I'm really sorry I have to write this letter, my hopes for you, for us, for all of us were so much higher.
I'm afraid I've discovered something that makes it imperative that you move forward With H.R.333 with alacrity. If you can't do that, then it indeed is over between us. I was watching when you held hearings in the basement rooms. I've been pulling for you to triumph over this criminal administration. Please do this for our children. Demonstrate to us that the rule of law still exists in our country.
No doubt by now you've read
Sunday's front page of The Post which makes some explosive allegations that identify Vice Presidential behaviors that are clearly subversive of the Office of the President. To be able to cut the Secretary of State and the National Security Adviser out of the loop whilst implementing an illegal policy which clearly has resulted in the loss of the moral high ground this nation once nearly commanded, is a feat with no precedent in U.S. history.
At the White House, Bellinger sent Rice a blunt -- and, he thought, private -- legal warning. The Cheney-Rumsfeld position would place the president indisputably in breach of international law and would undermine cooperation from allied governments. Faxes had been pouring in at the State Department since the order for military commissions was signed, with even British authorities warning that they could not hand over suspects if the U.S. government withdrew from accepted legal norms.
One lawyer in his office said that Bellinger was chagrined to learn, indirectly, that Cheney had read the confidential memo and "was concerned" about his advice. Thus Bellinger discovered an unannounced standing order: Documents prepared for the national security adviser, another White House official said, were "routed outside the formal process" to Cheney, too. The reverse did not apply.
This is one of many examples of the actions of a Vice President that can best be described as rogue. The Vice President is a clear and present danger to my country. Now my dear Mr. Conyers, you really must do something about this illegal act. Move forward on Mr. Kucinich's Bill. It might just bring Congress' polling up.
-Hoot
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