“Holder’s former Law Firm Brags about its GOP ties”

Nothing is more enlightening to people on the verge of being enlightened than repeatedly seeing/hearing/watching the transparency of desperate nonsense like this.

At some point, it all becomes clear: “Hey, this is nonsense!.” Yes, dangerous nonsense. It’s a waste of valuable time trying to make sense out of nonsense. Instead, it’s time for action on this.

If just one of the following questions cannot be answered *satisfactorily* (using all the evidence available as opposed to carefully cherry-picking the convenient stuff, then we have a big problem.

* Was it a coincidence that the Bush administration changed the protocol for NORAD intercepts in June of 2001 after it had been working flawlessly for years ?
* Was it a coincidence that the White House went on Cipro at the advice of Jerome Hauer on the day of 9-11?
* Was it a coincidence that the NRO was doing a drill on 9-11 of a plane running into a building?
* Was it a coincidence that numerous other military drills and exercises, even involving hijacked planes, were taking place at exactly the same time* as the actual event?
* Why did the Bush White House refuse to agree to any form of investigation of 9/11 for 441 days after the attacks, when it is standard practice to quickly set up a “no holds barred” inquiry into a national tragedy of such proportions?
* Why did the Bush Administration and Pentagon, according to Kean and Hamilton, “refuse to cooperate, and more” with the 9/11 Commission?
* 9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said “We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting”. This sounds like the Commission was being led astray from the get go.
* 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: “It is a national scandal”; “This investigation is now compromised”; and “One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up”,” and also “at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened”. Doesn’t sound too good, does it?
* The intimidation of witnesses in a criminal trial is a very serious offense. Throughout the 9/11 Commission hearings, Government “minders” aggressively intimidated Commission witnesses on a wholesale basis, with impunity. What would be the point in witness tampering (outside of the fact that it’s illegal?)
* CIA chief Tenet demonstrably lied to the Commissioners in closed session meetings. Who was he trying to protect? Osama bin Laden?
* Despite the common awareness in the intelligence and law enforcement community that torture is a counterproductive method of obtaining worthwhile information, the huge majority of the Commission’s “evidence” was extracted by torturing supposed suspects. (Is the government’s story so weak that they have to resort to Saddam Hussein-like methods to extract the material they want?).
* John Farmer, the lead counsel to the Commission, claims in his forthcoming book that the greater part of the Commission’s findings “are untrue”. He also states: “The Commission’s co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) “obstructed our investigation”. Indeed, they said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements.
* Why was Philip Zelikow, a leading neoConservative, selected to to be the executive director of what was billed as “an independent inquiry in which no stones would be left unturned”?
* Was it a coincidence that the Bush administration pushed Tom Daschle “not to investigate 9/11 thoroughly”?
* Was it a coincidence that lead opposition leaders and journalists got attacked with weaponized military grade anthrax pointing to the US weapons lab at Ft. Detrick, MD?
* Why was 90% of the evidence presented to the 9/11 Commission, much of it from NYFD and NYPD records and tape transcripts, disallowed by Philip Zelikow?
* Both Commission co-chairs, Kean and Hamilton, summarily trashed their own Commission, admitting that as a result of the way it was formulated, the Commission was “set up to fail”. Why was it deliberately “set up to fail”?
* Why did both Bush and Cheney refuse to take an oath, as well refuse any transcript or public record of what was discussed?
* Why did VP Cheney demonstratively lie in to the 9/11 Commission regarding his whereabouts and movements on the morning of 9/11?
* What were the orders to which former Transportation Sec. Norman Mineta referred to when testifying under oath before the 9/11 Commission, regarding the plane that was clearly headed towards the Pentagon? (Richard Clark confirms that Cheney goes to bunker at 9:10, David Bohrer, White House photographer, confirms timeline, military personnel are aware of plane & are tracking it on radar, Cheney was made aware of plane being 50,30,10 miles out at 9:26, ABC News confirms this fact,Pentagon is hit at 9:38. In those 12 minutes, Cheney never alerted Pentagon employees to evacuate which caused 125 people to die).
* Why was not a single, solitary person employed by all of the agencies that failed so badly that day, and in the weeks beforehand, fired, demoted, reprimanded, suspended etc etc?
* Why was tampering with the crime scenes at the WTC, Pentagon and Shanksville not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Tampering with a federal crime scene is a felony, yet nobody has been prosecuted.
* Why was NIST denied access to requested materials from the WTC for analysis in their quest to determine how and why the Twin Towers collapsed?
* Why were FAA tapes deliberately destroyed that morning?
The nature of the attack on the Pentagon, one of the most surveilled buildings on the planet, is surrounded by controversy. This could be settled once and for all, should the military release video of the impact, caught by numerous cameras in the grounds and surrounding area. But they wont… Is it not surprising that people are asking pertinent questions?
The phone calls that allegedly were sent by Barbara Olson, wife of former Solicitor General, from Flight 77 did *not* happen, according to the FBI, in the trial transcript of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker. (These nonexistent phone calls were the origin of the “hijackers with boxcutters” tales, and “passengers herded to the rear of the plane”. So much for that!).
* 3 FBI agents who warned specifically of the date, time, location and method of attack were threatened with being prosecuted under the 1947 National Security Act had they pursued this evidence. Why?
* Osama bin Laden, on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for the Embassy and Cole attacks, despite his appearance in a videotape where he describes foreknowledge of the attack and its effects on the WTC towers, has not been indicted by the DOJ, (let alone charged) in connection with 9/11. Why not? (Criminals, such as drug dealers get indicted by video “sting” evidence on a daily basis).
* The method of attack is utterly out of pattern for al Qaeda or any militant Islamic group. Nothing like it has been attempted before or since.
*The behavior of the Bush White House, before, during and in the wake of the attacks, is 100% inconsistent with what any rational person would expect from a government which, in their own words, “was taken completely by surprise” by the attacks. Anyone should be able to see that; it also doesn’t require any “alternative explanation” of the attacks to “get it”.

