The Raw Story | Why Rachel Maddow is ‘thankful’ Bush administration is ending

Rachel Maddow lists all the Bush’s cohorts who have already been forced to resigned or who have been indicted. It’s a long list and it’s only the beginning, Bush is going to try and pardon most.

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Fascist Republicans House of Cards start to crumble!

It was not a coincidence that things started falling apart when the election drew near, the economy, war ll street, big three auto makers, big oil, they knew the people had their fill with the wanton rape and pillaging of our country for the last eight years. They saw the immense crowds that Obama drew and they saw the writing on the wall. The people were uprising, in as much as a revolutionary way as any other, through their guaranteed right to vote and the dismal voter apathy that appeared in previous elections would be quelled. And it was. So the exodus began, trying to leave town before the long arm of the law overtook them. No one is above the law even those who are suppose to execute the law. They have sold this country down the drain, the brakes have been put on, but it may be too late. The deceit and subterfuge was so widespread, including the White House, Congress and the Media, that it will take wholesale arrest warrants to drag in the guilty. The billions of dollars made by the military-industrial complex drained our wallets, killed our most precious assets, our young and maimed the future of our Nation. These war criminals are to be held accountable! Their criminality must not set a precedence for future dictatorial inspired leaders.

There are bad people in the world. People who would take advantage of an outrage, to make it worst, simply for their pocketbooks and their long range goals. So it was with 911. An atrocity that was exacerbated by those in charge. Leading an inflamed public into their folds of manipulation. But if not for the Internet these scoundrels might have forever gone unfounded, but the truth, so far, can still be researched and discovered on-line. The history of their crimes is immense, it takes a step back in time to grasp, it’s all there, just connect the dots.

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” Thomas Jefferson 1802

On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest. On that day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal Reserve. Mr. Kennedy’s order gave the Treasury the power “to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury.” This meant that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury’s vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. The ramifications of this bill are enormous.

Mr. Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York out of business. If enough of these silver certificates were to come into circulation that would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve notes. This is because the silver certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not backed by anything. Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the government the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own money backed by silver.

After Mr. Kennedy was assassinated just five months later, 45 years ago today, Nov. 22, 1963, no more silver certificates were issued. That Executive order has never been rescinded and we must urge President-elect Obama to enforce it.

Democrats to White House: Preserve your records

By Pamela Hess / Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees last week told the White House to preserve all records produced by the Bush administration and expressed “particular concerns” whether Vice President Dick Cheney’s office will comply with the law.

“We believe it is vital the presidential and vice presidential documents belonging to the American people be preserved, including those related to key national security decisions in which the (office of the vice president) played an important role,” the senators wrote in the Nov. 7 letter to White House lawyer Fred Fielding. The letter was obtained by The Associated Press.

The letter was sent by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Sen. John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. They asked Fielding to detail steps being taken to preserve White House documents and hand them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.

The senators asked whether the White House believes that any notes, document and records created in the White House by the president, vice president and their staffs may be destroyed without first consulting with the archivist of the United States, and if so which ones. It also asks whether Fielding has investigated a Washington Post report that some presidential orders are kept off White House records in a safe in office of the vice president’s lawyer.

“We have particular concerns … regarding documents in the possession of the Office of the Vice President,” the letter said. Citing ongoing litigation over the preservation of Cheney’s records, the senators wrote: “the declarations filed in that case by the Office of the Vice President raise serious concerns about its interpretations of the (Presidential Records Act).”

The 1978 Presidential Records Act requires all presidential and vice presidential records to be transferred to the Archives immediately upon the end of the president’s last term of office and gives the archivist responsibility to preserve and control access to presidential records. The law ended the tradition of private ownership of presidential papers, opening White House records to the public and historians.

In 2003, Cheney began asserting that the vice president’s office is not an entity within the executive branch.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto in an e-mail called the leak of the letter “a partisan attack by Senate Democrats.”

“We do not need to be reminded about the Presidential Records Act by Chairman Leahy,” he wrote.

A Senate official with knowledge of the letter said there is no indication the White House is destroying documents.

Cheney’s office is embroiled in a lawsuit filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington which is trying to ensure that no presidential records are destroyed or handled in a way that makes them unavailable to the public.

Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW, said Cheney’s position on the status of the vice president’s office raises questions whether his records will be preserved in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.

In a deposition taken by CREW Monday, an Archives staff member who works on presidential materials said some of the vice president’s records generated in his capacity as the president of the Senate may be exempt from the law if they are “purely political or partisan.”

Records of Cheney’s dealings with the Republican National Committee would not require preservation under the act, Nancy Kegan Smith, the archives official, said during the deposition. Smith also said NARA has not made a final decision on the status of Cheney’s records produced when he acts as president of the Senate.

Clare O’Donnell, Cheney’s deputy chief of staff, was being deposed by CREW for the lawsuit Thursday.

The Bush White House has been most secretive in years, said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.

“The rate of classification activity hit a record high in the Bush administration. More information was classified more quickly than ever before. But what’s worse is that secrecy authority was used to conceal controversial policies involving domestic surveillance, prisoner detention and interrogation,” Aftergood said.

Human rights and civil liberties advocates are clamoring for more openness in the Obama administration.

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