Stop the lies!!! Tell the TRUTH! by Ghoulman

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Stop the lies!!! Tell the TRUTH!

POSTED BY: GHOULMAN
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 06:15
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Friday, September 10, 2004 9:33 AM

... aimed at those who are.

Whistleblowers Call For Disclosure of Government's Iraq Deceit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2004
11:19 AM
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0909-20.htm
Ellsberg, Former CIA, FBI Officials Say Americans Need Full Disclosure of Lies, Cover-ups, and War’s Projected Costs in Lives & Dollars

WASHINGTON - September 9 - Daniel Ellsberg, joined today by ten former employees of the FBI, CIA, State and Defense Departments, issued a call to current government officials to disclose classified information that is being wrongly withheld, about plans for and estimated costs of the war in Iraq, and other documents that contradict government lies.

The “call”, in the form of an open memo to current government employees, says “It is time for unauthorized truth-telling.” Drawing the clear parallel to Vietnam, the group urges that ongoing silence about government deceptions and cover-ups and reluctance to publicize information about the war’s costs and projected casualties carries with it a significant price in human life and national security.

The group released a list of existing documents wrongly withheld within the government as examples of the kind that the public has a right to see. These include background on Army Staff estimates before the war that the Iraq effort would require several hundred thousand troops. Similarly, current estimates of potential casualty rates as the insurgency in Iraq continues to grow as well as the likely cost of waging war over the next few years almost surely exist, and should be disclosed now.

To current government officials, Ellsberg says: “If you have documentary evidence that our country has been lied into an unnecessary, wrongful, endless war—as I had during Vietnam—I urge you to consider doing right now what I wish I had done years earlier than I did: give the truth to Congress and the press, with copies of those documents. The personal costs you risk are great, but you may save many Americans from being lied to death.”

Ray McGovern adds: “Truth. Never in the past 50 years has it been in such short supply in theUS defense/intelligence community. Yet it is the truth--once known--that will keep us free. Truth-tellers, arise!”

Ellsberg, best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers to Congress and the press in 1971, was joined at a Washington press conference by Ray McGovern, formerly an analyst for 27 years at the CIA, who provided several presidential staffs with their daily morning security briefings; Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator who was fired for revealing security lapses at the FBI; and Coleen Rowley, one of Time magazine’s Persons of the Year as a Whistleblower, currently a Special Agent in the FBI’s Minneapolis field office.

The Call and press conference are part of Ellsberg’s ongoing work with the Truth Telling Project. The conference is also sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, which has given its annual Award to Colleen Rowley and Katharine Gun (who will also be present at the conference) and, last night at American University, to Sibel Edmonds.

Gun, a former translator with the British equivalent of the NSA, was fired after leaking sensitive information to the British press about efforts to “surge” intercept capability against members of the UN Security Council. Gun was acquitted of charges of violating England’s Official Secrets Act. Another participant is Major Frank Grevil, of the Danish Intelligence Service, who faces trial for releasing his estimates that revealed lack of evidence of WMDs in Iraq, contradicting his country’s involvement in efforts to distort intelligence in order to support the war.

Other signers of the Call—including Mary Ann Wright, who resigned as Deputy Chief of Mission in Mongolia over the war-- will also be present, along with Ann Beeson of the ACLU and Beth Daly of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:48 AM

GHOULMAN

This is one of those articles that really know what's what.

Here is truth. Just wanted to bump that.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:40 AM

THEROGUEROOSTER

I believe everything I read on the Internet. Really.

I'm not saying this story is or isn't factual, but I question the professionalism and agenda of the site that published it. Looking at the titles of some of their other stories:

"Water Barons Lose Another One"
"Report Explodes Myth of Free Trade"
"PBS Panders to Right With New Programming"

And the actual reading of these and other articles gives one the distinct impression not of fair and unbias reporting, but of unprovable conspiracy theories and the telling to their readers what they want to hear.

Perhaps you can provide an article from another news agency that can corroborate this story. Preferably from an internationally recognized source, such as CNN or The Washington Post.

-tRR

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 6:15 AM

GHOULMAN

^^^ I see your point, and "commondreams.com" is certainly not a conservitive POV. Though I don't see anything misleading about the articles you mention. In Canada, water stolen by our government and sold to the USA is a major issue... but I digress.

However, the writer of the article, and his/her footnotes, are what is important, not who publishes it. Does the writer quote people or just spit out his/her own opinions from some shadowy "source".

You must recognise the name David Ellsberg from the Vietnam era - just search for "the Pentagon Papers" or his name itself and you will be enlightened.

Also, note that the story quotes respected American patriots who hold high level positions. These are people whos' words you should hear...

But you won't hear them on CNN or FOX or...

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