Rockefeller: Former Senate Cover-Up Committee Chairman Took Orders From Cheney
Rockefeller: Former Senate Cover-Up Committee Chairman Took Orders From Cheney
In an interview with McClatchy Newspapers, Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) said that Vice President Dick Cheney exerted “constant” pressure on the former chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), to stall an investigation into the Bush administration’s use of false intelligence on Iraq. The so-called Phase II report on the administration’s use of pre-war intelligence was delayed for over two years. Two of its five portions were finally released in Sept. 2006.
Rockefeller said that he knew Cheney attended regular policy meetings in which he conveyed White House directions to conservative Capitol Hill staffers. They “just had to go along with the administration,” he said. Here are examples of Roberts’ vacillations on the Phase II investigation per White House orders:
“We’ll proceed with Phase II. It is a priority. I made my commitment and it will get done.” [Press conference, 7/9/04]
“I don’t know if we can get it done before the election.” [Meet the Press, 7/11/04]
“That [the Phase II report] is basically on the back burner.” [UPI, 3/10/05]
“I don’t think there should be any doubt that we have now heard it all regarding prewar intelligence. I think that it would be a monumental waste of time to replow this ground any further.” [U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 3/31/05]
“To go though that exercise, it seems to me, in a post-election environment – we didn’t see how we could do that and achieve any possible progress. I think everybody pretty well gets it.” [U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 3/31/05]
“I’m perfectly willing to do it, and that’s what we agreed to do, and that door is still open.” [Meet the Press, 4/10/05]
“It isn’t like it’s been delayed. As a matter of fact, it’s been ongoing. As a matter of fact, we have been doing our work on Phase II.” [Senate Floor Speech, 11/1/05]
“I don’t know the relevancy of that.” [CNN, 11/1/05]
“We’ve been working on that. We will finish it. We had it scheduled for this week.” [Face the Nation, 11/6/05]
The report was partially released on September 8, 2006.
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January 26th, 2007 at 12:06 pmTypical Republican-style lying and excuse-making. These guys would never make it in the NFL.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:06 pmIt looks like Cheney is also the decider here…
January 26th, 2007 at 12:07 pmOh, the up-comming Congressional hearings.
This is going to be GREAT.
Dirty Dick Dastardly, with mud on your hands and face, GOOD-BYE!
January 26th, 2007 at 12:08 pmTold ya’…
…that al Crackkker mofo (Pat Roberts) is a TRAITOR…
…he’d look BETTER with a black hood over his skull looking a*s…
January 26th, 2007 at 12:11 pmWhen do file a criminal indictment agains “Dead-Eye” Dick? How many more crimes does he have to commit before Congress gets it?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:14 pmAnybody know when the other three parts are TBD>?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pmNo DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!
They promised the Part II of the investigation in 2004. But no that was too close to a political period so they promised 2005. WTF, get these clown under oath and lets see some f*cking subpeonas.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pmrockefellers are traitors folks. these pricks are a part of the nwo, bildaberg, nau. along with the duponts, murdochs, morgans. wake up folks, these are the pricks you want to blow the f. up. bushywhack, rummdumm, lil dich, wolfy, pearl and the rest of the neo-cons are the little guys.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pmpat roberts should be allowed to permanently ride shotgun in mccain’s ‘zero dignity’ express
January 26th, 2007 at 12:17 pmSo why isn’t onstruction an investigaton grounds enough for investigations and possible impeachment? When are we gonna get these criminals out of the White House?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:19 pmIt is interesting that Senator Roberts job by law and by Constitution is to check on Cheney and the Administration…but in todays political climate…Roberts ,instead was taking orders from Cheney …on what should he do next.., amazing, indeed.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:20 pmScrew Bush—that idiot is just a sock monkey. Impeach Cheney! How many more stories of his unethical and illegal activities must Congress discover before they apply the obvious remedy?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:22 pmCHENEY CONTINUES TO VIOLATE FEDERAL MANDATES
Criminal offense; Classification FELONY
Vice President Refuses to Report Classification Activity
January 26th, 2007 at 12:23 pmFor the third year in a row the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney has refused to disclose data on its classification and declassification activity, in an apparent violation of an executive order issued by President Bush.
