New letter from Waxman to Rice telling her to get her butt in here & address Niger Docs

[kpete]

The Honorable Condoleezza Ptice
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Madam Secretary:

On March 12, 2007 ,I wrote to you on behalf of the Committee to request answers to
multiple letters that I had sent to you over the past four years. I requested a response by March
23,2007, but I received no reply by that date. As a result, on March 30,2007,I sent a letter
notifying you that the Committee will be holding a hearing on April 18,2007, and I requested
that you make yourself available to provide testimony and respond to questions about the issues
raised in the March 12letter.

On April 3 , 2007 ,I did receive a letter from your assistant secretary for legislative affairs,
Jeffrey Bergner. Mr. Bergner's letter does not answer many of the Committee's questions, nor
does it provide most of the information and documents the Committee requested. As a result, I
continue to request your appearance before the Committee on April 18,2007 .
One of the issues the Committee is examining why the President asserted in his State of
the Union address in 2003 that Iraq sought uranium from Niger. In my March I2letter,l
requested information about what you knew about this assertion and how it ended up in the State
of the Union address. I asked you to answer specific questions raised in a June 10, 2003, letter
and a July 29,2003,1etter, both of which I enclosed. These questions included: (1) whether you
had any knowledge that would explain why President Bush cited forged evidence about Iraq's
efforts to procure uranium from Niger in the State of the Union address; (2) whether you knew
before the State of the Union address of the doubts raised by the CIA and the State Department
about the veracity of the Niger claim; (3) whether there was a factual basis for your reference in
aJanuary 23,2003, op-ed to "Iraq's efforts to get uranium from abroad"; and (4) whether you
took appropriate steps to investigate how the Niger claim ended up in the State of the Union
address after it was revealed to be fraudulent.

.................

Rather than address any of these questions, Mr. Bergner forwarded copies of two old
State Department letters that have no bearing whatsoever on your knowledge of, your role in, or
your statements about the Niger claim.

............................

As I hope you can understand, because of the inadequacies of Mr. Bergner's response,
the Committee will not withdraw the invitation for you to testify on April 18,2007.
If you have any questions, you may contact me personally or your staff can contact David
Rapallo or Theodore Chuang of the Committee staff at [phone]. As I wrote in my prior
letter, the Committee staff is available to discuss an alternative date for the hearing if necessary
given the demands on your time as Secretary of State.
Sincerely,

Henry A. 'Waxman
Chairman

FULL LETTER HERE:
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070409102522.pdf

[gratuitous]

1. There's no difference between the parties!

Huh, sounds kind of stupid to say that now, doesn't it?

[Bandit]

4. The war is still going on and still being funded by Democrats

People by the thousands are still dying. Yep pretty stupid all right..

[hlthe2b]

6. I guess you'd prefer the Dems do nothing...

--if they can't wave a wand and solve all problems overnight--just to prove you "right?" :shrug:


Don't think I don't share your frustration, but really... I don't want to paint Dems like Waxman with that massive brush of disgust.

[yourout]

2. Without a supena she will be a noshow.

[hootinholler]

8. Let her be a noshow!

That would lead to contempt charges.

-Hoot

[solara]

3. Henry makes me so proud

Thanks for the update, kpete, I was wondering how this was playing out. I really appreciate your diligence in getting so much timely information to DU You rock!

:hi:


:kick: & rec


INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT IMPRECATE INCARCERATE IMPALE INCINERATE :patriot:

[madokie]

5. Thanks Hank we love you

go ahead and get your canine sharpener out you're gonna' need it, she's tough but chewable

[Marie26]

7. Subpoena her, Waxman.

Subpoena all of 'em - starting with Cheney.

[madokie]

9. Ahh, start with the smaller fish and make the bigs one squirm and do dumb things

to get to them is the objective in the first place