He was coerced into making the 9/11 Commission. His lies were being seen through. W needed a boogey-man and invented one. He got his partner in using the Saudis to his advantage, Kean, to absolve him of any crimes. Even the vilest ghoul has a conscience though-a fact that big bro 43 isn't aware of, and Kean is using phrases that indicate he's had enough. We've seen GOP guys say right words and not follow through.

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The article "Forget the Torture Tapes" at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__080101_m_collinls_3a__forget_.htm
illustrates how W needed a truly evil opponent to push from red staters' conscience how horribly his Iraq War product as gone. It states:
"A justification for this insanity was both essential and time-critical. Voila! We've captured Abu Zubaydah! Isn't he a top al Qaeda operative? But there was a deal killer right from the start. The FBI's top al-Qaeda expert, Dan Coleman, didn't mince words: "This guy is insane, certifiable, split personality." In Zubaydah's long term diary, he named his personalities: "'hani 1, hani 2, and hani 3,' - a boy, a young man and a middle-aged alter ego." Coleman's CIA counterpart came to the same conclusion. (This is all documented by Ron Suskind in The One Percent Solution.)

This analysis was quickly discarded and replaced by a self serving political fantasy. The key al-Qaeda operative was now in custody! A fourth personality was created for Zubaydah when Bush described his special prisoner as "one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States." Bush blew the war that never should have been. He was desperate. Abu Zubaydah experienced the very worst timing in his life and wound up as a key excuse for the program of illegal detention and torture.

Next outrage.

Who knows why they taped the torture? What difference does it make? How much more evidence do we need to demonstrate the absolute betrayal of the United States by a cult of supreme narcissists? We can grasp that these are "high crimes" even if our elected representatives can't.
The relationship between this "key operative's" story and the media and political blackout about the death and suffering of millions may be this simple. Keep people involved in appalling minutiae and avoid the larger charges which nearly everyone would see as an utter outrage."

There is a terrible ennui about this. For so many years our apathetic red staters have been our king makers, but the dolts only respond to fear, terror and war mongering.

W has used his GOP party computers to run his government-which is against the law, and then just smirked at us when asked to produce material that FOIA laws required him to, and now he is cursing the dolts under his breath as he is asked what happened to the tapes that the court ordered him to.

The article "Justice Department opens criminal investigation of CIA tape destruction" at http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Justice_Department_opens_criminal_investigation_of_0102.html
states "Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced Wednesday that the FBI would begin a criminal probe of the CIA's destruction of harsh interrogation videotapes. "The Department's National Security Division has recommended, and I have concluded, that there is a basis for initiating a criminal investigation of this matter, and I have taken steps to begin that investigation," Mukasey said in a statement released Wednesday."

Remember how big bro 43 delayed the 9/11 Investigation and had his mentor, this era's "Tricky Dick", the feckless, reckless, impotent one, Cheney come with him when he testified? One of the many lies had to do was about the destroyed tape as "Mukasey's decision to begin a criminal probe came the same day 9/11 Commission co-chairs Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton said the CIA "stonewalled" the commission.

Although US President George W. Bush had ordered all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the probe, Kean and Hamilton wrote, "recent revelations that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot."

"Those who knew about those videotapes -- and did not tell us about them -- obstructed our investigation."

Kean is no innocent as the article "Kean InsightBush, bin Laden, BCCI and the 9/11 Commission" at
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd01312003.html
spells out.

We need action as the article "Conyers demands Justice Dept. appoint a special counsel in controversial CIA tapes case" at
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Conyers_demands_Justice_Dept._appoint_special_0102.html indicates as "Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding a special counsel with a "full investigative mandate" in the CIA destroyed tapes case, according to a press release.
Conyers says, "While I certainly agree that these matters warrant an immediate criminal investigation, it is disappointing that the Attorney General has stepped outside the Justice Department's own regulations and declined to appoint a more independent special counsel in this matter.
"Because of this action, the Congress and the American people will be denied – as they were in the Valerie Plame matter – any final report on the investigation," Conyers continues.

The veteran Michigan congressmember also rues the "limited scope" of the investigation, saying that the federal government "needs to scrutinize what other evidence may have been destroyed beyond the two tapes, as well as the underlying allegations of misconduct" during interrogations of detainees.

The article "Stonewalled by the C.I.A." at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
states "MORE than five years ago, Congress and President Bush created the 9/11 commission. The goal was to provide the American people with the fullest possible account of the "facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001" - and to offer recommendations to prevent future attacks. Soon after its creation, the president's chief of staff directed all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the commission.

