BLACKMAIL Is Reason For NO Oversight By Congress: SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust...Not

[kpete]

SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust...Not

The former FBI translator and whistleblower suggests blackmail may be at the heart of Congressional refusal to bring accountability and oversight to its own members - such as both Hastert and Harman - in matters of espionage and national security

Exclusive to The BRAD BLOG...

Guest Editorial by Sibel Edmonds

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The recent stunning but not unexpected revelations regarding Jane Harman (D-CA) by the Congressional Quarterly provide us with a little glimpse into one of the main reasons behind the steady decline in the integrity of Congress. But the story is almost dead - ready to bite the dust, thanks to our mainstream media's insistence on burying 'real' issues or stories that delve deep into the causes of our nation's continuous downward slide. In this particular case, the 'thank you' should also be extended to certain blogosphere propagandists who, blinded by their partisanship, myopic in their assessments, and ignorant in their knowledge of the inner workings of our late Congress and intelligence agencies, helped in the post-burial cremation of this case.

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All for One, One for All?

How does it work? How do these people escape the consequences of accountability? Are we talking about the possible use of blackmail by the Executive Branch against Congressional representatives, as if the days of J. Edgar Hoover were never over? Cases such as NSA illegal eavesdropping come to mind, when Congressional members were briefed long before it became public, yet none took any action or even uttered a word; members of both parties. Or is it more likely to be a case of secondhand blackmail, where members of Congress watch out for each other? Or, is it a combination of the above? Regardless, we see this 'all for one, one for all' kind of solidarity in Congress when it comes to criminal conduct and scandals such as those of Hastert and Harman.

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But, let's not forget, the misuse of incriminating information, for the purpose of blackmail, does not turn the practitioner of the wrongful deed into a victim, nor does it make the wrongful criminal deed less wrong. Instead of spinning the story, taking away attention from the facts in hand, and making Harman a victim, we must focus on this case, on Harman, as an example of a very serious disease that has infected our Congress for far too long. Those who have been entrusted with the oversight and accountability of our government cannot do so if they are vulnerable to such blackmail from the very same people they are overseeing…Period.



much more at:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7117

[spanone]

1. i bet cheney has a dossier on every member of congress....

nominated

[Octafish]

15. IMFO, he closed the one on Wellstone.

What was it that Hersh said? Oh, yeah: assassinations were only overseas.

Then again, the PATRIOT Act gave them power to classify U.S. citizens as enemies of the state without trial.

[bvar22]

35. !

"At a meeting full of war veterans in Willmar, Minn., days before his death, Wellstone told attendees that Cheney told him, "If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota."

http://www.opednews.com/thoreau1203_wellstone_assassinated.htm

[SammyWinstonJack]

40. cheney! What a rat bastard he is!

:grr:

[janet118]

47. This article appeared in The Nation five months before . . .

Wellstone died on October 25, 2002.

Paul Wellstone, Fighter by John Nichols.

Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not just another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be decided by the voters of a single state. Rather, getting rid of Wellstone is a passion for Rove, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the special-interest lobbies that fund the most sophisticated political operation ever assembled by a presidential administration.

In the week before his death, despite his vote against the Iraq War Resolution, Wellstone was comfortably ahead in the polls.

[truedelphi]

67. Wasn't it odd that just two weeks before that crash -

A major warning went out that Al Queda was saying it wanted to ahrmand murder Senators. then Wellstone's palne drops out of the sky, with one witnes reporting seeing a fire aboard, and the NTSB says it was not terrorist related - almost immediately they make that statement.

Some in the know also are aware that Cheney threatened Wellstone.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. KR&B!

:kick: Rec & Bookmarked!

Go, Sibel! :woohoo:

[wildbilln864]

3. k&r! I've suspected this since Joe Cannon ....

speculated about it on his blog.

"Their specialty now is providing loans to people with poor credit histories. They also -- oddly enough -- sell furniture.

This is noteworthy. Readers will recall that MZM -- run by Wilkes' friend and former employee Mitchell Wade, another man with a CIA background -- reportedly supplied furniture to the West Wing of the White House, an odd task for a firm devoted to intelligence and defense. (According to this story, MZM provided furniture and computers to Cheney's offices.) I have speculated, in the past, that this "furniture" was bugged. "
link

:hi:

[leveymg]

41. Why bug Cheney? He was one of the most reliable bastards in town

We know that MZM was part of the "Team B" group involved with Office of Special Plans (OSP) and CIA WINPAC in falsifying Iraq WMD evidence. MZM was on the receiving end of contracts obtained through Cunningham and the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) which ran a vast domestic surveillance operation. Loads of blackmail potential through that wiretapping. Sure.

Foggo was linked in with Wade-Wilkes, to which the Washington Madam was connected. No doubt, juicy blackmail potential also there.

But, why bug and blackmail Cheney?

Seems more likely these payments from Cheney's office were padded to cover payments to MZM for something else, like the Iran opposition group Wilkes was running. Who knows, maybe the computers were for other purpose, perhaps some sort of back-channels communications.

Lots of questions. Anyone have answers?

[seemslikeadream]

61. Whoa!

Thanks b :hi:

[seemslikeadream]

72. Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers Group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344

[BluePatriot21]

4. K & friggin R

No Justice
No Accountability
No Freedom
No Peace
No Middle Class Bailout
No Lower Class Bailout

but we do get

Free No Bid contracts to lobbying corporations
Free Bailouts to Wall Street, The Banks, AIG etc
Free $700 Billion in defense spending each year as it grows
Free AIPAC Spy programs and free lobbyist influence over our countries policies
Free Taxpayer Bailouts to Usrael to kill Palestinians for more condos
Free Torture, murder and Illegal wars into Iraq
Free reign over the rewriting of the laws as they see fit.
Free Tax cuts to the elite rich pigs
Free dumb and we will never achieve Freedom if they have their way.

[rhett o rick]

6. So, in the words of Dickhead Cheney, "What are you going to do about it?". nm

[omega minimo]

5. too meny wordz

:cry:

[jtrockville]

7. THIS is why a "truth commission" on torture is not acceptable.

We need an independent special prosecutor, to ensure the people doing the investigating aren't complicit.

[snappyturtle]

59. Absolutely! nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. That was my guess.

[diane in sf]

9. I've always thought this was going on, phone bugging, email reading--

remember how the rethuglicans had access to all the congressional Dems emails?

[KoKo]

11. Remember it was two instances of Dem Congress E-Mails being read...

and there was barely a peep about it out of our Dems. Orin Hatch's aide was responsible for one instance. Yet we hear that Orin and Ted Kennedy are good buddies. :eyes: Remember when Kennedy passed out at inauguration party and Orin Hatch was his spokesperson that he knew Teddy would be ok because he gave him an "Irish Smile" as he was placed in the ambulance?

[KoKo]

10. The Harman story died once Lefty Bloggers came to her defense

blaming it all on Porter Goss.

The story has died, as Sibel says.

K&R... A few of us still want the truth out.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. Yes,

I am sure I want to recommend this thread!

:kick:

[tomp]

13. blackmail/coercion shouldn't work on patriotic public officials.

you speak the truth, you defend your country, period. it's in the job description. no excuses.

[sixmile]

14. If those high ideals were enforced

Washngton would be empty save for low-level bureaucrats!

[tomp]

23. care to explain?

are you saying our country is devoid of patriots willing and capable of carrying out the tasks of government without being susceptible to blackmail and coercion? and people say i'm cynical.

[RaleighNCDUer]

33. Government is all about deal making, in the modern context.

And a LOT of congress critters who do nothing illegal would, nonetheless, be susceptible to blackmail if the compromises they made were known to their constituents, in that they would be subject to losing their seats in the next election. Additionally, there is the 'Six Degrees of Separation from Abramof' game which can always be played - maybe THEY did nothing, but they work closely with X who DID take Abramof money...

Blackmail and bribery. Remember, in "Mr Smith Goes to Washington", Smith did NOTHING wrong, but they made it look like he had to get him to do their will. Nothing has changed.

[tomp]

64. it doesn't have to be that way.

the players make the game. the game serves the rich. neither the players nor the rich care one bit about the country. they are not patriotic.

[Raksha]

34. That would be fine with me!

Re If those high ideals were enforced Washngton would be empty save for low-level bureaucrats!

With a few notable exceptions like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders, I can't think of anything that would do more for America than starting from scratch with REAL representatives who actually represent the people who elected them.

[varelse]

16. K&R

[malaise]

17. Many DUers suspected that the wiretapping

was to facilitate blackmail.

