"NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS" in the "largest immigration fraud case in Oregon history"

Now we've seen it all. Two people have gone to prison; one (the accused's daughter) has pleaded no contest, all in a continuing criminal enterprise to provide fake ID's so that the 80,000 illegal aliens could go to Miguel Robleto's Drive Master Education school and ultimately get Oregon Driver's Licenses.
While I haven't seen the entire 7 page decision yet, Judge Steven Price says yeah, there was smoke, but the DA's and AG's office didn't show me the fire. As a result Miguel Robleto goes free.

Testimony showed Mr. Robleto called to get more phony ID's for his "customers," illegal aliens who had been bused in from all over the country, but the judge didn't find that testimony persuasive enough. The point is if there's no Mr. Robleto, there's no need for phony ID's. I'm no judge, but even I can't overlook that. But the judge ruled he couldn't connect Mr. Robleto to the envelopes. See how the scam worked here.

The judge also said that Mr. Patel, who runs "The Dunes" motel in Hillsboro probably had illegal aliens bursting from the seams in every room, that's why he couldn't believe there was any unusual connection to Mr. Robleto's alleged fraudulent scheme to provide these non Oregon (heck, non US) citizens with driver's licenses. It doesn't matter that these illegals came by the bus load and went home in a day or two. Doesn't matter.

The judge refused to divulge his reasoning for the ruling in open court.

The most bizarre decision he made was to find Mr. Robleto not guilty on the misdemeanor charges of tampering/destroying public documents. The documents were destroyed.

If only this judge were in charge of the Scooter Libby prosecution. Can you imagine? Judge Price's rationale seems to be that it's no big deal the documents were destroyed because, hey, there's no crime!

The judge allowed as there were plenty indications of guilt but not beyond a reasonable doubt.

A question: now that the man who was alleged to be the ringmaster of this alleged crime has been found not guilty, then should the others be released? After all if you don't have the big guy, then the other guys were simply freelancing on a lark.
No crime, no foul, right?

Cindy Sheehan Book Signing Pictures--You've GOT to See These!

Shout out to Sweetness-light.com for these unforgettable pix.

Largest Immigration Fraud in Oregon History: Verdict Tomorrow?

This thing has been put off more than immigration reform itself. See here for past posts and find out why this story is so important.

How low can they go?

An outrageous political cartoon impugns the name and the mission of our brave soldiers in Iraq.
Shout out to Orbusmax.com for the link. Take a look at this outrageous cartoon and tell me what you think it's trying to say.

Political Correctness: Here's Where it Leads

Crackpot historian JAILED crackpot views. Is this LEGAL? In Austria it is. Check it out HERE.

12 REASONS WHY WE CAN'T AFFORD BASEBALL IN OREGON

I’d love baseball to come to Portland and I quiver at the prospect of the disgruntled Florida Marlins coming to P-Town, but I’ve come around to the belief that the city/county/state shouldn’t fund the majority of the cost. In fact a token contribution in the way of helpful permitting or helping with road construction to facilitate cars and trucks get to the ball park are fine with me. But I don’t want to use public monies to build a stadium so "they will come."

I want some owner to work a deal and buy his/her/their own doggone stadium.

We don’t have the money to spend on the stuff I want because we’re so busy spending money elsewhere.

Herewith are my 12 reasons why Portland, Oregon can't afford baseball:
(feel free to add your reasons)

We don’t have $ for baseball because that $15 million dollar tram turned into a $40 million dollar tram.

We don’t have $ for baseball because we’re spending it on…The campaigns of the Portland City Commissioners who thought they’d impose this cost on taxpayers without a vote of the people.

We don’t have $ for baseball because we’re spending it on…helping the Portland Public Schools build a new school at the Columbia housing projects…even though private parties wanted to put a charter school there. For Free.

We don’t have $ for baseball because instead of $10,000 in property taxes that would have been paid toward schools, fire, police, and running the government, the buyer of that $700,000 downtown condo only has to pay $198 bucks.

We don’t have $ for baseball because we’re spending it on…Portland’s civic EGO in the form of the inefficient, 19th century, Lightrail system, that moves less than 1% of commuters…for $100 million dollars a mile.

We don’t have $ for baseball because we’re spending it on…chasing businesses out of the city with the business income tax.

We don’t have $ for baseball because we’re spending it on… the Wapato Jail. Oh, wait, we don’t have the money to open the Wapato Jail. Nevermind.

We don’t have $ for baseball because we’re giving WIC, food stamps, free education, free health care, driver’s licenses, and free housing to people who broke the law and came to this country illegally.

We don’t have $ for baseball because we’re spending it on…a green roof for the Portland building and the multnomah county building.


We don’t have $ baseball because we keep paying for the mistakes of people who hired Steve Goldschmidt…and fired the janitors…offended panhandlers and pepper sprayed wimpy protesters.


We don’t have $ for baseball because the big dog in town…the Blazers…don’t want the competition for your sports dollar.


And finally we don’t have $ for baseball because we’re still spending it on… the renovation of PGE Park the last time we sniffed pine tar in the air.

History Lesson for Cut and Run Crowd

Great piece from Rob Kremer on what cutting and running has done in the past. You lefties who love to send me snarky emails, what do you say after reading this piece?

No Verdict Today in the "largest immigration fraud case in Oregon history"

This is the second postponement of the verdict by the judge. Today he said in open court that he had failed to consider something so he would go back at it and announce the verdict on November 29th. What's going on here?

Get information on a federal case about using motel rooms for illegal alien addresses (like the Dunes Motel in the Hillsboro case).

And the take by the media? No show.

What's this trial about? Check here.

WMD IN IRAQ: A reminder

Here's the link to my previous blog entry about WMD in Iraq.

She's a employee...she's a consultant...she's an employee...she's a..

Fall out from the media attention to the Willamette Education Services District outrageous behavior in capitulating to a worker and REHIRING her even though an investigation proved she wasn't up to scratch (to say the least). Now a board member quits.

Oregon's Newspaper of Record goes "literary"

Hate to expose myself as a total oaf, but can someone out there explain this piece in the opinion section of the Oregonian today? What's the literary allusion or example? Anyone?

"Bush Lied" Liar's Club

This dog won't hunt. Here's my previous blog entry with links to documents.

Oregon Trail Teachers: A couple of Questions for You.

A small district in Washington State has voted to decertify their union. This is the organization they looked to for help: Northwest Professional Educators.
When union thugs follow the superintendent to the beach; when union thugs intimidate the school board members driving to work by mobbing their car and hitting it with signs and fists, you're left with the question: Are these the people you want representing you as a professional?
I can guarantee you the parents in that district are asking themselves this question: Do I want that thug in the classroom with my 6 year old?

IRAQ'S A FAILURE? Read on...

Iraqi Troops List:

One division headquarters (approx. 20,000 troops)

Four brigades (approx 4,000 per)

24 battalions of Iraqis

210,000 Iraqis in the police and military

*Chairman of the US Joints Chiefs of Staff NBC Today Show 11/11/05

Running Scared: Congressional Republicans

The Wall Street Journal takes to task the liberal republicans who have torpedoed the republican agenda in the latest budget. Who needs the Harry Reids and Nancy Pelosis when we've got these turn coats?

• So, let's see: These Congressional giants are demanding that Americans be taxed more to pay subsidies to defray the soaring heating bills caused in part by Congress's refusal to allow more drilling for domestic oil and gas. In another bitter irony, the House has already voted for Alaskan drilling five times since 2001, only to be stymied by the Senate. Now that the Senate has maneuvered to pass ANWR with 51 votes by using the budget process to elude a filibuster, the House 25 are doing Harry Reid's dirty work.

• America can survive these policy setbacks; the question is whether the Republican majority will, or even should. If a GOP Congress can't vote to sustain its own wildly successful tax cuts, or to explore for more domestic energy, let's just turn Congress over to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and at least have truth in liberal advertising.

• Charles Bass (NH)
• Sherwood Boehlert(NY)
• Jeb Bradley (NH)
• Mike Castle (Del)
• Vernon Ehlers (Mich)
• Mike Ferguson (NJ)
• Mike Fitzpatrick (Penn)
• Rod Frelinghuysen (NJ)
• Jim Gerlach (Penn)
• Wayne Gilchrest (Mont)
• Bob Inglis (SC)
• Nancy Johnson (Conn)
• Tim Johnson (Ill)
• Sue Kelley (NY)
• Mark Kennedy (Minn)
• Mark Kirk (Ill)
• Jim Leach (Iowa)
• Frank LoBiondo (NJ)
  Jim Ramstad (Minn)
• Dave Reichert (Wash)
• Jim Saxton (NJ)
• James Sensenbrenner (Wisc)
• Christopher Shays (Conn)
• Robert Simmons (Conn)
• James Walsh (NY)

Have WMD been found in Iraq? Yes. Just not in the quantities expected.

• June 23, 2004: 1.77 Metric Tons of enriched uranium for bomb making found in a nuclear facility in Iraq.

• June 23, 2004: DOE experts find 1,000 radioactive materials in "powdered form" to be easily dispersed.

• Cyclosarin (nerve agent) found in 17 warheads found by Polish intelligence officials in Iraq after being tipped off by citizens.Citizens told Polish authorities they were being sold on the black market to terrorists.

• August 8, 2005: Mosul, Iraq warehouse where US soldiers find 1,500 gallons of chemical agents.

• May 17, 2004: Sarin gas found in IED exploded when US Convoy is passing by in Iraq.

• Much more info in Richard Miniter's new book, "Disinformation 22 Media Myths that Undermine the War on Terror."

• If we knew there were no WMD, why were our troops wearing Chem Suits during the seige of Baghdad and why were there chickens in cages on the fronts of their vehicles to detect chemical and biological agents?

• P.S. All of these weapons were supposed to have been destroyed by Saddam following weapons inspections during the 1990's

The Liar's Club: Who's Lying Now?

Who cares about our country? The Democrat leaders were on board with the war from the git-go and now they say they were duped by the President because he lied. Well, if George Bush lied then so did the intelligence agencies of FRANCE, GERMANY, AND BRITAIN in addition to our own CIA.

For a Commentary about the Bush Lied Liars Club read here.

Here's another member of the Liar's Club here.

Remember as you peruse, for the Democrats to win on this issue the country must lose the war. Whose side are they on? Theirs and to*^%!!* with the rest of us. Just who is rewriting history here?

So...for the Bush Lied crowd if he lied then so did the current members of your Bush Lied Liar's Club.

"What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs." -- Jacques Chirac, October 16, 2002

"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton in 1998

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." -- Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002

"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people." -- Tom Daschle in 1998

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." -- Ted Kennedy, September 27, 2002

"There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed." -- Ted Kennedy, Sept 27, 2002

"The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation." -- John Kerry, October 9, 2002

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandates of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." -- Carl Levin, Sept 19, 2002

"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -- Nancy Pelosi, December 16, 1998

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. And that may happen sooner if he can obtain access to enriched uranium from foreign sources -- something that is not that difficult in the current world. We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." -- John Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002

"Saddam’s existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq’s enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East." -- John Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002

'We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." -- Bob Graham, December 2002 *

Thank you to Ring Wing News for the compendium of quotes. Find it here.

A Nation at War: Democrats Win Trust War? At What Price?

Poll: Most Americans Doubt Bush's Honesty

Most Americans say they aren't impressed by the ethics and honesty of the Bush administration, already under scrutiny for its justifications for an unpopular war in Iraq and its role in the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.

Almost six in 10 _ 57 percent _ said they do not think the Bush administration has high ethical standards and the same portion says President Bush is not honest, an AP-Ipsos poll found. Just over four in 10 say the administration has high ethical standards and that Bush is honest. Whites, Southerners and white evangelicals were most likely to believe Bush is honest.

Bush, who promised in the 2000 campaign to uphold "honor and integrity" in the White House, last week ordered White House workers, from presidential advisers to low-ranking aides, to attend ethics classes.

The president gets credit from a majority for being strong and decisive, but he's also seen by an overwhelming number of people as "stubborn," a perception reinforced by his refusal to yield on issues like the Iraq war, tax cuts and support for staffers under intense pressure.
More than eight in 10, 82 percent, described Bush as "stubborn," with almost that many Republicans agreeing to that description.

