Live 9/11 Commission Thread [testifying today Freeh, Reno, Ashcroft]

April 13, 2004 | Vanity

[Howlin]

We should let "The Wives" and Richard Clarke save the world.

[kcvl]

9-11 widow sues Bush for 9-11 complicity & cover up!! [THE BEST MEMORIAL IS THE TRUTH!!]

9/11 widow Ellen Mariani (shown left with a friend), has filed a lawsuit against Bush and other White House officials, charging them with foreknowledge of the attacks, failure to prevent them or warn the public, passive abetment for personal and political gain, intentional organized criminal activity, obstruction of justice, etc. Mrs. Mariani has refused the $1 million in pay-off money from the government-allocated 9/11 compensation fund.

Asked about her refusing the Bush Admin. $1 million pay out, Mrs. Mariani replied, "I'd rather eat dirt than take their pay off. . ."

Click here for more information.

Government Executive Magazine
Friday, Dec 12, 2003
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1203/121203lb.htm

NATIONAL 9-11 VISIBILITY PROJECT TO SUPPORT 9-11 FAMILY'S STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH ABOUT 9-11 www.septembereleventh.org

[cyncooper]

I know who he is and what he looks like. Thanks for the update--I think.

LOL

[CaptainK]

"If you don't know what Tom Shales looks like, you must look up a picture of him"

Picture a pig with a mop on its head.

[jwalsh07]

Just home from work, evidently I missed a good ole country ass kickin'. LOL

[Dog]

We talked about Pincus and Theilmann before.....on another thread.....:-)

[mewzilla]

Is the Feith memo available in its entirety anywhere online do you know?

[mewzilla]

In other words: Go urinate up a rope.

[mewzilla]

Speaking of Mariani, have you seen her lawyer's website? Click here for www.911forthetruth.com.

[Howlin]

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116662/posts?page=1757#1757

[mewzilla]

And I thought Mariani's lawyer's name, Philip J. Berg, sounded familiar. Check out this link. Apparently Berg had something to do with the FL recount. From the link:

Attorney to file federal class action suit to overturn presidential election

Layfayette Hill, Pennsylvania, Jan. 6— Attorney, political activist and former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip J. Berg announced today that he will be filing a class action lawsuit in a Florida federal court to overturn the 2000 presidential election.

Berg said, “My lawsuit is based on widespread voter fraud that occurred throughout Florida. Evidence continues to be forwarded to me.”

Wonder how Mariani ended up with this guy?

[EllaMinnow]

Hmm.

BushisTheMan has posted his email to Kristen Breitweiser and her reply to him on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114498/posts?page=75#75

She can't understand why people are misinterpreting her actions...sheesh! She needs to be reminded of her own words and those of her fellow professional widows.

[mewzilla]

Breitweiser's Peaceful Tomorrows is funded by Teresa Heinz. Mariani's got a lawyer who was involved in the FL recount fiasco. Are you detecting a pattern here? :)

[mewzilla]

And that reply is totally different from the Bush-bashing she's been engaging in when I've had the misfortune to catch her on the boob tube. Someone should call her on it.

[Cindy]

Thank you Piasa.

[piasa]

NOVEMBER 8?, 2003 Friday : (WASHINGTON, DC : STATE DEPT EMPLOYEE JOHN KOKAL FOUND DEAD OUTSIDE AGENCY HEADQUARTERS) — A State Department employee was found dead outside the agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., Friday around 5 p.m., Fox News has confirmed. State Department sources told The Washington Post that John Kokal worked in a unit that dealt with intelligence and research. Sources said he handled classified documents regularly but was not involved in intelligence analysis. Police said the official cause and manner of death is to be determined by the D.C. medical examiner, the Post reported. Fox News has confirmed that Kokal, 58, did work for the State Department Intelligence and Research Bureau, but has not yet confirmed that the body is that of Kokal. Fire Department Spokesman Alan Etter said the man, a white male, was wearing a dress shirt, tie and slacks, but was not wearing shoes nor a suit jacket. He was found lying in the bottom of a concrete window well near 23rd and D streets, about eight stories below the top of the building. The well drops about 20 feet from ground level. The department is in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of the District of Columbia. It was not yet known whether the employee jumped or fell. Firemen told Fox News that the D.C. police were handling the investigation and that the death could possibly be a homicide and that the body would not be immediately removed.- "State Dept. Worker Found Dead Outside Agency," Fox News , 11/08/03

[piasa]

fyi

[piasa]

fyi- see previous posts from dog, etc.

