Great interview Grayson and Salon
A small Snip
Salon:
No, let’s talk about that. It occurs to me that your big effort in 2010 was to audit the Fed, to bring transparency to financial matters. Now, with this Syria debate, you wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the lack of transparency in the intelligence. Do you see a parallel there?
Grayson:
Yes, and transparency is a universal value shared in large part by both parties, liberals and conservatives. The situation is profoundly disturbing to many members. We’re two weeks past the point where the Administration called for an attack. And we’ve been given a grand total of two documents. A four-page unclassified summary giving nothing but talking points for war, some of which has been discredited, including the casualty count. Even the Administration is no longer willing to say 1,429 people were killed by chemical weapons on August 21.
The other intelligence is not close to that. And a 12-page classified summary. I can’t tell you what’s in it, I couldn’t possibly comment, but as you might think, it’s much the same, prepared by proponents of war, giving only pro-war talking points. There’s no actual underlying intelligence. The other members haven’t seen it. It’s been more than a week since the Administration received several formal requests to show the evidence. I don’t understand how a great nation spending over $50 billion a year on intelligence can show lawmakers two documents, and on that basis expect us to approve a war.
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/16/alan_grayson_unloads_on_warmongering_and_hubris_the_salon_interview/
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