...someone put John Asscrack on the list for people we need to pummel...oh, wait, he's already entered several times...

[young_at_heart]

4. This from a man who can't handle breasts on a statue

Name one thing this man has done to inspire confidence that he will "take care of it". Let's hope the Dem leaders remember the stupid Whitewater mess and demand the Independent Counsel as the only possible course here. Bush Administration arrogance is truly amazing!

[saigon68]

11. He can't handle a piece of toilet paper

He can't work the handle on a toilet either. He loves the death penalty.

[peacetalksforall]

5. He couldn't find one eensy weensy tidbit on the put options....

this is equally wrong....
they're going to quiet this down...
put it on hold for a year...
and announce that there is nothing there
in the meantime, the right wing congress will probably get that law disclosure law changed to cinch the deal.

Put options. Nothing. Disclosure. Nothing, nothing there.

[thebigidea]

6. So sayeth the Chief Witchfinder Proctological General

thorough be thy probe
thy will is deranged
thy rapture unattainable.

[cliss]

7. Yes, the Justice Department will be adequate...

adequate in trying to bury the whole deal.

Fat chance of that happening now. This story is reverberating around the globe, as we speak. They are discussing it over breakfast in China. In India, they shake their heads, tsk tsk and say 'bad, bad Karma'. In Sweden, they are politely listening to the news as they get up in the morning, and shake their heads.

In Borneo, the jungle drums are beating feverishly, 'Karl is the Kulprit, so is his buddy Dick the Nitwit'.

[sattahipdeep]

13. Sorry couldn't resist

In Borneo, the jungle drums are beating feverishly, asscracks little body dick is inadequate.

[madrchsod]

8. he will blame the whole thing

on a three colored cat.

[schultzee]

9. He will blame it on Clinton's penis. lol

I heard that Rush is blaming Clinton already.

[leesa]

10. Don't even waste our money on a pretend investigation by Asscroft

Go straight to an independent investigator....one with NO TIES to either this administration or Congress. And then...investigation of White House ties to 9-11.

[hail to the thief]

12. Clinton caused the jonestown massacre too

It goes without saying that the Repug's blame Clinton for everthing since the Lincoln Assasination lol. They have this Clinton addiction, it's not healthy. Anyway, does anybody think Herr Ashcroft can be impartial? with his ties to pig boy Rove? It's like asking Trent Lott to look into ways to increase fundraising for the NAACP! It's not gonna happen.

[dArKeR]

14. Van A. Harp? Or another croney to cover it up like the Anthrax cover up

FBI official charged with obstruction after concealing Ruby Ridge report
(Harp was in on this too and now he heads the anthrax cover-up.)
http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/22/ruby.ridge.final/


Lost In Translation
Edmonds says that the supervisor, in an effort to slow her down, went so far as to erase completed translations from her FBI computer after she'd left work for the day.
“The next day I would come to work, turn on my computer and the work would be gone. The translation would be gone,” she says. “Then I had to start all over again and retranslate the same document. And I went to my supervisor and he said, ‘Consider it a lesson and don't talk about it to anybody else and don't mention it.’”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml


Busting the FBI
The Judi Bari verdict bares government lies and deceit
They found that six agents of the FBI and the Oakland police twisted a murder attempt against Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, two Earth First! activists working to reform logging practices
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/31/news-kuipers.php


Fighting an FBI frame-up
An Earth First! member relates how she and Darryl Cherney were framed by the FBI for a car bombing that nearly killed them. The frame-up was one of a long series of events in the FBI's campaign against the environmental movement. It has been four years since Darryl Cherney and I were nearly killed in a 1990 car-bomb assassination attempt, then arrested for possession of the bomb
http://www.wildrockies.org/cove/news/62194nw.html


Did The FBI Destroy Evidence?
The FBI and prosecutors ordered the destruction in 1999 of evidence from a bank robbery they once suspected linked Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to white supremacists who were threatening before McVeigh's bombing to attack the government, documents show.
The evidence included a surveillance videotape of a bank robbery by some of the supremacists that occurred in Ohio five months before the bombing. The FBI lab compared the tape to pictures of McVeigh, but concluded a match was "inconclusive," internal memos show.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/national/main540266.shtml


FBI Whistleblower Harassed
Special agent John Roberts says he was threatened, intimidated and humiliated for exposing what he said has become a pattern of misconduct at the highest levels of the FBI and that has gone unpunished.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/25/60minutes/main530750.shtml


FBI Meeting Called A Sham
A Justice Department investigation into a 1997 retirement dinner for former FBI Deputy Director Larry A. Potts said senior bureau executives used a sham conference at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Va., to justify using taxpayer funds for cross-country travel to Washington.
http://www.americansovereign.com/newsarchive/fbisham.htm


Phone records: Link from state official to FBI
Deputy AG reportedly sought federal aid to find missing Democrats
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/politics/state/stories/061103dntexdps.aca2d.html


The FBI is conducting an exhaustive review of each of its thousands of human intelligence sources to ensure the information they provide is accurate and that their relationships with FBI handlers are proper.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/28/national/main551346.shtml


Earth Threatened, Wen Ho Lee Released
http://unquietmind.com/wenholee.html

Wen Ho Lee is Just one more example of FBI Misdirection. Many elements of the case are similar to Unabomber Charade. Together they are textbook examples of Government tactics on Black Ops.
http://www.unabombers.com/z23.htm

http://www.wenholee.org/


FBI Agent, Turner, blew whistle on Ground Zero, 911, theft.
She says she immediately reported the problem to a federal prosecutor, then to her supervisor, and waited for him to act.
Two weeks later, after nothing apparently had been done, Turner seized the globe, bagged it as evidence and took it to Justice Department officials in Washington.
(She's being fired.)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907004.asp?0cv=CB10


Poll: 4 out of 10 Americans don't trust FBI
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-05-22-mcveigh-pollstory.htm


With defense lawyers stepping up challenges to genetic evidence, the Justice Department inspector general is examining the FBI lab unit that analyzes DNA in hundreds of cases a year after a technician was caught failing to follow proper procedure.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/11/tech/main543575.shtml


FBI says it withheld evidence from McVeigh lawyers
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/05/10/mcveigh.evidence.02/

Nichols: FBI Withheld On Purpose
A lawyer for Terry Nichols, who was convicted as Timothy McVeigh's assistant in the Oklahoma City bombing, claimed the FBI may have intentionally withheld documents from defense lawyers and misled federal prosecutors.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/05/14/national/main291113.shtml