Political Torture Wars: It’s Cheney Versus Obama Again (Cheney Vindicated Or Not?)
Aug 25th, 2009 | 38 responses
Former Vice President Dick Cheney issued a statement today that is yet one more chapter in the ongoing battle of Cheney versus the Obama Administration — and precision accuracy — again.
The issue: the administration’s decision to appoint a Special Prospector to look into specific allegations of torture under the Bush administration. The second issue: the release of CIA info which Cheney is suggesting completely vindicates him…which others say really does not. The third issue: Cheney’s ongoing claim that the Obama administration is weak and doesn’t really care about making the country safe, part of the “vote for us or die” insinuation that Cheney and a part of the Republican party used in political campaigns against Democrats in general.
CNN reports:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is again taking aim at President Obama, issuing a statement Monday suggesting the administration’s decision to name a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations under President Bush fuels “doubts about this administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security.”
“The people involved deserve our gratitude,” Cheney said in the statement. “They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions.”
The former vice president also said documents released Monday prove enhanced interrogation techniques yieled valuable information that “provided the bulk of intelligence we gained about al Qaeda”
“This intelligence saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks,” Cheney said. “These detainees also, according to the documents, played a role in nearly every capture of al Qaeda members and associates since 2002.”
“The activities of the CIA in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States,” he added.
Note the timing:Late Monday, the government released declassified CIA documents originally requested last May by Cheney. The former vice president had argued they would show enhanced interrogation techniques saved lives.
While analysis in the documents says information from detainee interrogations “helped thwart a number of al-Qaida plots” and “arrests…disrupted attack plans in progress,” it remains unclear from the heavily redacted documents whether that information was obtained through the enhanced interrogation techniques Cheney defends.
The details of some of the apparently terrorist plans on tap are horrific indeed — but Cheney’s claim that all of this vindicates the use of tactics that have now come to light such as holding a drill to someone’s head, knocking them out with a sleeper hold or threatening to kill their kids is reportedly NOT vindicated by the actual material that has come out so far.
ABC News also suggests that the documents are not a vindication of Cheney’s claims as the Veep suggests and as, most assuredly, Rush Limbaugh, conservative talkers and that segment of the GOP which is part of the talk radio political culture will claim:
The CIA released the documents today that former Vice President Dick Cheney requested earlier this year in an attempt to prove his assertion that using enhanced interrogation techniques on terror detainees saved U.S. lives.
The documents back up the Bush administration’s claims that intelligence gleaned from captured terror suspects had thwarted terrorist attacks, but the visible portions of the heavily redacted reports do not indicate whether such information was obtained as a result of controversial interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding.
The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman is more definitive after his paper examined the documents:
For months, former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that two documents prepared by the CIA, one from 2004 and the other from 2005, would refute critics of the Bush administration’s torture program….
Those documents were obtained today by The Washington Independent and are available here. Strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims that the “enhanced interrogation” program run by the CIA provided valuable information. In fact, throughout both documents, many passages — though several are incomplete and circumstantial, actually suggest the opposite of Cheney’s contention: that non-abusive techniques actually helped elicit some of the most important information the documents cite in defending the value of the CIA’s interrogations.
The first document, issued by the CIA in July 2004 is about the interrogation of 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and whom, the newly released CIA Inspector General report on torture details, had his children’s lives threatened by an interrogator. None of that abuse is referred to in the publicly released version of the July 2004 document. Instead, we learn from the July 2004 document that not only did the man known as “KSM” largely provide intelligence about “historical plots” pulled off from al-Qaeda, a fair amount of the knowledge he imparted to his interrogators came from his “rolodex” — that is, what intelligence experts call “pocket litter,” or the telling documentation found on someone’s person when captured. As well, traditional intelligence work appears to have done wonders — including a fair amount of blundering on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s part…
He offers a lot more, then writes:
Again, perhaps the blacked-out lines of the memos specifically claim and document that torture and only torture yielded this information. But what’s released within them does not remotely make that case. Cheney’s public account of these documents have conflated the difference between information acquired from detainees, which the documents present, and information acquired from detainees through the enhanced interrogation program, which they don’t.
