Chris Dodd: Investigate The White House's Betrayal Of Trust
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 2:58pm
Via The Huffington Post:
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was one of the key figures in the Bush administration's efforts to respond publicly to the investigation into the Plame leak. He spoke for the White House and he was the filter through which the public learned about which officials were and were not involved in the leak. Standing in front of the White House Seal, McClellan famously denied any White House involvement in the leak, "If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."
We need to launch an immediate investigation to determine the facts of this case, the extent of any cover up and determine what the President knew and when he knew it. If in fact the President of the United of States knowingly instructed his chief spokesman to mislead the American people, there can be no more fundamental betrayal of the public trust. Read on...
Good for Senator Dodd. In fact, it would be nice if all the candidates took this kind of stand against our current president and let the people know they're actually interested in upholding the rule of law and restoring our Constitution. There seems to be enough evidence to warrant further investigation into McClellan's statements, contact your representatives in the House and Senate and let them know your thoughts on the matter. As always, be nice.
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Bush's phony "spontaneous" press conference with the troops serves as an adequate example that Bush has no problem misleading the public.
However, regarding "knowingly instructed his chief spokesman to mislead the American people, there can be no more fundamental betrayal of the public trust..." I would note that the lying that got us into the Iraq war is the greatest betrayal committed by this regime. Since impeachment is "off the table" for this matter, which lead to the deaths of 3800 troops, I expect a lot of pontificating by the Democrats, and no concrete action on the lying about the Plame matter.
NoBuddy @ 2:
And that the public have no issue being misled.
NoBuddy @ 2:
I still haven't head a decent reason why they wont impeach.
Good start, Dodd, now follow through for a change. To the logical end, which is
IMPEACHMENT.
In regards to the outing of Valerie Plame:
There was one problem. It was not true,” McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so:
Rove
Libby
the vice president
the president’s chief of staff
and the president himself.”
There you have it! The smoking gun! If Bush would be Nixon, he’d resigning soon to avoid impeachment. Is somebody gonna do something about it? Of course not!
Not really what I want. But is better. If we Democrats enter the White House, there is so much to repair, there is not time to impeach these fucking assholes.
Bring the our internal affair in order, and apologize to the world for the mess we have created.
There is plenty of time of settle up the scores with these criminals.
Reason not to impeach: A waste of time. He is almost out of office. Is distracting. Is expensive. Imflamatory. The only winners: Lawyers for boths parties.
contact dole and shuler? you've got to be kidding!
Maybe a couple of hundred more smoking guns will get impeachment "back on the table" for the Dems. Hey, here's a thought: instead of turning the other cheek or whatever it is they think they're doing, how about saying they're going "smoke 'em out" and get them "dead or alive" vis a vis the liars and traitors in the Bush administration. Hell, why not request that Cheney be subjected to waterboarding right on the floor of the Senate so we can get to the truth--how would that not be fair?
Crooks and Liars always states at the end of their articles to contact their Representatives to state our views but as always be Nice.
Is it not long past time to stop being Nice and to start insisting that some foward movement take place with our so called representives before its actually to late if it's not already
I've contacted Diane Feinstein and Barbra Boxers office numerous times to just be fowarded a chain type response.
Is it not Time to insist that We The People actually mean something besides Lip Service.
After all they were elected to represent the People views and not their own
Thank God Pelosi and Huffington and Kos and the MSM took impeachment off our table.
Wouldn't want those gate-keepers to be disturbed.
Be nice? To a shitbag like David Hobson? You've got to be kidding me. It's a lot easier to simply hold my tongue.
Scotty-Mouth has already backpedaled on the "meaning" of his words, saying now that bush didn't know he was misleading him. Too late. We've heard that lame excuse a hundred times.
I support Senator Dodd for president and this is another reason for my continued support. I will be contacting my Senators, Wyden and Smith and asking them to follow Dodd's lead. Not that Smith will do anything. He'll lick bush's boots as long as he's promised that the polish is strawberry flavored.
AP - NEW YORK - Delighted, shrieking children were barely able to contain themselves Thursday as Barbie rolled past and enormous Shrek and Snoopy balloons floated overhead in the traditional Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Yep
Prince "Bandar Bush" gets a taste of his own.
http://tinyurl.com/35fg4q
It's a shame saying such a thing makes you a "hero". It shoud be a no brainer. Break the law, mislead the public, ((start illegal wars with false information, and make torture US policy)), other branches of the governement take you to task, and you pay the penalty. But over the last 7 years, that's all be forgotten as "quaint". Good for Dodd (anyway).
Damn it why when I should be popping champagne corks do I feel so freaking down?
Dear Santa,
We the people would like to hear some truth for a change.
Bushco deserves no less than saddam....
break out the gallows and let the hangings begin!
Let's start with enforcing the supeonas of Karl Rove and that silly woman who somehow got a law degree. If they can't enforce that they won't get Snotty Scotty to testify either.
jimt @ 10:
I have to say, with what's going on these days, they don't deserve nice!!!!
7 years of being nice got us to this Tom Tomorrow cartoon:
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/11/19/tomo/
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
Please. Someone tell me I'm not alone.
L.A. Confidential @ 20:
Nope.
You are not alone.
xoites defends Constitution @ 21:
Thanks. I needed that.
Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations
Parents and children wait in line in front of Prince George's Circuit Court, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, in Upper Marlboro, Md. Parents in Prince George's County have been ordered to appear at a special court hearing Saturday where they will be given a choice: Get their children vaccinated on the spot or risk up to 10 days in jail and fines.
http://tinyurl.com/3y2grk
I have been to several blogs today reading the usual outraged clamour for an investigation of Bush and his criminal minions.I keep wondering when someone with guts on the Rethug side will finally admit that treason has been the earmark of the Bush gang,and come out and blow the whistle.These men have no honor and less truth.
Forty four years ago I was a sophomore in college on my way to get my laundry when another student hung his head out of a second story window and told me that John F.Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.We have had less and less honor ,truth,and freedom since that time,but even in today`s numb, beaten down America we have another chance to rebound from the worst,most corrupt administration in our history.For that I am grateful.
Investigate everything. Please. It is high time and well past appropriate. I think Impeachment is the next logical step. Treason is something we should all be real familiar with, understand, and be comfortable discussing. It's just our Country, Way of Life, and Constitution we are talking about. A lot is hanging in the balance. A voice can make a big difference.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.” - Mahatma Gandhi
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
The problem is who trusts this government to inject whatever the hell chemicals it is they are experimenting with these days into our kids. Not the principle of it.
I don't.
JerryM @ 3:
"I still haven't head a decent reason why they wont impeach."
How about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA&mode=related&search
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
I don't really see a problem with this (except for the excess profits of the drug industry). I really like the idea of not having an epidemic spread through our school systems.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
I'm with you on that L.A. I hope we can return to the optimism and feeling of possibility that a lot of people had in the 60's. Damn I love this country and I don't want to hide my head in the sand and pretend everything is okay. Of course we will always have issues to deal with, but we've never had such corrupt and ignorant leaders. Boy do I wish they would have found out who actually killed JFK. As Bruce Willis said... justice was never served and those men and people are still in power today. Weak. Awful. And in need of attention.
xoites defends Constitution @ 28:
I'm with you. But some of these new and modified vaccines really need to be scrutinized. We need transparency.
L.A. Confidential @ 30:
I see your point, we need a functioning FDA.
It's easy to be "brave" and to "take a stand" and all that when you know darn well that the Dimocrat "leadership" isn't going to do a damn thing of consequence about any of this.
Which is why the bad guys are still doing it.
Orangutan. @ 29:
No kidding man. The ugly, cynical, and partisan mood of the country right now which in 7 short years has become considered "normal" is truly dark. People think your nuts if you penetrate to the core of the issues and ask questions-question authority. Just shut up and "act" like your happy with the way things are.
I really like the idea of not having an epidemic spread through our school systems.
Yes, hello? I work in a germ factory - aka a public school. I just got done fighting with my third sinus infection for this year, and 2007 isn't over yet. I don't need one more thing that's disease-related (unvaccinated children) to worry about. We have enough worries with the crap the kids already bring into school when they are sick and come in anyway, as most of their parents can't - or won't - take off a day to take care of them. Between that and the mold and air quality issues we're already fighting to get fixed, yes, I'd worry about this, too.
xoites defends Constitution @ 31:
Oh man don't get me started on the FDA. Whats left of it anyway.
QuakerDave @ 34:
Don't forget the Hospitals. Super bugs, mistakes, you name it.
xoites@31:
Don't hold your breath. The chief of the FDA is Scott McClellan's brother.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/20/mcclellan.medicare/index.html
bush on Friday announced he will nominate FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan to head the agency that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including the implementation of the new prescription drug benefit, administration sources told CNN.
McClellan, a medical doctor with a doctorate in economics, has been at the helm of the Food and Drug Administration for 16 months.
McClellan is a Texan and older brother of White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. "Bite my tongue, he is a highly qualified nominee," Scott McClellan said with a smile as he announced his brother's appointment. Scott McClellan said his brother has "a proven record of working in a bipartisan way."
Before that, he served in the White House as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
L.A. Confidential @ 33:
Totally agree with you on that. :)
"We need to have an investigation"?????????
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?
This friggin case is already closed!!
The President knew, Cheney knew, everyone knew. Everyone lied.
Why are these people saying "we need to know what the President knew, and to what extent he was involved"....
Um.....HE WAS INVOLVED.
The evidence is so clear, this is driving me nuts. These people should ALL be put in jail until they die.
Kudos to Dodd. There's a good 48 minute video of him talking about the rule of law in Iowa
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4rApwnQ9sQ0
Chris Dodd should be investigated for his continuous betrayal of trust in public office.
Dodd is a politician who is part of the problem. Exactly what does an "investigation" accomplish? It wastes huge amounts of time and money accomplishing NOTHING.
If our elected representatives were true to their Oath to defend the Constitution, George W. Bush would have been impeached and removed from office. The fact that the House has not even considered articles of impeachment is reason to vote out of office every sitting member of Congress up for election in 2008.
Our Senators and Representatives make lots of noise, introduce showboat dead-end legislation that no one intends ever to vote into law. They work 3-day weeks and party hardy with the deep pocket corporate lobbyists whose interests they protect.
When Chris Dodd calls for his colleagues in the House to IMPEACH Bush it will be news worthy. Anything short of that is just more meaningless RHETORIC.
When Chris Dodd calls for his colleagues in the House to IMPEACH Bush it will be news worthy. Anything short of that is just more meaningless RHETORIC.
YUP. 'zactly.
"Investigate" means nothing. Whoever does the investigating will be stonewalled by the White House. Meanwhile, the Republican leadership will say it's all a witch hunt. Dodd might mean well (I have my doubts), but there can be no investigation without subpoena power and an independent investigator.
Impeachment is the only course of action that stands a chance of exposing criminal conduct by Bush, Cheney, et al. Until Dodd signs on to that, he's pissing against the wind, unfortunately.
McClellan needs to be held to account as well. We can't let him get away with a "Nuremberg defense."
xoites defends Constitution @ 28:
You Sir have been brainwashed by the medical juggernut that has helped make us one of the unhealthiest of industrialized nations in the world.
The people of that community do have the option to refuse for religious or medical reasons, and of course there has to be some way to demostrate that forced vaccinations are unconstitutional.
An
investigationimpeachment is LONG overdue... but as we all know sad to say... the Dems have no balls... .Dodd is the only candidate that speaks the truth. But all we hear is the horse race between Hillary and Obama. Why? Because the powers (not the voters) want Hillary to win and use Obama to split the 2nd tier candidates. You're not going to hear from Dodd (Anti Iraq War, or Against the telecom immunity deal, or ready to investigate Bush/Cheney). The powers want Guiliani (most corrupt and guaranteed to keep the lie going indefinitely), they want McCain (2nd choice) because he's a republican, a liar, and wets his pants at the thought of being prez. Hillary is 3rd, because they know the Repugs are going to lose and are trying to hedge their bets with their most friendly opposition candidate. Obama is strictly used to defeat Edwards or Dodd...two of the most formidable candidates against the slime and lie crowd.
