Back to the Future: Speaker Christine Pelosi names David Addington

[EFerrari]

Back to the Future: Speaker Christine Pelosi names David Addington Co-Chair, Office of Congressional Ethics.

July 26, 2018

Press Release: "The Office of Congressional Ethics is essential to an effective ethics process in the House,” said Speaker Pelosi. “This bipartisan board of outside experts who will be charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct and making recommendations to the House Ethics Committee. With the creation of the Office of Congressional Ethics, we have brought a new element of transparency and accountability to the ethics process.”

Addington, who was instrumental in formulating the Bush administration’s strategy for The War on Terror, survived an effort to impeach Mr. Bush for programs that Mr. Addington largely crafted -- torture, illegal wiretapping and the illegal invasion of Iraq -- when Christine Pelosi’s mother famously took impeachment “off of the table”. Mr. Addington and most of his unindicted co-conspirators were never brought to trial after President Obama took office as it was thought that national healing was more important than partisan bickering.

Addington will succeed Porter Goss, appointed by the first woman Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to the Office of Congressional Ethics in 2008. Goss began his career in the CIA assassins’ unit, Operation 40, which was tasked with unauthorized black ops in Cuba while President John F. Kennedy was negotiating with the USSR. He was instrumental in the Iran Contra Florida drug running operation, in tanking the House 9/11 investigation and later gutted the CIA for Dick Cheney.

Below: Porter Goss with sundry CIA assassins, second from the left.



When approached for comment, Speaker Pelosi said “No comment. Ethics are off the table.”




http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=0762

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Sounds about right...

"The swamp" is not only not being "drained," it's getting deeper by the day.

Nancy needs to start up those pumps, ASAP, if not sooner...I hope she didn't buy her swamp pumps from Jeb Bush's crooked partners!

[EFerrari]

2. There's so much sh!t on Goss, I couldn't even do this as a straight piece.

Those people he's sitting with were involved in just about every major assasination from 1960 on.

This is why we impeach criminals. So they don't come back.

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. Absolutely muthafukken right.

"This is why we impeach criminals. So they don't come back."

Refusal to impeach and then prosecute is tacit approval of future crimes. There is only one other way to take apart the system.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. "So they don't come back." ...But I have always heard that...

You put criminals in jail and some they even put to sleep, so that they are no longer a threat to society. Then when those evil felons come up for parole, you add some more hard time to their stay in the slammer, because they might still be a serious threat to we law abiding citizens. But then I guess that, that kind of "sh!t"(the law of the land)is for the rank and file taxpaying type citizen.

I think the folks in King W's court believe that they are totally "Above The Law" of the land. They dare congress to do it's job now. Bush Inc. have made up their "New Reality" and their big bluff/blitz has caused congress to throw in it's last card...impeachment. GAME OVER?

"We don't need no stinking checks and balances," Saddam Hussein 1989...or there abouts

[EFerrari]

28. When our Democratic Speaker makes these appointments

Bush et al's "belief" that they are above the law seems more and more founded in fact. Maybe they are. :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. LOL

K&R

[annabanana]

4. jeez, Where did you get that pic?. . . . .n/t

[EFerrari]

5. It's been around. So awful.

Usually in connection with Dallas although that doesn't pop up very much. One of the guys at the table claims to have been at Dallas and at Los Angeles. We don't even need to go there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_40

[LWolf]

7. *SPLAT*

Either that was my brain exploding, or my drink spewing across my monitor; I can't quite decide. ;)

:spray:

[EFerrari]

8. The War of Terror really is Iran Contra polished up and gone mainstream

It's the same @ssholes. And Iran Contra was just the Bay of Pigs guys after Watergate. Here's an article that compares Terra with Irangate from 2006:

The Swift-Boating of America
By Greg Grandin

An illegal war, torture rooms, warrantless wiretapping, manipulated intelligence, secret prisons, disinformation planted in the press, graft, and billions of reconstruction dollars gone missing: just when it seemed that the Bush administration had reached its corruption quota comes a new scandal. This one is a bribery case involving defense contractors, Republican congressmen, prostitutes, secret Hawaiian getaways, Scottish castles, and -- wait for it -- the Watergate Hotel. At its center is the just ex-Executive Director of the CIA, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, whose sole qualification for being appointed to that post by just ex-Director Porter Goss seems to have been his ability, while head of the Agency's Frankfurt post, to hand out bottled-water contracts to friends and show junketing politicians a good time.



http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/05/mother_of_all_scandals.html

[Hubert Flottz]

9. A good read on the...

"The Swift-Boating of America"

Mob Rule = Bushism

[Solly Mack]

10. I can see Addington coming back. I can see that (and not just him)

especially since he won't be held accountable for his crimes....

That's exactly the kind of "healing" America engages in...Goss/Ethics

Goss will gloss and they will all come out smelling like roses.

[EFerrari]

13. Goss and Gates need to be added to deck of cards we should make

in honor of Octafish. Addington. They'll all be with us for some time.