In Oregon's 80,000 phony ID for Illegals: Motel room anyone?

Washington Times reporter, Jerry Seper, on how the Feds busted some Motels in Arizona for stashing illegal aliens. How about those Motel/Hotels in Hillsboro with 20 to a room for a couple of days in the case of Miguel Robleto and the DMV scam? (see previous posts for deets)

HELP IN THE RECALLJUDGEJAMES.COM

**For Immediate Release
Contact: Camby Collier – (541) 290-0018
Recall Judge James 'Open House'
November 12th at Headquarters
Keizer, OR – The statewide movement to Recall Judge Mary James of Marion County will hold an 'Open House' at the recall headquarters November 12, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at 4669 River Rd, Keizer, OR.
Judge Mary James declared the voter approved Measure 37 unconstitutional thus halting Oregon citizens from their property rights that they have had to fight for years to regain.
The petition was filed by businessman Tom Steffen, of Silverton, October 26, 2005. The 14,402 signatures need to be collected by January 24, 2006 and then a special election for Marion County residents will be held.
Scapoose, OR resident Bob Ekstrom said, "A disengaged citizenry is the main reason government does not serve the people. Please get involved in this recall of a corrupt judge. Make a difference."
All Marion County residents who voted for Measure 37 in the 2004 election are requested to attend the Open House to sign a petition to 'fire' Judge James.
All other Oregon state residents are encouraged to come to Marion County to collect signatures this Saturday. Even teenagers can help collect signatures. Petitions are ready to go and lists of street addresses are available so you know you will be going to a house with registered voters. You will get the official petition, instructions on making sure voters print their name very clearly and that they do not write down a Post Office Box address or the name will not be counted. Signs will also be available to put in visible areas.
Updates on the recall and information for donations can be found at www.RecallJudgeJames. com .

Illegal Immigration and the plight of the Uninsured: RELATED

http://www.bakersfield.com/24hour/nation/story/2889206p-11550355c.html
Insurance woes, illegal aliens linked

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WriterPosted: Thursday November 10th, 2005, 7:54 AMLast Updated: Thursday November 10th, 2005, 11:57


AMWASHINGTON (AP) - The increase in the number of people without health insurance has occurred largely because of illegal immigration, a study found.
Researchers at the RAND Corporation, a nonpartisan think tank, analyzed data received from about 2,400 people in Los Angeles County in 2000 and 2001, and applied that information to the nation's undocumented population at large.
The number of uninsured adults in the United States grew by about 8.7 million between 1980 and 2000. If the trend for Los Angeles County held true for the rest of the country, about a third of that growth can be attributable to illegal immigrants.
The study does not diminish the severity of the problem of the uninsured. Nor does it call for some sort of health insurance coverage for illegals.
"That's where I don't go," said James Smith, a senior economist at RAND. "That's not a scientific question."
Rather, the study shows that any meaningful impact on reducing the number of uninsured has to take into account the issue of illegal immigration, he said.
"There are pros and cons of providing insurance to the undocumented that should be debated openly," he said. "Undocumented immigrants make up too much of the issue to be ignored or hidden by polite silence."
The study also indicates that, since the number of illegal immigrants is growing rapidly, "we can expect that the uninsured population is going to grow rapidly as well," said another study co-author, Neeraj Sood.
The researchers said about one in five illegal immigrant adults have some health insurance coverage through their work, but virtually none of them purchase it on their own. Also, they rarely make use of public insurance through programs such as Medicaid.
The study was published in the journal Health Affairs.

Veteran's Day November 11th: Hug a Soldier

Here's how YOU can help our men and women in uniform THIS Veteran's Day and this Thanksgiving, Hannukah, and Christmas season.

Gift bags for Thanksgiving, stocking stuffers/gifts for Christmas, Hannukah
Contact: The Coalition of Troop Support
2020 SW 8th Avenue
West Linn, Oregon 97068
503 777-1707

Help with the Afghan/Iraq Freedom War Memorial
Freedom Isn't Free Oregon
freedomisntfreeoregon.org
763 Cessna Street
Independence, OR 97351

How Lazy (and biased) can reporters be?

