pan, with all due respect, I know enough about why it is that it is reasonable and accurate to say that the congress, via the efforts of committee chairmen with oversight responsibilities has a responsibility, on behalf of the interests of the American people that it represents, to investigate what is going on here.
Read the links in the description at this link:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013166.php
....and when I read this, in the description at the preceding link......
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....Yang left the US Attorneys office for a job at Gibson Dunn, the firm which happens to be the one representing Lewis. (Most lawyers would, I think, caution that this isn't necessarily as questionable as it might seem on first blush. Gibson Dunn is a major national law firm based in LA. It's a logical place for someone like Yang to go.) Yang is now one of three co-chairs of the firm's Crisis Management Group, along with New York Partner Randy Mastro and GOP power player Theodore Olson......
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Originally Posted by host
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=92438
I find Olson's history to be, at the least, a fascinating and ever growing collection of coincidences.....he is always involved in the biggest national political stories.
Did you know that just 12 hours after the 9/11 attacks, his "account" of phone calls received by him from his wife, Barbara Olson, reportedly a passenger on the doomed Flight 77, reported to have crashed into the Pentagon, are the sole source of the widely reported (and believed) scenario of "hijackers armed with box cutters"? Olson was did not testify to the 9/11 commission; rather, FBI records of a 9-11-01 "interview" with him, were entered into the 9/11 commission report, as part of the report "findings" The 9/11 commission claimed that it was not able to retrieve billing records of the calls that Barbara Olson made to her husband at the Justice Dept. Olson is reported to have said that his wife "called collect" from a seatback phone on the airliner, and he is also reported, months later to have said that she made several calls to him before Flt 77 crashed, "from her cellphone".
Olson argued successfully before the Supreme Court in Dec., 2001, in "Bush v. Gore", that allowing the Florida vote recount would do "irreparable harm" to his client, candidate GW Bush....
Olson has represented Reagan in Iran Contra, is good friends with Ken Starr, was best man in 1998 of R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., the Spectator's combative editor, the man at the center of the "Arkansas Project", which was the primary catalyst behind the "Whitewater" investigation of the Clintons, and the legal suit on behalf of Paula Jones.
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In these circumstances, as they involve the integrity of the justice system, we need to know pan, and in a republic with a representative government, it is our right, and the duty of our elected representatives, to use all legal powers accorded to them, to try and find out.
It is supposed to be "messy", and that is nothing to shrink from. You mentioned that you prefer that congress legislate and not investigate. We just experienced at least 4 years of no investigation, are we better off because of it? Without the restoration of constitutional checks and balances, why pass new bills into law, without finding if the provisions of the existing body of laws are being evenhandedly and vigorously enforced?