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Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) asks President Bush:

Did you censor information about Iran?



32 Responses to “Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) asks President Bush:”

  1. ForTruth says:

    Golly do ya think she’ll get a response? Like: Dear Louise, we have considered your question, and have discovered we made a mistake. We will no longer engage in this type of behavior.

    Sincerely,

    George Bush


  2. ForTruth says:

    Micheal is still a wussie too. I don’t care what name he uses.


  3. Zooey says:

    A lot of people would drop dead of shock if Rep Slaughter got a response from the White House. GWB really ought to consider answering — because he’s that kind of guy.


  4. AshenShard says:

    oh, the white house will give an answer, and it will be their normal bs that it contains information vital to national security, even though its been proven that it does not. This of course will be enough for their marinette legions to bash citizens, actually concerned by dictatorial censorship, with the big stick of national security, safety, and of giving aid and comfort to the enemy.


  5. SouthWest Bob says:

    Dear Ms. Slaughter:

    I am the “Decider” and have decided that we don’t need to explain anything to you or anyone in the United States because I am the Decider.

    Your Commander in Chief,

    Decided George W. Bush


  6. DutchHenry says:

    Kudos to you Louise Slaughter.All his ass up to congress if you get no reply.


  7. RandyH says:

    How dare she question The Decider…


  8. Exactly11words says:

    Here is the original article. The cat is already out of the bag!


  9. Clyde the Ripper says:

    Dear Ms. Slaughter,

    I have referred your inquiry to the Vice President who is quite adept in handling situations of this nature. He has indicated to me that he will respond with the same vigor and dedication that he has demonstrated in the past to more senior members of the Senate. I fully expect his answer to you to be unequivocal and direct. You will receive his direction forthwith so be prepared to “engage in an act of autofornication.”

    Sincerely,

    King George the Dumb


  10. Karim says:

    Something tells me that the Bush crime regime will say nothing unless they are under oath.


  11. Jay Randal says:

    Dubya Dunce Decider Despot will probably tell Rep. Slaughter to screw off, but she must persist and other DC Democrats must help her too!


  12. Mr. Evil says:

    Since George Bush has not honored his oath of office, what makes you think he will not lie under an oath of the court?

    I say subpoena everyone. All the neocons and keep hammering on all of them until one of them cracks. Then the crumbling will begin.

    And America will become America again. At least for a little while.


  13. John Gilpins says:

    “I have referred your inquiry to the Vice President………….”

    The major problem with this administration is that King George the Dumb refers almost everything to the Vice President. Dick Cheney is really the boss. OMG!! OMG! We are so blessed!

    I assume President Dick Cheney is having a spat with poor health, again, since King George the Dumb has delayed his televised speech to the nation. Just as soon as IV DICK/CATHETER DICK is walking and out of the hospital, Dumbo will be following Dick’s orders.

    John


  14. Gerald Gibson Jr says:

    If you dont get some of the republicans on your side Bush wont go down. Not legally anyway. Investigations need to be done and then everyone needs to ask their local republican friend if they personaly support all that illegal activity? Same happened with Nixon. When he saw that his party wasnt going to protect him he bailed.

    I know it can suck not rubbing their faces into it after they danced on everyone elses heads, but it is probably better in the long run just to give them the out and let them blame Bush/Cheney for it all.


  15. VerbalKint says:

    Something tells me that the Bush crime regime will say nothing unless they are under oath.

    Comment by Karim — December 20, 2006 @ 10:34 pm

    Then they will either lie or take the Fifth.


  16. Clyde the Ripper says:

    #13 John,

    Dat fool Cheney done took off for the hills! It done dawned on him that that dog just don’t hunt! KGtD used to be luckier than a two peckered billygoat in breeding season but lately he is tighter than a bull’s ass in fly time. King George is goin’ down, my friend or cousin, as the case may be, and the rats is fleein’ the ship. It is going to be fun watching the losers jockyeying for position while pointing fingers and covering their respective asses. It reminds me of an old song about a creek full of snapping turtles: “It sure was hard swimming ‘cross that thing with one hand holding my ‘ding-a-ling.’” There are a going to be lot of ding-a-lings in hand now!