Read this story about a series done in the Washington Post about some political dirty tricks done, supposedly, by Republicans in Maryland. Whoops. Joke's on WaPo. Check it out here.
Moral: the quick brown political ops jumps over the lazy reporter.

80,000 DRIVER'S LICENSES TO KNOWN ILLEGAL ALIENS

The judge said today he didn't have a verdict in the case of Mr. Miguel Robleto (see prior posts). Expect one on November 22, right before Thanksgiving, so no one is, you know, paying attention.

The Other Iraq: Kurds Thank Americans for Saving Them

See the new English speaking television spots produced by Iraqi Kurds who are launching a "Thank You (and come spend your money here)" Campaign that will make you proud. See it here.

IRAQ: THE REST OF THE STORY

Go to iraqtherestofthestory.com to get, well, the rest of the story and find out where you can honor our troops and their sacrifice for our safety, democracy, and the safety of Iraqis.
Friday night 7-9pm at Beaverton High School Auditorium, 13000 SW 2nd Street, Beaverton. $10/per individual, $25/per family.

France is Burning. How long will it be before we're asked to save their sorry behinds--AGAIN?

Disaffected Muslim/Intern Youth go on rampage against the man.

Stop the Presses! Oh wait, they already did on the 'BIGGEST IMMIGRATION FRAUD CASE IN OREGON HISTORY'

A courtroom mole for the Victoria Taft Show writes the Oregonian to ask: wha' happened to your coverage?
Funny postscript: The Hillsboro Argus beat the Big O on the story here.

ATTENTION: Michael Arrieta-Walden, Oregonian Public Editor
FROM:

RE: State of Oregon v. Miguel Robleto
in the Circit Court of Washington County
Judge Steven Price presiding (jury waived by defendant)



Dear Mr. Arrieta-Walden:

You may recall the phone call we exchanged this past Tuesday afternoon.

I'm compelled to express concern about the lack of serious media coverage of the trial involving the alleged "kingpin" in what
The Oregonian termed, the largest racketeering and fraud case in Oregon history.

To bring you up to date, the trial ended late Tuesday afternoon with summations by both the prosecution and defense counsels.
Judge Price told all concerned that there was a 60% chance he'd issue a verdict next Tuesday, November 8th, at 8:30 am.

Before I proceed in listing the reasons for concern, I'd like to direct you to a September 3rd, 2005 article in the Itemizer Observer by Erin Zysett. It covers Lorna Youngs (the current head of State DMV & Transportation) firing of LaVay Jeffries, a Linn County DMV official, for notifying law enforcement when he suspected illegal activity.

Here is the link:
http://www.itemizerobserver.com/ArcStoryPage.asp?Database=Story&StoryID=7184

Additionally here is a link to KPAM radio talk show host, Victoria Taft's blog, which will provide you with trial updates and details not covered or reported in The Oregonian. http://victoriataftkpam.blogspot.com/


Here are the most prominent reasons for concern:

1. Why was a trial about a "criminal enterprise" that literally flourished, in a POST/911 era, under state officials' noses NOT CONDUCTED in FEDERAL COURT?

Indeed, who made this decision which has all the earmarks of a cover-up? A number of us, including an outraged airline pilot, Chuck Weise, asked the prosecutor this question, who also seemed puzzled by the "downtown" decision by an undisclosed party.

2. Without ANY reflection against The Oregonian's Holly Dank's reporting, WHY did the Oregonian limit coverage to a suburban Portland Metro section?

3. Why hasn't the Oregonian asked similar questions that were repeatedly raised in the recent coverage about the sale of stolen items in second hand shops? Just to list a few:

a) Why confine pilot Privatized DMV agencies to Hispanics? And why contract the management of one those agencies to a former DMV employee that, according to trial testimony, had been terminated "under a cloud"?

b) Why haven't the above questions been directed towards the former head of Transportation, Bruce Warner, (who recently became the appointed head of the Portland Development Commission, PDC), and Lorna Youngs the current head of ODOT and the former chief of DMV?

c) According to testimony by an undercover Hillsboro detective, falsified Voter I.D. cards were among the credentials both recommended and facilitated both at Robleto's Drive Mater Education (DME) office in Hillsboro, and at "Carousels" staged by foreign counsuls, and attended by Oregon Elections and other state agency officials.