Why is the "Horse Race" all about Hillary and Obama? Not because they have anything to actually offer.... it's about fixing the election. Democracy is almost dead and we keep allowing this fiasco and corruption to continue. Your vote is the only thing that is keeping democracy alive. They are trying all they can to remove your right to vote.
If the powers want to corrupt democracy one more time (Strike 1: Florida, Strike 2: Ohio)_then I for one, am ready to declare war.
"As always, be nice".
Sure. Also be pissed.
I'd love impeachment just to see Bill O'Rielly's
head explode.
just who does he mean by "We".. Is he going to do it??
No I doubt it.
Once again Dodd leads and the rest follow. Iowa better be giving him a serious look.
If a presidential candidate cannot be trusted to defend the constitution by impeachment of this administration then how can they claim to be qualified to be president? Take a good look at which candidate is advocating immediate impeachment. It’s Kucinich!
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Bull Says:
If a
presidential candidateSpeaker of the House cannot be trusted to defend the constitution by impeachment of this administration then how can they claim to be qualified to bepresident?Speaker? Take a good look at which candidate is advocating immediate impeachment. It’s Kucinich!This is just another example of the way Dodd has been running for the nomination. He is a big talker now who has yet to do ANYTHING! The only hope here is that Patrick Fitzgerald hasn't given up on getting to the bottom of this admins slag heap of lies and criminality and reconvene another Grand Jury. I am not holding my breath. Until the windbag actually does something substantial there is no need to get excited. I do hope he continues to speak out after he is no longer running for the Democratic nomination. he might inspire someone to do SOMETHING.
Plame Leak by White House Senior Staff: Treason
Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby now all makes sense, if he ended up behind bars, he might have squealed that bush and dick were ultimately behind the original plan to leak the covert identity of Valerie Plame and the CIA's operation monitoring development of WMDs in Iraq & Iran.
That, my friends, is the textbook definition of treason.
Shorter McClellan: I Was A Paid Liar For Bush.
By: Christy Hardin Smith
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Former WH flack Scott McClellan has a new book coming out wherein he reveals that people in the Bush Administration had him fronting out lies to the public about the WH leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s CIA ties. Color me shocked. From E&P:
..”The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
“There was one problem. It was not true.
“I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”
Do tell, Scott. How, exectly, were “Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself” involved in your lying to the public? I’d like all the details, please. Including when you learned that these were lies and what you did to correct the public misperceptions, if anything, what sorts of discussions were had about this in the WH, and whether you questioned the information when it was first given to you — or just obligingly parroted as you were told unless and until you were confronted with the fact that you were telling lies. And I’m certain I’m not alone in that sentiment. For your sake, I do hope you were fully forthcoming about this with the FBI. I’m just saying.
I think Kevin Drum summed this mini-kerfuffle up nicely:
Now, Lord knows I don’t want to question McClellan’s claim that his book was “written with no agenda other than to record his experiences and insights for the benefit of history.” But would it be presumptuous of me to suspect that his explanation of Plamegate is somehow going to make it out as nothing more than a silly mistake that the press blew all out of proportion?
Nothing like a little game of pass the buck between the smarm merchants of Bushworld, is there? Note the utter failure to take responsibility for lying to the public, the shunting of said responsibility onto others who have also failed to take responsibility for their respective actions, and the working of “the President’s chief of staff” into the mix of players. Anyone want to place a bet as to whether Andy Card gets set up as the go to fall guy? Emptywheel caught the same Card reference, and mentions the Wells’ card and notes that “just as a reminder, Card and Scottie left the White House within a week of each other–both happening just before Turdblossom’s final grand jury appearance.” (Anyone else’s spidey sense getting a little tingle? And while we’re asking questions, will Scottie own up to being one of the sources for the NYDailyNews story on Rove’s bush league handling of the whole mess? Enquiring minds and all.)
Perhaps, Scottie will spill all the assorted beans to get even for the Bush Administration treating his momma so shabbily in her TX gubernatorial bid. Not bloody likely…but stranger things have happened in gooberville.
(Illustration entitled Free Manure By Mr. Fish via Commandante Agi.)
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/20/shorter-mcclellan-i-was-a-paid-lia...
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