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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 12:55 PM
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Poll question: Will Ben-Veniste pursue Perjury against Condi, Ashcroft or Tenent???
Ben-Veniste has gone out of his way to get many, if not most of the administration's top officials to perjure themselves in front of the commission. Paradoxically, he then defends them in public interviews. :wtf:

OK, so what is he up to?????

BTW: I really don't know, but I think it's 60/40 in favor of a whitewash.
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lyrical di Donating Member (181 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 01:04 PM
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1. someone keep track and do the filing
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 01:09 PM
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2. Anyone know the law on perjury? Is it only the commission who can...
prefer charges, or perhaps a Senator or Congress Person file charges?
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damnyankee Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 02:07 PM
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6. Well, if it's a Dem president, anyone can file charges.
But if it's a GOP fake prez, then not even God can.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 01:17 PM
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3. Not a chance.
Edited on Sat Apr-17-04 01:17 PM by Minstrel Boy
I'm not impressed by Ben-Veniste. He's another Bush fixer, just one with a "tough guy" act.

If he intended to uncover the truth, he knows he should be asking better questions of different witnesses. For instance, from Sander Hicks interview of Ben-Veniste:

Sander Hicks: No the question is really about Rudi Dekker and about — he’s a Dutch National. Mohamed Atta was at his flight school doing cocaine with his girl friend. If Mohamed Atta is technically a fundamentalist Muslim, what is he doing cocaine and going to strip bars with Rudi Dekkers’ girlfriend?

Ben-Veniste: You know, that’s a heck of a question.

http://sanderhicks.com/benveniste.html

And note how skittish Ben-Veniste gets when Hicks asks about his defence of Bush drug runner Barry Seal:

SH: There was a gentleman you may know of, named Daniel Hopsicker? He’s a former producer of NBC and he wrote a book called, "Barry and the Boys." You are mentioned in it. It’s about a former client of yours who is now deceased, Mr. Barry Seal. Are you familiar with this book?

RB: No, I haven’t read the book but I did represent Barry Seal, who was convicted. He thereafter, on his own, became a government informant. He worked against the Sandinistas and that certainly is not the subject of this....

SH: That’s not the subject of ....

RB: We have quite a bit to do here in our Commission without going into all my private practice. I certainly wouldn’t want this to be an infomercial for Richard Ben-Veniste as a private attorney.

SH: Not at all. But the question was, Daniel Hopsicker is

RB: So, if you wouldn’t mind staying on our subject...

SH: Not at all.

RB: I’d appreciate it.

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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 01:57 PM
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4. Kick
:kick:
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damnyankee Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-04 02:06 PM
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5. I said 'whitewash.'
But I'd love to discover that I'm wrong.
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