Waxman Set to Probe Areas of Bush Gov't
Nov 10 3:54 PM US/Eastern
The Democratic congressman who will investigate the Bush administration's running of the government says there are so many areas of possible wrongdoing, his biggest problem will be deciding which ones to pursue.
There's the response to Hurricane Katrina, government contracting in Iraq and on homeland security, political interference in regulatory decisions by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, and allegations of war profiteering, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., told the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
"I'm going to have an interesting time because the Government
Reform Committee has jurisdiction over everything," Waxman said Friday, three days after his party's capture of Congress put him in line to chair the panel. "The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose."
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Among the issues that should have been investigated but weren't, Waxman contended, were the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, the controversy over the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name, and the pre-Iraq war use of intelligence.
Agenda:
Bush blew up dikes - lit the fuses
Bush poisoned the earth - personally
Bush poisoned our food - personally
Bush's real name is Halliburton
Bush was in drag dressed as Lynndie English in uniform
Bush borrowed cell phones to leak Plame's name because Wilson dressed better
Bush who is really Rove implanted thoughts in Pelosi, Reid, Schummer, et al forcing them to hate Saddam
Bush isn't smart enough to be