And then there are these items yet to be investigated...
"Phase II" of the US Senate investigation into White House actions surrounding the run-up to the Iraq War. "Phase I" addressed – and absolved the White House of wrongdoing surrounding – alleged attempts to pressure the CIA into producing intelligence that supported the call for war against Iraq. "Phase II," which has been stalled for the past year by Republicans in the Senate, will address whether the White House selectively promoted to the Congress and the world intelligence that supported the call for war against Iraq.
Election 2004 "irregularities." Because there were no signs of near riots following the balloting in the 2004 presidential election, the national mainstream news media declared the poll a success, and refused to entertain the notion that there were serious problems with process. Exit polls – usually considered reliable barometers – showed results roughly 6 points better for the Democratic candidate than what the official results showed – enough for him to have perhaps been the actual winner of the election, as opposed to the Republican who instead occupied the White House. The only explanation ever put forth by the polling company for this large discrepancy is that Bush voters were, perhaps, less likely to answer exit pollsters’ questions than Kerry voters – a theory which has no logical basis. As a mountain of other circumstantial evidence of something deeply amiss grew in the following weeks and months, news reports actively mocked and dismissed those attempting to raise the issue as conspiracy theorists. Subsequent research has shown that no conspiracy would be required to affect the results of a close election, but rather nothing more than a skilled computer programmer working for either of the two companies which manufacture – using secret software that produces no paper trail – the computers that record and tally a huge percentage of the American votes.
The Niger forgery. What led to Lewis Libby’s downfall were his efforts to hide his participation in an apparent plot to discredit a critic of the White House’s justifications for believing Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program just before the Iraq War. Key to such justification was an invoice for the sale of uranium allegedly submitted to Saddam’s government by the government of the African country Niger. Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency quickly determined that the document was a crude forgery, yet the US President relied on it anyway in declaring in the January 2003 State of the Union Address that Saddam had recently tried to obtain "uranium from Africa." What remains unknown is who created the fake document, and why.
Any one of these three, were they to be fully investigated, would likely find crimes exponentially more important to the nation than all of the so-called Clinton scandals combined.
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