Posted by zeugma on January 24, 2006, at 16:02:12
to see what a contemptible set of individuals have been elected to the White House?
WASHINGTON - The White House is crippling a Senate inquiry into the government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina by barring administration officials from answering questions and failing to hand over documents, senators leading the investigation said Tuesday.
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In some cases, staff at the White House and other federal agencies have refused to be interviewed by congressional investigators, said the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In addition, agency officials won't answer seemingly innocuous questions about times and dates of meetings and telephone calls with the White House, the senators said.The White House had no immediate response Tuesday afternoon.>>
I do not feel safe in this country with these obfuscators and incompetents running the country. And we are going to trust them with NSA operations in which our Constititional rights are taken away? No trust. I do not trust this government, that has illegitimately taken power and displays its gross incompetence and avarice at every turn.
For this, I will be blocked, but this Politics board is not much use if the crimes and incompetence of our government cannot be freely discussed here. By the way, there should be a provision in the Patriot Act sentencing to Guantanomo Bay any individual knowingly betraying government secrets including divulging classified information for political gain. Those individuals include I. Lewis Libby, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the Bush Administration. Karl Rove called his Democratic opponents "patriotic but wrong." Howard Dean said in reply, referring to the outing of a CIA operative (an act to my knowledge unique in American history) that is was both "unpatriotic and wrong." To say nothing of the gross violations of the Constitition, the starting of a disastrous war under false pretenses, and the appointing of base cronies to head FEMA. And now Alberto Gonzales is heading the probe to determine if Bush's violations of the Constitution are constitutional. Gonzales is of the same ilk as I.Lewis Libby and Michael Brown, more eager to betray the American people than to serve them.
-z
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