2016 Postmortem
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(3,133 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)She knew the WMD lies were lies. She knew the entire point of the invasion was the "business opportunity" it provided, and she agreed with it.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)moondust
(19,989 posts)The falling price of oil and the costs of fighting ISIS have taken a financial toll on Iraq.
Facing bankruptcy, Iraq tries to revive its industry
Maybe that's the plan. Drive it into bankruptcy so The Meddling Neolib Invaders (financing HRC's life/campaign) can buy it up at fire sale prices.
Reich: Is Goldman Sachs Partly to Blame for Greeces Debt Crisis?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 7, 2016, 03:59 PM - Edit history (1)
post-Libya, so I, personally can take a good guess as to what she might call it.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Explains the hugs, too.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)White House Aide Dick Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report to Dampen Impact
New Documents Cast Further Doubt on Commissions Investigation, Independence
National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 543
Edited by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
Posted - February 29, 2016
Washington, DC, February 29, 2016 The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney.
Todays posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheneys handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public. The documents show that the leadership of the presidentially-appointed commission deliberately curtailed the investigation and ceded its independence to White House political operatives.
This evidence has been lying ignored in government vaults for decades. Much of the work of securing release of the records was done by the John F. Kennedy Assassinations Records Board in the 1990s, and the documents were located at the National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland; or at the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Additional mandatory declassification review requests filed by Archive fellow John Prados returned identical versions of documents, indicating the CIA is not willing to permit the public to see any more of the assassinations story than we show here. The documents in this set have yet to be incorporated into standard accounts of the events of this period.
Among the highlights of todays posting:
* White House officials of the Ford administration attempted to keep a presidential review panelthe Rockefeller Commissionfrom investigating reports of CIA planning for assassinations abroad.
* Ford administration officials suppressed the Rockefeller Commissions actual report on CIA assassination plots.
* Richard Cheney, then the deputy assistant to the president, edited the report of the Rockefeller Commission from inside the Ford White House, stripping the report of its independent character.
* The Rockefeller Commission remained silent on this manipulation.
* Rockefeller Commission lawyers and public relations officials warned of the damage that would be done to the credibility of the entire investigation by avoiding the subject of assassinations.
* President Ford passed investigative materials concerning assassinations along to the Church Committee of the United States Senate and then attemptedbut failedto suppress the Church Committees report as well.
* The White House markup of the Rockefeller Commission report used the secrecy of the CIA budget as an example of excesses and recommended Congress consider making agency spending public to some degree.
CONTINUED...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB543-Ford-White-House-Altered-Rockefeller-Commission-Report/
Jerry Ford, the then-congressman who altered the Warren Report to say President Kennedy was shot through the neck, and not the back, so the Lone Nut Magic Bullet nonsense would sound more plausible.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)I liked the comments from the retired judge from the Hgue this week too
lmbradford
(517 posts)SO evil
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)imagine2015
(2,054 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)If she can secure the nomination, Wall Street will own both candidates.
Wall Street CEOs are certainly evil, but they're not stupid. They already owned the GOP, so they went out and bought the candidate they thought would win the Democratic nomination. They probably worried about Elizabeth Warren, but they never saw Bernie as a threat.
Until now. I hope those corporate fascist mother fuckers are shitting the pants of their $5,000 suits...
Feel the Bern motherfuckers!!!
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Avalon Sparks
(2,566 posts)Remember the good old days when we had public servants, not grifters.
Avalon Sparks
(2,566 posts)In the US the Clinton's call it Capitalism.