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Exclusive to CounterPunch Newsletter Subscribers! WHAT DID ISRAEL KNOW IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS? * Those Celebrating "Movers" and Art Student Spies
* Who were the Israelis living next to Mohammed Atta?
* What was in that Moving Van on the New Jersey shore?
* How did two hijackers end up on the Watch List weeks before 9/11?At last, the answers. Read Christopher Ketcham's exclusive expose in CounterPunch special double-issue February newsletter. Plus, Cockburn and St. Clair on how this story was suppressed and ultimately found its home in CounterPunch. Get your copy today by subscribing online or calling 1-800-840-3683 Remember contributions to CounterPunch are tax-deductible. Click here to make a donation. If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now
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Today's Stories February 9, 2007 Newton Garver
February 8, 2007 John V. Walsh Marjorie Cohn Trish Schuh Ron Jacobs Laura Carlsen Ramzy Baroud Brenda Norrell Bryan Farrell Judith Scherr Website of
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February 6, 2007 Diana Johnstone Gregory Wilpert Norman Solomon Dave Lindorff William Blum Mike Ferner CP News Service Evelyn Pringle Christopher Brauchli Alan Cabal Website of the Day
Dave Zirin Uri Avnery Ron Jacobs Paul Craig Roberts Newton Garver Bruce Anderson Saul Landau Ralph Nader James T. Phillips Mike Whitney Kenneth Rexroth Website of the Day
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Clair Patrick Cockburn P. Sainath Sen. Russell Feingold Diane Christian Brian Cloughley Diana Barahona Timothy J. Freeman Conn Hallinan John Ross Greg Moses Missy Beattie Joshua Frank Evelyn Pringle Stephen Fleischman Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Poets' Basement Website of the Day
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February 8, 2007 The Politics of Self-CongratulationDemocrats Change Gas, Claim It's a New CarBy DAVID SWANSON Democrats on Capitol Hill see the world through bureaucratic shades and have been circulating this self-congratulatory Email:
Of course, the American public would very much like to see real investigations into the war, especially into the lies that launched it. But that's not what this list of 52 hearings is about. The vast majority of these hearings are simply ordinary day-to-day business. They're not investigations of any known or possible crimes or abuses. Most of them are about the future of the war, not its past or how it was begun. Six hearings on military "Readiness" hardly satisfy the public hunger for a hearing on "The Bush-Cheney Fraud." Four hearings on paying for more war hardly elimate the need to investigate Cheney's claim that Iraq had nukes and Bush's warning that we might wake up to a mushroom cloud. A hearing on the reappointment of a General hardly touches the question of why our president made claims about aluminum tubes and uranium purchases and chemical and biological weapons and ties to 9-11 that he had been told were baseless. A hearing on an annual threat assessment seems less valuable when our democracy is threatened with becoming a monarchy, and the war we were lied into four years ago is ongoing. Dear Congress, almost all of your hearings have been about how to continue the war, not how to investigate it or end it. The exceptions are few and far between. The Senate Intelligence Committee is listed as having held one (closed) hearing. We don't know what happened there, but we know that none of the abuses of "intelligence" prior to the war were exposed in a closed hearing. Do you consider that a good five-weeks' work? Do you sense any urgency in the air? DO YOU? Can you prove it? The House Intelligence Committee, whose chairman's office has indicated it will simply not bother investigating how this war began, is listed as having held three hearings, two of them open: one on "worldwide threats" (hint: the greatest of these is at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue) and the other on a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, not the N.I.E. that was used to help launch this illegal war but a new one that's considerably more honest. Now, the House Judiciary Committee has held a hearing on signing statements, and has talked about investigating Bush's illegal spying programs, and those worthy efforts are not listed here because they're not about the war. A couple of moderately useful investigations are listed here: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings on corruption, and a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the plight of Iraqi refugees. But by and large, this lengthy list of fluff and B.S. adds insult to injury for the American people, not to mention the Iraqi people and the rest of the world. We were lied into a war. For six years, Democrats struggled to start an investigation of how that was done. Resolutions of Inquiry picked up bipartisan support and failed by one or two votes in various committees. Now those Resolutions have not been reintroduced. Now we are supposed to be grateful for a "hearing on approaches to audit of reconstruction and support activities." I've got to tell you: I'm not going to be grateful until investigations address the issues listed here: www.afterdowningstreet.org/investigations Of course, if the Democrats