No surprise here

[CaptJasHook]

18. Same as it ever was...... Same as it ever was.....

Nothing new under the sun. Why does it surprise?

[valerief]

19. Right. The Mafia is running the country. nt

[Joanne98]

20. Pelosi shut down the Sibel Edmond investigation! I'm SHOCKED!

In March 2007, I was contacted by one of Rep. Waxman's staff people who felt responsible and conscientious enough to at least let me know that there would never be a hearing into my case by their office, or for that matter, any Democratic office in the House. Based on his/her account, in February 2007 Waxman's office was preparing the necessary ingredients for their promised hearing, but in mid-March the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, called Waxman into a meeting on the case, and after Waxman came out of that twenty-minute meeting, he told his staff 'we are no longer involved in Edmonds' case.' And so they became 'uninvolved.'

:sarcasm:

[ajeffersonian]

Great non-partisan piece

Way to go Sibel. As usual hard-hitting and non-biased. We should all take a lesson. Just pay attention to the facts and leave ideology out of it - both sides have corruption.

[StateSecrets]

21. K & R

[antigop]

22. K&R. n/t

[L. Coyote]

24. Bull Crap. A lot of speculation devoid of facts.

This author's credibility just took a dive!

[ajeffersonian]

44. You must be reading a different OpEd

L. Coyote:
What are you reading? Is it speculation that Hastert is now lobbying for Turkey? That he profited from his position with his "land deal"? Is it speculation that Harman was captured on a wiretap? Is it speculation that the AIPAC case was dropped? Is it speculation that Harman supported the Iraq war, and the Patriot Act, and NSA wiretapping of Americans? Do you think Sibel is "speculating" about her SCIF sessions? How many facts do you need? It seems to me that it is your comment that is clearly "devoid of facts"

[juno jones]

62. Thanx for the rundown of the FACTS in this case.

Welcome to DU!

Good to have comprehensive readers here. :hi:

[BlueJessamine]

25. There is at least some evidence that the Bush Administration blackmailed

Rep. Jane Harman into supporting the NSA’s warrantless spying program—

David Lindorff Baltimore Chronicle excerpt:

Now that we have seen proof that the administration was not above using its NSA-acquired knowledge to pressure a member of Congress, it becomes absolutely essential that Congress and the Justice Department investigate to see whether other members of Congress were also victims of agency spying, and whether others besides Rep. Harmon were similarly extorted or otherwise compromised.

The American public can, at this point, have zero confidence in the integrity of the Congress or of their own representatives, knowing that politicians and government officials may be acting not in the public interest but rather under duress in the interest of those who control the National Security Agency. We can have zero confidence either in the integrity of the president, who likewise may well have been compromised by NSA surveillance conducted on him before he became president.

The only possible position for the public to adopt as of today is to be suspicious of any politician who opposes a full and public investigation into the NSA’s seven-year-long campaign of sweeping, warrantless electronic eavesdropping, since opposition to such an investigation, in the wake of the Harman episode, could well be an indication that the political figure in question is afraid she or he has been monitored, or worse, that she or he has been threatened by those who have the records. Every citizen concerned about the fate of American democracy should demand that his or her senators and representative promptly call for such a public probe.

It is no longer a wild idea at all to imagine that our Congress has been reduced to the status of a Potemkin legislature because of real or imagined spying by the NSA.



http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2009/042209Lindorff.shtml

Thanks for posting kpete. :hi::fistbump:

[JDPriestly]

48. All the more reason for prosecutions of Cheney and Bush.

Duress is a defense to a crime. Those who were blackmailed could be witnesses to the crimes of Bush and Cheney. This is merely a possibility. The Justice Department needs to investigate all the facts before going forward. They may be investigating as we write. We would and should not be told if an investigation is under way.

[Fireweed247]

26. SWINE FLU SWINE FLU SWINE FLU

Anyone notice this big FEAR lie happened right after this Harman story was really coming out and the Demands for prosecution of torturers/war criminals were growing very loud?

I thought this part was interesting...

"But the story is almost dead - ready to bite the dust, thanks to our mainstream media's insistence on burying 'real' issues or stories that delve deep into the causes of our nation's continuous downward slide. In this particular case, the 'thank you' should also be extended to certain blogosphere propagandists who, blinded by their partisanship, myopic in their assessments, and ignorant in their knowledge of the inner workings of our late Congress and intelligence agencies, helped in the post-burial cremation of this case."