WHY haven't Governor Kulongoski and Secretary of State Bradbury been asked for some "EXPLANATIONS"?

d) In his trial summation, the Prosecutor made a critical rebuttal remark. He said that even though glitches in state law make it equally possible for anyone to access fake credentials, Mr. Robleto is no less guilty for at the very least, "aiding and abetting" the "criminal enterprise" that exploited the vulnerabilities of the present system.

So why is NO URGENCY being expressed by The Oregonian for lawmakers and State Agency officials to impose the safeguards sought by both the Federal Real I.D. Act and the Help America Vote Act, each of which require proof of legal status and identity for access to a drivers license AND for inclusion in the federally funded State Centralized Voter Registration process?

The Oregonian's very poor showing at trial has resulted in only two published Metro reports. This gives perhaps the indication of The Oregonian's desire to minimize the largest racketeering and fraud case in Oregon history and to conceal it from statewide readership.

To be quite blunt: This case at trial not only has Oregon statewide implications but more importanly, Nationwide implications.
The Oregonian's lack of coverage is outrageous.

Your publication's readers are owed far wider coverage and at the very least some answers to the questions articulated above.

The 16 Words. Joe Wilson is lying. Again. Check it out:

The "16 Words"
During the State the Union Address on January 28, 2003, President Bush said:
Bush: The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. (thanks for factcheck.org)

Here's your short hand guide to the story. Then check below at the links (after reading the factcheck.org stuff) to see for yourself.

Bush Lied about Pre War Intelligence? Well if he did then he conspired with a WHOLE lot of people to do that.

*source WSJ 11/3/05

#1 6/04- The Senate Intelligence Committee released bi partisan 500 page report about pre war intelligence. In addition to being angered at Joe Wilson for lying to the committee, the committee also finds there was never an attempt to, “coerce, influence, or pressure analysts to change their judgements related to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.”

#2 7/04-Butler report is issued by the British similarly finding there was no evidence of “deliberate distortion” although it criticised the quality of pre war intelligence.

#3 3/05—Robb-Silberman report on WMD intelligence was equally categorical, finding ‘no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Comunnuntiy’s pre war assessments of Iraq’s weapons programs…analysts universally asserted that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter anyu of their analytical judgements. We conclude that it was a paucity of intelligence and poor analytical tradecraft, rather than political pressure, that produced the inaccurate pre war intelligence assessments. **(Victoria here: guess that helps to answer the question about why CIA suits don't dig Bush)

#4 Patrick Fitzgerald—Prosecutor in the Scooter Libby case who said, “This indictment’s not about the propriety of the war, and [people who believe fervently in the war effort, people who oppose it, people who are—have mixed feelings about it should not look to this indictment for any resolution of how they feel or any vidication of how they feel."

7/03 Joe Wilson publishes his op ed piece in the NYT where he claims he’d debunked President Bush’s 16 words on the Iraqi attempt to buy yellowcake. He dropped his line after the Senate and Bulter reports(and even got dropped from the Kerry campaign when it was shown he had lied to the senate intelligence committee of which Kerry and John Edwards were members at the time) and has now resurrected them for the willing fans in the Bush Lied fan club.

*of note is Mr. Wilson’s debrief to the CIA in which he admitted Saddam had tried to buy yellowcake in 1999 when Saddam sent his people to Niger to make the overture, but didn’t make his op ed piece. The fact that Saddam did try to buy yellow cake before did, however, make the senate report and the butler report.

*The senate intelligence committee found it was Valerie Wilson who suggested her non WMD, didn’t write a report, was allowed to file a story telling about his mission in the NYT, who sent her husband. CIA docs also prove this conclusion.

WSJ 11/3/05 “The only real support there has ever been for the “bush lied” storyline came from a man who is himself a demonstrable liar.”

Here's what else Factcheck.org has to say about the "LIES" President Bush supposedly wilfully told. Read the Senate report here. Read the Butler report here.