“The Office of the Vice President (OVP), the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), and the Homeland Security Council (HSC) failed to report their data to ISOO this year,” the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) noted in its new 2005 Annual Report to the President http://www.fas.org/sgp/isoo/2005rpt.pdf (at page 9, footnote 1).
The Office of the Vice President has declined to report such data since 2002. Yet it is clear that disclosure is not optional.
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/05/vice_president_refuses_to_repo.html
Impeachment is too soft for Cheney. Cheney needs to be brought up on charges of treason. Cheney needs to be in jail.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pmRaw Story has a timeline of Roberts’ actions:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/HowSenate_Intelligence_chairman_fixed_intelligence_and_diverted_blame_fromWhite_House__0811.html
January 26th, 2007 at 12:26 pm11
the criminals will leave in 08 while the americans along with the the true criminals(rothchilds, the octopus head) will bring in another criminal. it’s two mob crime families wanting to rule the big kuhuna. until you chop the head off the monster NONE of the arms or tentacles will die.
the supreme court is stacked for this very reason. to let the criminals who are supported by the court, off. come on this is NO brain surgery.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:26 pmAs soon as Rockefeller finishes getting Phase II out, he should start on Phase III: How Sen. Roberts conspired with the White House to obstruct the investigation into the White House’s use of pre-war intelligence.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pmFor more background, see:
- “Roberts’ Iraq Stonewall Crumbles.”
- “Fitzgerald, Iraq and the Truth About Pre-War Intelligence.”
For the Senate Intelligence Committee Phase I, partial Phase II and other reports and essential documents, see the Iraq Intelligence Resource Center.”
January 26th, 2007 at 12:29 pmNot to be crude, but if he were getting a beejer, the Republicans would have turned on him and he’d have been impeached already.
Sex, naked human bodies, pornography, bad. Murder, destruction, billions of dollars wasted lost or stolen, the chance to stir up a hornets nest of hatred towards the US with faulty intelligence, partially naked human bodies with their limbs blown off good, in fact, When can we start!?
Did anyone see the Blitzer interview with the Dick? All I saw was Darth Cheney not answering questions.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:30 pmNow we know “what’s the matter with Kansas”.
It is full of dupes, lackeys and authoritarian worshippers like this fool.
He should be impeached for crimes against America.
-GSD
January 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pmBlair is Bush’s Poodle, Senator Robert’s is Cheney’s. I wonder if they take them to the dog park together?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:33 pmA nice article about the subject on Buzzflash.com
January 26th, 2007 at 12:36 pmLET THE TRUTH PREVAIL; LET THE CRIMINALS IN THIS ADMINISTRATION BE INDICTED AND PUNISHED ACCORDINGLY. THESE ARE THE ‘ENEMIES WITHIN’ WHO HAVE HIJACKED OUR DEMOCRACY.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:37 pmCheney is clearly indictable for “obstruction of justice”….one of the many crimes & misdemeanors which mandate Cheney’s impeachment. Add to that the new evidence from Libby’s trial and you’ve got obstruction of justice AND treason – high crimes!
Then on to Bush himself! He’s got at least 12 articles of impeachment already….before the investigations really begin.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:38 pmi’d like to see for once people get off of bush as if he is a major player in this. f. please. PATSY folks. this is why bushyboy doesn’t give a rats azzz. it ain’t him who is pulling the strings. this shit has been going on for years since the early 1900’s. hgwells, great books and whats even sadder is that this guy called it.
wake up and start biotchin about what really matters and that is the octopus. federal reserve bank, is good place to start. follow the money!!!
January 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pmI’m sorry, but I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Rockefeller and his fellow Democrats on this.