"Back to the enablers: How can we explain the continued blackout by the mainstream media, and/or, the logic-free defenses of the Harmans and Hasterts alike by the apologist spinners --- some of whom pass as the 'alternative' media?"

[bertman]

27. It's certainly not hard to imagine individual efforts by the NSA, the Executive Branch,

the CIA, the FBI, the two major parties, and even by individual fiefdoms including corporations, to gather every piece of information possible to use to coerce our representatives to do their bidding.

This is a game that was perfected millenia ago. Now it's even easier because of the high-tech spyware that's available even to the average Joe or Jane. Back in the good ole days a king or duke had to have someone follow his rival to find out if he was having a fling with the wife of another nobleman. Nowadays, you just tap into the cell phone or the computer and VOILA! instant evidence. Then you follow up with a few candid photos with time/date stamps and you've got everything you need to bring your patsy to heel.

Our government is not one big boogie man. It's thousands of them. Every agency head, especially of the "enforcement" arms is well equipped with human and technological resources to engage in this type of monitoring. If you don't think they're doing it, well, you are not a student of history. Every power player, or wannabe power player, is looking for an angle and an edge. Once they find it, they use it.

Of course, not all of our institutions are totally corrupt, but the ones that are have become the ones who wield the power.

How we overcome this insidious cancer I have no idea. Even men and women of good will and moral strength make mistakes that they do not want the "public" to know about.

I admire Sibel Edmonds for all of her work trying to expose this game. Unfortunately, I doubt it's going to do any good. Ultimately, the empire will collapse due to its rotten inner core, just as so many others before have done.

[mmonk]

28. Well really, why would there be any other reason to avoid

rather lenient easily implemented FISA law? FISA doesn't restrict spying on enemies in any way, shape, or form, so the only reason one would not go through FISA has to deal with spying on people who are not enemies of the United States.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

29. Nothing More Than Wild Speculation With No Real Facts To Support It At All.

It's amazing how many rec's your thread is getting, but also a confirmation as to how knee jerky so many here are.

[Joe Fields]

37. tell me what makes the speculation so wild?

don't you find it remotely curious why no one has been held accountable on anything? Only the whistleblowers get punished in some fashion. Now, how can this be explained away?

[closeupready]

49. For one, neither George Bush or Barack Obama have supported accountability,

even AFTER they said they did - in Bush's cases, with regard to leaking Plame's name, in Obama's case, with regard to torture.

[Joe Fields]

70. That answer explains nothing.

Of course Bush wouldn't be in favor of accountability. He's a criminal dozens of times over. But he isn't in power now, is he? Democrats are.

Want to try again?

[ajeffersonian]

45. Why don't you re-read the OpEd?

Maybe if you actually read it you will discover the facts it contains. See my earlier response to L. Coyote.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

46. I Read It Fine.

And your reply to L coyote was dumb.

Not one of the things you mentioned in it supports the accusation in the OP.

[Name removed]

69. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Fireweed247]

30. It's working well! The Harman involved/AIPAC spy case was dropped last week too

with hardly a whimper.

"The dropping of the charges will come as a relief to Aipac because the case threatened to overshadow its annual conference this weekend at which it parades support from American politicians. It was also an embarrassment which laid the lobby group open to charges of putting Israel's interests above those of the US."

oooh poor AIPAC:cry: we would want to ruin their little party

[robertpaulsen]

73. I'm about ready to blow. The Deep State chalks up another rug-sweeping victory.

Between this, Sibel's gagging, the commuting of Scooter Libby's sentence and the fact that Three years after being sentenced to 12.5 years in jail, LARRY FRANKLIN IS STILL A FREE MAN! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5599574 I've come to the conclusion that justice is DEAD in this country. I don't blame Holder and Obama for looking the other way, they're just continuing a tradition that's been in place in our government since at least 11/22/63. Fuck it.

[rateyes]

31. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Let Sibel testify!

[mopinko]

32. the real importance of the don seigleman prosecution, imho, is

that elected officials can be sent to prison for things that were never a crime. that a case can be trumped up out of the ordinary doings of any politician in this country.

[mod mom]

38. not to mention a threat to keep your mouth shut about election theft or see what will happen to you.

