Geruchten aftreden vice-president Cheney

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-- -- US congressional investigators said this week they had evidence that George Galloway had profited from the defunct UN program created to protect Iraqis from the harsh effects of sanctions against their Government.

The report said Mr Aziz, under questioning by the subcommittee, said he had discussed oil allocations with Mr Galloway and confirmed a letter in which the British Member of Parliament requested a bigger oil allocation.

"These are lies ... he [Mr Aziz] denied this," Mr Aziz's lawyer, Badia Aref, said.

"It is part of a media campaign aimed at smearing Galloway's reputation."

Mr Aref says Mr Aziz confirms that Iraq has given $A60,00 to the Mariam Appeal cancer charity set up by Mr Galloway, but only to help sick Iraqi children.

He says Mr Aziz, now in jail in Iraq, had made the comments in a questioning session some three months ago during which Mr Aziz was asked 110 questions about Mr Galloway.

The report said Mr Galloway personally solicited and was granted oil allocations from the Iraqi Government for 23 million barrels from 1999 to 2003.

It said Mr Galloway's wife received about $A200,000 in connection with the allocations and the Mariam fund received at least $A595,000.

Mr Galloway himself told the committee that he was not an oil trader and had never spoken to Mr Aziz about Iraq providing financial support for the Mariam Appeal.

He has also rejected the latest US accusations that he profited from the oil-for-food program.

Mr Aref says Mr Aziz refuses to "testify against anyone, including former president Saddam Hussein", whose trial started this month but has been adjourned until November.

Mr Aziz, a Christian who was the public face of Saddam's regime abroad, was arrested after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

No formal charges have been brought against him yet.

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Op zondag 30 oktober 2005 17:52 schreef Vampier het volgende:
Rumsfeld moet ook even optiefen svp. Die jokers laten alle pionnen gaan.... misselijkmakend spelletje dit.

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-- -- AFTER THE two-year smear campaign orchestrated by senior officials in the Bush White House against my wife and me, it is tempting to feel vindicated by Friday's indictment of the vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Between us, Valerie and I have served the United States for nearly 43 years. I was President George H.W. Bush's acting ambassador to Iraq in the run-up to the Persian Gulf War, and I served as ambassador to two African nations for him and President Clinton. Valerie worked undercover for the CIA in several overseas assignments and in areas related to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

But on July 14, 2003, our lives were irrevocably changed. That was the day columnist Robert Novak identified Valerie as an operative, divulging a secret that had been known only to me, her parents and her brother.

Valerie told me later that it was like being hit in the stomach. Twenty years of service had gone down the drain. She immediately started jotting down a checklist of things she needed to do to limit the damage to people she knew and to projects she was working on. She wondered how her friends would feel when they learned that what they thought they knew about her was a lie.

It was payback — cheap political payback by the administration for an article I had written contradicting an assertion President Bush made in his 2003 State of the Union address. Payback not just to punish me but to intimidate other critics as well.

Why did I write the article? Because I believe that citizens in a democracy are responsible for what government does and says in their name. I knew that the statement in Bush's speech — that Iraq had attempted to purchase significant quantities of uranium in Africa — was not true. I knew it was false from my own investigative trip to Africa (at the request of the CIA) and from two other similar intelligence reports. And I knew that the White House knew it.

Going public was what was required to make them come clean. The day after I shared my conclusions in a New York Times opinion piece, the White House finally acknowledged that the now-infamous 16 words "did not rise to the level of inclusion in the State of the Union address."

That should have been the end. But instead, the president's men — allegedly including Libby and at least one other (known only as "Official A") — were determined to defame and discredit Valerie and me.

They used eager allies in Congress and the conservative media, beginning with Novak. Perhaps the most egregious of the attacks was New York GOP Rep. Peter King's odious suggestion that Valerie "got what she deserved."

Valerie was an innocent in this whole affair. Although there were suggestions that she was behind the decision to send me to Niger, the CIA told Newsday just a week after the Novak article appeared that "she did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment." The CIA repeated the same statement to every reporter thereafter.

The grand jury has now concluded that at least one of the president's men committed crimes. We are heartened that our system of justice is working and appreciative of the work done by our fellow citizens who devoted two years of their lives to grand jury duty.

The attacks on Valerie and me were upsetting, disruptive and vicious. They amounted to character assassination. Senior administration officials used the power of the White House to make our lives hell for the last 27 months.

But more important, they did it as part of a clear effort to cover up the lies and disinformation used to justify the invasion of Iraq. That is the ultimate crime.

The war in Iraq has claimed more than 17,000 dead and wounded American soldiers, many times more Iraqi casualties and close to $200 billion.

It has left our international reputation in tatters and our military broken. It has weakened the United States, increased hatred of us and made terrorist attacks against our interests more likely in the future.

It has been, as Gen. William Odom suggested, the greatest strategic blunder in the history of our country.

We anticipate no mea culpa from the president for what his senior aides have done to us. But he owes the nation both an explanation and an apology.

JOSEPH C. WILSON IV was acting ambassador in Baghdad when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. He is the author of "The Politics of Truth" (Carroll & Graff, 2004). He was a diplomat for 23 years.

Copyright 2005 Los Angeles Times

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9/11 Cover-up Judge Assigned to Libby Case

Wayne Madsen | October 31 2005

Comment: As is continually being confirmed, the indictment story is a total distraction and a set up steam valve to keep the left distracted.

Judge assigned to Libby case has links to Republican Right. US District Judge for DC Reggie Walton has been assigned the Lewis Libby case.

It is noteworthy to point out Walton's past and current links to the Republican Right and to elements in the Bush administration who have covered up important details about 911. Walton was appointed to the DC Superior Court in 1981 by Ronald Reagan.

