Dems Savage Justice Dept. Over Apparent Attempt To Blame Environmentalists For Flood

Democrats savage Justice Department over apparent attempt to blame environmentalists for flood

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9/17/2005

An email message which suggested the Bush Justice Department was looking to blame environmentalists for a break in the New Orleans levee and the ensuing flood has sparked vehement responses among the Democratic caucus in Congress, RAW STORY has learned.

One congressman, ranking House Judiciary Democrat John Conyers (D-MI), penned a stiff letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demanding answers.

In the email, obtained by the Mississippi-based Clarion-Ledger, the Justice Department wrote: "Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation."

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) fired off this statement to RAW STORY.

“If the President is sincere when he says he accepts responsibility for the abysmal federal response to Hurricane Katrina, he should instruct his Justice Department to stop trying to smear environmentalists by blaming them for the government's failure to shore up the levee system in Louisiana," the California Democrat said.

"This smacks of a political witch hunt," Boxer added. "Instead of pathetic attempts to pass the buck by blaming groups who are looking out for the health and well-being of Americans, the Bush Administration should marshal the Justice Department to stand up for the victims against the con artists and U.S. taxpayers from unscrupulous contractors."

Conyers said the email, if true, results in a "diversion of time and resources" and "political, rather than an attempt to pursue a legitimate law enforcement goal or objective."

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement to the Washington Post in Saturday papers that the Bush administration "should be ashamed of themselves" if they are seeking to blame environmental groups for the flooding and its bungled aftermath.

"The slow recovery had little to do with the levees and everything to do with bad decisions in the immediate aftermath of the storm," Schumer said.

Conyers' letter follows.

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The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales
Attorney General of the United States
U. S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

Today I learned that according to an article in the Clarion-Ledger that your office has sent an email to U.S. Attorney's Offices asking "Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation."

If this is true, I am concerned that the motivation may be perceived as political, rather than an attempt to pursue a legitimate law enforcement goal or objective, which should be the Department's primary goal. This diversion of time and resources would seem particularly problematic given the difficulties the affected U.S. Attorneys offices have no doubt had in responding to Hurricane Katrina, and the incredibly heavy workloads they must be facing. As a result, I would appreciate your responding to the following questions:

Did your office circulate this or a similar e-mail? If so, to which offices was the e-mail circulated?

What caused your office to circulate the e-mail, and what personnel both inside and outside the Department were involved in the matter?

Did you set a deadline for a response? Have you received any responses yet? Please forward to my office any responses you have received or receive in the future.

Please estimate the cost - both out-of-pocket, and lost person hours - to both consider and circulate this request and for the various U.S. Attorney offices to respond?

What safeguards, if any, did you interpose to insure that a responding to this e-mail did not displace any legitimate law enforcement priorities of the applicable offices?

Has the Department ever sought information regarding previous litigation activity in connection with any other natural disaster other than Hurricane Katrina? If so, please provide my office with a description of such requests. I would appreciate receiving a full or partial response to this letter at your earliest possible convenience, and by no later than September 23, 2005 in any event. Please forward your response to my Judiciary Committee Minority Office, 2142 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515.

Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member
House Judiciary Committee

cc: The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., The Honorable William E. Moschella

Brown has been made the fall guy, but Chertoff was supposedly in charge and showed himself to be deaf, dumb and blind, but that is because he was picked by Bush to cover up the lies of 911, Iraq, etc.

He's been too busy working on travellers' fast passes for the VIPs of business to go through airport security faster than the rest of us serfs, to be watching CNN live, and it was typical Bush tactics to give the bankers more profits.
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Why Oklahoma,911,lack of response to Katrina, and coming war with Iran?

Our foreign policies of giving foreign aid to several foreign countries is screwing our own National security!




Congress depends on political contrbution$ to get elected. Since Americans are paying such high taxes they can't contribute. So Lobbies have funded and Congress has responded to passing favorable laws for lobbies, even foreign countries goals at the expense of destroying America's security.See: http://seattle.indymedia.org/img/extlink.gif http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_Aug_2004/0407027.html
excerpts:2004 Top Ten Career Recipients of Pro-Israel PAC Funds
Compiled by Hugh Galford

Even Congress rejected today an inquiry into the Katrina fiasco, just like they welcomed the 911 commission findings, and just like they gleefully accepted the Warren Commission report. The Kennedy assination records along with Dr. King's assination won't be opened until most of them are dead.
America's elite is motivated by greed. See article
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Who has the elite allied itself with, and read through the comments for specific proof.

Now, with the elite's criminal bankers, in the Federal Reserve system, supported and endorsed by Rockefeller's monopolies, they have Americans dangling from ropes. How these private banks that make up the Federal Reserve system print money, (paying only for the cost of the printing, and lend it out at high interest, to the federal government and individuals. Hence the drive up the national debt. Americans are forced to pay about 1/3 their salaries to federal, state and local taxes. They barely have enough money to live. So they take advantage of credit cards. Very few Americans can contribute to political campaigns. Congress gets most of their campaign monies from lobbies. The Israeli lobby is very powerful, since their funded by US foreign aid. Other powerful lobbies, corporations, and other foreign countries, ie China, give substantial money to Congressmen, and they're voting into reality, these foreign interests.