were to hold real public hearings, issue their first subpoena,
put their first witness under oath, and expose this war on television,
self-congratulatory Emails wouldn't be needed. Staffers would
be too busy figuring out what to do with all the flowers and
thank you notes. Don't believe me? Try it. Hold one little hearing
on the Bush and Blair meeting at which Bush proposed painting
US planes with UN colors and trying to get them shot at in order
to begin the war. Subpoena the minutes from that meeting, communications
that preceded and followed it, Email exchanges. Subpoena those
who were in the room. Subpoena the reporters who were lied to
just after the meeting, when Bush and Blair told them they were
working hard to avoid war. Give those reporters the opportunity
to ask follow-up questions now, in light of these reports: If that one little hearing doesn't set our nation on a path toward restoration of democracy, then I'll apologize and be grateful for 104 hearings on how we can most efficiently kill more people. The following list is a disgrace: NEW DEMOCRATIC-LED CONGRESS
IS EXERCISING OVERSIGHT AND DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE IRAQ
WAR JANUARY Tuesday, January 9th Wednesday, January 10th Thursday, January 11th House Foreign Affairs Committee -- full committee hearing on "Iraq, Part I" Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. The Administration's Plan for Iraq" Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Troop Surge, Partition, Withdrawal or Strengthen the Center?" Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -- full committee hearing on "Annual Threat Assessment" Friday, January 12th Tuesday, January 16th Senate Judiciary Committee -- full committee hearing on "The Plight of Iraqi Refugees" Wednesday, January 17th House Appropriations Committee -- CLOSED. Defense Subcommittee holds hearing on Army and Marine Corps Readiness House Appropriations Committee
-- CLOSED. Defense Subcommittee holds closed hearing on Army
and Marine Operations and Equipment Reconstruction Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Regional Diplomatic Strategy" Thursday, January 18th House Armed Services Committee - Air and Land Forces Subcommittee hearing on Army force protection equipment for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom House Appropriations Committee -- CLOSED. Defense Subcommittee holds closed hearing on Guard and Reserve Readiness House Appropriations Committee -- CLOSED. Defense Subcommittee holds closed hearing on Navy and Air Force Readiness House Budget Committee -- full committee hearing on "Budgeting for War Costs" House Select Intelligence Committee -- full committee hearing on Worldwide Threats Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Military and Security Strategy" Friday, January 19th House Appropriations Committee -- Defense Subcommittee holds hearing on Military Medical Readiness Monday, January 22nd Tuesday, January 23rd Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Alternative Plans: Federalism, Side with the Majority, Strategic Redeployment, or Negotiate?" Senate Armed Services Committee -- full committee hearing on "Nomination of Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, USA, to be General and Commander, Multi-National Forces -- Iraq" Wednesday, January 24th Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee meeting on S. Con. Res. 2, the Biden-Hagel-Levin-Snowe Bipartisan Iraq War Resolution Thursday, January 25th Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Political Strategy" Senate Armed Services Committee -- full committee hearing on "The Current Situation in Iraq and the Administration's Recently Announced Strategy for Continued United States Assistance tot eh Iraqi Government and for an Increased United States Military Presence in Iraq" Friday, January 26th Tuesday, January 30th Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Alternative Plans: The Iraq Study Group" Senate Judiciary Committee -- full committee hearing on "Exercising Congress' Constitutional Power to End a War" Wednesday, January 31st Senate Judiciary Committee -- full committee hearing on "Examining Recommendations for Improvements to Iraq's Justice System" Senate Armed Services Committee - CLOSED full committee briefing on the Iraq "surge" plan Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Iraq in the Strategic Context, Part I" FEBRUARY Thursday, February 1st Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- full committee hearing on "Securing America's Interests in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Iraq in the Strategic Context, Part II" Monday, February 5th Tuesday, February 6th Senate Armed Services Committee -- full committee hearing on the 2007 and 2008 war supplemental requests in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years Defense Program Senate Budget Committee -- full committee hearing on "War Costs" Wednesday, February 7th House Oversight & Government Reform Committee -- full committee hearing on Waste, Fraud & Abuse: Part II -- Iraq Private Contractor Oversight Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -- holds a CLOSED hearing on Iraq Thursday, February 8th House Appropriations Committee -- State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee holds oversight hearing on assistance programs in Iraq David Swanson can be reached at: david@davidswanson.org |
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