The commission's mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes - and did not tell us about them - obstructed our investigation."

These experienced politicians know the score and Kean states "As a legal matter, it is not up to us to examine the C.I.A.'s failure to disclose the existence of these tapes. That is for others. What we do know is that government officials decided not to inform a lawfully constituted body, created by Congress and the president, to investigate one the greatest tragedies to confront this country. We call that obstruction."

The article "Expert: Crime of torture could only have been ordered by the president" at http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Turley_Waterboarding_orders_lead_to_Presidents_0102.html
states "Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley told Keith Olbermann that as many as six criminal offenses could be involved in the 9/11 Commission charge alone, including obstruction of Congress, obstruction of justice, perjury, and conspiracy.

However, Turley emphasized that the real crime under investigation is not merely obstruction, but the actual torture documented by the tapes. "It is still, even after the last seven year, a crime to torture suspects," Turley commented.
Turley agrees with Conyers as "Turley suggested that under those circumstances, the failure to appoint a special prosecutor was a serious problem, because "the investigation will essentially be the Justice Department investigating itself. ... Picking some guy in Connecticut or Cincinnati or Delaware or any other state doesn't make any difference. His boss is Michael Mukasey. And Michael Mukasey's boss is the president of the United States. If torture occurred, he was the guy who ordered it."

W needed a Pearl Harbor to get his right-wing extremist policies implemented and he wanted a method to terrify the red staters for his entire term. Look at the chronology of events. He made up the lies that got us into Iraq. He was coerced into making the 9/11 Commission. His lies were being seen through. W needed a boogey-man and invented one. He got his partner in using the Saudis to his advantage, Kean, to absolve him of any crimes. Even the vilest ghoul has a conscience though-a fact that big bro 43 isn't aware of, and Kean is using phrases that indicate he's had enough. We've seen GOP guys say right words and not follow through many times recently. The 4th estate has to keep the W crimes foremost in the red staters' consciousness.

Authors Bio:
Winston Smith is an ex-Social Worker. I worked in child welfare, and in medical settings and in homeless settings. In the later our facility was geared as a permanent address for people to apply for welfare. Once they received that we could send them to facilities in which their welfare paid the bill and provided enough for a meager existence. We also referred people to vocational rehabilitation services. Many of the people who came to us were people who were clearly emotionally ill, but Reagan's slashing of the services for these people caused them to become homeless. One woman I dealt with-St. Jane, believed she was in direct communication with God, urinated freely without using the facilities and she had 47 bags of trash which were prized possessions. She got welfare and was sent to a facility were she could survive. The rule was that our facility could be used 1 time only as we had too many people who thought that the services that we provided we would lift them from the dire straights that they were in. Well, we provided our services for St. Jane around Thanksgiving. On Christmas Eve she was back with her 47 bags of trash and wanted to stay at our facility. I informed my superior of this situation, but we declined to provide services for St. Jane. She slept in front of our facility in a snowstorm. The local rag took the picture and excoriated us for what we did. The local welfare department asked her where she would like to live. St. Jane said Chicago because she liked the wind. She knew on one there. She and her 47 bags of trash of were carted onto a train for the windy city and never of again. The local welfare department was glad to get shed of her. Social welfare in the mid-1980's was geared to blame the victim. Ill people were sent home from hospitals were no one was going to help them because social welfare budgets were slashed by Reagan. Bush 41's â"thousand points of lightâ" was just another way to shaft the weakest in our society. Bush 43's faith based initiative was just another attempt to reduce social welfare services. Reagan's â"Just say Noâ" was the pinnacle of hypocrisy. No services for those who desperately needed them under the guise of tough love.

Obviously I became burnt out by too much indifference regarding our weak and weary. I couldn't look at desperate people and could not get myself to say that what I could offer them wouldn't really help themâ"”it would only get them out of my office to be another person's problem, until the local welfare department carted them away.

I had little interest in politics until the illegal Iraq War started. Growing up in the 1960's caused me to understand that the GOP used war to attract right-wing extremists to vote for them. When â"Tricky Dick'sâ" secret plan to end the Vietnam War unfolded into elongating our presence there for 8 years I knew that I would never believe a GOP war-monger again. I dislike Obama's plan to escalate our presence in Afghanistan and see it as a craven attempt to placate the GOP. Maybe he'll reduce the GOP's attacks against him, but it will at the expense of alienating his base.