Iraq Intelligence and Nuclear Evidence = Hearing with SoS Rice< Tenet and Hadley added now.

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Turning up the heat on the issue, with more players called to testify.

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Chairman Waxman Reschedules Hearing with Secretary of State Rice
Monday, May 14, 2007
Administration Oversight, Iraq Intelligence and Nuclear Evidence, Correspondence Regarding the Testimony of Secretary Rice
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1312

Chairman Waxman announced the hearing with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been postponed from May 15, 2007, to June 19, 2007. The hearing is being postponed to allow former CIA Director George Tenet to testify with Secretary Rice and to accommodate Secretary Rice's travel schedule. The Committee also sent a letter to Stephen Hadley, the National Security Advisor, requesting his voluntary appearance at a deposition.
Documents and Links

* Letter to Secretary Rice - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070516180943.pdf
* Press Release - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070514105306.pdf
* Letter to Stephen Hadley - http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1313

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1. Committee Requests Deposition of National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley

Committee Requests Deposition of National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley
Friday, May 11, 2007
Iraq Intelligence and Nuclear Evidence
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1313

Today Chairman Waxman sent a formal request to Stephen Hadley, the National Security Advisor, to appear for a deposition. The deposition is part of the Committee investigation into why President Bush and other senior Administration officials cited forged evidence in building a case for war against Iraq.
Documents and Links

* Letter to Stephen Hadley - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070514155005.pdf

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2. oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I hope they can pry something out of these people.

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3. Maybe I'm just down today, but what is the point of having a party

if nobody comes --- even if subpeonaed?

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4. "If you paint a good picture of a cow, you don't have to write 'cow' under it" Sam Irwin

I love the wisdom of the Chairman of the Watergate Hearing.

Can we link a VIDEO of that quote?

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5. Committee Requests Deposition of National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley

Friday, May 11, 2007
Iraq Intelligence and Nuclear Evidence
Committee Requests Deposition of National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1313

Today Chairman Waxman sent a formal request to Stephen Hadley, the National Security Advisor, to appear for a deposition. The deposition is part of the Committee investigation into why President Bush and other senior Administration officials cited forged evidence in building a case for war against Iraq.

Documents and Links

* Letter to Stephen Hadley - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070514155005.pdf

"The deposition is part of the Committee's investigation into why President Bush and
other senior Administration officials cited forged evidence in building a case for war against
Iraq. The deposition will examine whether White House officials overstated lraq's efforts to
obtain uranium from Africa and its nuclear threat."

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6. Hadley had the Facts before the Invasion = Senate Intelligence Report

Lengthy list of officials got accurate Iraq forecast = HADLEY serving under Condoleezza Rice

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Lengthy list of officials got accurate Iraq forecast
JAMES GERSTENZANG; Los Angeles Times
Published: May 26th, 2007 01:00 AM
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nationworld/story/71622.html

WASHINGTON – Two months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies twice
warned the Bush administration that establishing a democracy there would prove a difficult
challenge and that al-Qaida would use political instability to increase its operations

... the Senate Intelligence Committee, brought to light once-classified
warnings that accurately forecasted many of the specific military and
political problems the Bush administration and Iraqi officials have faced

....these warnings were distributed to senior officials with daily access to President Bush

... One of those was Stephen Hadley, the president’s national security adviser, who at
the time was the deputy national security adviser, serving under Condoleezza Rice......

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7. Full-text: July 2003 Waxman’s letter to NSC Condoleezza Rice w/Footnote Links

Long time on the trail, and no let up yet!!

Full-text: July 2003 Waxman’s letter to NSC Condoleezza Rice w/Footnote Links
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/waxman-rice-20030729.html

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8. House panel secures cooperation of Tenet = closed-door deposition Bush's discredited uranium claim

I can't wait to hear Condeleeza Rice plead the Fifth.

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House panel secures cooperation of Tenet
By Helen Fessenden
May 14, 2007
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-panel-secures-cooperation-of-tenet-2007-05-14.html


The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has secured the cooperation of former CIA Director George Tenet and sent a letter to National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in its broadening probe into faulty pre-war Iraq intelligence.

Tenet has agreed to appear for a closed-door deposition regarding the now-discredited uranium claim in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address, which warned that Iraq was seeking to obtain uranium from Africa, according to a committee press release.

.......... In April, the panel’s Democratic majority issued a subpoena for Rice — over strong objections from GOP members — and asked her to testify today. Rice has not responded to either the subpoena or to previous letters by Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) asking her to appear in person and answer questions about the uranium claim.........

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10. Tenet Agrees To Cooperate and Testify for Investigation Into Niger Fraud

Tenet Agrees To Cooperate With Congressional Investigation Into Niger Fraud

Former CIA Director George Tenet has agreed to cooperate with a House investigation into ....
.... the infamous “16 words” in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address — .... administration’s case for war.

