Closed Door Hearings on Volume II Likely in June

Closed Door Hearings on Volume II Likely in June

Arrogance, Fear and Greed Make HPSCI Ignore

The Interests of the People

May 21, 1999

A confidential source inside the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has told From The Wilderness that the Committee may be planning on holding closed-door hearings on Volume II of the CIA's Inspector General report on Contra drug trafficking sometime in June. In spite of heavy public and even some congressional pressure for open hearings - closed door hearings would make it impossible for the American public to make their voice heard or determine what the committee, chaired by former CIA officer Porter Goss suggested doing about the egregious admission of CIA drug trafficking contained therein.

The source, who requested anonymity, also hinted that HPSCI was planning on releasing its own report, authored in part by new ranking member Julian Dixon (D-Calif.), which would further whitewash the evidence and let CIA off the hook. In this manner congressional obligations on the matter would be closed - forever. The Clinton impeachment gambit would then be a total success.

Julian Dixon, who is African-American, reminds me of the Jewish string quartet the Nazis had playing concertos at Auschwitz for the enjoyment of the Jews who were on their way to the gas chambers.

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