Summary

The famous “16 words” in President Bush’s Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union address turn out to have a basis in fact after all, according to two recently released investigations in the US and Britain.
Bush said then, “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .” Some of his critics called that a lie, but the new evidence shows Bush had reason to say what he did.
A British intelligence review released July 14 calls Bush’s 16 words “well founded.”
A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from “a number of intelligence reports,” a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.
Ironically, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who later called Bush’s 16 words a “lie”, supplied information that the Central Intelligence Agency took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger .
Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA's conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.
None of the new information suggests Iraq ever nailed down a deal to buy uranium, and the Senate report makes clear that US intelligence analysts have come to doubt whether Iraq was even trying to buy the stuff. In fact, both the White House and the CIA long ago conceded that the 16 words shouldn’t have been part of Bush’s speech.
But what he said – that Iraq sought uranium – is just what both British and US intelligence were telling him at the time. So Bush may indeed have been misinformed, but that's not the same as lying.
Analysis

The "16 words" in Bush's State of the Union Address on Jan. 28, 2003 have been offered as evidence that the President led the US into war using false information intentionally. The new reports show Bush accurately stated what British intelligence was saying, and that CIA analysts believed the same thing.
The "16 Words"
During the State the Union Address on January 28, 2003, President Bush said:
Bush: The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

The Butler Report
After nearly a six-month investigation, a special panel reported to the British Parliament July 14 that British intelligence had indeed concluded back in 2002 that Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy uranium. The review panel was headed by Lord Butler of Brockwell, who had been a cabinet secretary under five different Prime Ministers and who is currently master of University College, Oxford.
The Butler report said British intelligence had "credible" information -- from several sources -- that a 1999 visit by Iraqi officials to Niger was for the purpose of buying uranium:
Butler Report: It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999. The British Government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger’s exports, the intelligence was credible.
The Butler Report affirmed what the British government had said about the Niger uranium story back in 2003, and specifically endorsed what Bush said as well.
Butler Report: By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” was well-founded.
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reported July 7, 2004 that the CIA had received reports from a foreign government (not named, but probably Britain) that Iraq had actually concluded a deal with Niger to supply 500 tons a year of partially processed uranium ore, or "yellowcake." That is potentially enough to produce 50 nuclear warheads.
Wilson: Bush's Words "The Lie"
(From a web chat sponsored by Kerry for President Oct. 29, 2003)
*** Joe Wilson (Oct 29, 2003 11:24:53 AM)I would remind you that had Mr.. Cheney taken into consideration my report as well as 2 others submitted on this subject, rather than the forgeries
*** Joe Wilson (Oct 29, 2003 11:25:06 AM)the lie would never have been in President Bush's State of the Union address
*** Joe Wilson (Oct 29, 2003 11:25:14 AM)so when they ask, "Who betrayed the President?"
*** Joe Wilson (Oct 29, 2003 11:25:30 AM)They need to point the finger at the person who inserted the 16 words, not at the person who found the truth of the matterThe Senate report said the CIA then asked a "former ambassador" to go to Niger and report. That is a reference to Joseph Wilson -- who later became a vocal critic of the President's 16 words. The Senate report said Wilson brought back denials of any Niger-Iraq uranium sale, and argued that such a sale wasn't likely to happen. But the Intelligence Committee report also reveals that Wilson brought back something else as well -- evidence that Iraq may well have wanted to buy uranium.
Wilson reported that he had met with Niger's former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayaki, who said that in June 1999 he was asked to meet with a delegation from Iraq to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between the two countries.Based on what Wilson told them, CIA analysts wrote an intelligence report saying former Prime Minister Mayki "interpreted 'expanding commercial relations' to mean that the (Iraqi) delegation wanted to discuss uranium yellowcake sales." In fact, the Intelligence Committee report said that "for most analysts" Wilson's trip to Niger "lent more credibility to the original Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports on the uranium deal."
The subject of uranium sales never actually came up in the meeting, according to what Wilson later told the Senate Intelligence Committee staff. He quoted Mayaki as saying that when he met with the Iraqis he was wary of discussing any trade issues at all because Iraq remained under United Nations sanctions. According to Wilson, Mayaki steered the conversation away from any discussion of trade.
For that reason, Wilson himself has publicly dismissed the significance of the 1999 meeting. He said on NBC’s Meet the Press May 2, 2004:
Wilson: …At that meeting, uranium was not discussed. It would be a tragedy to think that we went to war over a conversation in which uranium was not discussed because the Niger official was sufficiently sophisticated to think that perhaps he might have wanted to discuss uranium at some later date.
But that's not the way the CIA saw it at the time. In the CIA's view, Wilson's report bolstered suspicions that Iraq was indeed seeking uranium in Africa. The Senate report cited an intelligence officer who reviewed Wilson’s report upon his return from Niger:
Committee Report: He (the intelligence officer) said he judged that the most important fact in the report was that the Nigerian officials admitted that the Iraqi delegation had traveled there in 1999, and that the Nigerian Prime Minister believed the Iraqis were interested in purchasing uranium, because this provided some confirmation of foreign government service reporting.

