(Live Thread) British Parliament member George Galloway to face oil-for-food accusers (Live Thread)

CNN.com ^ | 5/17/05 | Phil Hirschkorn

[cyncooper]

Nope.

Oh, unless you're speaking about yourself.

[Dad yer funny]

oh ,sshhhhhh, ...our mass evacuation happens at 7:10 - 7:15

[Robe]

Good mornin All....
I hope this thread doesn't go as fast as last weeks did.. wound I was posting stuff to myself.

This should prove interesting...and entertaining

[txrangerette]

Coleman was a Prosecutor before being elected Mayor of St. Paul, MN.

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/livehearing.ram

[txrangerette]

See post # 4 by Dog...

[onyx]

LOL-LOL-LOL --- mass evacution --- lol-lol-lol... hilarious.

[Howlin]

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Title: Oil For Influence: How Saddam Used Oil to Reward Politicians Under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program

Date: 5/17/05

Time (EST): 9:30 AM

Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 106

This hearing originally scheduled to be held in room SD-562 will now be held in room SD-106.

The May 17th hearing will be third hearing the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has held on the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program (“OFF Program”). The Subcommittee’s first hearing on the OFF Program laid the foundation for future hearings by describing how the OFF Program was exploited by Saddam Hussein. A second hearing examined the operations of the independent inspection agents retained by the United Nations in the OFF Program and examined issues related to inadequate management, audit, and procurement oversight. The hearing also examined issues related to why the U.S. and U.N. did not interfere with Iraq's open exports of oil to Jordan and Turkey, in violation of U.N. sanctions. The May 17th hearing will detail how Saddam Hussein manipulated the OFF Program to win influence and reward friends in order to undermine sanctions. In particular, this hearing will present evidence detailing how Saddam rewarded foreign officials with lucrative oil allocations that could be converted to money. The hearing will also examine the illegal surcharges paid on Iraqi oil sales, using examples involving the recently indicted U.S. company, Bayoil. In addition, more detailed information will be provided on the nature and extent of the 2003 Khor al-Amaya incident in which oil tankers loaded a large amount of Iraqi oil circumventing U.N. sanctions.

To view the PSI Staff reports click on the OFF Reports link below and scroll down to the Related Files section.

Hearing File: OFF Reports

Witnesses

Panel 1

Mark L. Greenblatt , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Steven A. Groves , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Dan M. Berkovitz , Counsel to the Minority , U. S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Panel 2

George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain

Panel 3

Thomas A. Schweich , Chief of Staff, U.S. Mission to the United Nations , U. S. Department of State

Robert W. Werner , Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control , U. S. Department of the Treasury

Peter Reddaway , Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs , George Washington University

[onyx]

Good morning, cyn!
Please stay.

[Howlin]

Here is the link:

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov

But I can't "see" it either.

[Howlin]

Try this one:

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Live

[onyx]

I plan on doing a lot of "cleaning" right around this bonus room with the TV and computer. I am NOT missing this one!






Will you please send me "packing" (literally) by 10:am my time?

[cyncooper]

Good morning to you!

I am going to be looking at the attitude, tone and demeanor the dems take.

I anticipate they will be sympathetic to Galloway and hint (if not outright state) that the Republicans are grandstanding or overstating the evidence.

I will be pleasantly surprised if they stick to facts and ask genunine questions designed to elicit facts.

[samtheman]

we're awash with bolshevik liars

Good image. Made me think of a pirate movie.

[Da_Shrimp]

yup , ... and there is that odd circumstance where extra-intelligence is ascribed to the accent and diction

He's Scottish, so don't expect the standard 'BBC Home Counties' traditional British accent.

[prairiebreeze]

Good morning. I think you're correct, but also hope for the best out of the RATS.

(Have I just fulfilled the definition of insanity?)

;^D

[Da_Shrimp]

Some comments by 'Gorgeous George' that may be of interest:

I am on the anti-imperialist left."

(interviewer) The Stalinist left?

"I wouldn't define it that way because of the pejoratives loaded around it; that would be making a rod for your own back. If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe."

[onyx]

I anticipate a sypathetic outreach to Galloway too.

[OXENinFLA]

BUMP LIVE NOW......

[Robe]

Here we go .....opening statements ....