This morning, during a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, I questioned FBI Director Robert Mueller on his agency's response to claims - made by his own FBI agents - that the CIA was torturing prisoners. I wanted to find out why, if the FBI's own agents had alleged illegal actions were taking place, there was no investigation into the CIA's illegal and immoral practices.
Mueller's responses, which I would like you to read below, create new concerns and call for further investigation in the days ahead.
I believe Mr. Mueller owes more to Congress and the American people than the half-answers he gave in his testimony today.
I would urge you to contact the editors and news departments of your local media and ask them to look into the responses below. It is critical that this discussion takes place beyond emails and blogs – and is covered by the mainstream media.
In two weeks the Judiciary Committee will be holding hearings to investigate the fact that the highest levels of the Bush Administration sanctioned and ordered the torture of prisoners in United States custody. This is intolerable and we must vigorously oppose this policy that demeans our nation and offends our conscience.
Please read the below transcript of my exchange with Mr. Muller.
This is a deeply troubling interchange which should be alarming to all Americans.
ReBuilding Iraq How Do You Like This Kind Of Building Bush Style ?
Previous lead stories: A fraud bigger than Madoff --Senior US soldiers investigated over missing Iraq 'reconstruction' billions 16 Feb 2009 In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, Were You Ever Curious About Those Plane Loads Of Pallets Of 100 Dollar Bills ? American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to 'reconstruct' Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The exact sum missing may never be clear, but a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) suggests it may exceed $50bn, making it an even bigger theft than Bernard Madoff's notorious Ponzi scheme. In one case, auditors working for SIGIR discovered that $57.8m was sent in "pallet upon pallet of hundred-dollar bills" to the US comptroller for south-central Iraq, Robert J Stein Jr, who had himself photographed standing with the mound of money.
Tell Me These Guys Never Got Carried Away With This Money Laying Around Looking For Something To Spend It On.
Now He Is Elected What Now ? Lets See
Do You Think Obama Is Caving In To The Rich Corporate Elite Already ?
Remember At so many campaign speeches the people making over 250,000 Dollars A Year we finally going to pay their share of taxes right ? No More Riding on the apron strings of Bushes Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Right ?
This Just In :Obama Expands And Extends Bushes Tax Cuts For The Wealthy ! Yes You Read That Right.
Is Barack Obama Giving In To The Corporate Rich Already
Even Before He Is Sworn In ?
Or Is This A Tactic To Speed The Recovery of our economy ?
Do You Trust Obama To Follow With The Campaign Promises ?
A New Begining Starts Now , Horrible Past Flies Off To Texas
I Just Finished watching The inauguration Of President
Barack Obama Our Great Countries New President.
I Really felt Alot of emotion and like many people alot of different feelings at the same time.
A Great Feeling of hope, Hope that This Man Can lead our country back to, The Place Of Dignity And Respect The Rest Of The World Rightfully Took Away From Us In The Last 8 Years, The Trust Of Leadership, And The Fair Treatment Of Mankind That Has Been Squandered, For The Almighty Dollar . Benefits Only Seen By The Pure Evil Greed Of A Few members of a truly Self Serving Group Of Elite Criminals To The Likes This Planet Has Ever Seen.
Right up to the last days, The Former Administration Openly Robbed The Rest of world of every thing of any value they could possibly reach. To The Extent We May Never Fully Get A Grasp Of.
From Out Right Murder Of Thousands Of People in New York On 911, To Slaughter Of Millions Of Iraqi Innocent People.
The Blatant Removal Of Our Own Constitutional Bill Of Rights. Wiretapping The U.S. Citizens At Will. Outing Of A C.I.A. Agent, Illegal Imprisonment Of Who Knows How Many
Humans around The World In Secret Prisons Ran In Darkness. Granting Immunity To Partners in crime.
Cargo Planes Full Of 100 Dollar Bills go missing in Iraq.
Granting More Power To Criminal Partners In Banks And Credit Card Companies, Allowing Them To Put A Tighter Strangle Hold On Our Citizens. Adding to the end result of thousands of home fore closers not seen in nearly 75 years.
