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Phase II Report Rejected, Evidence of Alleged Senate Malfeasance in re Geneva


The Phase II Senate reports have been rejected. They are not acceptable as stand alone documents. The Senate reports well justify renewed public discussion of a modernized system of oversight for the United States government. These Senate reports well make the point justifying the proposed reforms.

The reports are a distraction from the President's illegal propaganda and do not provide a useful guide to confront the President.

All American citizens reading this notice of formal rejection of these Senate reports, are encouraged to read and consider the following action items. The Senate has failed us. The public has work to do at the State and local level.

Without additional information, the adverse inference is these reports are evidence of alleged malfeasance by Senators, Staff counsel, and those involved with the original alleged illegal activity.  These assessments are available to war crimes prosecutors.

The reports are disappointing. The Senate Committee has had four years, under the leadership of two different political parties, to outline a credible research plan, gather evidence, and present their findings. The report is flawed on many levels. The methodology used was inadequately discussed, nor does it logically justify confidence in the conclusions. Technically, the reports is unreliable. The list of problems is exhaustive.

The Senators and Senate has a chance to quickly move to mitigate the damage to the reputation to the United States Senate, Congress, and the United States government. The Senate Committee must disclose by close of business EST next Wednesday, June 11th, 2008, to provide the following in pdf files on the Committee Website:

A signature page for each Senator and Staff counsel and staffer who read, reviewed, approved, or had input to this committee report; and a signature from each person who had input to the report, whose name is on the report, or is on the committee and worked on the report.

Copies of all working papers, hand written notes, other Congressional memos, or other documentation used to justify each sentence in the report;

A list of diagrams, tables, and flow charts the Committee plans to include in future assessments of information flows within the intelligence community then to policy makers and propagandists;

A reconciliation table showing how each sentence was derived from original source documents, with dissenting views related to each sentence;

A trace between key names in the report to the public disclosures in the media and DoD emails to provide supporting material related to who was or was not involved with various activities and programs;

A discussion of each key name in the report in the context of the DoD emails, and disclosures in the media related to their involvement with the groups connected with Feith;

A clear statement and set of guidelines the committee used to conduct its research;

A clear outline of which DoD or intelligence guidance and baseline requirements the committee used to evaluate the flow of intelligence information from its origin to the final user in the United States government;

Copies of all redacted emails, notes, releasable intelligence, and other original source documents used to arrive at conclusions about the statements on the original intelligence; and

An explanation for the reason specific DoD email documents were excluded from the analysis, why they were not considered, and what fact checking (if any) was done on the Committee Report using the DoD emails, McClellan's book, Feith's public statements, and other disclosures about Feith's groups in the open media to include the NYT and Washington Post;

Responses in writing that address, respond to, and resolve each comment on this linked page; and
A change and reconciliation file for all readers to review how the original reports were updated and resubmitted in the resubmitted report.

The above requirements are not exhaustive. The Senate must comply with this deadline. If the Senate committee refuses to provide this information by next Wednesday, the public will have reasonable notice the Senators are not serious about their legal obligations under the Geneva Conventions. This remains on the table.

A report of 170+ pages of this poor quality could have been written in a few short hours. Until the public has this additional information, this report is formally rejected; but is entered into evidence of alleged malfeasance by the Senate Staff counsel, senate staff, and Senators on issues of war crimes, Geneva compliance, and domestic propaganda.

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Um, they've been "formally rejected" by whom exactly? By you? And you've also issued an ultimatum, hereby putting the Senate on notice that they've got to write a new report?

Wow.

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