SWEET DREAMS EDVs........ * IS GOING DOWN (maybe)

[Botany]

From another DU thread!

Uh-Oh... Bush lied to Congress. Fitzgerald asked to expand inquiry.

I haven't seen this posted yet but Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald has been asked by 40 Congressmen to expand his investigation into the Plame leak to include a a new charge of lying to Congress "to thwart Congressional and U.N. efforts to delay the start of the war."

"President Bush made two uranium claims, one in his State of the Union Address to Congress and another in a report that he submitted to Congress concerning Iraq, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made three other uranium claims. We request that you investigate whether such claims violated two criminal statutes, 18 U.S.C., Sec. 1001 and 18 U.S.C., Sec. 371, that prohibit making false and fraudulent statements to Congress and obstructing the functions of Congress."

"The criminal statute, 18 U.S.C., Sec. 371, prohibits conspiring to defraud the United States and is applicable since the Supreme Court in the case of Hammerschmidt v. United States, 265 U.S. 182, 188 (1924) held that to “conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the government out of property or money, but it also means to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest.” Senior Administration officials arguably violated Section 371 because their uranium claims had the effect of obstructing or interfering with the function of Congress to reconsider its war resolution and to allow further time for U.N. weapons inspections. If the whole truth had been told, Congress may well have withdrawn the war resolution or delayed the start of the war to allow further U.N. weapons inspections, which would have shown what we now know; that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and had not sought the uranium. However, it should be noted that Section 371 does not require proof that the conspiracy was successful."
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/moren...

[crispini]

1. Your linky gives me a 404!

What's the DU thread?

This is cool!

[Botany]

3. Will you play nice?

or will you pee in their cheerios?

:rofl:

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/091505fitzgeraldletter.html

the thread .....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2095782

[SharonRB]

6. Me, too.

[Patsy Stone]

2. Sweet dreams indeed, Botany.

Thanks. Let this be the end because the world deserves better.

Hey, you never say hi. Was it something I said?

[SharonRB]

4. Hey, Pats

Did you watch the Big Dawg? I miss him so -- that's what a real president should be. Smart, erudite, intellectual, a good speaker. I love watching him talk and I love his hands.

[Patsy Stone]

7. I love him.

I watched, but couldn't concentrate on all of it. I plan to watch the full rerun or tape it for later. He makes me calm.

For Bill: :loveya::loveya:

[SharonRB]

5. You promise?

[Berry Cool]

8. Is this really going to happen?????

And if it does, PLEASE don't tell me that Keith is going to watch it all from the press box at Yankee Stadium!!!!

(actually, my first question was going to be "* is going down? On WHO???")

[RevCheesehead]

9. The story's on DU's front page now.

:)