The De Humanization of thousands of Muslim Prisoners
In Abu Gar-ab And Many Other Illegal Detention Centers Around The Globe.
The Stripping Of Basic Health Care For Millions Of American Children Right Here At Home.
And Too Make This Only Partial List Of Deeds Possible,
The Outright Stealing Of Two Presidential Elections, Right Under Our Noses.
But I Hold Out A Feeling Of Hope, Hope There Is A Complete and Accurate Flushing Of The Bad Apples In Our High Offices, And People Of Power,
And Doubtful But Hopeful Prosecution, Of ALL Of The Guilty Party`s Involved In This Scandal Ridden Administration.
Hope That The Quest For A New Beginning, Does Not Over Shadow The Need For The Truth, And Punishment Of The Responsible party`s For High Crimes Against Our Country And The Rest Of The World.
If These Crimes Go Unpunished That In Itself Will Be A Crime.
U P D A T E
Well its now 2012 and our new President has been up to this point a major disappointment. In my honest opinion anyway.
Not Much different than the Republican before him.
So many broken promises, Where do I start? Right after he got started, he did not remove the spying that goes on on our own citizens, That the Bush before him installed.
Escalated the afghan war, He Did stop the Iraq war (kinda)
He caved in to not closing Guantanamo Cuba prison.
He signed and installed the most damaging loss of American rights on record,
When he signed the bill allowing any American Citizen to be deemed a terrorist against our own country for little offenses like simple protesting, and to be jailed indefinitely without reason, proof, or even a trial.
He has signed bills allowing the U.S. military to use deadly force against our own citizens, on our own soil.
He gave permission for the staffing of fema camps, or concentration type of prisons to hold rebellious citizens of the U.S.A.
He has repeatedly refused to look into the huge crimes of the Bush administration relating to 911, and other outrageous acts carried out by his administration.
He has refused to investigate the banking industry for obvious crimes against homeowners and investors. In the largest heist in the planets history.
Where millions of American home owners lost their homes and investors lost billions of dollars , thru wall street`s back handed deals.
The killing of innocent civilians in foreign countries by using drone aircraft to carry out murders in those countries.
Has failed to establish more balanced trade tariffs as promised to fix the unbalanced import- export of goods into this country causing great job loss.
Has not stopped the backroom deals with lobbyist and our lawmakers in buying laws to suit big business.
Has not created thousands of jobs as promised repairing our crumbling infra structure.
This is only a small taste of what has gone on since Obama took office, Much of it is really bad for Americans and Alot of it is Worse than that.
And he wants to be re elected.......
We All Know Court Fines And Lawyer Fees Cause A Huge Strain Onm The Family Budget, And We Do Not Condone Illegal Activity.
But You Must Protect Yourselfs At All Times From Any Threats No Matter Where They Come From, Just Like Auto Insurance You Must Be Protected.
You Will Be Glad You Did
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Dear Rudy,
This morning, during a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, I questioned FBI Director Robert Mueller on his agency's response to claims - made by his own FBI agents - that the CIA was torturing prisoners. I wanted to find out why, if the FBI's own agents had alleged illegal actions were taking place, there was no investigation into the CIA's illegal and immoral practices.
Mueller's responses, which I would like you to read below, create new concerns and call for further investigation in the days ahead.
I believe Mr. Mueller owes more to Congress and the American people than the half-answers he gave in his testimony today.
I would urge you to contact the editors and news departments of your local media and ask them to look into the responses below. It is critical that this discussion takes place beyond emails and blogs – and is covered by the mainstream media.
In two weeks the Judiciary Committee will be holding hearings to investigate the fact that the highest levels of the Bush Administration sanctioned and ordered the torture of prisoners in United States custody. This is intolerable and we must vigorously oppose this policy that demeans our nation and offends our conscience.
Please read the below transcript of my exchange with Mr. Muller.
This is a deeply troubling interchange which should be alarming to all Americans.
