[Vision2020] Bush, et al. before a Grand Jury

[Sue Hovey]

Well, except where did John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and various others get their 
information?  From the President and his advisors.

Sue Hovey
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From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bush, et al. before a Grand Jury


> He forgets John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and varies others who also said the 
> WMD
> were there! As well as many Iraqis. What a stupid thing to waste your time
> on...he needs to get a life.
>
>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:41 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Bush, et al. before a Grand Jury
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>
> Former Prosecutor Imagines Bush's Judgment Day
>
> William Fisher
>
>
> NEW YORK, Nov 27 (IPS) - The scene is a U.S. federal grand jury room. 
> There,
> impaneled ordinary citizens listen intently as a veteran federal 
> prosecutor
> asks them to return an indictment unique in U.S. history.
>
> The charge is conspiracy to defraud the United States. And the defendants
> are President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, former 
> Defence
> Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former
> Secretary of State Colin Powell.
>
> On the first day of grand jury proceedings, the prosecutor addresses the
> jurors. "Please remember that you must decide the case based solely on the
> evidence that's presented and applicable law, without regard to prejudice 
> or
> sympathy. In other words, your politics, and any personal feelings you may
> have toward the defendants -- positive or negative -- should have no 
> bearing
> on your deliberations."
>
> The prosecutor then passes out the indictment, reminding jurors, "don't
> forget your reading glasses..."
>
> The indictment charges that the defendants "did knowingly and 
> intentionally
> conspire to defraud the United States by using deceit, craft, trickery,
> dishonest means, false and fraudulent representations, including ones made
> without a reasonable basis and with reckless indifference to their truth 
> or
> falsity, and omitting material facts necessary to make their 
> representations
> truthful, fair and accurate, while knowing and intending that their false
> and fraudulent representations would influence the public and the
> deliberations of Congress with authorisation of a preventive war against
> Iraq, thereby defeating, obstructing, impairing, and interfering with
> Congress' lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and making
> appropriations."
>
> Over the next seven days, the grand jurors evaluate a 64-point case
> presented by the prosecutor. They hear compelling supporting testimony 
> from
> three agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They battle their way
> through thousands of pages of documentation supporting the alleged crime.
>
> Of course, none of this actually happened -- nor is it likely to happen.
> Rather, it is the scenario of a new book about a hypothetical case,
> presented to a hypothetical grand jury, with hypothetical witnesses.
>
> Only the prosecutor is real. She is Elizabeth de la Vega, a retired
> government lawyer with more than 20 years of experience. She served as an
> assistant U.S. attorney in Minneapolis, was and a member of the Organised
> Crime Strike Force and Branch Chief in San Jose, California.
>
> Her book is titled, simply, "U.S. v. George W. Bush et al". It will be
> published in December by Seven Stories Press. Amazon.com is currently 
> taking
> orders for the book.
>
> Why did Ms. de la Vega write this book? "The president will not be held
> accountable for misrepresenting the prewar intelligence unless and until
> Congress conducts hearings similar to the Watergate hearings," she told 
> IPS.
> "As yet, however, we seem painfully incapable of reaching that point."
>
> "Although the evidence of wrongdoing is overwhelming, the facts are so
> complicated that it's impossible to have a productive debate about them in
> the political sphere," she said. "One forum where that's not true is the
> courtroom."
>
> Does she believe that her book will lead to making her hypothetical case
> real?
>
> She writes, "Consider this my 911 [emergency] call. I'm calling on 
> Democrats
> and Republicans to do the right thing... and convince Congress to do the
> right thing. I am not talking about bringing people to justice in the
> vengeful sense that President Bush employs. I am talking about effecting
> justice... holding out highest government officials accountable for... a
> criminal betrayal of trust that is strikingly similar to, yet far worse,
> than the fraud committed by Enron's top officials."
>
> She told IPS, "Many of the victims of the president's fraud -- millions of
> Iraqis -- have no voice in the United States, but the millions of 
> Americans
> who were deceived by the president's fraud do have a voice. We should use
> it, loudly and repeatedly, to pressure Congress into holding the 
> president,
> the vice president and their top-level aides accountable for tricking the
> nation into war."
>
> The indictment takes jurors from the prewar period and the "regime change"
> influence of the neoconservative group, Project for the New American
> Century, to the attacks of 9/11, the formation of the shadowy Iraq Group
> inside the White House, and the preparation of war plans beginning in
> September 2001.
>
> It moves from the distortion of intelligence information regarding Iraq's
> WMD capabilities and programmes and President Bush's strategy sessions 
> with
> British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to actions designed to end the United
> Nations inspections, the abandonment of multilateral diplomacy, Colin
> Powell's deeply flawed presentation to the U.N. Security Council, and
> finally Congressional authorisation of the use of force.
>
> It sets out 19 "Overt Acts" allegedly committed by the defendants to
> "market" the need for preemptive invasion -- based largely on their public
> statements via the media in which, among other things, administration
> officials professed absolute certainty about Saddam Hussein's WMDs, ties
> between Iraq and al Qaeda, the use of aluminum tubes to process uranium, 
> to
> the warnings from then-National Security Advisor Rice and Vice President
> Cheney that the smoking gun could be "in the form of a mushroom cloud".
>
> Some of De la Vega's readers may be disappointed that we never learn about
> the decision of the grand jury. But that's one of the points of the 
> book -- 
> it's the reader who is sitting on the jury.
>
> This slender book is a fascinating, suspenseful, fact-based read. It is a
> volume that should be read by all those who seek truth and clarity -- 
> especially those who returned to Congress after Nov. 7. (FIN/2006)
>
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