In a statement, Tom Parker, the policy director of Amnesty International’s American branch, said, “Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Vice President Cheney’s track record, the two CIA memos released today are hardly the slam dunk we had been led to expect. There is little or no supporting evidence in either memo to give substance to the specific claims about impending attacks made by Khaled Shaik Mohammed in highly coercive circumstances.”
On a slew of issues (such as a little thing called the Iraq war in terms of weapons of mass destruction and its supposedly piece-of-cake aftermath) Cheney has proven to be someone whose comments are often… at variance…with what later come to be known to be the facts. Most likely, the more info that comes out via the CIA and via future historians, the more likely it is that he will go down in history as one of the country’s most powerful, out-of-control and polarizing Vice Presidents.
Patrick Appel, writing on Andrew Sullivan’s site, adds:
The documents released yesterday prove nothing about torture’s effectiveness, but Cheney is claiming victory. I guess after “death panels” reality is whatever you make it. This reminds me of a line from Mark Danner’s speech from 2007 on the reality that the Bush administration encased itself in.
But that is the new modus operendi, isn’t it?
Want to insist Obama is not an American citizen, saying it’s so and demanding endless proof and ignoring anything that undermines that assertion makes it so.
Want to insist healthcare reform included sinister, evil death panels that would kill your granny? Just say it over and over and ignore evidence to the contrary — or dismiss it as “nuance” which usually means: “Details, schmetails. I’ll keep saying it and no matter what you say or hold out to me will not change my mind.”
So, to Cheney, and to those into the talk radio political culture, this will be a big victory. (“Details, schmetails..”)
FOOTNOTE: There is the possibility that in future years the edited out material will prove Cheney correct. But so far Cheney has proven to be to accuracy what a nice, big banana split is to dieting.
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“This intelligence saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks,” Cheney said. “These detainees also, according to the documents, played a role in nearly every capture of al Qaeda members and associates since 2002.”
“The activities of the CIA in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States,” he added.”
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Al Qaida will be found to be associated with the CIA. This link is most strongly suggested is the seemingly coordinated bombings in Bagdhad the day before Obama's secret landing there. And of course the appearance of Osama Bin Laden, of the Bin Laden family, longtime friends and business associates of the Bush family, whenever Dick Cheney wants a scare to goad the american public into supporting military presence in this or that region..usually connected with the production, transporation an shipment of oil from the Middle East.
It's why they lied about weapons of mass destruction. They couldn't just invade a nation based on the fact that they just had a dicator? Lots of countries meet that description. They had to have another reason to compel the public. They needed a coordinated group of enemies lead by a hated and feared leader to compel Congress to provide funding for the coprorate takeover on behalf of BigOil. Everyone knows that is what this is all about. The quesiton is, will this be another blind justice acquittal like the OJ Simpson trial or is there too much at stake in the damage they've done to our world standing in order to let them slip off the hook that easiliy?
Finally, someone got off the side track and onto the mainline by starting a thread on this issue.
Obama exposes himself once more as a liberal rather than “safe and sane” Democrat by okaying this heavily politically loaded initiative. We'll have to see how it eventually transpires.
Meanwhile, the Code Pink types and other psychotically obscessed Bush and Cheney revanchists must be cheering along with people with similar motives and reasoning:
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http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/cel.htm
Don't make the mistake of assuming that the Cheney trials will detract from the momentum for a public option. The corruption inherant in both Cheneyco's treason and the treason on behalf of organized MedMob will augment each other, not detract from each other and cancel each other out. Not this time.
We elected this adminstration, Obama, Biden, and the dems in Congress to CLEAN HOUSE. And we mean to do it. The spindoctoring is falling on leathered ears. The guns at presidential rallies is just further steeling our resolve. Ever seen a bull with its head to the ground charging? Yes, that's what the sheisters are up against this time. You can only push the public so far before they draw a line in the sand.
So when the GOP will rabidly defend Cheney strictly on partisan instinct if any meaningful investigations happen, Obama is the irresponsible and partisan one if he doesn't strong-arm the DoJ into not doing anything?
