Obama and war crimes- investigate the NIH and USDOJ

Obama and war crimes- investigate the NIH and USDOJ

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Subject: Obama and war crimes

Date: Apr 15, 2008 3:17 AM

Nothing less than a full investigation of war crimes, to include the
NIH's and
the USDOJ's negligence and cover up of "Lyme Disease" is acceptable.

Start with Anthony Fauci:
* w w w .actionlyme.org/The Fauci Files.htm
And include the NYTimes' staff CDC Officer, Lawrence Altman, and the
Holc Noble
episode.
I was THERE when Holc got the story from the Lyme Disease Foundation.
* w w w .lyme.org

* w w w .actionlyme.org/CUSTOMS.htm
And then move on to Tommy Thompson and New Britain's Nancy Johnson
(taking trips/money
from the Welds' "Nature Conservancy"). The Welds were spinning Lyme
with the w w w .aldf . com

No one gave the Welds, Mortimer Zuckerman or the CFR/AIG Greenbergs
the authority
to spin Lyme.

Kathleen M. Dickson
* w w w .actionlyme.org
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* w w w .philly . com /philly/blogs/attytood/Barack on torture.html
Monday, April 14, 2008
Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in
Bush White House

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on
the minds
of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus
of the 2008
presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would
seek to prosecute
officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they
greenlighted
torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White
House.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney
General and his
deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there"
and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread
carefully on the issue,
in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide.
He worried
that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However,
he
said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because
"nobody
is above the law."

The question was inspired by a recent report by ABC News, confirmed by
the Associated
Press, that high-level officials including Vice President Dick Cheney
and former
Cabinet secretaries Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld,
among others,
met in the White House and discussed the use of waterboarding and
other torture
techniques on terrorism suspects.

I mentioned the report in my question, and said "I know you've talked
about
reconciliation and moving on, but there's also the issue of justice,
and a lot
of people -- certainly around the world and certainly within this
country -- feel
that crimes were possibly committed" regarding torture, rendition, and
illegal
wiretapping. I wanted to know how whether his Justice Department
"would aggressively
go after and investigate whether crimes have been committed."

Here's his answer, in its entirety:

What I would want to do is to have my Justice Department and my
Attorney General
immediately review the information that's already there and to find
out are
there inquiries that need to be pursued. I can't prejudge that because
we don't
have access to all the material right now. I think that you are right,
if crimes
have been committed, they should be investigated. You're also right
that I would
not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of
Republicans
as a partisan witch hunt because I think we've got too many problems
we've
got to solve.

So this is an area where I would want to exercise judgment -- I
would want to
find out directly from my Attorney General -- having pursued, having
looked at what's
out there right now -- are there possibilities of genuine crimes as
opposed to really
bad policies. And I think it's important-- one of the things we've got
to
figure out in our political culture generally is distinguishing
betyween really
dumb policies and policies that rise to the level of criminal
activity. You know,
I often get questions about impeachment at town hall meetings and I've
said
that is not something I think would be fruitful to pursue because I
think that impeachment
is something that should be reserved for exceptional circumstances.
Now, if I found
out that there were high officials who knowingly, consciously broke
existing laws,
engaged in coverups of those crimes with knowledge forefront, then I
think a basic
principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law -- and I think
that's
roughly how I would look at it.

The bottom line is that: Obama sent a clear signal that -- unlike
impeachment, which
he's ruled out and which now seems a practical impossibility -- he is
at the
least open to the possibility of investigating potential high crimes
in the Bush
White House. To many, the information that waterboarding -- which the
United States
has considered torture and a violation of law in the past -- was
openly planned
out in the seat of American government is evidence enough to at least
start asking
some tough questions in January 2009.

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