[Joanne98]

12. God this pisses me off. What was she thinking?

[EFerrari]

14. And what a great position to blackmail Congress from, no?

Maybe the appointment wasn't up to her but we should notice that Boehner was the Republlican who ostensibly helped make this "choice".

[screembloodymurder]

30. She's a crook, just like the rest of them !

What are you thinking? I mean no offense, but how much proof do you need?

[EFerrari]

15. from 2004: Porter Goss? NO WAY! - Buzzflash

August 11, 2004

Porter Goss? NO WAY!

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by One Citizen

On Tuesday, President George Bush nominated Porter Goss, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to head the Central Intelligence Agency.

Before confirmation, Congress should fire these questions at Porter Goss at his upcoming CIA chief hearings.

Would Porter Goss swear to commit full CIA resources for the purpose of prosecuting the person(s) responsible for leaking the fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA undercover agent to the press? That leak is known to have badly undercut each and every CIA field agent's confidence that they could freely report intelligence without fear of reprisal from the Bush Administration. Since this is one National Security issue where George "Slam Dunk" Tenet let us all down, will Goss commit to repairing the damage?

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/08/con04330.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Kinda like hiring Tony Soprano to run the Banking Oversight Committee.

[EFerrari]

18. Yep. I'm used t BushCo doing that but it's a little alarming when Pelosi does it.

[EFerrari]

17. HuffPo: it's time to subpoena Porter Goss (2007)

In March 2005, then-CIA director Porter Goss told the Senate "there are no techniques...that are being employed that are in any way against the law or would ...be considered torture." When Senator John McCain asked him about waterboarding, Goss would say only that is was "an area of what I will call professional interrogation techniques."

We now know that the CIA destroyed videotaped evidence of the torture of terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah, despite the fact there were ongoing federal court cases where the tapes might have been relevant as evidence and the 9/11 Commission had requested such evidence. The Congress must aggressively investigate this issue to discover whether or not criminal activity was being covered up and justice obstructed.

An Iran-Contra-style select committee must be formed with members of the House and Senate to hold serious hearings and begin a thorough investigation. This inquiry cannot be left to the Intelligence Committees because their members -- security hawks all -- have been severely compromised by their past condoning of torture in CIA interrogations. Only an entirely new committee, which Congress has the power to form in an instant, can begin to find out for the American people what was happening behind closed doors and whether or not heads should roll at Langley for obstruction of justice.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/its-time-to-subpoena-por_b_76377.html

[EFerrari]

19. Here'a lala's piece: Porter Goss on Ethics Committee?

July 25, 2008
Porter Goss on ethics committee?

So....

Former CIA Director Porter Goss has been appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) as co-chairman of the new Office of Congressional Ethics.

Let me see if I understand this:

1. A man who is alleged to have been involved in funneling large amounts of money in contracts to dubious "defense contractor" Brent Wilkes (whose companies were mostly on paper) knows something about ethics does he?

2. A man who is alleged to have been involved in the bribery of US Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham and took part in hooker parties along with his subordinates, knows something about ethics, does he?

3. A man who as the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee did not think it important to investigate the outing of CIA officer Valeria Plame Wilson by the White House as political pay-back, knows something about ethics, does he? This same who as a CIA officer himself should have known better, right?

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/07/porter-goss-on.html

[mod mom]

23. do you think it's possible she is making this OUTRAGEOUS appointment as a way to show in code

she is being blackmailed? I'm not taking Pelosi's side but it's so outrageous that it causes one to wonder-WTF?.

[EFerrari]

25. We've hit a threshhold, that's for sure. I don't know, mod mom.

It's not possible for her not to know what Goss is.

If we can assume she knows what he is, the possibilities are sort of ugly. If he was somehow pushed on her, then we're in trouble. If she chose him, we're in trouble. :shrug:

[merh]

20. be careful

the gender police are alleging that any attack on Pelosi is an attack on women - that criticism of how she is not doing her job and her choices is sexism at its finest.

[EFerrari]

22. Pelosi can't be criticized because she's a woman?

The gender police need to go back for regrooving. :hi:

[merh]

26. I know it is insane

but it is true

:hi:

[EFerrari]

21. Commondreams: Porter Goss -- Cheney's Cat's Paw? (2004)

Comments from three former CIA analysts.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0811-05.htm

[EFerrari]

24. Sibel Edmonds replies to Porter Goss (2006)

Sibel Edmonds Replies to Porter Goss Op-Ed on Whistleblowers...

The Former FBI Translator Destroys the Current CIA Director's Latest Attempt at Misleading America...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2409

[Wilms]

27. K&R n/t

[Disturbed]

29. Rep Pelosi is complicit in the Busholini Crimes.

She supported the Crimes. This is why she took Impeachment of Bush &/or Cheney "Off the table" which was not her prerogative to do. Other top Dems were complicit, as well. There was no blackmail. It was not needed.

[screembloodymurder]

31. How can we remove her?

Who do we call? She's lost all confidence. I want her out or I'll vote third party. It's that simple.

[EFerrari]

32. Even more than removing her, imho, it's a matter of bringing this corruption

up and into the disinfecting light.