These unprecedented circumstances demands unprecedented treatment. And sadly, our current “Justus” dept. is simply no longer equipped for the task.

What it required here — to even begin to redeem Our National Soul — is not another fig-leaf commission but a proper Tribunal. Such an authority could also oversee panels to fact-find and admonish the lesser players among congress, the military, the judiciary, and the foreign service.

This is no pipe dream. In fact, the detachment and gravitas required already exists in the person of Justice David Souter.

The only thing lacking is the mettle of Our Lamest Generation, who prefer to rely on bailouts, steroids, and war crimes to “solve problems” (rather, allay their fears of inadequacy).

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This message is like saying “if you are going to torture anybody, just make sure nobody finds out, ok?”

Not exactly a moral high ground.

I say find the torturers, put them on trial; find out who authorized torture, put them on trial. Send out a message that only bad guys torture and I don’t want my kids to grow up where the bad guys are us!

But we got window dressing. Forget health care. We have a Republican party leadership which engaged in activity bordering on treason. The DOJ has been turned into a right wing cudgel, and Democratic politicians across the country are falsely imprisoned.

Meanwhile, these thugs continue to lie, protecting the establishment that feeds them.

Conyers and the most of the rest of Congressional Democrats are cowards, and the country becomes increasingly fascist as Republican criminals run loose, biding their time for a comeback. They are just like a burglar who lives across the street. If you don’t bust and imprison them, they will continue to rob you again and again.

It’s an old style protection racket they’re running.

Goes something like this,

Senators: Gee Mr. and Mrs. America, sure is a nice country ya got here. Sure would be bad if it got messed up by some terrorism.

America: Really senators, you think we might get hit by some terrorism???

Senators: No no no Mr. and Mrs. America, we’ve got our intelligence guys watching the terrorists real close like. Don’t you worry. You’ll be safe, except our intelligence guys work real hard. long hours with crappy equipment. Sometimes accidents happen and they let one get through.

America: They let one through from time to time???? What does that mean? What can we do?

Senators: Can’t do nothing Mr. and Mrs. America. It’s just the way it is…Unless maybe you give us more money and authority. Support our hard line anti-terrorism bills.

America: How much do you need?….