http://www.wikio.com/search=Valerie Plame Wikio - Valerie Plame http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64718953 I didn’t have a chance to get to this the other day. Mukasey is headed for trouble as outlined by Chairman Waxman in this video. He warns the Attorney General of a Scheduled Contempt Vote over Cheney: Download | Play Download | Play (rough transcript) Waxman; …I have tried to investigate what really happened and the White House has [...] Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:30:55 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64718953 2008-07-18T18:30:55Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64705927 The Carpetbagger Report has a good summary of the EP insanity currently inflicting Mukasey and his masters. It begins: “Scandal fatigue” can be common under the circumstances. After seven-and-a-half years of legal, moral, ethical, and political outrages, many of the scandals of the Bush/Cheney years start to blur together. Some are even forgotten, swept aside to [...] Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:11:49 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64705927 2008-07-18T16:11:49Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64716713 Remember the Valerie Plame case? She used to be a CIA agent. Her husband is Joe Wilson, the man was sent to Africa to investigate claims that Niger had been selling yellow cake uranium to Iraq. When Wilson couldn't find any such evidence, he began openly questioning the Bush administration's reasons for invading Iraq. Suddenly his wife's cover was "mysteriously" blown. Since then there have been allegations that someone in the Bush administration deliberately outed her in retribution for her husband's opposition to the war. The case is still very much alive, and a House of Representatives committee has been trying to get to the bottom of just what happened. If it turns out the revelation was deliberate done to get back at Wilson, then that would be a crime. If, on the other hand, it turns out to have been accidental, then it was just be another case of incompetence by the Bush administration. The FBI investigated the matter, but it remains unclear what they found. This week the House committee looking into the matter tried to get its hands on the FBI's files, and guess what happened? President Bush invoked something called executive privilege, thereby blocking access to the files . Now if the term exective privilege sounds familiar, it's because President Nixon repeatedly used it during Watergate as he frantically tried to block one investigation after another. This of course raises an important question: If no one in the White House did anything wrong, then why not release the files and clear the air once and for all? Bush's actions merely confirm that his administration is the biggest hive of scum and villiany since the days of Mos Eisley spaceport. Granted, that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but the comparison is still apt. Which brings me to my prediction: After the elections in November, Bush will begin issuing a whole shitload of pardons to former and current members of his administration, including Karl Rove, Scooter Libby , and Dick Cheney. And pardoning them will mean that no one will ever be able to get to the truth of this administration's various crimes. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:41:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64716713 noreply@blogger.com (Lugosi) 2008-07-18T13:41:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64659673 Consider the paradoxes. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:29:19 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64659673 2008-07-18T10:29:19Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64615481 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:25:23 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64615481 2008-07-18T00:25:23Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64586409 “Scandal fatigue” can be common under the circumstances. After seven-and-a-half years of legal, moral, ethical, and political outrages, many of the scandals of the Bush/Cheney years start to blur together. Some are even forgotten, swept aside to make room for new, more offensive controversies. It’s only natural, then, to shift the focus away from the White [...] Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:10:10 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64586409 2008-07-17T19:10:10Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64598119 There will be a hearing related to Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Article of Impeachment against George Bush in the House Judiciary Committee. That was assured by a vote of 238 to 180. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:06:30 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64598119 2008-07-17T19:06:30Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64628658 “Scandal fatigue” can be common under the circumstances. After seven-and-a-half years of legal, moral, ethical, and political outrages, many of the scandals of the Bush/Cheney years start to blur together. Some are even forgotten, swept aside to make room for new, more offensive controversies. It’s only natural, then, to shift the focus away from the White [...] Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:00:42 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64628658 2008-07-17T19:00:42Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64582954 That's essentially the argument King George is making as he once more stonewalls evidence that might prove his Veep guilty of obstruction of justice and outing a CIA NOC. (Both those things are, like, illegal') The White House yesterday blocked... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:15:59 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64582954 2008-07-17T18:15:59Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64581355 Joel M. Gora, Brooklyn Law School, has published "The Source of the Problem of Sources: The First Amendment Fails the Fourth Estate," in volume 29 of Cardozo Law Review (2008). Here is the abstract. The effort to investigate and discover... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:08:27 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64581355 2008-07-17T17:08:27Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64575893 President Bush has asserted executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Michael Mukasey from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for material on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. read more | digg story Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:39:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64575893 noreply@blogger.com (Jondo) 2008-07-17T16:39:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64558133 No one should be surprised that Attorney General Michael Mukasey has done an about-face and is now actively engaged in a cover-up to shield Bush and Cheney from congressional oversight on the Valerie Plame matter. Of course, this behavior by Mukasey is the opposite of what he told the Senate during his confirmation hearings, and both Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein were the essential votes in getting Mukasey confirmed despite strong Democratic doubts about Mukasey’s independence. According to Feinstein at the time : I do not believe a president can be above the law, and neither does Judge Mukasey. In addition, Judge Mukasey explained that his view on executive power is based on an analysis of the Supreme Court's 1952 decision in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. vs. Sawyer. Justice Robert Jackson wrote in that decision that the president's power is greatest when he is backed by statutory authority from Congress, and at its lowest ebb when his actions are in conflict with a statute. After yesterday, I'm dying to see Feinstein explain how Mukasey's actions square with his alleged concern for the president to act within statutory authority and the separation of powers. Feinstein and Schumer both swallowed Mukasey's lies hook, line, and sinker. They voted to confirm him on the basis that he was the best nominee possible and couldn’t possibly lie to the Senate’s face, when in reality of course he could. Any Bush/Cheney appointee should be assumed to be a stone-faced liar, or else they wouldn’t be nominated in the first place. Yet congressional Democrats keep getting suckered. Part of this stems from them being flat-out stupid, and part of this stems from the Democrats being complicit themselves in allowing the rampant illegality inherent in the Bush/Cheney administration. And lastly, I suspect part of it stems from the fact that Feinstein herself is dirty. I start out with a simple premise that all Republicans in this administration are serial liars and are not to be trusted on anything, and proceed from there. Rubes like Feinstein and Schumer start out wishing for ponies and get their lunch money stolen from them repeatedly. The question now is what are the two of them going to do about being lied to by Mukasey? I suspect they’ll do nothing, just as Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers will do nothing of consequence to force White House compliance with a lawful subpoena here. Then again, Pelosi is a party of Bush’s criminality by preemptively taking impeachment off the table. Going back to Mukasey, it needs to be remembered that 6 Democrats voted for Mukasey: Bayh (D-IN) Carper (D-DE) Feinstein (D-CA) Landrieu (D-LA) Nelson (D-NE) Schumer (D-NY) The only one of note here, besides the aforementioned Feinstein and Schumer, is Evan Bayh, who may be considered by the Obama campaign as a running mate and who fancies himself as veep material. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:42:35 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64558133 2008-07-17T15:42:35Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64558345 Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. There will be a hearing related to Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Article of Impeachment against George Bush in the House Judiciary Committee. That was assured by a vote of 238 to 180 on Tuesday. But, according to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's "Countdown" last night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has mandated that questioning [...] Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:34:50 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64558345 2008-07-17T15:34:50Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64605602 [JURIST] US President George W. Bush invoked executive privilege Wednesday to prevent members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from obtaining an FBI report on an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney concerning the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal. The Committee had subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey in late June, attempting to gain access to the documents. The assertion of executive privilege by President Bush came in a letter to Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA). The letter to Rep. Waxman also contained a letter from Mukasey to President Bush outlining the legal justification for invoking the privilege. In that letter, Mukasey wrote: Much of the content of the subpoenaed documents falls squarely within the presidential communications and deliberative process components of executive privilege. Several of the subpoenaed interview reports summarize conversations between you and your advisors, which are direct presidential communications. Other portions of the documents fall within the scope of the presidential communications component of the privilege because they summarize deliberations among your most senior advisers in the course of preparing information or advice for presentation to you, including information related to the preparation of your 2003 State of the Union Address and possible responses to public assertions that the address contained an inaccurate statement. In addition, many of the documents summarize deliberations among senior White House officials about how to respond to media inquiries concerning the 2003 State of the Union Address and Ambassador Wilson's trip to Niger. Such internal deliberations among White House staff clearly fall within the scope of the deliberative process component of the privilege. As the Supreme Court explained, "human experience teaches that those who expect public dissemination of their remarks may well temper candor with a concern for appearances and for their own interests to the detriment of the decisionmaking process."Rep. Waxman responded to the President's assertion of executive privilege in an opening statement to a meeting on a possible contempt order against Mukasey, calling the assertion "ludicrous," and replying: This unfounded assertion of executive privilege does not protect a principle; it protects a person. The President is wrong to shield Vice President Cheney from scrutiny. In our system of government, even the Vice President should be accountable for his action.AP has more. The Washington Post has additional coverage. The June subpoena was the latest of several attempts by legislative bodies to obtain documents and testimony related to these investigations. In May, the Committee voted to issue a subpoena to compel Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff David Addington to testify about a Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memorandum authorizing a wide range of interrogation methods to be used against suspected terrorists. In January, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sought transcripts of the interviews conducted with the CIA leak investigation, but was unsuccessful in obtaining them. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:30:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64605602 2008-07-17T14:30:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64552059 Expert: Rove executive privilege 'won't stand up in court'... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:09:07 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64552059 2008-07-17T14:09:07Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64499449 Companies collected millions of dollars in government contracts by claiming to have main offices in poor neighborhoods that were actually empty duplexes, part-time offices and other ineligible locations, the Government Accountability Office reported. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64499449 2008-07-17T07:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64494520 President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:20:19 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64494520 2008-07-17T06:20:19Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64494560 President Bush on Wednesday blocked an attempt by a House committee to obtain internal FBI documents from the CIA leak investigation, asserting that notes from interviews of Vice President Cheney and other White House officials are protected by executive privilege. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:30:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64494560 2008-07-17T05:30:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64496246 President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:28:40 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64496246 2008-07-17T05:28:40Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64491057 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/cheney-plame-ag.html How long have we been saying it? Now the final act of the drama has begun. We call Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Novak etc “Traitors” because of the fact that they conspired to expose Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA operative, who was monitoring Nuclear activity in Iran. Now, we have what amounts to a bold faced admission of guilt. Straight from the Horse’s Ass…. Read the Wilson’s story HERE . Bush once before let his lying tongue slip and admitted that those who betrayed Plame and our nation were probably in the White House and insisted we get over it … WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has “run its course.” “And now we’re going to move on,” Bush said in a White House news conference. Now, after a fine job by Rep. Henry Waxman, the pressure has mounted and in classic Bush style, President Moron has taken the first course of a desperate man. Subpoenas have issued, and now Bush has claimed “Executive Privilege” for a defense. An admission of guilt. You don’t need “Executive Privilege” in this case unless you’re guilty. There is no National Security issue concerning the Plame Affair that is not already known. They’re traitors. Bush has spoken. Scooter Libby was already convicted for lying to a grand jury during the course of the investigation. Sentenced to prison and pardoned by Bush. “Executive Privilege". The President’s way of pleading the 5th. The history is interesting, those who claim it are always guilty… From the LA Times : Bush claims executive privilege in Valerie Plame Wilson case The concept of executive privilege rings a special bell with readers of a certain age. It was relied on by the Richard M. Nixon White House seeking to shield documents and personnel from inquiring congressional committees and prosecutors during the Watergate investigations. President Bush quietly claimed executive privilege on Tuesday, after Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey requested the shield. Mukasey is seeking to avoid delivering to congressional investigators documents dealing with interviews of Vice President Dick Cheney and members of his staff regarding the unmasking of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the accounts of the FBI interviews, as well as notes about President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address in which he said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for a nuclear weapon – an assertion that proved wrong. “The claim of executive privilege is ludicrous,” said the committee’s chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills). On Wednesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined the fray. He noted that the claim of executive privilege exempts the attorney general “from complying with a subpoena,” and wrote to Mukasey: This executive privilege claim, and your justification for it, appears to turn the privilege on its head. The purpose of executive privilege is to encourage candid advice to the president, not to cover up what the vice president and White House staff say to investigating authorities when that information is requested in the course of congressional oversight. – James Gerstenzang We’re not making it up. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, Richard Armitage, Robert Novak. All involved in the crime. Are we sure it’s really “treason"? Hey, read the statutes for yourself… Intelligence Identities Protection Act . Even George Bush Sr., former CIA leader, said “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.” – George Herbert Walker Bush, CIA dedication ceremony, April 26, 1999. It’s long past time for these treasonous vermin to be held accountable for betraying the secrecy that allows us to defend ourselves from foreign threats. All for the want of revenge. The penalty for treason is severe. The infraction even worse. If there is any justice left in this country these people will rot beside Susan Atkins and the rest of their soulless kind where they belong. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:37:45 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Valerie+Plame?rinfoid=64491057 2008-07-17T03:37:45Z