Fitzgerald Must Broaden Investigation--The Nation

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Katrina vanden Heuvel

BLOG | Posted 10/22/2005 @ 7:55pm
Fitzgerald Must Broaden Investigation


"The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg," Congressman Jerry Nadler told me when I ran into him on the street near our offices on Friday afternoon. He was quick to tell me of a call--led by Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Nadler, along with 39 of their House colleagues--for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation to be expanded to examine whether the White House--President, Vice-President, and members of the WH's Iraq War Group--conspired to deliberately deceive Congress into authorizing the war. And, as Nadler reminded me, lying to Congress is a crime under several federal statutes.

This is the first call by members of Congress for an expansion of Fitzgerald's probe, amid mounting evidence that there was a well-orchestrated effort by what former State Department aide Larry Wilkerson dubbed last week, "the Cheney-Rumsfeld axis" to hijack US foreign policy and knowingly mislead the Congress in order to get its support for an unlawful war.

"We are no longer just talking about a Republican culture of corruption and cronyism," Nadler says. "We now have reason to believe that high crimes may have been committed at the highest level, wrongdoing that may have led us to war and imperiled our national security."

[electropop]

1. Did he say, "high crimes?"

:bounce::toast:

[fasttense]

2. Today is just filled with great news.

:applause:

[YDogg]

3. Katrina vanden Heuvel rocks my socks.

I'm just sayin'.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. High crimes and misdemeanors.

[wtbymark]

5. I think it's pretty damn obvious

but the press can't report the 'obvious' let alone trying any 'investigative' reporting. There are plenty of enablers in congress that won't open their mouths, continuing the culture of the snowblind. In my view, the enablers are just as guilty as the perpetrators, both serve to destroy our foundation of government. Give me somebody with balls!!! Hell, I'd run, but I've smoked pot more than 15 times (x1,000). Where's the politician with balls? One who will call reporters liars on their own programs, One who will openly call the chimp a liar, one who will call out the fundamental extremists for what they are, one who will tell corporations to fuck off and close all the loopholes and the free trade which shipped our jobs overseas. As that old lady said "Where's the Beef?"

[Catrina]

6. Sounds like we found him!

Seriously, I wouldn't worry about smoking pot. Just tell it all up front, and I bet it wouldn't matter to most voters. Most people have done it themselves anyway, and you can always talk a lot about hypocrisy.

Do what Jesus did when you are at a political rally. Look at the crowd and say 'Let he who has never smoked pot, or been drunk once in a while, or has never taken any mind-altering drug (legal or illegal) cast the first smear!! Now, let's talk about important issues'.

It would be so refreshing to challenge their hypocrisy. To make it an issue in a campaign. Maybe it would be worth running to start the trend.