What's Really Behind WH Stonewall Over Bolton Documents?

[housewolf]

What's Really Behind The White House Stonewall Over Bolton Documents?

Perhaps we know now why the White House is fighting so furiously to prevent the Senate Intelligence Committee from getting all of the documents wanted by committee Democrats to evaluate the fitness of John Bolton to be our UN ambassador. According to Wednesday’s New York Times previewed in the International Herald Tribune, it has been leaked by administration sources that what the White House is refusing to release to the committee are reports that Bolton obtained from the NSA by way of a special request. And what is in those reports?

The names of American individuals and companies that may have violated export restriction bans on the shipment of dangerous weapons material to China, Libya, and even Iran. And is it too big of a leap to assume that some or all of these firms may prove to be very damaging to the White House, as campaign contributors?

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[Journeyman]

1. What was it Lenin said. . .

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

[IntiRaymi]

5. It was Khruschev that said that:

"When the time comes to hang America, an american businessman will sell us the rope"
I believe its a true statement, actually, given the blind pursuit of profit that a corporation is SUPPOSED to engage in.

[ashling]

2. Can you say Halliburton?

It is not a stretch to assume that these include not only contributors but individuals currently w/in the administration as well as defense and other contractors doing business with the administration.

[harlinchi]

3. How much you wanna bet that...

...everyone's favorite violator, Halliburton, is on the list? I mean, they dealt with Iraq, despite sanctions, they operate tax-free (to some extent) offshore and it appears that the VP facilitated an unheard of 10-year, exclusive, worldwide, profit-guaranteed contract for them. They've screwed our troops in combat, overcharged our government for stuff they got free and got a bonus from the government to boot!

Just as the Galloway mis-information supplied by the senator from Minnesota blocked out US violators of the Oil-For-Food program, attempting by fraud to implicate others, I'd suspect the Bolton documents show the extent to which certain (read GOP-supporting) US companies were able to violate sanctions with respect to other countries. Now the president wishes to cover up for those US companies? He'll spend his political capital (the few remaining pennies) preventing legitimate requests from our Senate? If this refusal to provide requested documents continues and is not mentioned loudly by the media , I think the media itself would need to be investigated to determine the extent to which the seven companies which own our media are related to those violators. Are GE, ADM and Kerr-McGee related? Are they connected to CBS or NBC? What are AOL/Time-Warner's oil interests? Are they or their subsidiaries profiting from the various scandals existing (Iraq, Iraq profiteering, Oil-For-Food, sanction-busting, etc.)?

The Telecommunication Act which allowed the consolidation of media needs to be repealed.

[applegrove]

4. Yup - they are afraid of reporters having access to names and events -

so they could investigate. Just a guess!