Oversight committee considers Rice subpoena.
By on Apr 17th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Oversight committee considers Rice subpoena.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will meet tomorrow to consider whether to subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has repeatedly blown off Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) requests for information on her pre-war claims about Iraq’s WMD programs.
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Put her under oath!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:16 pm“Dead Eye” Rice eats subpoenas for breakfast. She will go and lie for her lover George W Bush.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:18 pmA lot less talk and more action if you please, even if you don’t please….Blessings
April 17th, 2007 at 1:19 pmIt’s about time these monarchists were made to submit themselves to the people. Their arrogance and elitism is downright repulsive.
They should all be subpeonaed and forced to appear on their knees, and to apologize to the American people for their incompetence and malfeasance.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:21 pm.
DO it!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:28 pmIt’s all about stalling and dragging out all investigations until the next election. Cheney/rove/bush are not leading anything now. They are in their fox holes tossing out distraction bombs as fast as possible. They must be spending an inordinate amount of time working on an exit strategy that will keep them out of jail and rich.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:30 pmyou gotta see this photo of Condi from the SPARKLE PONY blog!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:34 pmSeize her passport.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:36 pmUnder oath and on a polygraph machine!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pmComment by n69n
Great picture! Looks like she just got through talking to Chimpy.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pmGit ‘er dun!!!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pmPrincess Sparkle Pony rocks.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:39 pmHow else will Congress get her attention? Put her under oath!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:44 pmShe’s too busy shopping for shoes to testify!
t-mac
April 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pmFried Rice, or steamed Rice?
April 17th, 2007 at 2:12 pm“Rice Dream”
April 17th, 2007 at 2:18 pmSubpoena Condi’s immediately. She’s probably blown him off because she’s been out buying shoes – expensive shoes – just like she did in Katrina when people were perishing.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:02 pmRice pudding
April 17th, 2007 at 3:02 pmI believe it will be a case of “fried rice” since Condi’s complicit on the pre-war lies. She’s fried on this one!
April 17th, 2007 at 3:02 pmCondi will look hot in an orange jumpsuit.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:07 pmShe’s too busy shopping for shoes to testify!
If she were to actually give that excuse, I’d accept it.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:17 pmAbout time!!!!!!!
Put her out of her misery (incompetence)!
April 17th, 2007 at 3:57 pmShe needs to find the orange shoes to match the jumpsuit…
April 17th, 2007 at 4:16 pmThere’s no wonder Secretary Rice is stonewalling. Regading the bogus case for war with Iraq; this is the main attraction folks, the headline act!
April 17th, 2007 at 5:02 pmI couldn’t be more pleased that Rep. Waxman is pursuing this issue and I certainly hope he sees it through!
It all comes down to Bush’s SOTU address on 1-28-03 and those infamous 16 words, “…Saddam Hussein…sought…uranium from Africa.” First they were in the address, then out, then back in, and then finally retracted after Joseph Wilson’s bombshell NY Times op-ed debunked the whole sham. Since that time it’s come to light that the whole ruse was based on forged documents tied to the fugitive spy and neocon darling Ahmed Chalabi, among others. Not to mention the price Valerie Plame Wilson and her colleagues had to pay in the process.
Before the mighty 110th Congress, no one from the Bush Admin has been made to answer definitively why those 16 words were in the address, then out, then back in; until now!
I wonder why? Stay tuned…
Just DO it!!
April 17th, 2007 at 9:03 pmRice Krispies
April 17th, 2007 at 9:58 pmHey Congress, you WORK FOR US and we say DO IT!!
April 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pmIt’s all about the aluminum tubes, people ….
From the NY Times, “How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence”
By DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH
Published: October 3, 2004
Regarding Iraq’s purchase of aluminum tubes:
“The tubes were “only really suited for nuclear weapons programs,” Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser, explained on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002. “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
But almost a year before, Ms. Rice’s staff had been told that the government’s foremost nuclear experts seriously doubted that the tubes were for nuclear weapons, according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. The experts, at the Energy Department, believed the tubes were likely intended for small artillery rockets.”
This is her big lie and an act of treason.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:49 amActually, Rice has been baiting Waxman for a month now. I for one, can’t get enough of it.
Waxman is a bully. Rice has already strung this out and succeeded in dividing the committee along partisan lines. That much is clear from the reporting. So she’s got the Committee Republicans on her side.
Waxman was trying to get her to agree to come before his gimcrack Show Trial voluntarily, but methinks Rice wants to force his hand. Waxman doesn’t want to subpoena Rice, but Condi actually wants a subpoeana. That strips away any veneer of bipartisan legitimacy to this kangaroo court that Waxman is running and gives Rice her Ollie North moment, which is what Condi, and Karl Rove, are looking for.
Waxman is walking into a trap. He was supposed to send out the subpoena today, but he blinked. So, quite obviously, he’s hesitating. Rice knows that Waxman’s case is a huge pinata of bullshit, and Waxman knows it, too. What Waxman doesn’t know is that Rice knows that Waxman knows it’s bullshit, and that she’ll embarrass his ass on national television.
You all have been making the mistake of thinking that Rice is scared of Big Bad Henry Waxman. Were she scared of Waxman, she would have rushed to make nice to him a month ago. Instead, she’s done everything she could to bait him and wound his pride.
Once Henry issues the subpoena, he loses the Committee Republicans. Condi has won the war right then and there. They’ll be in her corner, not his. So will the entire Republican Party, and much of the American electorate. She’s popular in the country; try to remember that most of the country isn’t like your Moonbat Left or our Wingnut Right. Condi appeals to the vast middle. Henry will find that out, much to his sorrow.
She wants to piss him off.
Ask your liberal selves; if she’s so scared of Henry Waxman, and if she has so much to hide, why is Condi Rice playing with Henry Waxman like a tabby cat plays with a ball of string?
April 19th, 2007 at 12:37 amArrest Condi
(The Senate has the power to do so — it says so right here on senate.gov)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×764094
April 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm