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07-24-2005, 07:50 AM
Cynthia McKinney's CIA Agent Involved in Plame Letter (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449443/posts)
RedState ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.redstate.org/story/2005/7/23/131127/416) | UPDATED Jul 23rd, 2005 | John Cole
This is mind-numbing:
Revisiting the issue that helped spur her ouster from Congress three years ago, Rep. Cynthia Mc*Kinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday on whether the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release of the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of contrarians and conspiracy theorists who suggest President Bush purposely ignored warnings or may even have had a hand in the attack — claims participants said the commission ignored.
That, in and of itself, is nothing unusual for Cynthia McKinney. But, the story gets more interesting as you read on:
The commission's report was not a rush to judgment, it was a rush to exoneration," said John Judge, a member of Mc*Kinney's staff and a representative of a Web site dedicated to raising questions about the Sept. 11 commission's report.
The White House and the commission have dismissed such questions as unfounded conspiracy theories.
McKinney first raised questions about Bush's involvement shortly after the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, generating a furious response from fellow Democrats in Washington and voters in Georgia, who ousted her in 2002.
"What we are doing is asking the unanswered questions of the 9/11 families," McKinney, a DeKalb County Democrat who won back her seat in 2004, said during the proceedings.
She rebuffed a reporter's repeated attempts to ask her why she would so boldly embrace the same claims that led to her downfall.
"Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian," panelist Melvin Goodman, a former CIA official, said. "And I hope someday her views will be considered conventional wisdom."
Who is Melvin Goodman (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062405M.shtml)? Why, one of the signatories to this letter (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/intel.officers.letter.pdf) regarding the Plame leak. The letter that has been widely trumpeted (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_17.php#006139) by Josh Marshall and others.
Assuming there is only one former CIA official named Mel Goodman, it appears Mr. Goodman has been very busy lately. His inclusion as a signatory also makes the letter from former 'outraged' CIA officials look less like straight talk than it did initially. That in and of itself does not invalidate the letter, but it makes it look much less like the pristine indictment against all things Bush that Mr. Marshall would have you believe.
In continuing our examination of Josh Marshall's favorite letter (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/intel.officers.letter.pdf), we're moseying on down the list of signatories, and their credibility ain't exactly improving.
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RedState ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.redstate.org/story/2005/7/23/131127/416) | UPDATED Jul 23rd, 2005 | John Cole
This is mind-numbing:
Revisiting the issue that helped spur her ouster from Congress three years ago, Rep. Cynthia Mc*Kinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday on whether the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release of the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of contrarians and conspiracy theorists who suggest President Bush purposely ignored warnings or may even have had a hand in the attack — claims participants said the commission ignored.
That, in and of itself, is nothing unusual for Cynthia McKinney. But, the story gets more interesting as you read on:
The commission's report was not a rush to judgment, it was a rush to exoneration," said John Judge, a member of Mc*Kinney's staff and a representative of a Web site dedicated to raising questions about the Sept. 11 commission's report.
The White House and the commission have dismissed such questions as unfounded conspiracy theories.
McKinney first raised questions about Bush's involvement shortly after the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, generating a furious response from fellow Democrats in Washington and voters in Georgia, who ousted her in 2002.
"What we are doing is asking the unanswered questions of the 9/11 families," McKinney, a DeKalb County Democrat who won back her seat in 2004, said during the proceedings.
She rebuffed a reporter's repeated attempts to ask her why she would so boldly embrace the same claims that led to her downfall.
"Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian," panelist Melvin Goodman, a former CIA official, said. "And I hope someday her views will be considered conventional wisdom."
Who is Melvin Goodman (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062405M.shtml)? Why, one of the signatories to this letter (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/intel.officers.letter.pdf) regarding the Plame leak. The letter that has been widely trumpeted (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_17.php#006139) by Josh Marshall and others.
Assuming there is only one former CIA official named Mel Goodman, it appears Mr. Goodman has been very busy lately. His inclusion as a signatory also makes the letter from former 'outraged' CIA officials look less like straight talk than it did initially. That in and of itself does not invalidate the letter, but it makes it look much less like the pristine indictment against all things Bush that Mr. Marshall would have you believe.
In continuing our examination of Josh Marshall's favorite letter (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/intel.officers.letter.pdf), we're moseying on down the list of signatories, and their credibility ain't exactly improving.
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST OF THIS INTRIGUING STORY...