** Senate Judiciary Hearings on Now re: Investigating the FBI

[MiniMe]

Mueller is testifying.

Live web link from the Judiciary Committee website http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=3165

[maddezmom]

1. thanks for the link

watching now :hi:

[bdamomma]

2. hi minime, may need a diversion than thinking about yesterday's

primary results.

By any chance is this on C Span 1 or 2.

[MiniMe]

5. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like they are carrying any hearings on cspan3 today

House is on 1 and Senate is on 2.

I needed a distraction too, that is why I went looking for what hearings are today. If you want the entire Senate schedule, they are listed here: http://www.capitolhearings.org/

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Thanks. K & R

[L. Coyote]

4. K & R. Why doesn't the Bush FBI reply to communications offering evidence of political crimes?

Do NOT expect to get a response from the FBI if you offer evidence of election irregularities.

Likewise for other responsible DoJ entities.

[MiniMe]

6. OMG, even Grassley is accusing Mueller of stonewalling

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

[mac2]

14. But will they punish them?

Nope it is a political move for votes in November. We Republicans care and aren't irresponsible is the message (a lie).

[ThomWV]

7. Thanks for the link - watching it now.

[Blaze Diem]

8. Please K&R . Wish more DUers would take a moment to re-focus on this Serious issue

Keep this front page today.
Duers who have become lost in the nasty Primary banter of 'mine vs. yours' are in serious need of a reality check.
THIS IS what needs focus for just one day.
Either Obama or Clinton MUST at some point deal with the slap dash methods of abuse by the Bush Admin.
There is not ONE SINGLE Dept that hasn't been tainted by the Bush free-for-all in running our American Government.
If this hearing is less significant than slinging mud at the opposing candidate then they are missing the point of what Democratic Underground is about.

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Kindly take a break today to focus on this Hearing.
Taking our eyes off the Bush admin for more than a week, undermines our ongoing purpose of exposing and holding accountable, someday, the corruption within our governing system.
Pay attention if you're serious about saving it at all.
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Thanks for this thread...now back to the hearing.
K & R

[annabanana]

9. fifth rec. . the primary has been sucking all the air out of the room

while there is important business to do..

[Blaze Diem]

11. exactly right.. Like being on the playground at noon in 3rd grade again.

Can't stand any more of it.

[mac2]

15. I like that term..."sucking the air out of the room".

I agree. It is all a diversion from real issues facing our country today. It's like those baseball drug hearings.

[mac2]

10. Round and round they go.

Little changes.

[L. Coyote]

12. TPM: FBI Chief: No Waterboarding Here

FBI Chief: No Waterboarding Here
By Paul Kiel - March 5, 2008 - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/fbi_chief_no_waterboarding_her.php


This month, President Bush is expected to veto a Senate bill that would restrict the CIA to using interrogation techniques approved by the Army Field Manual. That would unequivocally outlaw waterboarding, the inducement of hypothermia, sensory deprivation, and other "enhanced interrogation" techniques that have been in the CIA's arsenal.

The veto is likely to survive an attempt by Senate to override because ever since 9/11, the administration and Republicans (including Sen. John McCain) have preferred to keep legal restraints on CIA interrogators loose.

But the FBI, which, unlike the CIA had ample experience with interrogation, took a different tack. During today's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) asked FBI Director Robert Mueller why:

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[MiniMe]

13. Yes, but he wouldn't say never

Their policy is no coercive technics, but they wouldn't say they wouldn't do it. Same old story.