[closeupready]

51. I'm not ragging on you, but I have no idea what this means.

Don Seigleman prosecution? I don't understand - I don't even know what that is/was. Can you explain. TIA.

[mopinko]

53. well, if you were to google on du,

you would get an awful lot of hits. but- don seigleman was the democratic governor of alabama, and after his re-election was stolen, he was prosecuted for bribery and corruption. he was sent to prison because he reappointed a contributor to a state board. the guy was already serving, and had been appointed in the first place the a republican.
there was no evidence of a quid pro quo. this was a perfectly routine appointment. something that any politician has done. something that was never a crime.
but now it is. and the guy went to prison. the whole case smells to high heaven. imho, it was a warning. "we own the justice department. we own justice. we can make up a case out of whole cloth. we can do it to you."
so, you can threaten and intimidate people who have done nothing wrong.

[closeupready]

54. Oh, right, sorry. I remember that now.

He was profiled on 60 Minutes, too.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

36. The obvious question. What did they do to be vulnerable to blackmail?

IMO, there may be some being blackmailed, but most are just going along with the corruption rather than make waves and risks their seats.

"When politics enter . . . government, nothing resulting there from in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible."

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

Mark Twain

[mopinko]

42. see my reply #32

[JDPriestly]

50. How about speaking to influential constituents?

That's probably all they have to do.

Mr. Smith of the XYZ Corp. is a constituent and campaign supporter. The Congressperson is talking to Mr. Smith, and Mr. Smith draws to the congressperson's attention a bill that would harm or help the XYZ Corp. and asks the congressperson to vote aye or nay -- just like we do about bills that would further our interests. That is all it takes.

Hard to tell whether the vote was quid pro quo for the campaign contribution (or fundraising -- remember all those calls you made for your congressperson or your favorite candidate for president).

Of course, for the most part, our donations and calls don't count for much, and Mr. Smith's are probably larger and of more value. But, it is very hard to determine which favors are a part of constituent services and the normal political give and take and decisionmaking and which are payoffs. Very hard.

[mopinko]

57. but the seigleman case proved that those calls could be turned into a case.

and that the daily come and go could be twisted into a crime. so, they all had reason to fear.

[GreenTea]

39. Who wasn't aware Bush/Cheney/Rove were the kind of people who would spy

on their enemies once in office and use it against them for political gain?

Did the people who voted for these republican criminals really believe republicans would be honorable....it makes me sick to see such a lack of foresight and that people actually believing republicans would stay within the law instead of doing everything possible to excel their corporate & military ideology & agenda....You mean people can't look at these republicans, know what they are and have been about and just know what criminals will do once in power?

It's mind boggling to me what un-perceptive & unaware sheep people are....then they are surprised when things are exposed, what's wrong with people, do they actually believe what the media tells them, is that how they become so stupid?

[robertpaulsen]

43. Sibel Edmonds understands the root problem in the Six Dimensions of Scandal

As I linked in H2O Man's thread:

Six Dimensions of Scandal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5518578#5518973

Bipartisan Coverup: The US Deep State

GK: When was the last time that you had any contact with Waxman's office?

SE: That would be, having real conversation/contact was before the election in 2006, but in March 2007, I spoke with one of his staff people... and he said the congressman was very serious about having these hearings. But just as he was planning on scheduling a hearing for my case - this is the State Secrets Privilege and the whole FBI case - he was called into a hearing with Nancy Pelosi, they went into a meeting for about 30 minutes, Chairman Waxman came out and told his staff that they were not going to have these hearings, including my case.

And interestingly, this was during a time that they were putting together this junket, this trip, to several countries, the first one being Israel, and Chairman Waxman was not on that list. After this meeting, two or three days later, his name was added to the list. I don't know if that means anything or not, if it was a coincidence, I don’t know. That was the last time.

GK: Sibel, do you suppose that there are any currently serving members of congress who would be affected by an open hearing?

SE: Yes. Yes. This is the point that I wanted to bring up when you asked the question. When I went inside the SCIF, with Congressman Waxman's staff, all the people who attended had clearance, so I started going through the facts because I can disclose to the appropriate committee, people with clearance etc, and I can talk about details.

