Representative Harman: Conservatives Falsely Hyped Terror Threat Against U.S. Capitol To Pass FISA Expansion
Some US Representatives believe now that Congress was hoodwinked during a vote on legislation by a group who intentionally lied about imminent terrorism that was artificial and manufactured to change the federal legislation:
On August 2, Roll Call issued a breaking news report, warning of a suspected terror threat against the U.S. Capitol:
Capitol Police officials have stepped up the department’s security presence on Capitol Hill in response to intelligence indicating the increased possibility of an al-Qaida terrorist attack on Congress sometime between now and Sept. 11.
Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) ratcheted up the rhetoric, "ominously" advising that "Congress needed to pass changes to terrorist surveillance laws before leaving for the August recess and warned that otherwise ‘the disaster could be on our doorstep.’"
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), speaking at a FISA event yesterday organized by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, stated that the terror claims were "part of a well-orchestrated campaign" by the administration to politicize the FISA debate. She referred to the efforts as part of the "Rovian strategy of using terrorism as a wedge political issue." Harman asserted that the intelligence agencies "knew" the terror claims propagated by conservative lawmakers were false:
That specific intelligence claim, it turned out, was bogus; the intelligence agencies knew that –apparently had communicated to Congress or to relevant people that it was bogus, the source was unreliable. But that communication wasn’t in any published form until the day that the Senate passed the amendments to FISA.
If the representatives have cause to believe this false manipulation to be case, then there is cause for investigation to begin without delay.
If treason, full-on, go-to-jail, don't come back, hang them high treason, is NOT the name of the crime for intentionally manipulating the vote and decision of Congress during the creation of critical federal legislation, by intentionally spreading false terrorism reports, then I ask you, what value do we place on our democratic process?
Is terrorism of the full US House, not treason? Explain to me why terrorism perpetrated by unknown actors against US congresspersons, for the sole purpose of preventing them from carrying out their duty to the nation, is NOT treason.
If home made terror was planted to manipulate this House vote, then what does this also suggest about the anthrax attack on Democratic Senators Leahy and Daschle during the September 20, 2001 Senate vote for the US Patriot Act?
Were these votes gamed by home made terror, in the 2001 Senate vote, as with the 2007 House vote?
Do you remember the Sep 20 2001 anthrax attacks that killed several people in my Hamilton New Jersey US Post Office?
Does the Dept of Justice remember?
What is the status of the six years and counting, anthrax investigations?
What reason could there be for the anthrax terrorism perpetrated by as yet unknown actors against the US Senate on Sept 20 2001, in the country which is reported to have no incidents of terrorism since September 11, to be a cold case?
What department and branch has let anthrax terror become a cold case?
My Senators, you MUST investigate vigorously.
My Representatives, you MUST investigate vigorously.
You must send a strong message to the perpetrators.
The perpetrators continue to terrorize you and our nation because you have thus far demonstrated that they CAN get away with it, unpunished thus far.
This string of uninvestigated terrorism against our federal legislatures is a major ongoing danger to our very republic.
To My Congress:
How long will you allow the gaming of our democracy by unknown terrorists who attack our legislatures during critical votes?
Source:
http://thinkprogress.org/...