by GEF @ 12:40 PM EDT
Wilson: “The Obstruction Of Justice Is Ongoing And Now The President Has Emerged As Its Greatest Protector”
Below is the prepared opening statement of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV (ret.) for his testimony today during the House Judiciary Committee’s hearings on presidential clemency powers.
Statement of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV (ret.)
To the House Committee on the Judiciary
July 11, 2007
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ranking member, members of the Committee,
Thank you for the invitation to appear before you at this hearing on the possible abuse of Presidential authority in the commutation of I. Lewis Libby, convicted on four counts of lying to federal investigators, perjury and obstruction of justice. I am not a lawyer, but I have understandably followed this case closely. This matter, after all, involves the betrayal of our national security, specifically the leaking of the identity of a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, my wife, Valerie Wilson, as a vicious means of political retribution.
After it became apparent in Spring of 2003 that one of the key justifications for war in the President’s State of the Union address was not supported by the facts, I felt an obligation and a sense of responsibility to the American people and to our men and women in uniform to share my first-hand knowledge about the unsubstantiated allegations of uranium yellowcake sales from Niger to Iraq. Accordingly, In a New York Times article on July 6, 2003, I disclosed the deliberate deceptions surrounding the justification for the invasion, conquest, and occupation of Iraq. Eight days later Valerie’s status as a CIA operative was made public in a newspaper column by Robert Novak. We now know from testimony and evidence presented in the United States vs. I. Lewis Libby that Novak’s column was the end product of a process that was initiated by Vice President Cheney who directed his chief of staff, Scooter Libby to supervise it.
Never in my twenty-three years as a member of the diplomatic service of the United States did I ever imagine a betrayal of our national security at the highest levels.
The Treason trial of G.W. Bush and Richard Cheney should be quite fruitful to America.
There should be many more added to the list for treason besides Bush-Cheney.
Military Analyst: West Needs More Terror To Save Doomed Foreign Policy
We were discussing this yesterday about Chertoff’s “gut feeling”.
I found the link at WRH.com
I agree Teak..
But we have to start with the Puppets and move our way up the latter to:
The Council on Foreign Relations,
The Trilateral Commission,
The Federal Reserve Bank,
The IMF,
The World Bank..
and so on…
Police always have to start at the bottom when investigating a case so we must do the same..
Excellent speech by Joseph Wilson. More people need to see this.
Hi Tom Harper!
Welcome to the Suzie-Q blog!
Thank you for your comments and yes, you are correct about that!
I hope to see you again soon…
Allow me to say the T-word. Betrayal works, but treason has that Benedict Arnold flavor. And it describes a hurtful action against a nation that favors a foreign entity.
That entity is the globalist socialists. That entity has been attacking our country and it’s system of laws including our Constitution, for some time as we know. Clearly, it is anti-American, and foreign to everything we believe in.
So, yes, I call it treason.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/neocons_betray_plame_and_country.html
Yes Teak, Chertoff is … let’s be frank… not working for us but for them. As an agent of a foreign country and it’s farthest right political arm, he should be stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported. We do not need the Mossad-Likud to fashion a police state here.