VIDEO House Blocks Access To Goldstone Report
On November 4, the House of Representatives voted 344-36 (22 voted present) in favor of a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which chronicled the war crimes committed during last year's Gaza war. Not only that, in a break with normal procedure, the House refused to agree to Rep. Keith Ellison's (D-MN) request to publish the Goldstone Report in the Congressional Record. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) objected to publication and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman (D-CA) agreed with her. Bottom line: the American people will not be able to access the Goldstone Report on a US government website (which was surely Ros-Lehtinen's intention). Note: the Congressional Record routinely publishes what it called "extraneous material. In this case the Goldstone report was the subject of the vote which made it especially important that it be published in the record of the House. Plus Rep. Brian Baird on the Gaza slaughter.
On November 4, the House of Representatives voted 344-36 (22 voted present) in favor of a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which chronicled the war crimes committed during last year's Gaza war. Not only that, in a break with normal procedure, the House refused to agree to Rep. Keith Ellison's (D-MN) request to publish the Goldstone Report in the Congressional Record. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) objected to publication and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman (D-CA) agreed with her. Bottom line: the American people will not be able to access the Goldstone Report on a US government website (which was surely Ros-Lehtinen's intention)
i like the presentation from wisconsin congressman baird on the house floor about the goldstone report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHdsfJrOnro
November 10, 2009 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
The sheer numbers who voted to condemn the report are staggering. They are running scared from AIPAC, I guess.
November 10, 2009 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny...if they agree with you and J Street, they are acting based on their beliefs. If they are not, then it must be because they are under the thumb of AIPAC. Ridiculous, at best.
November 10, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you have a really good point.
Probably these members are not scared of AIPAC as you imply. Good thinking!
November 11, 2009 8:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
To each their own, sir.
November 11, 2009 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Goldstone report is a slander derived from fake witnesses under Hamas auspices. It shouldn't be in the Congressional Record. The report is available online without official Congressional approval.
The idea that the Israeli army was trying to massacre Gazans is not tenable. They were trying to stop the rockets, and they did.
November 10, 2009 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Citations to evidence of your claims would be appreciated.
November 10, 2009 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Citations? Expresso can't cite "pulling it out of my own as*" as a source.
November 10, 2009 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since when do members of Congress have to read what they condemn, let alone invite anyone else to read it? This is America, goddammit! We know without reading.
November 10, 2009 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you expect members of congress to read, you will be sadly mistaken. That is what they have all those aides for. They don't even read the laws they pass.
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November 11, 2009 6:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
The decline of literacy in America is not hard to understand, when Ros-Lehtinen is able to condemn as a waste of taxpayer money the reading of the Goldstone report by these aides.
November 11, 2009 9:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good as Baird's speech was - and it was a beauty - it pales against the speech given by Dennis Kucinich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=medww6KK_L4&feature=related
That's the sort of man I'd like to see in any public office, in any country, at any time.
My hat's off to you, Dennis.
November 11, 2009 4:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Contrary to your headline, the report is not blocked. Google finds it nicely.
November 11, 2009 9:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Typically futile Congressional action: Attempting to bar access to a report which is readily available on Google.
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November 12, 2009 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Goes to show, you can't sweep something under the a transparent rug...
Viva la Blogs!
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