“The police would be very irresponsible if they were to investigate the members of our famiglia, because during these investigations we will be screaming as loud as we can and disrupt as much as we can.”
See if there is anything logical or defensible in that phrase.
DLS- Unlike Bush, Obama is not going to give orders to the A. G. to shush the whole thing up.
Is Holder supposed to follow in Gonzo's footsteps? I'm sure President Obama wishes that the whole matter would just disappear, so that he could focus on health care.
Any action taken by the Justice Dept will be branded political– regardless of the laws that were broken. That's the problem when you decide that your administration need not operate according to federal and international law.
If they committed no crimes they have nothing to fear from this investigation. Considering this is a common GOP bumper sticker statement of the Law & Order party I would think they would take it to heart. If they committed no crimes they have nothing to fear. If they broke the law the did the crime so they can do the time.
DLS- How many people outside of the Repub party will buy “politically motivated AG” when Ridge is telling the nation about being asked to play with the terror level during an election? How many of those people will not remember the ACTUAL politicizing of the AG office to prosecute Dems that is also being investigated last I checked and has Roves fingerprints all over it? Many may think that both sides are bad but the Repubs will never again be the Law & Order party.
Good article, Chenney is an evil evil man. Lost all credibility with the american people many years ago. Raises questions again about the 2000 elections.
Great way to put it: “ask for proof over and over again of what you want reality to be and ignore all else until something or someone gives some possibility of beleivablility to support your reality.”
Just like the alumin tube claims and the valerie wilson scandals. Any many many more. “America does not torture, you can look it up on the internets”
I suspect that if this actually was “an internet hub for moderates, centrists and independents”, there might be a person or two that would wonder what does it really matter whether these redacted documents support or don't support comments by Cheney.
Does the scope of the AG investigation allow for the pursuit of high level Bush administration persons? No, it does not. Will it pursue anybody that wasn't previously reviewed for legal wrongdoing. No, it will not.
At the outside edge, it presents an opportunity to draw and quarter a few CIA foot soldiers so that the nutroots may vicariously pursue their “get-Bush-by-proxy” obsession.
And as their attorneys have already advised them, they should immediately announce that they are Islamic Jihadists. Therefore, in the unlikely event that any of them are actually charged with something, the left will let out the hue and cry that they be detained at the Royal Hawaiian Hilton pending trial.
“If they committed no crimes they have nothing to fear from this investigation.”
They have already admitted that they have committed crimes. They've moved on now to try and justify them.
“Does the scope of the AG investigation allow for the pursuit of high level Bush administration persons? No, it does not. “
Do you posses some information we don't?
Yes, but I'm not sure you would believe a newsletter sent to Bush Rangers.
This:
Don't make the mistake of assuming that the Cheney trials will detract from the momentum for a public option
and this:
Is Holder supposed to follow in Gonzo's footsteps? I'm sure President Obama wishes that the whole matter would just disappear, so that he could focus on health care.
…made me laugh.
I'm sorry to get into the partisan fray a bit here, but seriously…sil, you haven't noticed that the 'momentum' for the public option is moving in a negative direction?
And Kim, although I'll grant you that Obama has to 'keep the focus' on healthcare since he's made it the centerpiece of his platform and has tried to set deadlines- do you really think that he's not welcoming a distraction for the leftwing base, to placate them when he inevitably has to back a watered down version of the healthcare reform they wanted?
I'm not claiming that he's doing a wag the dog here- but if he were to make a politically calculated move on the investigations, this would benefit him with respect to the healthcare debacle, not hurt him. It will allow the leftwingers who are angry with him for not going with single payer and now potentially taking public option off the table, to be pacified.
Call it partisan or political if you want. Laws were broken, innocent people were hurt and killed. It is the job of the justice department to investigate and prosecute suspected crimes. It is their duty. Anyone who participates in the coverup of a crime becomes an accessory after the fact in that crime. Why in the world should Obama or Holder become accessories to war crimes? Don't believe there were war crimes? Fine. That's what grand jury, indictment and trial are about. It is NOT for us to decide, and it is NOT a political game. It's crime and punishment according to a 200+ year history of ethical jurisprudence. Real people were killed, raped, sodomized, mutilated, terrorized, their families threatened with death etc. I'm still aghast that Republicans seem to condone or at least excuse these atrocities.
