Comments on: Iraq Intelligence Reports Are Overclassified, Senators Say http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/09/iraq_intelligence_reports_are_.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:23:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Peggy Arvanitas http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/09/iraq_intelligence_reports_are_.html/comment-page-1#comment-640 Peggy Arvanitas Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:10:50 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2006/09/iraq_intelligence_reports_are_overclassified_senators_say.html#comment-640 It seems laws were created for the sheer strategy of excluding the review of information, as the "W" Bush administration pushed for "friends" to head major posts in Washington after his election. Likewise, we have a similar strategy that Jeb Bush has embarked on since he became Governor of Florida. At the heels of a Bellsouth cramming complaint, one of Jeb's "children" from Miami, the Human Relations Board controlled all whistleblower complaints of State department employees and employees of big business. The confidentiality law was strengthened to exclude the review of lawsuits and challenges even AFTER the complaint is closed. Even the Ethics Commission has been packed with lobbyists, who, during Charlie Crist's Elections AND Ethics commission complaints, found people who donated to his campaign voting he was NOT GUILTY of primative basic violations. This man is the Republican selection for Governor now. It is distressing that, the now Atty General Crist, did not challenge a newspaper reporter threatened to be removed from a Florida Statutes 286 Sunshine Law meeting with a police officer. The department and subject matter, you ask? Well, Dept of State Cook's meeting about the Florida voting machine problems! Bill Cotterell, Talahassee Democrat, waited for a challenge of the Statutes from Crist. Crist's reply? "they shouldn't have called the police." Comforting, but Cook's children work for Jeb's old boss, St Joe's group-Codina, also on the Bellsouth board.. It seems an avoidance of paper trails for the bush brothers is the result of his Father's loss to Bill Clinton. So much for the Constitution, State and Federal. Bless the work of those of us who "know" what is really going on in the "War against Truth." It seems laws were created for the sheer strategy of excluding the review of information, as the “W” Bush administration pushed for “friends” to head major posts in Washington after his election.
Likewise, we have a similar strategy that Jeb Bush has embarked on since he became Governor of Florida. At the heels of a Bellsouth cramming complaint, one of Jeb’s “children” from Miami, the Human Relations Board controlled all whistleblower complaints of State department employees and employees of big business. The confidentiality law was strengthened to exclude the review of lawsuits and challenges even AFTER the complaint is closed. Even the Ethics Commission has been packed with lobbyists, who, during Charlie Crist’s Elections AND Ethics commission complaints, found people who donated to his campaign voting he was NOT GUILTY of primative basic violations. This man is the Republican selection for Governor now.
It is distressing that, the now Atty General Crist, did not challenge a newspaper reporter threatened to be removed from a Florida Statutes 286 Sunshine Law meeting with a police officer. The department and subject matter, you ask? Well, Dept of State Cook’s meeting about the Florida voting machine problems!
Bill Cotterell, Talahassee Democrat, waited for a challenge of the Statutes from Crist. Crist’s reply? “they shouldn’t have called the police.” Comforting, but Cook’s children work for Jeb’s old boss, St Joe’s group-Codina, also on the Bellsouth board..
It seems an avoidance of paper trails for the bush brothers is the result of his Father’s loss to Bill Clinton. So much for the Constitution, State and Federal. Bless the work of those of us who “know” what is really going on in the “War against Truth.”

]]> By: Mark http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/09/iraq_intelligence_reports_are_.html/comment-page-1#comment-639 Mark Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:15:36 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2006/09/iraq_intelligence_reports_are_overclassified_senators_say.html#comment-639 Of course it's not "offensive" to Wyden or Levin that their report doesn't address Ayman al Zawahiri's trip to Baghdad in 1998 or that the 9-11 commission found that IRAQ, not al-Qaeda initiated most of the meetings between the two sides (in stark contrast to the new report, which is for some asinine reason, based on the testimony of Saddam Hussein and his cronies), Levin and Wyden also aren't all that concerned that only about 10% of the postwar documents have been analyzed. Levin and Wyden certainly don't think it's worth looking at the 40-plus members of al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime, both at large and in custody, who claimed links between the two sides, deserve to be addressed by their commission, wouldn't fit their premise. All that postwar cooperation between Zarqawi, al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Saddam loyalists, Levin and Wyden have no interest in seeing how when that cooperation began, that might crush their faulty premise as well. Worried about "classified" documents my ass, those two are worried about getting Democrats back in power. Of course it’s not “offensive” to Wyden or Levin that their report doesn’t address Ayman al Zawahiri’s trip to Baghdad in 1998 or that the 9-11 commission found that IRAQ, not al-Qaeda initiated most of the meetings between the two sides (in stark contrast to the new report, which is for some asinine reason, based on the testimony of Saddam Hussein and his cronies), Levin and Wyden also aren’t all that concerned that only about 10% of the postwar documents have been analyzed.

Levin and Wyden certainly don’t think it’s worth looking at the 40-plus members of al-Qaeda and Saddam’s regime, both at large and in custody, who claimed links between the two sides, deserve to be addressed by their commission, wouldn’t fit their premise.

All that postwar cooperation between Zarqawi, al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Saddam loyalists, Levin and Wyden have no interest in seeing how when that cooperation began, that might crush their faulty premise as well.

Worried about “classified” documents my ass, those two are worried about getting Democrats back in power.

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