[piasa]

I don't think so since it was leaked through the Weekly Standard. Cheney acknowledged it was a real leak in his interview, but as far as I know the Standard is the only public source. Maybe I'm wrong, but even if I'm not the press has no interest in publishing it since it completely blows away their mantra of 'no connection' between Iraq and al Qaeda, etc. (A mantra repeated again by Susan Estrich? on Fox a moment ago.)

[piasa]

Speaking of the Feith Memo, the Weekly Standard and Cheney's response to the article:

JANUARY 28, 2004 : (CLINTON-LINKED GROUP 'CREW' WANTS INVESTIGATION OF CHENEY FOR 'CONFIRMING' FEITH MEMO LEAK IN THE WEEKLY STANDARD) Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a non-profit legal watchdog group, sent a letter to President Bush asking that he call upon the White House Counsel to investigate Vice President Cheney's confirmation of leaked classified information in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News on January 9, 2004. Federal law prohibits leaking classified information. Confirming information that has already been leaked is also prohibited. In his Jan. 9th interview, Mr. Cheney referred his interviewer to a story that appeared in The Weekly Standard's November 24, 2003 issue. The story, written by Stephen F. Hayes, discussed a 16 page memo written by Defense Department Under Secretary for Policy regarding raw data and reports describing possible links between Al Queda and Iraq.
Mr. Cheney, responding to a question regarding the relationship between Iraq and Al Queda, called the Standard's story "the best information out there." Mr. Cheney provided this information despite the Pentagon's November 15, 2003 press release stating that news reports that characterized the contents of the memo were "inaccurate" and excoriated the leak as "deplorable and may be illegal." The Pentagon also stated that leaking such information does "serious harm to national security." "Mr. Cheney's reference to classified information and the ensuing silence from the White House shows a distinct pattern: leaking classified information that the administration deems beneficial is Standard Operating Procedure," Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of CREW said today.
"The deliberate delay in investigating the outing of Valerie Plame and the immediate investigation into an alleged leak by former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill the morning after Mr. O'Neill's interview with 60 Minutes shows the contrast between investigations into leaks that help with President Bush's agenda and those that damage the administration's efforts."
- "Legal Watch Dog Group CREW Alleges Cheney Leaked Classified Information, Breaking Federal Law," BUSINESS WIRE, 1/28/04

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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
http://www.citizensforethics.org/news/20030719_natljrnl.php

CREW has been active only since February, so its profile is still relatively low. Yet Republicans detect a strong Democratic orientation. Sloan, most recently an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is a former aide to Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; then-Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Schumer, D- N.Y.; and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. In addition, CREW's three board members are Mark Penn, President Clinton's former pollster; Daniel Berger, a trial lawyer from Philadelphia and a Clinton fundraiser; and Louis Mayberg, the president of a mutual fund company.
10 posted on 01/28/2004 10:52:10 AM PST by jimbo123

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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Melanie Sloan, Executive Director

Melanie Sloan serves as CREW's Executive Director. Prior to accepting this position, Ms. Sloan served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, where, from 1998- early 2003, she successfully tried cases before dozens of judges and juries. Before becoming a prosecutor, Ms. Sloan was Minority Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1998. She worked directly with the Honorable John Conyers, the ranking member of the Committee, specializing in criminal enforcement issues, including the Independent Counsel law. Her responsibilities included drafting legislation and committee reports (minority views), writing speeches, and working with interest groups. She also assisted a working group of Members of Congress in developing and drafting a Democratic alternative to the Republican juvenile justice bill.

In 1994, Ms. Sloan was Counsel for the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, working for then Representative Charles Schumer. There, she drafted portions of the 1994 Crime Bill, including the Violence Against Women Act, and worked on issues including the death penalty, mandatory minimum sentencing, and habeas corpus. In 1993, Ms. Sloan served as Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then Chairman, Senator Joe Biden, where she researched the backgrounds of nominees to high level Department of Justice positions and to the federal courts. Prior to serving Congress, she was an associate at Howrey and Simon in Washington, D.C. and at Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal in Los Angeles, California. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago and has published in the Yale Law and Policy Review, the Legal Times, and the Washington Post.

11 posted on 01/28/2004 10:54:52 AM PST by jimbo123