<div>Historic, dramatic, fundamental to the survival of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and worth the price C-Span requests at the URL below. Maybe more relevant than "The Dark Knight"... Huxley was correct in 1932 in "Brave New World"... The "feelies" have become more important to the public than knowing the truth about our government's efforts to control...</div>
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<div>Though excerpts are offered on YouTube, I'm not sure this will air again on C-Span for free... Maybe. I wish I had recorded.</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=280000-1">http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=280000-1</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDAFozFn4kU&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDAFozFn4kU&feature=related</a></div>
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<div>Vincent Bugliosi, lawyer, author and very successful former prosecutor, testified before the House Judiciary Committee this week, hearing on limits of executive power, televised on C-Span, media that offers a hope for democracy continuing in the US after the abuses heaped upon the US Constitution by the Bush administration are rolled back, if they are rolled back...</div>
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<div>One stunning moment involved Bugliosi holding up copies of US intelligence community documents involved in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, some formerly offered to members of the US Congress, that helped to convince them that they should authorize use of force before the invasion, which as we all know they did. Bugliosi offered evidence that in fact there were documented doubts and dissenting opinions in the US intelligence community, regarding both whether or not Saddam possessed WMD at that time, and even if so, if these WMD represented a immanent threat to the national security of the US. These doubts and dissents were left out of the intelligence assessments given to the US Congress, as they pondered whether to authorize the use of force against Iraq.</div>
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<div>One member of the judiciary committee (guess from which political party?) angrily insisted Bugliosi was exposing classified documents... But he was unsuccessful... Bugliosi calmly insisted that the documents were not classified.</div>
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<div>Assuming Bugliosi's testimony is based on accurate documentation, the often heard claim that the invasion of Iraq was justified, based on<em> inaccurate</em> intelligence that WMD presented an immanent threat, given we know there were no WMD presenting an immanent threat, is <em>false.</em> The intelligence was not, in whole, <em>inaccurate.</em> Doubts and dissents about WMD, and the threat to the US from Iraq, within the US intelligence community, were deliberately left out of critical documents offered to the US Congress, as they pondered how to vote on authorizing the use of force.</div>
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<div>In short, as Bugliosi argues, this was deliberate censorship of the intelligence offered to the US Congress regarding the WMD threat from Iraq, to encourage the invasion... An impeachable offence.</div>
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<div>Some members of the US Congress (guess from which political party?) were particularly annoyed by Bugliosi holding up a copy of his most recent book during his testimony:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/">http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/</a></div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>
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