C-SPAN: Dem House members holding press conf. on Iraq Pre-War Intel

[RSchewe]

I starting watching while it was in progress, but it looks very interest. From what I can make out is that they have created an oversight subcommittee.

They are talking about selective declassification by the Bush adminstration and other tactics used by the Intel committees controlled by the Republicans. They seem to be wanting to independently do what they can, as a group, to uncover a lot of the overly classified operations of the Republicans in general.

I hope C-SPAN will host the video of this later so we can dig through it more thoughouly.

Murtha was just mentioned.

In progress...

[jmatthan]

1. Something Congressman John Conyers Jr.

has been single-handedly doing!!

[Lindsay]

2. I think I caught an attempt at a new meme

by Silvestre Reyes from TX - "Cover-up Congress."

Good discussion on their frustration at being unable to do their proper oversight functions and to get answers to questions.

[RSchewe]

3. Indeed, there is a lot of detail on what happened & what they did not have

access to (raw intel, daily breifing). They were stonewalled when they tried to interview people and conduct an investigation. Also, dissents were footnoted and burried and not prominently displayed as they should have. Rep. Harmon said they were buried on page 19.

This is a must see.

[RSchewe]

4. They are debunking a ton of crap from the Bush administration. n/t

[0007]

5. Jane Harman, is right on and doing a hell of a job.

The heat is being turned up on junior and his crime cabal. Which in my opinion will lead to war criminal charges.

[RSchewe]

6. C-SPAN has switched over to the Senate. Levin is speaking... n/t

[Lindsay]

7. Yikes - two Dem press conferences in a row?

'Bout time Dems got some coverage, on C-Span at least.

[0007]

8. Levin did a good smack down on Cheney, 'eh? n/t

[RSchewe]

9. The Dems are calling the Bush crew on their bulls*&t n/t

[RSchewe]

10. The video is up. Here is the link.

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/iraq/iraq111805_harman.rm

(you need Real Player)