Why I Will Vote For Whichever Democrat Is Nominated

Yes, there is much corruption in the Democratic Party. Yes I would personally like to throw Nancy out on her ear. Yes I am disgusted by the shameless cowardice and/or self aggrandizement of too many Democrats in Congress.

However

I do not belive the Democratic Party is capable of what The Republican Party  – lead by its criminal  leaders have done to this country. Make no mistake. The Democratic Party must improve it’s pathetic records of sheep like cowardice as represented by the current Congress. But stoop this low? No. Only Today’s GOP leadership is capable of this

The CIA Scandal is Less About Torture And More About Leaving Truth Off The Table

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Why George Bush and like-minded members of his Administration are criminals of the State and should be aggressively prosecuted as such.

In the statement above, I am in no way understating the horrific crimes committed  through the use of systemic torture by the Bush Administration.

After reading  and re-reading volumes of information since the scandal broke I have come to a different, and equally  if not more, damning conclusion. It has been discussed here and elsewhere in diaries across the Internet –  but in this essay I am underscoring its significance when evaluating the shortcomings of the current Democratic Party.

As bad as it is – and boy is it a hall of shame that needs fixing –  its misdeeds do not come close to the depths of criminality the current Republican Administration has committed as elected officials of the United States of America

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The destruction of the CIA tapes documenting the torture of  Abdullah Zubaydah will not allow the real truth of what was done to him to ever be seen.  But  the real reason for this cover-up is due to what he said during his interrogation.

In essence, Zubayday created the missing link we have always known existed but lacked any proof of:

The Bush Administration purposely whitewashed senior  Saudi involvement  in 9/11 –  because they deemed going to war with Iraq a higher priority – and for that war, Saudi support was crucial.  Worse,  9/11 may have indeed happened because the planning of the Iraq War was already underway and through easing the pressure on high ranking Saudi nationals and their financing of key Al Qaeda operatives in order to maintain their support, The Bush Administration opened the door to the attack.

That is a pretty heady statement. Breaking it down, what I believe – based upon what others have said with significant credibility – is that Bush Co. purposefully and painstakingly obstructed justice and potentially aided muder – more than once – through their own negligence:

(1) Obstructed justice through blocking any meaningful investigation into 9/11  despite having substantial intelligence that the Saudi Arabian  government (royal family, princes and associates) were directly funding the hijackers;

(2) Aided  Saudi nationals with direct involvement with 9/11 to leave the country immediately after the event;

(3) Aided and abetted the murder of 3 of these individuals after learning of the extent of  their involvement with 9/11;

(4) Conducted an extensive cover-up of these crimes through destruction of video tapes where the extent of Saudi involvement was disclosed;

(5) Lied, through omission, about Saudi support of Islamic fundamentalism,  including the threat to American homeland security, in order to maintain Saudi Arabia as a close ally in the run-up to an illegal war which has cost over a million Iraqi lies, thousands of American lives, while creating havoc in the gulf region.

(6)  Allowed 9/11 to happen through refusal to maintain strict oversight of  Saudi financing of Islamic fundamentalists groups around the world in order to curry favor during the planning phase of the Iraq War. Negligence that resulted in the deaths of thousands

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The evidence for my convictions lies primarily in Gerald Posner, both his book and  recent comments on Huffington Post , Craig Unger, who wrote the book House of Bush House of Saud, and his recent comments about Posner’s allegations and lastly the September 2004 investigation into a FBI cover-up of Saudi involvement in 9/11 attempted by Senator Graham and his subsequent book on the matter:

Posner

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

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Re the breaking news that the CIA destroyed the videotapes of interrogations with 2 terror suspects, you might have seen that the tapes of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah were destroyed.

You might also recall that in my 2003 NYT bestseller (reached #2), Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, my last chapter was titled, “The Interrogation.” Based on two active US intelligence sources, I was the first to disclose Zubaydah’s interrogation. To date, I am the only reporter to have printed the info about at happened to him.