On October 17, Congress has approved for the bankers to double your minimum payments on your credit cards. If your paying 300 a month now on credit cards, after October 17 you'll be paying 600 a month, and if you don't you'll be assesed charges for not making the minimum payments, and your credit ratings will drop.

This is bound to burst the housing bubble, since so many Americans are just making ends meet, and will lead to foreclosures for some, and an increase in the already high unemployment rate, thanls to Congressional approval of CAFTA and NAFTA and other goals of the greedy elite.

There may even be a depression around the corner with the increased energy costs.

Congress wants your sons and daughters to fight Israel's wars of expansion. Just today, Sharon said he wants more settlement in the West Bank.
Until people realize this situation and read up on Assinations of Kennedy, King and others, you will not see how this came about in the land of the free and the home of the brave.After Kennedy's death by the CIA, the CIA got into dealing drugs to pay for their covert operations and noiw this is big business.Oil and drugs, led by the Rockefellers, and the Bushes.

Our own government was responsible for Oklahoma, 911, and the war in Iraq, and Iran is on their front burner.

President Bush is too busy appointing people who cover up his lies, to appoint competent people to head National Security.From Wilkpedia:

Most recently Chertoff has managed the FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina. On the third of September, several days after the initial strike of the hurricane many (including the New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin) indicated severe dissatisfaction with the response from Washington, citing the delay between the general knowledge of the storm's likely impact and any effective federal response. Lousiana's Governor Blanco declared a state a state of emergency on August 26 [1]; a week later, New Orleans remained in a state of chaos.

Chertoff himself appeared misinformed about the situation, presumably because of the LA governor, even calling the situation at the Convention Center "rumors" after it had been in the news most of the day. NO BODY IN HOMELAND SECURITY WAS WATCHING LIVE BROADCASTS OF NEWS on CNN THAT DAY? THIS IS UNBELEVABLE!While defending the federal government's response in a September 3, 2005 press conference, Chertoff asserted that no one had ever predicted a disaster of this magnitude; however, warnings had in fact come for years from experts in the private sector as well as government agencies at all levels, including FEMA itself, who had identified a disaster such as this as one of the three most likely catastrophes to strike the US. CNN: [2] Houston Chronicle: [3]. Critics (both in the media and political body) of Chertoff's actions say the response to the disaster was inadequate in terms of leadership and promptness. To illustrate a typical view of those critical of the department, New Hampshire State Representative Peter Sullivan said, "Director Brown and Secretary Chertoff have given incompetence a bad name. Their planning was nonexistent. Their response to the crisis was lethargic. Their attempt to shirk responsibility is revolting. At a time when our country needs forthright leaders, this administration [has given] us two men more concerned with partisan spin than with human suffering. Brown and Chertoff failed America, and they must be fired immediately."

Chertoff defended Islamic terrorists and deported the Israeli Mossad who were caught after 911, somer of which are reported today on waynemadsenreport.com to be back in FLORIDA, the staging center for the coming Chinese invasion of biological warfare, and along our southern UNPROTECTED BORDER> See China's Defence Minister's speech!http://seattle.indymedia.org/img/extlink.gif http://www.halturnershow.com/ChineseDefenseMinisterTalksWarAgainstUS.html
EXcerpts:
Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves. There has been rapid development of modern biological technology, and new bio weapons have been invented one after another. Of course we have not been idle; in the past years we have seized the opportunity to master weapons of this kind. We are capable of achieving our purpose of “cleaning up” America all of a sudden. When Comrade Xiaoping was still with us, the Party Central Committee had the perspicacity to make the right decision not to develop aircraft carrier groups and focus instead on developing lethal weapons that can eliminate mass populations of the enemy country.
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We must prepare ourselves for two scenarios. If our biological weapons succeed in the surprise attack [on the United States, the Chinese people will be able to keep their losses at a minimum in the fight against the United States
.................................................. ......It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the CCP leads the world




You asked what happened to America, study history and you will know!

DEMAND OF YOUR LOCAL OFFICIALS ANSWERS!

From waynemadsenreport.orgSeptember 14, 2005 -- Is Urban Moving Systems chief back in US? There are indications that Israeli national Dominik Suter, the former head of Urban Moving Systems in Weehawken, NJ is back in the United States, this time in south Florida and may be using his actual name. An informed source claims that Suter is working for an aviation-related firm in south Florida.

Suter ran the Weehawken, NJ-based moving company on 9-11 when a number of Urban Moving Systems vans were spotted around north Jersey before and after the hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center. One Urban Moving van was seen at Liberty State Park in Jersey City as the first plane hit the towers. The five occupants, all Israeli nationals, were seen videotaping and celebrating the attack and were dressed in Arab clothing. The five were later arrested near Giant Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. One of the Israelis told police they were at Liberty State Park to "document the event."



