White House Seals Financial Records of Iraq Probe Appointees

[G_j]

www.truthout.org/docs_04/021704A.shtml

Intelligence Panel's Finances Will Stay Private

  By Eric Lichtblau
  The New York Times
  Sunday 15 February 2004
  
WASHINGTON - The White House is declining to make public the financial histories of the commissioners President Bush appointed to investigate American intelligence failures.
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While ethics specialists said members of most federal commissions typically have to disclose their financial interests to the public, the White House pointed to a number of exceptions in foreign intelligence and domestic security. "There are several out there like this. I don't think it's unique," Ms. Healy said.

  But experts said the White House's refusal to make public the commission's business links may fuel questions about its independence and taint its investigation into one of the Bush administration's biggest potential political vulnerabilities: the quality of intelligence used to justify the Iraq war and other issues involving unconventional weapons.
  
The issue mirrors some of the concerns raised in 2002 when a commission was appointed to investigate the Sept. 11 terror attacks, only to have its original chairman and vice chairman step down, in part because of private business interests.
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[maggrwaggr]

1. man, look how jumpy they are about covering up sh*t re: this panel

They haven't even gotten started and the White House is going "hold on! You don't need to know about that!"

Jesus CHEEEERIST!!!

[G_j]

9. I believe it was Kissinger's reluctance

to open his records which derailed his 9-11 panel chairship.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. It never ends

We have just got to get those bastards out.

[Ksec]

3. Jeebus. The secrecy is amazing

How do they get away with this stuff? Seriously, how can they do this stuff in America. Arent there rules to prevent these things-checks and balances?

[starroute]

4. So do we need to starts researching their conflicts of interest?

I don't suppose it's their incomes the administration is worried about us knowing -- it has to be where their money comes from and what connections they may have to either the White House or the whole Halliburton/Bechtel order of things.

Is this stuff we can find out about?

[G_j]

5. panel members

Laurence H. Silberman, a Republican appeals court judge who pardoned Oliver North,

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona is on the Senate Armed Services Committee. The commission's co-chairman,

former Virginia governor and Sen. Charles Robb, a Democrat, served on the Senate's Intelligence, Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees,

and Adm. Bill Studeman is former deputy CIA director.

Lloyd Cutler is a former White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

Rick Levin is president of Yale University, alma mater of both Bush and his father.

Pat Wald, a former Washington appeals court judge, is the panel's only female member.

Edit: two more were appointed,

They are Charles M. Vest, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

and Henry S. Rowen, an emeritus professor of public policy and management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

[Malva Zebrina]

6. Oh I see

it is another set up panel in the Potemkin village presidency of the, didn't get elected in the first place, George Bush.

This is really sad. The great statesmen in our congress should never have let Bush stomp all over them from the beginning. He just does it with impunity more and more, over and over. He is virtually running the congress, the judiciary and the executive--and the military, as well as the military industrial complex. He is, in other words, a fascist dictator who pretends to democratic principles.

[dusty64]

7. More evidence this "panel"

is a complete sham. Do any of the Democratic candidates have anything to say about this, the silence is puzzling over one of our regime's most blatant and outrageous acts.

[dusty64]

8. Interesting enough

for a kick. :kick: