Uh-oh Madam Secretary
Great catch and connect-the-dots by the inimitable Marcy Wheeler of NextHurrah and Firedoglake (also author of the acclaimed Anatomy of Deceit):
You probably should have testified when you had the chance. Henry writes Condi as follows:
Dear Madam Secretary:
I am writing to notify you that the Oversight Committee has postponed the hearing for which your testimony was subpoenaed, formerly scheduled for June 19, 2007, in order to allow additional time for the Committee to conduct interviews and review documents relating to the White House's use of the pre-war intelligence surrounding the claim that Iraq sought uranium from Africa, and other aspects of its alleged nuclear capability.
The Committee has been conducting interviews and depositions of senior government officials with knowledge of prewar intelligence about Iraq's nuclear program, including George Tenet, former Director of Central Intelligence; John McLaughlin, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell; and Carl Ford, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. The Committee plans to conduct additional interviews over the coming weeks. In addition, the CIA and State Department have begun to provide important documents to the Committee. I hope you will not be inconvenienced by this postponement. The interviews, depositions, and documents are illuminating the Committee's inquiry and will provide the predicate for a more thorough hearing with you.
The Committee will notify you of the new date for the hearing.
Anyone remember the Richard Armitage conversation with Bob Woodward? The one where Armitage said,
Hadley and Joseph know. It's documented. We've got our documents on it. We're clean as a whistle.
And where he goes on to say:
Because I think it was overruled by the types down at the White House. Condi doesn't like being on the hot spot, but she --
I gotta believe that those with whom the Committee has been talking--the folks at the CIA who had already tried to remove the Niger claims, and the folks at State who were skeptical of the claims from day one--I would imagine that they're still quite confident that they're "clean as a whistle." And if CIA is suddenly being forthcoming with documents?
I would imagine that Committee testimony seat just got significantly hotter.
You probably should have testified when you had the chance. Henry writes Condi as follows:
Dear Madam Secretary:
I am writing to notify you that the Oversight Committee has postponed the hearing for which your testimony was subpoenaed, formerly scheduled for June 19, 2007, in order to allow additional time for the Committee to conduct interviews and review documents relating to the White House's use of the pre-war intelligence surrounding the claim that Iraq sought uranium from Africa, and other aspects of its alleged nuclear capability.
The Committee has been conducting interviews and depositions of senior government officials with knowledge of prewar intelligence about Iraq's nuclear program, including George Tenet, former Director of Central Intelligence; John McLaughlin, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell; and Carl Ford, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. The Committee plans to conduct additional interviews over the coming weeks. In addition, the CIA and State Department have begun to provide important documents to the Committee. I hope you will not be inconvenienced by this postponement. The interviews, depositions, and documents are illuminating the Committee's inquiry and will provide the predicate for a more thorough hearing with you.
The Committee will notify you of the new date for the hearing.
Anyone remember the Richard Armitage conversation with Bob Woodward? The one where Armitage said,
Hadley and Joseph know. It's documented. We've got our documents on it. We're clean as a whistle.
And where he goes on to say:
Because I think it was overruled by the types down at the White House. Condi doesn't like being on the hot spot, but she --
I gotta believe that those with whom the Committee has been talking--the folks at the CIA who had already tried to remove the Niger claims, and the folks at State who were skeptical of the claims from day one--I would imagine that they're still quite confident that they're "clean as a whistle." And if CIA is suddenly being forthcoming with documents?
I would imagine that Committee testimony seat just got significantly hotter.
posted by Sir Gumbo at 11:05 PM
1 Comments:
Congress' popularity is at 27%, so Condi doesn't give a s**t what Henry Waxman thinks. This isn't six months ago.
There's a reason Condi has been treating Waxman like a redheaded stepchild for the last six months. There's no there there, like Oakland. Someday you'll figure this out. Condi already has.
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