What issue has bigger consequences for a government than the decision to go to war? You’re asking your fellow citizens to give up their lives due to this decision.
With that in mind, what should you expect your elected representative to do if they know these types of things are happening? Reid shut down the Senate once. Why didn’t the Democrats walk out of Congress every day until they got their report? If Rockefeller’s charges are true, why haven’t Cheney and Roberts been charged with obstruction of Congress? Why is impeachment off the table?
The Republicans over the last six years have done a tremendous job of keeping the Democrats on their heels. Unless the Democrats grow a collective spine, they are going to continue in their losing ways.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pm27
because when the big bad wolf rules the world and has all of his players in the right spot, with ALL the money, what is ANYONE going to do? i’ll tell ya—-NOT A GODDAMN THING. until the american folks wake up and start going after the octopus and all of his minions.
FIRST, STOP PAYING INCOME TAX YOU AMERICANS. FOR AS MUCH AS YOU BIOTCH ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT PULLING CRIMES ON THE AMERICANS FOLKS THAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST(FED. RESERVE BANK) CRIMES AGAINST AMERICANS. AND THE MAJORITY ARE PAYING THE ROTHCHILDS, MORGANS, ROCKEFELLERS, DUPONTS AND PUTTING THE MONEY RIGHT IN THEIR POCKETS.
really ask yourself, all of you, do you really think that the government (supreme court) is going to slap charges on the whitehouse for treason, lying, murder etc…. come on that is the reason why they stacked it the way they did. and remember these pricks have LIFE seats. WAKE UP.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:00 pmTREASON! TREASON! TREASON! I would really love to see this Vice-President tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity before the movie comes out. Imagine Lynne living out her golden years in a double-wide, because her husband was stripped of his federal pension -and well he should be.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pmThey’re doing phase two, but the report will take some time to complete. Due to the unique security aspects surrounding the issues involved, work on the report can only be done on a moonless night in the Senator’s cornfield. A getting testimony from someone covered in pig’s blood can be a messy affair; best done out-of-doors.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:04 pm#27- Excuse me if I am mistaken, but I don’t recollect that the Democrats had any voice in Congress whatsoever, until just recently. The Democrats were not even allowed to bring up a topic for discussion before, without having it knoocked down by the Repubs. Also, who said anything about impeachment being off the table? I am very much for impeachment and more- but, evidence must be gathered first. That is what is going on now and when I hear people like you complaining that it isn’t happening fast enough, I tend to wonder what in the hell are you talking about? Bush has had six years to damage this country, so surely you can give the Democrats more than two weeks to get it back in working order.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:14 pmComment by bs
We 911Truth backers at least provide some kind of observable evidence… all you got are rantings… I can see what you mean if you are talking about the Federal Reserve controlling the money, but without any type of evidence you just sound like an end of days raver.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:16 pmCan the Senate integrate the GOP Senators who have supported Bush’s criminal acts and used their positions to cover-up the crimes?
If so can they impeach or otherwise remove them from public and prosecute them for treason against the government of the United States of America? They have voliated their Oath of Office committed criminal against the Constitutional Government and basically have thrown the Constitution out and Made Bush King or Dictactor.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:21 pmSo NOW all this comes rolling out – most of it already known for years by many pushing to arrest the bush/cheney gang. Cheney will be forced to resign-bush will be a fly swat away from impeachment, or be force fed the Nixon deal.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:28 pm#31
Thanks for your comment.
Hopefully, New Mexico will lead the country with their call for impeachment.
Just because a party (the Democrats) are in the minority, doesn’t mean they are totally without power. If that was the case, why did they even bother to show up? There are ways for the minority party to make themselves heard. Example is Reid shutting down the Senate on this issue one or two years ago.
How long do you think it would take the American public to have gotten behind the Democrats if they really would have taken a stand on this?
I was asked to give up certain rights and other things when I went into the Air Force (’67-’71).
Various people are willing to go to jail to stand up against this war.