  17. Briseadh na Faire says:

    Exactly, you have revealed information that was once declassified, but I have decided to reclassificate this information myself, personally. In posting this information you have given aid and comfort to the democrates…I mean, our enemies in my Total War Against Terror. That makes you an unlawful enema combatanant in my book. You’ve messed with the wrong Bush this time. Lemme tell you, when it comes to Bush’s Total War Against Terror you’re either with me, or your with somebody else.

    Speakin’ of which, I got somebody else to watch my Total War Against Terror. I heard the people. They said git rid of Rumsfeld. So I got rid of him. He was the best defense secretary the country’s ever known. But I got rid of him, cuz that’s what the people wanted. So now I got Gates to run my Total War Against Terror. I know. He’s second best. But you run a Total War Against Terror with the secretary you have, not the secretary you wish you have.

    Speakin’ of which, ya’ll check out Condi’s new shews?


  18. Deniz Yeter says:

    I think their record of lying, omitting, covering up, and fabricating speaks for itself



  19. little birdie says:

    That`s right!! Si Byl had nothing to do with the postings.I did it.For one simple reason.unbelievable needed to be exposed for the little lying brat that she is.Since she has been exposed and refused to apologize to the board.The postings have now ceased because of one Zooey had asked me very kindly to stop.Her wish has been granted.

    Unbelievable,you seem to sweep what your lying words mean to people as you sweep crumbs off the shelf right into the garbage can.You have no need for anyone but yourself.No details necessary.You have shown your ass.To me.To others.
    To all the posters on this board.You have shown your real you.It is a very dark and very ugly person that you are.
    I trust you`ll be having no problems with posters here in the future.
    And try not to play the victim in this when you are anything but.

    signed,

    Pissed Off Ex Poster little birdie


  20. amy plumtree says:

    Mr. Bush\’s year-end press conference came as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates made his first visit to Iraq since being sworn in Monday. The president has asked his new Pentagon chief to report to him as quickly as possible on long-term plans to enlarge the size of the Army and Marine Corps, an idea Mr. Bush said he supports.

    God I love strong leaders.Praise God for George Bush.


  21. Exley says:

    The American people ask President and Sen. Clinton, ‘Did you hide information about Al Qaeda and terrorism?:’

    Report says Berger hid archive documents
    By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
    24 minutes ago
    12/21/2006

    WASHINGTON – President Clinton’s national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency’s internal watchdog said Wednesday.

    The report was issued more than a year after Sandy Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removing the documents.

    Berger took the documents in the fall of 2003 while working to prepare himself and Clinton administration witnesses for testimony to the Sept. 11 commission. Berger was authorized as the Clinton administration’s representative to make sure the commission got the correct classified materials …

    Officials told The Associated Press at the time of the thefts that the documents were highly classified and included critical assessments about the Clinton administration’s handling of the millennium terror threats as well as identification of America’s terror vulnerabilities at airports and seaports.

    Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that National Archives employees spotted Berger bending down and fiddling with something white around his ankles. The employees did not feel at the time there was enough information to confront someone of Berger’s stature, the report said.

    Later, when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he lied by saying he did not take them, the report said … The notes dramatically described Berger’s removal of documents during an Oct. 2, 2003, visit to the Archives.

    Berger took a break to go outside without an escort while it was dark. He had taken four documents in his pockets. “He headed toward a construction area. … Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the Department of Justice, and did not see anyone,” the interview notes said.

    He then slid the documents under a construction trailer, according to the inspector general. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office. “He was aware of the risk he was taking,” the inspector general’s notes said. Berger then returned to the Archives building without fearing the documents would slip out of his pockets or that staff would notice that his pockets were bulging.

