Fox News Analyst New Book: Bush / Cheney War Crimes

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Ret. Judge and Fox News Legal Analyst Andrew Napolitano has a new book out "Lies The Government Told You" - Just being overly critical of George W. Bush is a big no-no for many of the on-air news anchors at Fox News. But Napolitano's book (Lies The Government Told You) goes way beyond that.

In a Book TV interview on C-Span. Napolitano says that Bush and Cheney "Absolutely violated the constitution for bypassing the congress to suspending habias corpus.

When asked by Ralph Nader what should have been done, Napolitano said that both should have been indicted for torture and spying as well as other crimes.

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BUSH Wipes Hand On CLINTON On Video

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The damage in Haiti: BILLIONS
Bush wiping his hands on Clinton on video: PRICELESS

More Bush-Cheney Misdeeds Rise To The Surface

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In direct contridiction to statements made by former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz during a media camapign earlier this year, Former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Director General Michael Hayden said that an internal CIA report expected to be released Monday will show that CIA interrogators did not uncover any imminent attacks.

Hayden made his remarks at a panel discussion on the privatization of US intelligence this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Cheney had said on more then one ocassion that intelligence gained via waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques had in fact thwarted subsequent terrorist attacks and in his opinion, saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Another revolation was revealed today about the Bush Administration following the release of an advance copy of a book authored by former Department of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. Going well beyond ambiguous speculation, Ridge states catagorically that the Bush Administrations insisted that his agency raise the national security threat level on the eve of the 2004 presidential election.

It had an immediate impact on the former Presidents approval rating and garnered his victory the following evening. Although not exactly a secret among that segement of America that keeps themselves abreast of such things, this long suspected scenario is nontheless chilling now that we know that the former President engaged in an act of terrorism by using the power of a federal agency for political gain.

Like all of the other Bush Administrations high crimes and misdomeanors, this is likely to be simply one more among many that will also go unprosecuted.
In addition to Hayden, former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and veteran CIA operations officer Jack Devine where also among the panel at this morning discussion at The National Press Club in Washington D.C.

The moderator, bestselling spy novelist Joseph Finder, kicked off the discussion with a brief statement acknowledging

New York Times and Washington Post stories that ran today. The two newspaper stories, detailing CIA’s employment of security contractor Blackwater (since renamed Xe) for a multimillion dollar terrorist ‘assassination’ program disclosed to Congress last month by CIA Director Leon Panetta, essentially refuted a story Finder published on The Daily Beast earlier this week.

Finder claimed that the program "wasn’t much more than a PowerPoint presentation," characterized the Panetta’s disclosure to Congress as a "gaffe," and so much as suggested that Panetta should resign.

Hayden and Chertoff used the panel discussion to defend CIA and DHS’ reliance on contractors, explaining that various factors, such as the need to ramp up new staffs quickly, and statutory constraints on hiring, caused an overreliance on contractors in the period immediately following 9/11.

Hayden described steps he and his deputy, Steve Kappes, took to stanch the flow of mid-career officers out of the CIA ranks into more lucrative contractor jobs, and how the percentage of contractor personnel disproportionately swelled in the ranks of ‘core support’ personnel that form the second echelon of intelligence workers behind ‘core’ personnel who serve as case officers or analysts.

Devine noted that the information technology revolution in intelligence business processes has driven much of the growth in intellgence contracting.
Questions on controversial intelligence issues cropped up when Finder opened the floor to discussion.

Hayden repeated his "look to the future, not back at the past"

mantra when asked about the possibility of a special prosecutor to investigate torture and detention, and also mentioned that Federal prosecutors had already deemed all but one of the referrals for criminal conduct related to detainee abuse as not worthy of prosecution.

Hayden also gave a general description of the effectiveness of the interrogation program included in the soon-to-be released CIA IG report. Hayden stated that six key paragraphs describe how the program achieved ‘modest success’ in learning about Al Qaeda organization and leadership, but did not uncover any imminent attacks.

Neither Hayden nor Chertoff acknowledged that in their roles as Bush administration policymakers, they could have taken action to forestall policies that have resulted or could result in litigation or prosecution.

Freedom Under Attack: The Liberals Are Coming!

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Whenever Republicans have their backs against the wall as they do right now after 8 years of George W. Bush. Also in 1999 and after 12 years of Ronald Regan and the elder George H.W. Bush, a false alarm of liberty and freedom being under attack is made in lieu of simply owning up to the past and offering real solutions going forward.

Instead, they tried to sell America on contuinuing along the path that lead us to near disaster. I say "near disaster" because that's exactly what it is. And it would have been an absolute disaster had John McCain and Sarah Palin won the 2008 election. Instead, for the first time in a long time, the rational among the electorate, regardless of political party understood the sad state of affairs that the Bush Administration had left in it's wake.

The Republicans immediately sounded the standard false alarm that Democrats in control equals the loss of freedom. Like Paul Revere's midnight ride from Boston to Lexington warning that the British were coming, the Republicans take to airwaves and try to paint their dishonest rhetoric as some sort of patriotic duty and then use the very freedom that they claim to love, to prostitute the word and it's meaning for the sake of regaining control of the country that their party nearly distroyed.

Were are seeing it unfold right before our very eyes. Somehow the concept of being our brothers keeper and reforming our healthcare system to provide affordable health care for all Americans who wish to have it, means the end of freedom in America. These town hall political parrots cry about wanting their country back, and not wanting it to turn into Russia.

They want it restored back to the way that our founding fathers had it. One can only assumes that that means a virtually all-white nation of wealthy slave owners in one class and everyone else in a second class, thus the term second class citizens.

What these ignorent townhallers fail to understand is that they are the second class citizens. They're the ones doing to dirty work for the wealthy in that first class. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't caught word of any Fortune 500 CEO's making an appearance at these townhall protest to get his or her two cents in about wanting their country back. I haven't seen Sean Hannity, Glenn Back, or Rush Limbaugh making an appearance to protest and shout that they want thier country back. And why should they when they can have their current day version of a slave doing that dirtywork for them.

The bottom line is this: With our total and complete dominance in Washington today, the Democrats are going to restructure our free nation. Not into a socialist state, but rather a free nation that provides the same level of freedom for all American's and not just the wealthty and influantual. And if providing a public option is what is necessary to ensure that all Americans have access to "affordable" health care, then that's what we will do.

What people fail to see is that unlike President Bush who force fed us diregulated financial markets, and two wars built upon lies, President Obama has been, in my opinion, overly accomodating to opposing views.

However, I suppose that that had much to do with him being elected in the first place. If the country continues to heal at the rate that it is healing under Obama's leadership, then the 2012 Republican candidate will simply be going throught the motions of an election cycle for no other reason that to be the one to hand Obama a second landslide victory. Those are the facts weather you like it or not.

- Chico Brisbane

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