Mysterious 911 moving van operator reportedly back in the US

After the Israelis were detained for several months in Brooklyn as terrorist suspects, they were quickly deported to Israel. After the FBI questioned Suter on September 11, he fled the United States on September 14, 2001. The FBI was due to question Suter again before he fled the country. Later, Federal law enforcement agents discovered pipes, caps, explosive chemical materials, and traces of anthrax at the Weehawken warehouse. Suter's name and those of some of his moving employees turned up in a CIA database of foreign intelligence agents. Suter's name also appeared on an FBI 9-11 terrorism suspect list. Suter's year of birth is listed as 1970 with a social security number of 129-78-0926. His addresses before 9-11 are listed as 28 Harlow Crescent Rd., Fairlawn, NJ 07410; 312 Pavonia Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07302; and 15000 Dickens, Suite 11, Sherman Oaks CA. If Suter has been permitted to re-enter the United States, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and its chief Michael Chertoff have a lot of explaining to do.



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Isn't it illegal for foreign countries to give contributions via lobbies to Congressional campaigns?


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Kennedy was murdered by CIA
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Kennedy was murdered by CIA led by daddy Bush
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Why do you think Bush met with Greenspan before doing anything?

Those same bankers, investors are thrilled with reports that property paPERS WERE LOST BY THE FLOOD. nOW THAT THEY'LL START BULLDOWSING CONDEMNED PROPERTY, THE pROFITEERS WILL BE READY TO PAY LOW AND REBUILD eXPENSIVE CONDOS, CASINOES ETC.

i'M TIRED OF ALL THIS BULLSHIT, COMPLAINING THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE sOUTH HAD NO AIRCONDITIONING IN HIGH HEAT.

nEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS HAVE NO AIRCONDITIONING IN CLASSROOMS, YET NY IS RAKING IN MILLIONS FROM THE LOTTERIES. wHO IS GETTING THE MONEY?

They, the mind manipulators have a vested interest in keeping people dumb! Just like slave owners did back in slavery days.

Their favorite program, glorifying greed, is back on tv. Survivor.

The dead don't talk, and there's a lot of people they killed, Oklahoma, WACO, WTC, Pentagon, New Orleans, not to mention JFK, Robert, Congressman Larry McFadden, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr, John Jr....USA soldiers and hundreds of thouisands of Iraqis, Afghanastanis, ...

Get rid of these traitors now!

Comment #17: Sandra said on 9/17/05 @ 3:31pm ET... RESIGN NOW OR BE FORCIBLY REMOVED BY OUR MILITARY!

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THAT THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH AND HIS ENTIRE CRIMINAL INTERNATIONAL CARTEL BE ENACTED AND TRIED FOR TREASON AND GENOCIDE AT THE HAGUE.

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THAT THE ENTIRE CLINTON ADMINSTRATION BE APPREHENDED AND TRIED FOR TREASON, MURDER, AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THAT ALL US TROOPS BE BROUGHT HOME IMMEDIATELY TO OVERTHROW THIS TYRANNY OF THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE AND THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THAT ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL BE AT THE AID AND SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES; MILITARY CODE AND CONSTITUTIONAL OATH BE BROUGHT FORTH TO PROTECT, AND DEFEND AMERICA FROM THE COUP THAT INHABITS.

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND TOTAL RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL BY FORCE OF ALL CONGRESS AND SENATE REPRESENTATIVES THAT HAVE DIVERTED THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE US TREASURY AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND THAT THE ENTIRE US SUPREME COURT STEP DOWN NOW.

WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT ADHERE TO YOUR IMPOSED RULES OR ORDER. YOU NO LONGER REPRESENT US.

Queen of England with George Herbert Walker Bush - Acts of Treason

The United States Government is Killing Men of Honor

Bush-Clinton-Bush Fianacial Terrorism / Cash Payoffs Bonds and Murder

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HANDS OFF VENEZUELA

Sep. 17, 2005 5:57
Venezuelan President says US planning invasion
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he has documentary evidence that the United States plans to invade his country.

Chavez, interviewed Friday on ABC television's "Nightline," said the plan is called "Balboa" and involves aircraft carriers and planes. A transcript of the interview was made available by "Nightline."

He said US soldiers recently went to Curacao, an island off Venezuela's northwest coast. He described as a "lie" the official US explanation that they visited Curacao for rest and recreation.

"They were doing movements. They were doing maneuvers," Chavez said, speaking through a translator.

He added: "We are coming up with the counter-Balboa plan. That is to say if the government of the United States attempts to commit the foolhardy enterprise of attacking us, it would be embarked on a 100-year war. We are prepared."

Chavez has been attending the summit of world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week. On Thursday, he denounced the US-led war in Iraq and told other leaders they should consider moving the UN headquarters out of the United States.

To prove US intentions to invade Venezuela, Chavez offered to send "Nightline" host Ted Koppel maps and other documentation.

"What I can't tell you is how we got it, to protect the sources, how we got it through military intelligence," he said.

In the event of a US invasion, Chavez said the United States can "just forget" about receiving any more oil from his country.

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