    The notes said Berger had not been aware that Archives staff had been tracking the documents he was provided because of earlier suspicions from previous visits that he was removing materials. Also, the employees had made copies of some documents.

    In October 2003, the report said, an Archives official called Berger to discuss missing documents from his visit two days earlier. The investigator’s notes said, “Mr. Berger panicked because he realized he was caught.”

    The notes said that Berger had “destroyed, cut into small pieces, three of the four documents. These were put in the trash.”


  22. the fly-man says:

    The most prominent event that occured during Mr. Bush’s term was the power given to the VP to declassify anything he wanted to. That was not an arbitrary event. Quote from the Sept. 6th interview with Tim Russert; “THE VICE PRESIDENT: I have the authority as Vice President under an executive issued by the President to classify and declassify information. And everything I’ve done is consistent with those authorities”


  23. Happy Guy says:

    Speaking of censoring documents. As this article says we never will know if the 9/11 commission got all the information.

    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061221/D8M4TNQ80.html

    ROTFL


  24. Happy Guy says:

    Hey, I have not seen you people talking about illegal aliens so I will start my own thread.

    The false documents used by the illegals to get the jobs were from identity theft. The real Americans who they were “stolen” form are still trying to fix their lives from these criminals.

    http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5215724,00.html

    I thought no American citizens wanted these jobs?

    ROTFL


  25. the fly-man says:

    Exely, could you please give us a link to help us find the “officials” of your quoted statement above?: (Officials told The Associated Press at the time of the thefts that the documents were highly classified and included critical assessments about the Clinton administration’s handling of the millennium terror threats as well as identification of America’s terror vulnerabilities at airports and seaports.) How can a reasonable person determine the extent of Mr. Berger’s actions if we don’t know what was compromised? We all know now that the FBI’s spying on John Lennon and the suppression of their actions from public scrutiny was absurd to say the least. So please if you know the contents of the documents that Mr. Berger stole could you please list them for us along with the OFFICIALS’ names you quote above we can get to the bottom of this…..


  26. Raven says:

    I suppose Emperor Doofius the Decider would term that question a
    “dang-yer-ass hyper-critical”


  27. freebird9 says:

    Maybe Exley could actually cite those that said these things. Not that we don’t believe you, we don’t, but we’d like to see for ourselves. In this day and age of misinformation I don’t believe anything I don’t see for myself. Anyone could post “quotes” attributed to others. I for one would like to see them cited properly. If they even exist.


  28. RUCerious says:

    This is most certainly a dangerous hypothetical.


  29. ggibson says:

    Comment by Exley

    I read the same article… I want to know what was in those pages. I didnt see that anywhere.


  30. ggibson says:

    Comment by Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhD

    Sounds like you have read the KKK posting on various right wing blogs and took it way way too seriously.

    As a response. Blaming KKK types in America for doing evil things is totally different from hating America. Personally I would like to keep America and get rid of people like you. Really simple isnt it?


  31. Sherry says:

    ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE WORKED IN CONGRESS, (Dem. or Rep.) UNDER G.W.BUSH, SHOULD HAVE ALL OF THERE ASSETS FROZEN WHILE THEY FACE BEING CHARGED AND JAILED. Each and everyone of them played part in every aspect of allowing Bush to violate our laws, our land and every American that is in danger due to the illegal action. Not one of the should be allowed to run for re-election. Not one of them, nor a group of them fought tooth and nail to stop Bush and his actions. ALL of them have misspent taxpayers money by the millions. /Americans don’t send them any more money/
    The Dems. and Reps. play good cop/bad cop as they all make big bucks of our backs! WAKE UP PEOPLE, WAKE UP!!!!!!
    ALL OF THEM ARE CROOKS, flush them all away and start with people that knows what it is like to work for a living..
    TOGETHER WE STAND!!



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