If Rockefeller truly believes that Cheney and Roberts were obstructing Congress (and possibly justice) why didn’t he do more back then? If it was HIS children who were getting shot at, would you have expected him to sit on his hands until now?
January 26th, 2007 at 1:30 pm31
no, excuse me. where did i say it wasn’t coming fast enough? didn’t, ithought so. what i’m saying is impeachment is not going to happen. the players on the supreme court IS NOT going to let that happen. the octopus is NOT going to let that happen. evidence? how much do you need. let’s get real. starr bilked millions of dollars out of the tax payers money and went after bill while he was still in office over a blow job and the ONLY evidence was tripps mouth and a saved cum stain.
come on now.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pm#33
I don’t think Congress can take much action against their members.
Around 1968 (?) there was a Democrat from Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who did some rather unethical things. The House tried to throw him out. The case went to the Supreme Court. My recollection is that the Supreme Court said that Congress cannot override the votes of a district/state.
Hopefully someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Congress would have an easier time going after Cheney than they would Roberts.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:36 pm#35- I seem to remember that The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted a few, short years ago. Nobody would play thier music and no one would touch them. It’s a short year ago that the Democrats wanted to meet in session and were denied that right by the Repubs. So, they ended up meeting in the basement to discuss just how to proceed, trying to reestablish a system of checks and balances with absolutely no Repub assistance. It’s easier, now that the numbers of people that disagree with the administration is in the majority. I, too, was in the Air Force during the Vietnam era and know how it is to try to do the right thing without tying a noose around your neck and hanging yourself in the process.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:44 pmhey tp i know it’s long(alot of links) but where is it.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:48 pmYes Sen. Roberts is a Bush stooge and a certified fool!
January 26th, 2007 at 1:48 pm32
i’ve posted links to the rothchilds and the 9/11 myth when i very first started posting here and everyones loverboy judd only allows what he thinks is right, meaning it has to fit his theory. and i just posted a bunch of links and guess what……..they are not here. and i wonder why?
January 26th, 2007 at 1:52 pm32
ranting? lol,lol. that is some funny shit. least i post the real players in this and can’t help if tp doesn’t want to post the links. that should tell ya something right there.
the last thing lyou’ll see me do, unlike the majority here, is rant on and on and on about folks who don’t mean a goddamn thing and that is bushco.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:55 pmLiberal in New Mexico sez:
Yes, I remember that too. They should kick off a whirlwind tour entitled:
January 26th, 2007 at 2:26 pm‘The WE TOLD YOU SO Tour’.
And we’re supposed to believe that with all of Cheneys visits to Langley in the runup to the Iraq invasion that there was absolutely no pressure exerted on analysts to come up with the “intel” that Dick wanted? Really? Astounding.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pmWhy hasn’t Rockefeller released this report yet? Everyone should e-mail his office and ask him to release the report.
Phylo out.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:33 pmOkay, who’s shocked by the finding???
January 26th, 2007 at 2:45 pmbs – just wanted to let you know that I looked into and saved some links that you’ve posted in the past and found most of them to be quite informative.
Personally, I appreciate your voice in the wilderness and am encouraged that with all you’ve learned/suspect that you still have it in you to raise the alarm. The more I learn, the more I wonder how we the people can possibly prevail with such odds stacked against us.
BUT…that doesn’t mean we should just give up!!
It’s amazing to me that things I once thought were totally ‘out there’ conspiracy theories are being brought to the light and proven to be true after all. I don’t automatically discount anything anymore – even if it sounds way ‘out there’.
And when it comes to Cheney and his gang, well HELLO he’s been running things behind the scenes for decades. Now who HE works for…I wonder if that’s a good question?
January 26th, 2007 at 3:01 pmThis is only one of many issues to be uncovered now that the Dems have power to investigate.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:07 pmI have no doubt we will be reading the report soon.
Why am I not surprised?
January 26th, 2007 at 5:11 pmPat Roberts is like C3PO with skin.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:50 pm