Zubaydah, wounded when he was captured in Pakistan, was fooled in a fake flag operation to believe that the Saudis held him. Instead of being afraid of the Saudis, he demanded to talk to three Saudi princes (one, the nephew of the King, who happened to be in the U.S. on 9/11). He gave his interrogators the private cell phone numbers of all 3. He did the same regarding the chief of Pakistan’s air force.

After the U.S. told the Saudis and Pakistanis of Zubaydah’s finger pointing, all four men had tragic ‘accidents.’ The King’s nephew died of complications from liposuction at the age of 43. A day later, the 41 year old Prince named by Zubaydah died in a one-car accident on his way to the funeral of the King’s nephew. The third named prince, age 25, died a week later of “thirst,” according to the Saudi Royal Court. And shortly after that, the chief of Pakistan’s air force died when his plane exploded with his wife and 15 of his top aides on board.

When my book was published, CIA officials trashed it ‘off the record,’ but made no public comment. I have always held the same position.

There is (or was) firm evidence of what transpired, of whether my reporting was accurate or not. Make the interrogation tapes public and then we’ll know whether one of the top al-Qaeda operatives accused leading Saudi royals and a top Pakistani military man–now all dead–of being his sponsors. And accused two of them ­ the King;s nephew and the Pakistani Air Force chief of having advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Now, suddenly coincidence of coincidence, the CIA says the Zubaydah interrogation tapes are destroyed. How convenient

Unger

http://www.alternet.org/blogge…

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Several hours after he first fingered Prince Ahmed, his captors challenged the information, and said that since he had disparaged the Saudi royal family, he would be executed. It was at that point that some of the secrets of 9/11 came pouring out. In a short monologue, that one investigator told me was the “Rosetta Stone” of 9/11, Zubaydah laid out details of how he and the al Qaeda hierarchy had been supported at high levels inside the Saudi and Pakistan governments.

He named two other Saudi princes, and also the chief of Pakistan’s air force, as his major contacts. Moreover, he stunned his interrogators, by charging that two of the men, the King’s nephew, and the Pakistani Air Force chief, knew a major terror operation was planned for America on 9/11

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Graham

Lastly there was Florida Senator Graham, who in 2004 attempted to put the spotlight on the FBI’s abandonement of an investigation into links between Saudi nationals and 9/11 – and remember Graham was a Democrat:

http://www.people.cornell.edu/…

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In a newly released book, Intelligence Matters, Graham asserts that

“evidence of official Saudi support” for at least some of the hijackers is

“incontrovertible.” Graham is the ranking Democrat and former chair of

the Senate intelligence committee that carried out a joint congressional

investigation into 9/11 with its counterpart in the House of

Representatives

In his book, Senator Graham writes that the FBI concealed from the joint

congressional committee the fact that its paid informant, Abdussattar

Shaikh, had established a close personal relationship with the two

hijackers. (Shaikh is reported to have confirmed that al-Bayoumi was a

Saudi intelligence agent). When the committee staff discovered Shaikh’s

role and the committee issued a subpoena to question him under oath, the

FBI and Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to serve the subpoena.

Graham in his book cites a memo that a senior FBI official wrote to him

and the Republican co-chair of the intelligence panel, Rep. Porter Goss,

a Florida Republican, declaring, “the administration would not sanction a

staff interview with the source [Shaikh]. Nor did the administration agree

to allow the FBI to serve a subpoena or a notice of deposition on the

source.”

Graham writes that this was the only time he had ever heard of the FBI

refusing to serve a congressional subpoena. He comments: “We were

seeing in writing what we had suspected for some time: the White House

was directing the cover-up.”

Nor was this the only evidence of a cover-up. When the congressional

panel released the report on its investigation, 28 pages were classified on

the orders of the White House, their contents blacked out. All of the

material dealt with the Saudi role in 9/11.

Hmmmm

It is completely unacceptable that Pelosi and other Democrats are pretending they did not know horrific incidents of torture had become the new normal at the hands of the CIA.

But were they included in these dirty secrets? I doubt it very much…….but I could be wrong