Getting to the bottom of the phony claims that Saddam was seeking yellowcake uranium from Africa:
It's nice to see that Congress is not going to put up with Condoleezza's lies much longer. She has been refusing to turn over documents requested by the House Oversight Committee, she has refused to answer all of their questions and she has announced that she will not honor a subpoena ordering her appearance. Now she is obstructing their investigation by refusing to allow Simon Dodge, a State Department nuclear weapons analyst, to appear before the committee.
Mr. Dodge wrote to members of the Intelligence Community on January 13, 2003 -- two weeks before the President's State of the Union address --
that the Niger claim was "probably a hoax" and "clearly a forgery." Mr. Dodge has indicated that he is willing to cooperate fully with the Committee's investigation but the State Department's legislative office has informed the Committee that the Secretary of State is prohibiting Mr. Dodge from speaking to the Committee.
This is headed for a constitutional showdown that could end up in the Supreme Court. Condi is struggling to contain the lies she and Cheney and Rumsfeld told four years ago to get us into Iraq. Being a "loyal Bushie" got Condi where she is today and she has no intention of spending several years in a federal prison. She's going to continue to stonewall this investigation and claim executive privilege. She knows that there are no good options for her if she appears under oath before this committee. It's an obvious perjury trap because telling the truth would expose the extent of the criminal activities the White House engaged in during the run-up to the invasion.
Check out the
letter Chairman Waxman just sent her.
Yes, there's a riding crop in her other hand, you just can't see it from this angle. Knee-high, stiletto-heeled boots are de rigueur for upwardly mobile professional women. Condi has a
fetish for Italian footwear.
P.S. -- I think eventually the forged Niger documents will be directly linked to Cheney. We just have to flip the right people while they're still alive. Retired high-ranking CIA analysts are now claiming exactly that.
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"I think for us to get American military personnel involved in a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a quagmire," Cheney replied. "Once we got to Baghdad, what would we do? Who would we put in power? What kind of government? Would it be a Sunni government, a Shia government, a Kurdish government? Would it be secular, along the lines of the Baath party, would it be fundamentalist Islamic? I do not think the United States wants to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. I think it makes no sense at all."
—Former Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney, on ABC's This Week, 1992