http://oneamericacommittee.com…..ability_ac

-Demand that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald be empowered to investigate the President’s role
in manipulating intelligence on Iraq

Now that the White House has acknowledged that it was President Bush who ordered the selective leaking of classified intelligence in order to justify his invasion of Iraq, will he be held accountable for what he has said and done?

Please join me in demanding that Attorney General Gonzales expand the special prosecutor’s mandate on the CIA leak investigation to include whether the President engaged in wrongdoing with regard to the disclosure of sensitive and largely discredited intelligence to
the media.

Dear Attorney General Gonzales:

President Bush initially told the American people that he did not know of anyone in his
administration who leaked CIA secrets to the media in an attempt to justify the invasion of
Iraq and discredit those who raised legitimate questions. Now, confronted with new court
evidence, the White House has admitted that it was President Bush himself who authorized the disclosures. Clearly, the President has no intention of coming clean and telling us the truth about the use of classified intelligence for political gain.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has a mandate to find out who blew the cover of a CIA
agent in order to punish her husband for telling the truth about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear
ambitions. But the new evidence has made it clear that this scandal goes far beyond that incident, and may even include the President’s own words and actions.

Mr. Fitzgerald has famously said: “The truth is the engine of our judicial system. If you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost.†For too long, there has been too much compromising and not enough truth from this White House. It’s time for those responsible to be held accountable. I urge you to extend Mr. Fitzgerald’s charter to include the behavior of the President in this disgraceful affair.

Signed by,
[your name]

Unfortunately yes. I was bitter and up all night last night so coherence was not foremost and I pretty much deliberately stayed EPU to rant where I do the least damage.

But I’m thinking that with the CIA issue, now is a good time to push to the forefront not just the Rice story, but the buried Abramoff story of how he got classified info and the immigration report from Ashcroft’s COS and whether or not, as some reports have it, he actually got access to a classified doc itself and was able to prevent Congress from receiving the results in the report.

OTOH, I have low expectations right now. Ashcroft has been kept more insulated in some ways than Bush and Gonzales, Addington et al have not one ‘retired general’ speaking up against them or their policies in DOJ, much less the active, CIVILIAN members of DOJ saying anything about becoming personal crim def. lawyers for All the President’s Men (and Condi).

THe closer one looks at this steaming pile of excrement we call Republican governance, the more we see the worms and snakes and slugs and offal therein. Ick. All the good ones who play by what used to be the rules before THESE GUYS took over are steamrolled, just flattened. This, almost more than anything, pisses me off.

THESE GUYS are laughing at us rubes who actually believe there are rules and ethical guidelines and ways to behave that were taught to us at our mother’s knee.

The skybox and the gym – most work gets done away from the office.

I’m really mad.

I barely remembered anything. After all those months of planning, the actual day was a blur. I wish you joy and tears, your daughter a rich life. Namaste.

Someone needs to tell him he didn’t get the Whitesnake audition.

I mean, seriously, what the fuck’s up with that hair?

http://oneamericacommittee.com…..ility_act/

*ilson46201 thanks for the info about Edwards talking censure. I heard Craig Crawford on TV last night saying good things about Edwards. He thinks that Edwards will be challenging Hillary from the left.

The termination, announced Friday, marks the latest in a series of high-profile crackdowns on spy agency and Bush administration officials accused of unauthorized disclosures of classified information.

The CIA would not identify the fired officer, citing Privacy Act protections.

But current and former intelligence officials identified her as Mary McCarthy, a former White House aide who until this week held a senior position in the CIA’s Inspector General’s Office.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c…..cia22.html