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Where is the new Woodward & Bernstein?

We have a Vice-President who, before he was elected and re-elected, ran a company that bribed Nigerian government officials to obtain billion-dollar contracts, from which our Vice-President received millions in bonuses and stock options.

We have a Vice-President who received compensation from Halliburton last year in the amount of about $190,000 and has lied that he severed all ties with the company and donated stock options to charity. How much does Halliburton make from contracts with the U. S. government?

"Investigative journalism" used to have a different meaning. "Investigative journalism" revealed corruption at the highest levels of government, leading ultimately to the resignation of a President of the United States.

I don't want to know which restaurants in the area had health code violations -- the health department already found the violations. I don't care to know that a 30-year veteran of the police department had a two-martini lunch -- to me, he's entitled to do that once in a while for protecting our asses for 30 years. Is this what "investigative journalism" has become?

We have this war in Iraq going on, where 15,000 American soldiers, scores of other Americans, and an indeterminate number of innocent persons, have been killed, wounded, or permanently maimed, that was supported by Congress and which has been funded to the tune of $250,000,000,000, based on false information and fraudulent documents.

We have a President of the United States attempting to suppress foment and deprive The American people of civil rights through passage of expiring parts of something called the Patriot Act; indeed, he is trying to "strengthen" those portions in order to further smash our already-decimated "right to privacy," privilege against self-incrimination, fundamental right to counsel, and basic freedoms of speech and association.

We have a President who wants to destroy social security, although people are now realizing what an oil-slick he is laying down.

We have a President who permits propaganda to be disseminated as "news." We have a President who manufactured the main reasons to go to war with a country that did not attack the U.S.A. to get the support of the American people and the U.S. Congress. We have a President who condones what normal people call torture in violation of American law, international law, and public decency, yet denies it.

We have a President who lies.

We have a President who has mortgaged our children's futures. We have a President who refuses to fight for those in the country who are least able to fight for themselves, the poor, the young, the elderly, and the infirm. We have a President who has lined the pockets of his friends, making the rich richer and the disparity between the richest citizens and the poorest citizens the greatest in history.

We have a President who has caused the further erosion of the respect for the U.S.A. and for what it once stood, in spite of his demagogery about "family values."

I don't know about you, but are these happenings really the will of "We, the People?" Nixon was subject to impeachment for less; Nixon resigned in disgrace over less. But that was 30 years ago. Clinton was dragged through the mud and threatened with impeachment for much less.

So, I ask the question: Where is the new Woodward & Bernstein?

Posted by Bill at June 20, 2005 11:40 PM