M 37 "poorly worded" "political jumble" The Judge Shouldn't be Recalled--so says a Victoria Taft Show Blog emailer. What do YOU say?

Dear Listeners: Poorly worded? Has this writer read the judge's decision?

Victoria- This is mind-boggling. Judges should not have to worry about the realm of public opinion. Their job is to interpret the constitution to the best of their ablility. Measure 37 is poorly worded, and when it was put on the ballot, the rhetoric made it seem as though an efficient economic benefit for property is fair for those whose property is displaced by Measure 37. Worded properly, Measure 37 is a political jumble of inefficiencies created to benefit corporations in the State of Oregon. If you don't like the ruling of a judge, elect political officials, whose job it is to pay attention to public opinion, to amend ballot measures to the liking of the public, so that they will not be deemed unconstitutional by an "activist judge." The moment a judge is concerned more with public opinion than with interpreting the the constitution, then the judicial system begins to fail. What saddens me the most is that people like yourself (Taft) are unwilling to admit that we have a system set up to deal with situations like this - it's called the appelate courts. If Judge James's ruling is wrong, then it will be overturned. She wouldn't be the first judge in history to have a ruling overturned. I'm pretty sure Supreme Court Nominee Alito had a ruling overturned - by the Supreme Court. You don't seem to have a problem with that!

Richard Miniter Author of "DISINFORMATION" on The Victoria Taft Show TONIGHT! AM 860 KPAM, "The Talk Station"

Largest Immigration Fraud Case in History of Oregon Wraps Up. Oregonian story? Nowhere.

The final statements were uttered by both sides Tuesday in the case of a Washington county man who is alleged to have perpetrated what the Oregonian newspaper calls the largest immigration fraud case in Oregon history. While there was an Oregonian reporter in the courtroom yesterday no story appeared today.

The Victoria Taft Show courtroom mole reports no fireworks occured in the courtroom. Rebuttal witnesses were called. One of the most curious witnesses was an Hispanic man who works for Teufel Nursery who, through the aid of a courtroom translator, said he was one of Mr. Robleto's customers. I guess what we're supposed to draw from the testimony is that Mr. Robleto didn't only clear the way for 80,000 illegal aliens to get phony ID and therefore licenses but that he also helped out hard working, law abiding citizens too. Problem is no one, not the prosecution, not the defense (whose witness it was) ever, EVER asked the man if he was in the United States legally. I guess nobody cares.

In his closing statement defense attorney Fred Natchigal claimed the prosecution hadn't proven its case because there was no smoking gun. There was no one who saw Mr. Robleto, the defendant, get phony documents, or rush through the 80,000 driving tests, or... Apparently believing the judge would discount all the circumstantial evidence against Robleto, hence, invoking the OJ-esque defense which goes thusly, "if you don't have videotape of him committing the murders you must acquit." A bit overwrought, but the point is made.

The woman who has been convicted of providing Mr. Robleto with phony ID's (including the phonied envelopes --see previous posts for deets), reportedly has served her time and soon will be deported to her native land in which she has citizenship. Three guesses. Give up? Mexico. BTW: she got nuttin from the DA or state for her testimony in the trial we're told. No quid. No pro. No quo. Ole!

The judge has taken the case under advisement or something and is expected to render a verdict next Tuesday, November 7th, at 8:30 am. We'll be there.