So, as I started talking about congressional members, or certain appointed officials under both administrations who were involved in certain activities that were targeted by the FBI at one point, the legal counsel with clearance for congressman Waxman stopped me and said "I need to stop you right here and ask you a question. How many Democrats are involved here in the House or the Senate?" and I answered the question, I said "Concretely to answer that, the ones that I know for sure would be three." And he looked at his watch, and said "OK I think we have enough, we don't want to hear any more. What we would like to do is we want to receive the classified version of the Inspector General's report, which we never got, and after that we will contact you and ask you to continue."

Basically they said they didn’t want to hear it because if they heard it they would be responsible. So the meeting ended there - this was the SCIF meeting, and again, this was witnessed because I got the report from the Capitol police that came and declared that the room was secured, the date... so the fact that I went inside the SCIF with them, who I met, everything has been recorded, but this is how it went.

GK: That's fascinating. Let me ask you a related question, Sibel. Do you think that there are any currently serving officials in the administration who would be affected by open hearings?

SE: Yes. Absolutely. Because a lot of these people are recycled as you know. I'm sure you're aware of it because, it's very easy, and this is one of the fallacies from the Left groups, and that is they like to boil down all the bad and evil into maybe three or four or five faces, whether it's Wolfowitz, ok, Cheney, ok, the big bad evil people, and limit it to these people and say 'OK. These are the evil-doers, and we want to see them gone.' Well, it's much deeper than that. You really need to look at those people who keep getting recycled.

GK: So what this begins to look like is the Deep State that Peter Dale Scott talks about...

SE: Absolutely

GK: ...having transferred from Turkey over here to the US.

SE: Correct, because they usually refer to that term in Turkey. It's a very known term - in fact, even if you go to Wikipedia if you look even a lot of even international perspective in Turkey, it is a Deep State, and that is, Deep State consists of the military and intelligence and their involvement in a lot of criminal activities - part of it is narcotics, the other ones have to do with certain money laundering activities.

But within the US we have a much bigger, much more important, much more influential Deep State. I mean, I'm just going to throw a name - look at people like Henry Kissinger. Name one administration that has not had Henry Kissinger as a White House advisor.

And another one, because this is public. Now, if you look at the Chairman of ATC, you will see Brent Scowcroft, OK. Well just recently, President Obama appointed him as a special - whatever - envoy and now he is actually working for the Obama administration. But he's still residing as chairman of ATC. I mean nobody is even talking about conflict of interest.

http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2009/04/sibel-edmonds-interviewed-by-electric.html


The root problem is the Deep State. That's what we're up against.

[Freddie Stubbs]

52. The headline says that blackmail MAY be the reason, yet the title of this thread says it IS the

reason.

Interesting mistake.

[Riverman]

55. This is the Result of Obama + Congress being in the pockets of Ins Corps + Wall St

They have effectively, for now, taken Single-Payer Medical Treatment "off the table!" Just like Pelosi took impeachment "off the table." Who owns the table?

[liberal N proud]

56. IMO: Congress was bribed/threatened all 8 years of the bu$h regime

[santamargarita]

58. I think we at DU suspected this sometime ago

:popcorn:

[seemslikeadream]

60. Damn how did I miss this? K&R

[XXXMADAM]

63. Congressional Research Service analyst died suddenly

CHRISTOPHER BOLKCOM - RIP

To the shock and bewilderment of those who knew him, Christopher Bolkcom, a distinguished analyst at the Congressional Research Service, died suddenly May 1 at age 46.

As noted by the Project on Government Oversight, he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee just last Thursday, the day before he died.

Falls Church, Virginia 22046.
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

[sce56]

65. Maybe we can give this story some feet if we all work together to get it on the airwaves!

All I have to say is that until we get back our congress from the thieves that have taken it over and the Blackmailers that apparently run the place we will not get ahead in this matter I have seen it coming for years now and always wondered how they get all of those stupid laws passed in congress now it has become quite obvious that they are being blackmailed we should all forward the article from Brad Blog to Amy Goodman at and ask her to interview Sibel Edmonds see the link below to the DU article and the Bradblog Article. Maybe we can give this story some feet if we all work together to get it on the airwaves!

[DemReadingDU]

66. evening kick

[sce56]

68. Look here to get this more attention maybe a run inthe MSM!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5601863

[upi402]

71. Which laws were stiffened after the Neocon putsch happened?

I would imagine the charges used aginst Scott Ritter would be possible. I wonder what others.

[lovuian]

74. I agree

this government is so corrupted and infiltrated