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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (730429)	3/9/2006 2:27:49 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

We can't get to the truth, because the republicans blocked the investigation. Well it's this way...it would be nice to know how he got in there. You know, who approved his daily passes? We can't find out, cause the republicans blocked the investigation. Well it would be nice to know what Gannon, the admitted gay prostitute, was doing there on those 200 visits, often the visits were scheduled on non press days, but the republicans blocked the investigation. We might know quite a bit more about what happened, and then I could tell you more, but the republicans blocked the investigation. Voting along party lines the judiciary committee voted not to investigate. All 10 democrats voted to investigate how such an unqualified person with a prostitution background, offering up softball questions in press conferences, who never really wrote anything except copy and paste Whitehouse press releases and worked for a phoney news web site, got 200 daily passes to the Whitehouse, and who even signed the log as Bulldog...but the republicans blocked any investigation. Statement of John Conyers, Jr. H.Res. 136 Gannon Resolution of Inquiry Judiciary Committee Markup March 16, 2005 We are here today because we have an Administration that is all too willing to flaunt the law, and a Congress that refuses to investigate even the most serious ethical transgressions. Whether it is torture at Abu Ghraib, sole source contracts with Haliburton, or the outing of a CIA operative, this Congress has been unwilling and unable to ask the hard questions or issue the difficult subpoenas. We are here today because it simply defies credibility that a phony reporter, operating under an alias, who couldn’t get privileges in the House or Senate press gallery, could receives scores of consecutive White House “day passes,” without the intervention of someone very high up at the White House. Can anyone believe that while Pulitzer Prize winning journalists are being turned down for White House press passes, a fake journalist working for a Republican-controlled media front operation could receive virtually open-ended access to the White House press room in the absence of preferential treatment? We are here today because the Administration has either rejected or ignored every bona fide request for information concerning Jeff Gannon. On February 9, Rep. Slaughter asked the White House how Gannon was able to obtain his special access – her request has been ignored. On February 10, Rep. Slaughter and I asked the same question of the Secret Service – we received a non-responsive response. On February 15, Rep. Slaughter and I filed a FOIA request with the Department of Homeland Security – again, no response. In the light of this stonewalling, we have no choice but to ask this Committee and this Congress to do its job and request these materials from the Administration. We are here today because we are simply unwilling to tolerate the continued manufacture of news by our government. Taxpayers don’t want their money used to pay reporters to recycle Administration propaganda. Citizens can no longer tolerate paying reporters for their opinions while we can’t fund our jobs and poverty programs. Americans don’t want the White House press room to churn out releases that reporters like Jeff Gannon plagiarize and report as their own. What we have today is a government by fiat, not a system of checks and balances. If we wont investigate this scandal, where will we draw the line? If we don’t act now, when will we say enough is enough? I urge the Members to vote yes on this Resolution of Inquiry. Orca