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[FlashHarry]

1. I'll say it again

The smoking gun here is the fact that the admin. is now equivocating and qualifying every statement about WMD. "Might have," "could have," etc. If you're not absolutely sure, you can't act on a doctrine of preemption.

[Pepperbelly]

2. very good point ...

and who kept putting it back in?

And remember this: what they are admitting to is an egregious error in judgement and indictment of their very competency itself so what is it that is big enough to get them to admit this rather than what this is supposed to conceal.

The dog that didn't bark. Remember that story.

[Adamocrat]

3. But...

Didn't Bush make any and all papers he deems untouchable protected now through his presidential decree that hid Poppy Bush and Ronnie Raygun's papers?

-A

[wuushew]

4. Bring back the independent counsel?

Independent counsel law fades into history

June 29, 1999
Web posted at: 6:12 p.m. EDT (2212 GMT)


WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 29) -- The independent counsel law, created as part of post-Watergate reforms but a target of increasing criticism over the years, will expire Wednesday.

Before the act was signed into law in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, the president alone appointed special prosecutors to investigate allegations of wrongdoing against high-ranking government officials. After the so-called Saturday Night Massacre during the Watergate scandal -- where two top government officials resigned rather than carry out President Richard Nixon's demand the special prosecutor Archibald Cox be fired -- Congress was convinced the executive branch could not be trusted to impartially investigate its own