Congressman Robert Wexler
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Robert Wexler: Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Director, in January of 2006, the New York Times reported that the NSA wireless wiretapping program had produced thousands of leads each month that the FBI had to track down, but that no Al-Qaeda networks were discovered. During a July 17, 2007 briefing, FBI deputy director John Pistole indicated that the FBI was not aware of any Al-Qaeda sleeper cells operating in the United States. In August of 2007 Congress passed the Protect America Act, giving the intelligence community greater access to electronic communications coming into and out of the United States. I have two questions in this regard.
RW: Has the FBI found any sleeper cells yet? One…
RW: Two. Has the NSA’s wireless wiretapping programs either before the Protect America Act or after led to the prosecution and conviction of any terrorists in the United States?
Robert Mueller: Well, as to your first question as to whether we have found affiliates or, as you would call them, cells of Al-Qaeda in the United States, yes we have. Again, I cannot get into it in public session, but I would say yes we have. With regard to the relationship of a particular case or individual to the terrorist surveillance program, again that is something that would have to be covered in a closed session.
RW: Alright, Mr. Director. An LA Times article from October, 2007 quotes one senior federal enforcement official as saying quote “the CIA determined they were going to torture people, and we made the decision not to be involved” end quote. The article goes on to say that some FBI officials went to you and that you quote “pulled many of the agents back from playing even a supporting role in the investigations to avoid exposing them to legal jeopardy” end quote.
RW: My question Mr. Director, I congratulate you for pulling the FBI agents back, but why did you not take more substantial steps to stop the interrogation techniques that your own FBI agents were telling you were illegal? Why did you not initiate criminal investigations when your agents told you the CIA and the Department of Defense were engaging in illegal interrogation techniques, and rather than simply pulling your agents out, shouldn’t you have directed them to prevent any illegal interrogations from taking place?
RM: I can go so far sir as to tell you that a protocol in the FBI is not to use coercion in any of our interrogations or our questioning and we have abided by our protocol.
RW: I appreciate that. What is the protocol say when the FBI knows that the CIA is engaging or the Department of Defense is engaging in an illegal technique? What does the protocol say in that circumstance?
RM: We would bring it up to appropriate authorities and determine whether the techniques were legal or illegal.
RW: Did you bring it up to appropriate authorities?
RM: All I can tell you is that we followed our own protocols.
RW: So you can’t tell us whether you brought it; when your own FBI agents came to you and said the CIA is doing something illegal which caused you to say don’t you get involved; you can’t tell us whether you then went to whatever authority?
RM: I’ll tell you we followed our own protocols.
RW: And what was the result?
RM: We followed our own protocols. We followed our protocols. We did not use coercion. We did not participate in any instance where coercion was used to my knowledge.
RW: Did the CIA use techniques that were illegal?
RM: I can’t comment on what has been done by another agency and under what authorities the other agency may have taken actions.
RW: Why can’t you comment on the actions of another agency?
RM: I leave that up to the other agency to answer questions with regard to the actions taken by that agency and the legal authorities that may apply to them.
RW: Are you the chief legal law enforcement agency in the United States?
RM: I am the Director of the FBI.
RW: And you do not have authority with respect to any other governmental agency in the United States? Is that what you’re saying?
RM: My authority is given to me to investigate. Yes we do.
RW: Did somebody take away that authority with respect to the CIA?
RM: Nobody has taken away the authority. I can tell you what our protocol was, and how we followed that protocol.
RW: Did anybody take away the authority with respect to the Department of Defense?
RM: I’m not certain what you mean.
RW: Your authority to investigate an illegal torture technique.
RM: There has to be a legal basis for us to investigate, and generally that legal basis is given to us by the Department of Justice. Any interpretations of the laws given to us by the Department of Justice….
(talking over each other)
RW: But apparently your own agents made a determination that the actions by the CIA and the Department of Defense were illegal, so much so that you authorized, ordered, your agents not to participate. But that’s it.
RM: I’ve told you what our protocol was, and I’ve indicated that we’ve adhered to our protocol throughout.
RW: My time is up. Thank you very much Mr. Director.
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We Have Got To Force These Assholes To Follow The Laws.
And Prosecute These Bunch Of Bottom Feeders. This Bush Admin. Makes Nixon Look Like A kINDERGARTENER
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