Final Jeopardy-Very essence of criminal conspiracy:By Elizabeth de la Vega

[kpete]

Final Jeopardy
By Elizabeth de la Vega
TomDispatch.com

Sunday 09 April 2006


After all, before the war, the existence of a crucial debate about whether pre-war intelligence justified an invasion of Iraq was not considered sufficient cause to impel President Bush to decide to declassify the NIE. After the war, when no weapons of mass destruction were being found, the existence of debate about pre-war intelligence did not impel Bush to declassify the NIE. Even today, most of the NIE, including the one-page President's Summary, is not declassified.

We now have sufficient information to frame the Final Jeopardy! question. This is it:

Is a President, on the eve of his reelection campaign, legally entitled to ward off political embarrassment and conceal past failures in t?e exercise of his office by unilaterally and informally declassifying selected - as well as false and misleading - portions of a classified National Intelligence Estimate that he has previously refused to declassify, in order to cause such information to be secretly disclosed under false pretenses in the name of a "former Hill staffer" to a single reporter, intending that reporter to publish such false and misleading information in a prominent national newspaper?

The answer is obvious: No. Such a misuse of authority is the very essence of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States. It is also precisely the abuse of executive power that led to the impeachment of Richard M. Nixon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041006P.shtml

[annabanana]

1. brilliant

(cue: "Jeopardy theme music.....)

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Okay. Now they're getting it.

Is he legally entitled? NO!!!! Are any of these power grabbing jerks legally entitled? No!!!

It's time to prosecute and stop this mess of an administration. This movement of elite government control must be turned around and the damage mended by legal restitution.