It Is Time to Investigate the White House's Betrayal of Trust
Our country has spent over four years attempting to unravel the story surrounding the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity by members of the Bush administration to a number of journalists. The leak jeopardized our national security and belies the administration's long standing claim that they and the Republican Party are best suited to keep America safe.
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."
Yesterday we found out that this simple statement attesting to McClellan's faith in the Bush administration's lawful behavior appears to be patently untrue. McClellan tells us, "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."
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.
That any White House official, let alone the President and the Vice President of the United States, would instruct others to mislead the American people about revealing the identity of a covert CIA agent is beyond unconscionable. It is an action that makes us less safe and secure. Worse still, it undermines the ability of our intelligence community to act with the confidence that their work will not be jeopardized in order to advance the partisan interests of one political party.
The American public deserves to know the extent of President Bush's involvement in both the leak of Valerie Plame's identity and what efforts, if any, he made to direct a cover up. Scott McClellan has brought forward a new piece to this sordid puzzle - it is time, once and for all, for the public to know the full story behind the betrayal of Valerie Plame by the Bush administration.
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Pelosi will get right on it - ha ha ha
Kinda makes Clintons impeachment over a BJ and Nixons resignation over a botched burglarly all sound kinda quaint in comparison. Yet impeachment is off the table? WTF?
I think the only way to get rid of Bush and Cheney is to find someone to "lewinski" them - maybe then congress will finally impeach
Dodd says:
"That any White House official, let alone the President and the Vice President of the United States, would instruct others to mislead the American people about revealing the identity of a covert CIA agent is beyond unconscionable. It is ..."
The next most appropriate words are:
AN ACT OF TREASON.
Kucinich is the only candidate actually impeaching BushCo! This is giving him a huge boost. Witness the loudest cheer during the recent debate was for IMPEACHMENT!
We the people WANT IMPEACHMENT!
We Want NO MORE MONEY FOR WAR!
That's why the dem congress is in the toilet.
Kucinich/Richardson, That's a ticket.
But maybe, Chris, it could be Kucinich/Dodd.
Support impeachment contact Conyers, support Kucinich!
Strength Through Peace!
"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."
Oh yeah?? What about lying this entire nation into a preemptive war? Illegal wiretapping? Torture? Rendition? Fraud?
Forgive me for being blunt, Senator, but where have you been for the last 6 years? Where were you while this criminals broke one law after another with impunity?
I can only ask myself - why are you so shocked NOW? Only you can answer that.
But, hey, as they say, better late than never.
And as we have been saying for months - if not years - uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land and -
IMPEACH THESE CRIMINALS NOW!
And, while you're at it, CUT OFF THE FUNDS FOR THIS IMMORAL AND ILLEGAL PREEMPTIVE WAR!
So Impeach them.
You Democrats have lost the independent voters you
picked up in 2006 or so the pundits say anyhow.
Business as usual is not going to work.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell us who forged the Niger Yellowcake documents.
Senator Dodd
It's way past time to investigate - IMPEACH - but, I'm glad this has your attention now.
Chris....talk to Nancy. She's the roadblock.
She becomes complicit if she continues to obstruct accountability. History will not look kindly on her.
Worse than Watergate!!!!! Investigate, impeach, indict... then fumigate the oval office.
do it.
The word you're all looking for is
I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T.
NOW? Can we impeach them all now? WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
Mr Dodd, Time? Do It, the last thing you ought to be doing is trying to sway public opinion since we elected you guys to do things like this. Do it, I think everyone in American would understand....
Senator Dodd;
Sorry, but I believe that you're mainly wasting time and taxpayer money investigating the Valerie Plame situation.
Find out the actual source of Iranian IEDs in Iraq--start with Blackwater and similar "contractors"--and I believe you'll find overwhelming evidence not only for impeachment, but for charges of treason.
The message has been made abundantly clear to the troops. Work privately for us and not only will you make far more money, but you're no longer bound by any law--U.S., Iraqi or even the UCMJ. What do you think it does to our troops when they know the employees of Dick's old company make far more money than they when all they do is cook and serve chow? What do you think it does to our troops when they see their buddies blown to bits by a cowardly enemy? They start going nuts in large numbers!
Throw in a belief in biblical Revalation and/or a complete lack of conscience and they become the worst imaginable mercenaries. This is EXACTLY what was planned.
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