Chairmen Waxman & Tierney Introduce Iraq Corruption Resolution

[Hissyspit]

Source: House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform

Friday, October 12, 2007
Administration Oversight, Iraq Reconstruction, Open Government
Chairmen Waxman and Tierney Introduce Iraq Corruption Resolution

H.Res. 734 expresses the sense of the House that the State Department has abused its classification authority by withholding from Congress and the American people information about the extent of corruption in the Maliki government.

The resolution further condemns the State Department for retroactively classifying documents that had been widely distributed previously as unclassified, and by directing its employees not to answer questions in an open forum that call for “Broad statements/assessments which judge or characterize the quality of Iraqi governance or the ability/determination of the Iraqi government to deal with corruption, including allegations that investigations were thwarted/stifled for political reasons.” Cosponsors include Reps. Tierney, Maloney, Lynch, Yarmuth, Braley, Norton, McCollum, Van Hollen, and Schakowsky.

Read more: http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1535

[Xipe Totec]

1. Yes, yes, very nice. But where's the contempt of congress resolution? n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Where's the impeachment resolution?

[Xipe Totec]

4. 'xactly! n/t

[applegrove]

3. Apparently the police in Afghanistan get paid less than once a month

because of corruption.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. They probly get paid whenever they can find unarmed civilians

to hold up.

[applegrove]

6. Some do that too. The bureaucracy has been stealing their pay and

now the Nato has to do an end run around the bureaucracy to make sure the police get paid..thus saving regular people from being mugged by the cops.

[robinlynne]

7. shouldn't a resolution have some sort of resolution?

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Yeah.

Resolutions never seem to resolve anything.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Lawmakers Say State Department Blocks Iraq Info: Four committee chairs want Maliki corruption truth

Source: NYT/Reuters

By REUTERS
Published: October 12, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four congressional committee chairmen on Friday accused the State Department of suppressing information about corruption inside Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the four senior Democrats said endemic corruption was fueling the Iraqi insurgency, endangering U.S. troops and undermining their chances of success.

California Rep. Henry Waxman of the House of Representatives oversight committee; California Rep. Tom Lantos of the foreign affairs committee; Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton of the armed services committee and Wisconsin Rep. David Obey of the appropriations panel said the State Department was stonewalling their attempts to get at the truth....

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The letter referred to a congressional hearing last week in which a former Iraqi judge said government corruption was "rampant" and cost tens of billions of dollars.

The State Department representative at the hearing only responded to questions that portrayed the Iraqi government positively, the letter said, promising to answer others in a classified format. The lawmakers said the State Department instructed officials last month not to answer questions in public about the Iraqi government's performance or its ability to tackle corruption....

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-iraq-usa-corruption.html

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10. condi hands these letters to her lawyers

[lovuian]

11. I want to know about Chalibi and why he is still around

double agent for Iran and Curve Ball with useless info

why is he still a player???