What do you want Congress to investigate?

[Marr]

Know what I'd like Congress to look into?

The toppled Hussein statue spectacle, and the "throngs" of cheering Iraqis that greeted the US invasion force. I think it's symbolic of the Bush Administration's dishonest, unscrupulous, and insultingly condescending position. And worse- alot of people in this country still think those events were authentic. They're still mentioned by pundits all the time, making the argument that the Iraq occupation could've gone just swimmingly had the Bush Administration not screwed up the details. They point to the cheering crowds and the toppled statue photos and say, "see? We could've won, but we lost that support".

We didn't lose that support- it was never there. It was all just another cynical lie, and I think the people in this country ought to know it.

[stevedeshazer]

1. The pulling down of the Saddam statue was staged by Ahmed Chalabi

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm

I want Abu Ghraib investigated.

I want the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson investigated.

I want the Bush Crime Family's ties to the Saudi Royals investigated.

I want Dick Cheney's meetings with energy corporation officials investigated.

That's just for starters.

[liberaldemocrat7]

12. Investigate the Oil and Gas pipeline negotiations between Bush admin - Taliban

The congress should investigate the oil and gas pipeline negotiations that the Bush administration conducted with the Taliban from Jan 2001 until the End of July 2001 and how it led to the 9-11 attacks.

[Octafish]

2. Bush lied America into war.

Bush was criminally negligent -- at best -- regarding 9-11.

Bush was criminally negligent -- at best -- regarding Hurricane Katrina.

Bush was criminally negligent -- at best -- regarding ENRON Energy Policy.

There are a heckuva lot more.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. The no-bid contracts with Haliburton et al

I've seen video that says, for example, that Haliburton has not kept the water for the troops clean.

[salin]

4. let's go back in time and move forward:

-cheney energy task force
-cheney (simultaneously) heading the anti-dometic terrorism task force - that didn't meet once before 911
-the timing of moving troops and resources out of Afghanistan and to iraq - around the same time of the fall of Kandahar ; and more than a half year before the IWR vote in congress; and more than a full year before the actual invasion.
-the implications set forth in the Downing Street Memos
-the process by which major legislation - during the conference committee - was full-scale rewritten with provisions by lobbyists inserted that had never been discussed at any hearing or was never vetted... such as in the medicare plan b bill there was a 'tax break for companies that continue to offer health insurance to retirees' (in order to keep costs from further escalating for the govt) - that in the last revision was changed... tax break for companies.... (the provision for using the tax break as an incentive for continuing coverage for retirees disappeared - and a new corporate tax cut ... no strings attached, was added.)

those are just a few starters...

[Eric J in MN]

5. Growing pharmaceuticals in corn and other GM experiments....

...which can taint the food supply.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,2763,549002,00.html

[butterfly77]

6. I want them to investigate...

where is all the money, investigate about what are the real unemployment numbers, who shredded what and when, how many soldiers really died,Cheney and Bush...

[salin]

7. the presidential signing statements!

[Selatius]

8. Cheney's Energy Task Force notes and DoD's awarding of war contracts to groups like Halliburton.

And possible war crimes committed by US soldiers and commanding officers.

[thingfisher]

9. What! No one is concerned about investigating

violent video games?

[leveymg]

10. I want them to investigate how the Bush family have stayed out of jail all these decades.

Go right back to the 1930s, and unearth the truth about why Prescott Bush and George Walker weren't prosecuted under the Trading With The Enemy Act and why that affair was swept under the rug by the Justice Department and The New York Times.

They'll find that the Bushes were mere lieutenants in the pro-Nazi American Fifth Column, and the kingfish were the Dulles Brothers, who were the principal lawyers and bag men for Germany's biggest steel and petrochemical companies. Nothing was ever done because John Foster Dulles was Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and his brother Allen was already the de facto head of the American branch of the emerging anti-communist covert action community.

In concert with J. Edgar Hoover and private intelligence agencies spun off from Military Intelligence -- aided by an enthusiastic army of smart lawyers with a telent for political dirty-tricks, such as a young Richard Nixon, the Dulles Brothers had blackmailed and Red Baited practically everybody in a position to challenge them, from Democratic Congressmen to film studio heads.

That's why G.H.W. Bush, an obscure ex-one term Congressman -- with no visible intel expertise -- was appointed head of the RNC and then CIA during the Nixon and Ford years.

[Independent_Liberal]

11. self delete nt

[Blue_In_AK]

13. War profiteering, first and foremost. n/t

[Printer70]

14. My List

-Faulty Iraq Intelligence: why? how can it be avoided in the future?

-Foreign Aid/Military Contract connection: How much of our foreign aid is military aid, and how much of the latter goes to US defense contractors. (Ideally, an end to military aid)

-9/11 Panel recommendations: not so much investigate, but implement

-Oil companies: collusion over prices

-Microsoft: anti-trust (overdue)

-Credit Card Fees: they are starting to do this

[jmowreader]

15. Investigating Shrub's 15-minute death warrant hearings could be fun

Dipshit signed 163 death warrants on the basis of 15 minutes' consideration. Some of those people had defense lawyers who slept in the courtroom during their trials. There is NO WAY that all 163 of those people were actually guilty of murder.

But let's start out simply. On August 6, 2001, George W. Bush received a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined To Strike Within U.S." Why was NO action taken on that report?