Go ahead, climb aboard the torture-enabler express. Pathetic.
I love the smell of water-boarding in the morning.
“Don't make the mistake of assuming that the Cheney trials will detract from the momentum for a public option.”
I'm certainly not fooled, to the extent this is a diversion from the problems with that effort as well as with the release of the latest, worst-to-date fiscal news, in addition to an obvious lunge even farther to the left.
Now it's 1.6 trillion dollars for the latest and greatest deficit figure. It's worth the risk of Torture Politics.
Never mind the growing public rejection of our health care idiocy and our other mounting problems we are creating, which also concern the public. Just look at that evil Bush-Cheney over there! Ooooooooooo…
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087…
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“How many people outside of the Repub party will buy 'politically motivated AG' when Ridge is”
riding the write-a-book trend, and making money off a tell-all book (be it correct or not), or washing his hands as so many have of the Bush administration and also extending feelers to Democrats and RINO GOP types, if not as boldly as well as opportunistically as Arlen Specter has done?
How many of the rest of us will buy “book deal” and “politically motivated”? Plenty, if we're not dumb.
DLS-Plenty who already agree yes but for those of us in the middle and on the left that thought that crimes have been committed may end up with documented proof. How many of the “crimes” of the Clinton admin. does the right have such documentation on? Not counting Rush's imagination that is.
“Anyone who participates in the coverup of a crime becomes an accessory after the fact in that crime. Why in the world should Obama or Holder become accessories to war crimes? Don't believe there were war crimes? Fine. That's what grand jury, indictment and trial are about. It is NOT for us to decide, and it is NOT a political game. It's crime and punishment according to a 200+ year history of ethical jurisprudence”~Greendreams
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That's an excellent revelation. Of course they would be guilty of accessory if they didn't prosecute. All eyes will be on that prosecution around the world. Every single minute of it. If there seems to be any funny business on the AG's behalf, that won't go unnoticed.
Too many sharp people out there with too much access to media.
In my silly head, it should work this way.
If anyone broke the law during these interrogations, they should be prosecuted. It does not matter what information came from the torture or how many lives have been saves…they should be prosecuted.
Now…after the truth comes out in a court of law…it is up to Obama to determined whether or not to pardon these people…I mean really, if they stopped another 911 by holding a drill to someone's head, they should be pardoned…prosecuted, but pardoned.
hmmmm….well if Obama pardoned them it would be like putting his stamp of approval on the matter. So if this is a move to a prosecution then a pardon, the ineffectual nature of our justice system will not be lost on world observers.
This trial is about renewing our badly-needed credibility with the world. Are we going to sacrafice our standing in the entire WORLD or string up a couple of A-holes who lied to Congress to get their friends into the oil fields for some serious monopoly-action?
Oh, yeah, and then tortured some dark-skinned people in order to get the “stories” straight for the press.
“Is Holder supposed to follow in Gonzo's footsteps?”
No, but that's not the point. The point is that Obama is siding with the far, often radical and lunatic fringe, left, the Code Pink and Move On and other crazies. (I don't think much or any of the motive is to provide another distraction for continued bad news of the failing health care plan and other bad news about how things have gone so far, including the latest fiscal and policy bad news. Given Obama's own worsening behavior, it's possible this was timed to aid the health care effort and distract us from the release of the financial news and continued acts that are inept as well as badly rushed.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/st…
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusines…
This is highly political, obviously. It's interesting that Obama and those involved with him, in making this very political decision, felt confident to put themselves in the place of the people he properly muzzled earlier in the year (such as in his speech about the prisoners at Guantanamo). (Who knows, maybe this is a diversion tactic related to lack of timely and promised successful resolution of the Guanatano issue.)
