I expect the Republicans to attempt to discredit Zelikow by bringing up his remarks at U.Va. that the Iraq war was launched on behalf of Israel. Philip Zelikow is a dangerous man and needs to be exposed.

Spencer,
Thanks for this update! I’m looking forward to this hearing!

Bob in HI

Citizen Dalybean:

Get ALL of the murderous bastards out in public, under oath and with competent staff questionters …not the somnabulists on the House Judiciary Committee.

Tell em viking!

Is arlin still there and is he playing this as a new dem or old repub?

I agree with you, this should be a fun one. I always love to watch these lovely people sweat it out under oath in a public forum. Let’s hope the Dems come prepared with pointed questions, not a bunch of generalities. We got to expose the entire story.

Speaking of the Senate Judiciary:
http://yellingatthemoon.com/20…..ttiee.aspx

Zelikow is associated with all the wrong people. He’s up to no good. I shall know you by the company you keep.

He may be in CYA mode now that the sh*t is leaking out… like Rice saying she conveyed the info and had no part in the message creation, no opinion and no skin in that game. She’s a snake and he worked for her.

Can you show me where to find these remarks?

Hmmmmm…..the 13th? Any portents there? *g*

Zelikow’s remarks at UVA that the Iraq war was launched to protect Israel are reported here:

http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23083

I wonder if he’s throwing Condi under the bus? He’s covered her rear for half a decade (or perhaps academically, more). Throughout the 9/11 Committee hearings he concealed factual material regarding Condi’s fore-knowledge that played away from her responsibility (e.g. the Tenet-Cofer Black briefing in June 2001). Also Zelikow was the Bush transition team guy on Counter-Terrorism. He shouldn’t have been the Executive Director of the Commission…he should have been giving testimony, under oath, THEN.

Given some of the overlap between topical areas I wonder if there are all sorts of land mines that Zelikow will be dodging.

How can he actually claim that his memoranda were destroyed without saying that Rice herself ordered him to do so? Notice that he said that the only copies of the memo might have been preserved in safes in the State Department…Condi’s, his own, and Bellingers’? Only someone who ordered the destruction would “keep a copy”?

Bellinger and Rice start opposing the “reauthorization by Bush” [i.e. torture had to be originally authorized by him if it was “reauthorized”] a year later. Bellinger “discovered” that it was stopped by the Israelis because of “inaccurate intelligence”, not the legal strictures proposed by Zelikow. Condi said “it’s time had passed”. Again, not that it defied the Geneva Conventions and US Constitution.

Any possibility that Zelikow finally had a crisis of morality from being inside the looking-glass, seeing how corrupt it really was, and deciding that he didn’t want anything to do with it anymore? Maybe that’s why he went back to being a Professor? Could he be the John Dean of this generation?

I hope he’s got security if he’s going to roll over on these criminals.

I was hoping for a news site or something.

Here is Glenn Greenwald on Philip Zelikow cancelling his testimony to Congress on Iraq. Will Zelikow even show up to this hearing?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html

Here is Philip Zelikow, on the one hand, and Mearsheimer and Walt, on the other hand, arguing about Philip Zelikow’s reported remarks at UVa that the Iraq war was launched to protect Israel and whether IPS is a legitimate news service:

http://spinwatch.org/-news-by-…..ip-zelikow

Thanks, just because I can’t read him saying that the war was launched to protect Israel, and just because he denies saying it, doesn’t mean much to me. I know what I know.