On September 11, 2001, the Pentagon conducted a command post exercise in which the scenario was airliners flying into the World Trade Center. The notional enemy in this exercise was "Al Qaeda." According to Defense Department regulations, notional enemies cannot have names that even slightly resemble those of real enemies, for reasons that by now are all too obvious. What's up with this?

The days before 9/11 and the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks are good for investigations from now until the end of time.

Katrina and Bush's inaction on same could be good.

[liberal hypnotist]

16. Themselves

Congress should take an agressive stance against their relationship to lobbyists, making laws that make them exempt from law and term limits. Power corrupts.

[Independent_Liberal]

17. What I want investigated...

Downing Street Memos
Plame
Iraq Intelligence
WMDs
WHIG
Iran-Syria Operations Group
AIPAC/Larry Franklin/Steven Rosen/Keith Weissman/Michael Ledeen/Manucher Ghorbanifar
Niger/Yellowcake Forgeries
Chalabigate
Energy Task Force and secret energy meetings
Security breaches and leaks of classified information
Dubai Ports deals
Mining disasters
Patriot Act and IRS abuses
Indefinite detainment without charge
NSA and wiretapping without FISA court approval
FEMA's Katrina response
Aragoncillo
Gannon
Abramoff
Cunnigham/Wilkes/MZM/Hookergate
Sibel Edmonds FBI Whistleblower Case
Torture of prisoners
Secret government propaganda operations
Election Fraud
Diebold
Choice Point
Coingate
New Hampshire Phone Jamming
Office of Special Plans
Whistleblower rights violations by the US Office of Special Counsel
Pat Roberts/Richard Shelby Intelligence Leak Cover-Ups
The cover-up of the cost of the Medicare bill
John Negroponte and the School of the Americas
Greenberg Traurig
Marsh & Kroll Management
AIG
Citigroup
Enron
Halliburton-Kellogg Brown & Root
Lockheed Martin
The Carlyle Group
Harken Energy
Bechtel
WorldCom
Tyco
Financial improprieties involving former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford
Alphonso Jackson and HUD contracts
Cover-ups of pre-9/11 intelligence
9/11 Commission cover-ups
9/11 Commission members with ties to oil companies and lobbyists
Key witnesses left out of the official 9/11 Report
Illegal weapons sales
Drug trafficking
Money laundering
9/11 related corruption in government offices
Cover-ups involving Congress people, Federal Judges and DOJ personnel
Corruption surrounding Supreme Court Justices
DC 9 and the 5.5 tons of cocaine
Christine Todd Whitman and the EPA
Money from foreign entities funneled to Congress people and Pentagon and State Department personnel
FBI wiretap translations
NORAD tapes
Pentagon tapes
Manipulation of pre-9/11 FBI intercepts
Hastert-Abramoff-Turkey-Israel-MIC Inc.-Brewster Jennings-American Turkish Council-AIPAC-Feith-Perle connections
Actions by the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) before and after 9/11
Larry Silverstein
Paul Bremer
Destruction of 9/11 FAA tapes
Domestic espionage
DeLay's misuse of the FAA and the DHS
Titan Corporation's involvement in the Abu Ghraib and Cunningham/Wilkes scandals and how it corrupted the defense and intelligence agencies
DeLay-Abramoff-Kidan-SunCruz-Boulis-Mob-Atta connections
Espionage in the Abramoff and Cunningham scandals linked to the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program and COINTELPRO
Group W Advisors
Archer Logistics
ACDS Inc.
Pakistan-ISI connections
Saudi-Binladen Group (SBG) connections
Defense contractors
Enron Afghani pipeline deals
The death of Enron executive Cliff Baxter
Arthur Anderson's destruction of Enron documents
Penetration of the FBI, State Department and Pentagon
Turkish spies infiltrating the government
The Boulis mob hit
Kidan's ties to a Sicilian mafia figure
The identification of Atta by "Able Danger"
That massive FBI cover-up in Florida exposed by an Army Intel Unit
Terrorists at casinos
Abramoff's ties to Turkey, Israel and Pakistan
Laundered Casino Money
Foreign Influence Peddling
Ties to the Russian government
Saudi money
Penetration of that FBI New York Field Office by an Iranian Rouge Agent
Ney's use of illegal wiretaps with the complicity of MCI/WorldCom
John O'Neill's murder
Pat Tillman's death
Missing billions from Iraq
Wellstone's plane crash
Melek Can Dickerson and the American Turkish Council
Cases reported by John M. Cole
The firing of the those 60 House Approprations Committee Investigators from the investigative staff by Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis in the Hastert/Bid-Rigging/Approprations/Contractors cover-up
The firing of Abramoff Prosecutor Frederick A. Black
Homeland Security rackets
Child prostitution and sex trafficking in the Northern Marianas
Carlyle and Dubai
Enron power plant deals
Halliburton, Iraq contractors, Iraq corruption, and the selling of key nuclear reactors to Iran
War Profiteering
Nigerian bribes
Bid-rigging
Ney's ties to MZM
K Street lobbyists' ties to foreign entities
Homeland Security sex predator operations
David Kelly's death
Chris Matthew's involvement in the Abramoff scandal
Pre-9/11 terrorism cases including the Ramzi Yousef/Bojinka Two case and the Ali Mohamed case
Zeliow and the 9/11 Commission

[nam78_two]

18. Crimes against the environment/suppression of science.nt