FLASHBACK DEC 2001
Censorship in Bush's USA
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Major media censors Burton's dictator quote in story.
Guess another Republican conservative calling Bush a dictator IS NOT Something the US News Media wants the public to see or hear.
If the media didn't make their bias so horribly obvious, we wouldn't stand a chance in this fight. How is it not news when a Congressman calls a President from his own party a dictator on the record?
Here's the quote from Rep. Dan Burton as printed in the story on commondreams.com
''You tell the president there's going to be war between the president and this committee,'' Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican who heads the House Government Reform Committee, told a Justice Department official during what was supposed to be a routine prehearing handshake.
''His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost, and the same thing can happen to him,'' Burton added, jabbing his finger and glaring at Carl Thorsen, a deputy assistant attorney general who was attempting to introduce a superior who was testifying.
''We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. ... Your guy's acting like he's king.''
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htm---
The CNN Story doesn't even mention that anyone on Capitol Hill is upset with the Bush decision to not to turn over these documents. Here's the full text of the CNN story...
Bush rebuffs Congress on Clinton campaign documents
December 14, 2001 Posted: 11:12 AM EST (1612 GMT)
By Kelly Wallace
CNN Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has asserted "executive privilege" and is refusing to release confidential Justice Department documents related to campaign fundraising practices during the Clinton administration to a congressional oversight committee.
"It is my decision that you should not release these documents or otherwise make them available to the committee," Bush said in a memorandum to Attorney General John Ashcroft that was released by the White House on Thursday.
"Because I believe that congressional access to these documents would be contrary to the national interest, I have decided to assert executive privilege with respect to the documents and to instruct you not to release them or otherwise make them available to the committee," the president said.
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Here's the text of the AP story (MSNBC and ABC ran the AP story). At least it mentions people are angry but you will notice the fact that there is no mention of the "dictator" quote within the article.
Thursday December 13 12:04 PM ET
Bush Invokes Executive Privilege
By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites) invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutors' decision-making in cases ranging from a decades-old Boston murder to the Clinton-era fund-raising probe.
``I believe congressional access to these documents would be contrary to the national interest,'' Bush wrote in a memo ordering Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) to withhold the documents from a House investigative committee that subpoenaed them.
The decision institutes a dramatic change in the way the administration intends to deal with Congress after years in which the Justice Department (news - web sites), sometimes reluctantly, shared sensitive investigative documents with lawmakers.
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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011213/pl/bush_privilege_9.html
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