The following is the best published commentary about the decision, to date.
http://sbk.online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052…
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“Plenty who already agree yes but for those of us in the middle and on the left that thought that crimes have been committed may end up with documented proof.”
So many of us in the middle, as well as on the right*, object to torture, other crimes, the abuse at Abu Ghraib (the first taint of the Iraq effort), or the game-playing by the admin folks against the Congress when demands for information of all kinds on all issues were demanded (which, bad as it is, wasn't always in the wrong) — why do you think the GOP did so badly in 2006 and in 2008? Not only because the GOP acted like Dems Lite, and not only because of dissatisfaction with the Iraq war. (Hints: Bush endorsements offered? Bush endorsements solicited?)
That still doesn't negate that so much of the sentiment on the left, notably on the far left, for prosecution is simply one more manifestation of Bush (and Cheney) Derangement Syndrome (whose only competitor was Reagan Hatred in the 1980s), and that Obama is siding with the extremists and risking additional loss of his reputation among the mainstream (threatening an escalation of the disturbing pattern we have seen so far with radicalism-regurgitation with the Gates episode, the idiotic climate legislation, and more than ever, with health care — this worsens, not improves, his position among intelligent mainstreamers).
This is Code Pink and the worst-of-the-lib-Dems-in-Congress baggage-laden political stooping by Obama.
The only question is, to what extent it is also a diversion and attempt to manipulate public opinion to stop the rising concern of the public about him and the Dems in Congress and what they are doing to us now.
* For those who don't know, the true (not hyped or fictitious) far right is easily spotted: this group refuses to accept anything as “torture,” or they know but still don't care, and whether it's wrong or not, they heartily approve and even want more of it to be done.
Sil…I understand what you are saying, but I believe the world would understand if Obama pardoned a person that stopped a nuclear attack.
I think it works well in different ways, especially for the CIA in the field. They know that yes, they will get prosecuted for breaking the law, but they also know that in extreme cases…nuclear attack…they might be pardoned.
Make them make that choice. Is what I am about to do worth the risk?
What if the nuclear attack story was made up to cover up for despicable things people did trying to elicit intelligence information? Does that make the pardon ok?
That is a big part of this story in my opinion – some deranged people went too far in trying to protect our country and our constitution, and then lied repeatedly and totally fabricated evidence to cover it up.
Should we not know the true details of what went down, so we can help avoid in the future?
CS-
I think Obama feels pressure from the left to let the investigations go forward, and pressure from the right to stifle them in the name of national security.
But, that is different from welcoming this as a distraction. He knows this issue is a partisan time bomb that could easily blow up in his face- whether or not Holder gets to make the final decision.. I think the last thing Obama wants is an all-out partisan war that would keep him from enacting his agenda.
Kritt…
Take the politics out. It seems to me that this is justice vs national security. Without justice, is this country worth defending?
“Without justice, is this country worth defending?”
Actually, the questions are: a) What are the seekers of “justice” really seeking (and why)? and b) Why was this heavily political and risky controversial choice made now?
This is indeed a welcome, and quite likely, consciously timed, distraction. It will take media attention away from healthcare and hopefully allow for a more subdued, brokered approach to healthcare legislation once the leases run out on the expensive vacation homes.
shannonlee, we've established in the other thread that this is a gathering of the intellectual elite. Therefore, you should know that this is everything political.
Obama is quietly escalating in the mideast and his Justice Dept is doing 85% of what Bush's Justice Dept did to keep all maneuvers available to them for WoT purposes.
Mark my words, this is a brightly colored toy to distract and pacify the left. Nobody above “lieutenant” grade will be implicated. I am confident enough in my read that I will buy Sil a share of Exxon preferred if I'm wrong.
The whole thing looks like a wash to me neither strengthening nor weakening Cheney's claim. It seems to support that debriefings got useful information that saved lives, but does not indicate whether or not is was due to “enhanced techniques”. The documents were heavily redacted so you can't really say that they don't include support for Cheney's assertion because of all the items you can't see, but you can't make a case that it supports him for the same reason.
I'd say this hasn't shed much light on anything.
Nuclear attack my ass…
What these sheisters won't think of..? We weren't born yesterday. Their machinations are falling on leathered ears.
“The whole thing looks like a wash to me neither strengthening nor weakening Cheney's claim. “
It's not really different from his AEI speech defending “harsh interrogation” and terrorism policy in general. It puts lib Dems largely in their place, but will not be seen that way by much of the public, as Cheney then and now comes across as being too defensive and even apologetic, which is weak.
Meanwhile, the prosecution decision is heavily political and of a nature that backfires with Americans. It just added to the taint of the health care effort and what the Dems may do after that.
“Nuclear attack my ass”
You need to free your head, Sil. It's certainly possible. A fission bomb is far from the only threat.
http://www.fas.org/faspir/2002/v55n2/dirtybomb.htm
As countries like NK and Iran become nuclear powers…with the instability in Pakistan…and who really knows if all of the former USSR's nuclear weapons are accounted for….and with nuclear weapon technology apparently for sale…
I think a nuclear bomb going off in your back yard is a real threat.
I am not saying we should focus our entire defense policy on this threat, but to make believe it isn't real is foolish….and I think on your part Sil…just an excuse to help make a political point.
Lets put it this way…the fact that these kinds of threat are out there doesn't justify torture…but stopping this kind of imminent threat does.
While they are investigating I think they had better look into the CIA involvement with the WTC on 911.
I believe George Bush is in the PSYOP right up to his ears! I found this article on the Infowars News Website!
Re:“Charges of Treason”
We put a cover letter on a package of facts and scientific analyses regarding the controlled demolition of the WTC complex on September 11, 2001. The letter is here as follows, as well as the links to the scientific papers.
http://files.meetup.com/749288/NanoTh…
http://files.meetup.com/749288/The%20…
http://files.meetup.com/749288/WTCHig…
http://files.meetup.com/749288/14%20p…
Plus: a brochure from http://www.ae911truth.org
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Dear Honorable Congress Person,
We the People, in order to restore rule of law and accountability to our Republic, respectfully insist that you, as an elected representative, squarely face the facts concerning the events of September 11, 2001 and the implications thereof.
It is our moral and civic duty to entrust to you facts and scientific analyses in the form of peer-reviewed, published scientific papers that clearly and conclusively prove thousands of our fellow human beings and citizens were murdered in controlled and criminal demolitions on September 11,
Plausible deniability of these facts and evidence is no longer possible.
If you fail to acknowledge and act immediately and decisively on this evidence, then your inaction will constitute misprision of treason in the least, outright treason at worst. The time is now to fulfill your oath to the Constitution and stand tall in the face of the corruption of our Republic. We the People stand with you.
Pursuant to U.S. Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 115
§ 2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
And § 2382. Misprision of Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
Sincerely,
WeAreChangeLA
“Charges of Treason”
We put a cover letter on a package of facts and scientific analyses regarding the controlled demolition of the WTC complex on September 11, 2001. The letter is here as follows, as well as the links to the scientific papers.
http://files.meetup.com/749288/NanoTh…
http://files.meetup.com/749288/The%20…
http://files.meetup.com/749288/WTCHig…
http://files.meetup.com/749288/14%20p…
Plus: a brochure from http://www.ae911truth.org
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Dear Honorable Congress Person,
We the People, in order to restore rule of law and accountability to our Republic, respectfully insist that you, as an elected representative, squarely face the facts concerning the events of September 11, 2001 and the implications thereof.
It is our moral and civic duty to entrust to you facts and scientific analyses in the form of peer-reviewed, published scientific papers that clearly and conclusively prove thousands of our fellow human beings and citizens were murdered in controlled and criminal demolitions on September 11,
Plausible deniability of these facts and evidence is no longer possible.
If you fail to acknowledge and act immediately and decisively on this evidence, then your inaction will constitute misprision of treason in the least, outright treason at worst. The time is now to fulfill your oath to the Constitution and stand tall in the face of the corruption of our Republic. We the People stand with you.
Pursuant to U.S. Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 115
§ 2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
And § 2382. Misprision of Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
Sincerely,
WeAreChangeLA
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