Inquiries putting pressure on Bush

[JoFerret]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8017052.htm

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Bullet points

• On Capitol Hill, the Senate and House Intelligence committees are deep into investigations of the intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and other administration justifications for the war.

• Under pressure from critics and allies following the Kay report, Bush agreed to set up an independent bipartisan commission to review the prewar intelligence on Iraq. It will not complete its work until March 2005.

• A federal grand jury is investigating the leak by someone in the White House of the name of Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent, possibly endangering her and her contacts. Her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, had become an outspoken critic of Bush and the war after failing to verify, during a mission in 2002, that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear materials.

• The Iraq Survey Group, a multinational task force that Kay led in the search for weapons of mass destruction, remains in the hunt. Now it's looking for evidence of weapons of mass destruction-related programs, as the president described them in his State of Union speech.

• The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is nearing completion, but it has argued regularly with the White House over access to information.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Another one...

...the investigation into GOP electronic pilfering of Dem memos in Congress (and elsewhere) is about to become a criminal investigation.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. ...and one that will most likely reach the WH.

Josh Marshall made a compelling argument about this on his blog over the weekend. He said that, since the WH Counsel's office works closely with the Congressional repugs on their judicial nomination strategy, that means that the WH Counsel's office very likely knew about the computer file pilfering.

Whatta ya know! Here's Ted Olsen, engaged yet again in political dirty trickery. Guess he learned nothing about Karma on 9/11...

[CookieD]

7. Wow, that last part was cruel.

I am not a Ted Olsen fan but any reference to his wife dying on 9/11 because of Olsen's bad Karma is tasteless. It's also an insult to all of the other 9/11 victims who had their own, very different Karmas.

Ouch.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. You must not remember the horrible things Babs said and did...

...to the Clintons during the Lewinsky controversy (like spreading rumors that Big Dog was jacking off into the WH sinks). Babs Olsen was the EPITOME of tastelessness. As far as the other victims of 9/11, what I said has no bearing on them or their karma. I was speaking about Babs and Babs alone.

The Olsens were the most vile people connected to the Arkansas Project. Read Brock's book for the grimy details.

Lighten up there, cookie - welcome to DU...

[dennis4868]

14. YOU BEAT ME TO IT....

I remember that witch Barbara Olsen night after night on TV lieing about Bill and Hillary Clinton. She and her thug hubby were very much a part of the Arkansas Project and tried their best to bring down Clinton for no rational ot logical reason. Hope she burns in hell! I don't wish death on anyone but when I found out she was on the plane that crashed into the pentagon I did not feel so bad for her....i hate to admit that but that is the truth!

[0007]

15. I'll be tasteless also and say I don't miss Barbara Olsen one bit!

[Mountainman]

16. Man we've had this debate before

What Barbara Olsen did in life to our democracy and to the attacks on Clinton are not erased because she died on 9/11.

Maybe it was karma

[Vitruvius]

18. Ted Olson headed the legal team that helped stop the FL vote count and

install Bu$h in office. And Bu$h either let 9/11 happen (LIHOP) or he MIHOP.

So I feel sorry for all the victims of 9/11. Including the atrocious Barbara Olson. But I have NO sympathy for Ted Olson.

And I hope to live long enough to see the Bu$h gang brought to justice for their many crimes. All of them -- including Ted Olson.

[dusty64]

4. Imagine if all branches

of government were not controlled by rightwing extremists, there would be an impeachment. The rethugs are going down eventually, we have never seen such arrogance and abuse of power before and they are now not even trying to hide their corruption and crimes.

[Racenut20]

3. If you are reading this in the KC Star.????

Then you can get the feel that Democratic candidate can carry this state and get the 11 needed electorial votes. It is Ashcrofts home state, lots of ammo. Put the money in here, and campaign Clinton in St. Louis.

[htuttle]

9. And the last time Ashcroft was up for election in his home state...

...he lost to a dead guy.

I'd say you're right -- Kansas looks pretty good for Democrats this November.

[Terran]

10. Missouri, not Kansas

And I wouldn't assume that just because you see this in the KC Star that the Dem is a shoe-in in Missouri. KC and St. Louis are already very Dem and would vote for the Dem candidate. It's the rural areas, that out-populate those two big cities, that are mostly repug, that we have to convince. But Missouri has lost more jobs than any other state, so people here know the economy is crap.

[htuttle]

11. Doh!

Sorry -- from here in WI, they are both sort of 'down there where it's flat' to me sometimes...

:dunce:

[Terran]

13. Being a native Californian, I understand

But actually Missouri is not at all flat. Where I live, the state Capitol, it's as hilly as San Fancisco. It's only northern Missouri and eastern Kansas that are flat. I believe the closer you get to Colorado, Kansas becomes quite lumpy!

[Sunny_Sunshine]

17. Oh boy, geography lesson

Actually, eastern Kansas is hilly although not as hilly as Missouri and western Kansas and eastern Colorado is flat. That's where the huge wheat farms are. The Rockies aren't a gradual mountain range, they are not there and then they are in full bloom. Eastern Kansas has the Flint Hills and the Ozark Mountains. The Ozarks are a much older range and therefore are much more gradual in there appearance, ie. lots of hills. Of course, the best way to know this is to come for a visit and Kansas City, Missouri is the gateway to both Kansas and Missouri. OK, putting away pom-poms.

[Terran]

19. Hmm, well, speaking from personal experience

I drove from Wichita to Jefferson City one year on Highway 50 (I think it was 50, at least, it wasn't 70) and it was flat as a pancake the whole way through Kansas. So at least what I saw of Eastern Kansas was *very* flat.

[Tripper11]

6. I liked this paragraph .....

“It's not unusual for an administration in its fourth year to have a lot of investigations going on,” said John Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. “The business of government is messy. What's unusual for Bush is that so many are high-profile investigations about significant matters of national policy. There are very high stakes.”

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[nini]

12. thanks for that fake registration link..

I hate signing up for those sites - this is a great tool to use.