Congress Not Advised Of Shadow Government Bush Calls Security ‘Serious Business’

Bush acknowledged yesterday that the administration had taken extensive measures to guarantee “the continuity of government,” after it was revealed that about 100 top officials, spanning every executive branch department, have been sent to live and work in two fortified locations on the East Coast.

By Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, March 2, 2002; Page A01

This barely veiled threat is why Congress has voted so often for bush incl. torture boy gonzales, alito, roberts, giving control of our National Guard to bush and taking it away from Governors and the treasonous Military Commissions act.

Maybe now Congress has adequate protection. Does anyone know what secret service type protection Congress has or does not have? On her site, Cynthia McKinney wrote that when she came back from helping out in New Orleans, her house was “toilet papered” but with videotape. She did not say what was on the videotape but stated that it was an attempt to silence her.

She did a very courageous questioning of Rumsfeld on the missing $2 Trillion and the human trafficking of DynCorp and why the Pentagon is still awarding them contracts and Gen. Myers on 911 lies.

9/11 just served as an excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq for oil, gas for the American Corporate cartel.
White House GOP & Co. Inc. were planning such incursions long before 9/11.

All this chatter about terrorism, security blah blah blah is so much bullshit.

Just look at Iraq. The White House/GOP war motive went from
WMDs to
Yellowcake to
9/11 conspiracy to
regime change to
democracy…
obviously none of them were true.

The Bush/GOP has never been interested in democracy, even in America, much less Iraq.

They have an obligation to Americans and America.

What they should do is impeach every single last one of these criminal fuckers, (including every crooked bribe-client of Abramhoff’s and the guilty in their own party).

Defund every war, tax-cut and GOP initiative on their agenda.

Sobpena and grill every goddamned administration, GOP, Pentagon, Congressional official, present, resigned, indicted, disgraced, all of them, including Bush and Cheney; every day for the next two years.

And let the chips fall where they may politically.

Their obligation is to the American people not to their own re-election in 2008.

Let the American people decide if in 2008 they want to elect a bunch of exposed arrogant above-the-law criminal fuckers or the party that pursued, exposed brought them to justice.

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Scarecrow: During the time that Bush threatened to stop giving intelligence to Congress, didn’t he also have a plan ready as to what to do in case the whole of Congress had been killed or incapacitated?

That’s the first I’ve ever heard of that. But during the 1950-60s, I think the gov developed contingency plans for a nuclear war, which might have included plans for what to do in the event D.C. was hit. Those plans are probably sitting on some shelf, somewhere, but not because Bush asked for them.

Cheney was convinced that the entire U.S. gov was the target of a second wave…he and his cohort firmly believed this for some few months. No doubt they were examining the question of handling a hit on the House and/or Senate.

Crime in Italy….Jesus Mary and Joseph…Oy vey ….. Amy we do not need to give questionable reporting any more protecting than it all ready has.

More strange notes: The offices of AMI were in possession of a vast, decades-old archive belonging to the National Enquirer and the other gossip publications it had acquired. One can only imagine what was in that archive. The archive was deemed contaminated and seized when AMI left the building. An AMI executive told me that they were told it was destroyed.

Maybe it’ll show up in the Bush Liberry?

So when congress folks say that they did not get the same information as the bush administration regarding the build up to the Iraq/n war, that is absolutely true. Here’s what bothers me. I am not necessarily a fan of Hillary, but doesn’t she make an important point in light of the info today and isn’t that part of what she is trying to get across…that congress/senate was not given accurate information about the lead up to war?? And shouldn’t that be highlighted by someone.

Katie
I am not trying to be a smart ass by saying that I knew there were no wmd’s in Iraq before the war started by listening to the weapons inspectors, Scott Ritter, and others, so I find it disingenuous of anyone on the hill who says, “if we had only known”, it is total bullshit and I personally hold all accountable who voted for this war.

Anyone get the feeling that Cheney and Libby leaked the NSA intercept to the press, then used that as an excuse to clam up on giving anymore classified information to that leaky seive of a congress? Afterall, that NSA leak was only embarrassing, not damaging to national security.

Who was the reporter that leaked that story first? Was he a traditional water carrier, or conservative maybe?

Hmmm!

I wonder what would have happened if Judy Miller had offered up Valerie Plame’s identity as coming from “a former Congressional staffer”! Remember that was precisely what Scooter asked her to do.

AND he would have known that at least some documents regarding the Wilson trip had been passed on to the Congressional Committees.

The CIA would have sent the DOJ investigators off on a wild-goose chase looking at folks in the SSIC and House Intewlligence Committees…while ignoring the real leakers.

I wonder if he had a particularly nettlesome former staffer in mind that he thought the FBI would think was the source???

This is at Democracy Now

US to Continue Palestinian Aid Freeze
The unity deal was aimed to end months of factional violence and a year-long international aid freeze that has further crippled the Palestinian economy. Hamas has made a vague pledge to respect previous peace accords with Israel but the Bush administration is already indicating that won’t be enough. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting US officials have told Palestinian officials the US will continue to boycott their new government. In an interview with the Washington Post, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said the US would not waver from demands that Palestinians renounce violence and recognize Israel’s right to exist. Palestinians have argued the conditions are unfair because Israel refuses to renounce violence against them nor recognize their right to a state in all of the West Bank and Gaza.