In 1989, he was appointed by George H. W. Bush as the deputy drug czar under Bill Bennett. Walton was reappointed to the DC Superior Court by the senior Bush. George W. Bush nominated Walton to the US District Court for DC in 2001.

Walton was the judge who, under pressure from the Justice Department, placed a gag order on former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and cleared his courtroom of the public and media in Edmonds' hearing in her case against the FBI. Edmonds brought to light important information about how the FBI failed to translate important wiretap intercepts before and after 911.

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Op zondag 30 oktober 2005 23:40 schreef Hallulama het volgende:
Rumsfeld moet zich volgens mij voornamelijk zorgen maken om [9/11] Able Danger

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The Pentagon, after weeks of silence, will allow participants in an intelligence cell that a year before the Sept. 11 attacks may have identified some of the ringleaders to testify before Congress. Their testimony could shed light on information that the Sept. 11 commission did not include in its report.

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Op vrijdag 16 december 2005 23:36 schreef multatuli het volgende:
Spiro Agnew moest aftreden wegens het aanpakken van steekpenningen en bekende (plea bargain) belastingontduiking. Was overigens net als Ford en Nixon een republikein. Dus Ford was geen deel van de oppositie. Je verwarring is dat hij 'minority leader' was toendertijd, maar dat kan omdat de presidentsverkiezingen niet bepalend zijn voor de verhoudingen in congress and parliament.

Verder geloof ik nog niet dat Cheney af gaat treden.

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Op vrijdag 16 december 2005 23:59 schreef francorex het volgende:

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Dank je voor verhelderende informatie Multatulie.

Cheney hoeft niet af te treden, hij kan verplicht worden net zoals Spiro Agnew. Ondertussen heeft de democraat Mc Cain zich mooi in de picture gespeeld...

De periode dat er geen oppositie was lijkt voorbij.

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Op zaterdag 17 december 2005 23:55 schreef One_of_the_few het volgende:

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hm, mc cain is toch een republikein?

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(10-02-06) Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.

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Op woensdag 15 februari 2006 22:24 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
De brave man komt ook nauwelijks aan ontspannen toe de laatste tijd

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Moet genoeg zijn voor een fatsoenlijk rechtssysteem zou je zeggen

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Op woensdag 15 februari 2006 23:56 schreef popolon het volgende:
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http://cagle.com/news/CheneyShoots/

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Op zaterdag 25 februari 2006 22:11 schreef Hallulama het volgende:
White House 'Discovers' 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak

The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday.

The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a vocal critic of the Bush administration’s prewar Iraq intelligence, sources close to the investigation said.

Sources close to the probe said the White House “discovered” the emails two weeks ago and turned them over to Fitzgerald last week. The sources added that the emails could prove that Cheney lied to FBI investigators when he was interviewed about the leak in early 2004. Cheney said that he was unaware of any effort to discredit Wilson or unmask his wife’s undercover status to reporters.

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Meer op: truthout

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Dick Cheney to quit after elections

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The White House, according to Insight, anticipates Libby putting Cheney on the defensive with claims the vice president ordered Libby to relay classified information – a charge that could lead to a congressional probe and even impeachment proceedings.

"Nothing will happen until after the congressional elections," a GOP source told Insight. "After that, there will be significant changes in the administration and Cheney will probably be part of that."

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Op donderdag 6 april 2006 20:50 schreef Hallulama het volgende:
Update van CNN:

Libby court papers: Cheney said Bush OK'd intelligence leak

"The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put interests of his political party ahead of Americas security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe," Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said."

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Op donderdag 6 april 2006 21:24 schreef Finder_elf_towns het volgende:

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Ja, laten we vooral gaan luisteren naar die emotioneel instabiele Howard Dean.

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Op donderdag 6 april 2006 22:14 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Ach, jij luistert ook naar een geloofsfanatieke alcoholist met een drugsverleden.

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Op donderdag 6 april 2006 22:32 schreef Finder_elf_towns het volgende:

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Zijn Leo Strauss, Robert Spencer en Daniel Pipes "geloofsfanatieke alcoholisten met drugsverleden"?

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"If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is," Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Illinois. "If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of.

"I welcome the investigation. I am absolutely confident the Justice Department will do a good job.

"I want to know the truth," the president continued. "Leaks of classified information are bad things."

He added that he did not know of "anybody in my administration who leaked classified information."

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Op vrijdag 21 oktober 2005 22:44 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
Ik zou het niet te hard roepen .

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De Amerikaanse president George W. Bush heeft in 2003 perslekken toegestaan over Irak, om de oorlog daar te verdedigen. Dat heeft de ex-kabinetschef van vicepresident Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, aan de procureur verteld.

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Op vrijdag 7 april 2006 14:48 schreef francorex het volgende:
De vraag is, hoeveel blazoen heeft deze ridder nog, wanneer komt de spreekwoordelijke druppel?

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Op vrijdag 7 april 2006 14:52 schreef Boswachtertje het volgende:

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En de volgende vraag: welke 'pop' neemt het dan over?

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"It's better to assume we will be attacked again and go from there," Giuliani said during a speech at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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During his speech, Giuliani repeatedly lauded President Bush, and laughed off suggestions of his own presidential ambitions

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Op vrijdag 7 april 2006 16:10 schreef francorex het volgende:
Deze misschien;
Giuliani Predicts Another Terror Attack click

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani predicted Tuesday that 9/11 would not go down in history as the only large-scale terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

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_{Photo: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani today described the horrors of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks while testifying at the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial. (AP)}

Das pas strategie!

Wat doen we met zo iemand?

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Op vrijdag 7 april 2006 16:57 schreef Hallulama het volgende:
En Bush? Die wil niet reageren...

Fragment NOS Journaal