Waxman (D-CA) announced that Tenet will provide a deposition on the issue and testify before the committee on June 19:

    Today Chairman Henry A. Waxman announced that the Oversight Committee will 
  postpone the hearing with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from May 15, 2007, 
  to June 19, 2007. The hearing is being postponed to allow former CIA Director 
  George Tenet to testify with Secretary Rice ....

Mr. Tenet has agreed to cooperate with the Committee’s inquiry into whether the White House overstated Iraq’s efforts to obtain uranium from Africa and its nuclear threat in making the case for war. Mr. Tenet has agreed to provide a deposition to the Committee prior to the hearing.

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9. YES HADLEY

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11. Waxman: State Department Gags Analyst Who Warned Of Niger Forgery

Waxman: State Department Gags Analyst Who Warned Of Niger Forgery
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/04/rice-waxman-letter/

Three months before President Bush uttered his infamous 16 words, claiming there was evidence that Saddam Hussein was building a nuclear weapon, a State Department analyst named Simon Dodge had determined that the evidence for the claim was likely fraudulent.

Dodge emailed his assessment to fellow intelligence analysts in October 2002, and then again in January 2003 (two weeks before Bush’s State of the Union), saying the documents supposedly from Niger were “probably a hoax” and “clearly a forgery.”

According to Oversight and Goverment Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), the State Department is now refusing to let Dodge speak to Waxman’s staff, despite the fact that Dodge has indicated he is “willing to cooperate fully” with the investigation.

In a letter to Condoleezza Rice today, Waxman charges that the State Department is “imped the Committee’s investigation ..."

"It would be a matter of great concern - as well as an obvious conflict of interest - if you had directed your staff to impede a congressional investigation ..."

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12. Rice Interviewed by Jim Lehrer "Did you know, or should you have known..."

Four years later, we finally get long-overdue oversight.

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Dr. Condoleezza Rice Interviewed by Jim Lehrer
July 30, 2003
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030731-10.html

Q The President's defense of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice today came at a critical time. A week ago, her chief deputy, Stephen Hadley, acknowledged he had been warned by the CIA in two separate memos that the Agency would not stand by information suggesting Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program. That claim made it into the President's State of the Union speech, and CIA Director George Tenet took the blame.

But with Hadley's admission, new questions emerged. If he knew about the error in advance, who else did? Was it overlooked simply because the administration was anxious to bolster the case for war?

Here to answer these, and other, questions, is National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Welcome, Dr. Rice.

DR. RICE: Thank you, nice to be with you.

Q So the first question becomes the ones I just posed. Did you know, or should you have known ...........

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13. officials made the disclosure hours after they were alerted by the CIA

This goes to the heart of the impeachment articles by Kucinich.
Again, this is so long overdue due to lack of oversight until the Dem majority.

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July 23, 2003 - Washington Post
Bush Aides Disclose Warnings From CIA - Oct. Memos Raised Doubts on Iraq Bid
by Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0723-05.htm


The CIA sent two memos to the White House in October voicing strong doubts about a claim President Bush made three months later in the State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material in Africa, White House officials said yesterday.

The officials made the disclosure hours after they were alerted by the CIA to the existence of a memo sent to Bush's deputy national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, on Oct. 6. The White House said Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, on Friday night discovered another memo from the CIA, dated Oct. 5, also expressing doubts about the Africa claims.

The information, provided in a briefing by Hadley and Bush communications director Dan Bartlett, significantly alters the explanation previously offered by the White House. ..............................

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14. Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image "out of the loop"

Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image
Controversy Stirs Questions of Reports Unread, Statements Contradicted
By Dana Milbank and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 27, 2003; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51224-2003Jul26?language=printer

Just weeks ago, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, made a trip to the Middle East that was widely seen as advancing the peace process. There was speculation that she would be a likely choice for secretary of state, and hopes among Republicans that she could become governor of California and even, someday, president.

But she has since become enmeshed in the controversy over the administration's use of intelligence about Iraq's weapons in the run-up to war. She has been made to appear out of the loop by colleagues' claims that she did not read or recall vital pieces of intelligence. And she has made statements about U.S. intelligence on Iraq that have been contradicted by facts that later emerged. ..........

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15. Americans Want Rice to Comply With Subpoena

Angus Reid Global Monitor : Polls & Research
Americans Want Rice to Comply With Subpoena
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/15651

.... according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 40 per cent of respondents think the lawmakers want to embarrass the federal administration, while 39 per cent believe they seek to gather relevant information.

On Apr. 23, the U.S. Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena, calling for Rice to answer questions ... 43 per cent of respondents think Rice should comply with the request.

Pre-war speeches by Bush mentioned specific chemical agents, such as mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve gas as banned substances allegedly secured by Iraq. State secretary Colin Powell assured the United Nations (UN) Security Council in February 2003 that Hussein possessed biological weapons.

The final report of the Iraq Survey Group—presented to the U.S. Congress on Sept. 30, 2004—concluded that Hussein’s regime did not possess chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, and had not implemented a significant program for their development.

On Apr. 26, Rice suggested she would not comply with the order, ...