It's a bit naive of Grayson to suggest that the truth will come out when the government releases classified documents about 9/11. Criminals do not go about documenting their crimes for future release. Elements of the U.S. government were involved in 9/11, and they are not going to leave a paper trail. Far from it. The same applies to the JFK assassination.

At another level, Grayson is obliged to tread carefully, because he is working inside that criminal government, which is not without serious risk if one is opposing the ruling sociopaths, even partially. That could account for his weak response. I always suspected that Ron Paul also had to play this game. That Ron Paul is becoming more direct now that he has retired would seem to confirm my suspicions.

This op-ed written by Congressman Alan Grayson appeared in The New York Times today. Read it, share it with your friends and family, and join more than 75,000 others who oppose U.S. military intervention in Syria by signing on at DontAttackSyria.com.

WASHINGTON - THE documentary record regarding an attack on Syria consists of just two papers: a four-page unclassified summary and a 12-page classified summary. The first enumerates only the evidence in favor of an attack. I'm not allowed to tell you what's in the classified summary, but you can draw your own conclusion.

On Thursday I asked the House Intelligence Committee staff whether there was any other documentation available, classified or unclassified. Their answer was "no."

The Syria chemical weapons summaries are based on several hundred underlying elements of intelligence information. The unclassified summary cites intercepted telephone calls, "social media" postings and the like, but not one of these is actually quoted or attached - not even clips from YouTube. (As to whether the classified summary is the same, I couldn't possibly comment, but again, draw your own conclusion.)

Over the last week the administration has run a full-court press on Capitol Hill, lobbying members from both parties in both houses to vote in support of its plan to attack Syria. And yet we members are supposed to accept, without question, that the proponents of a strike on Syria have accurately depicted the underlying evidence, even though the proponents refuse to show any of it to us or to the American public.

In fact, even gaining access to just the classified summary involves a series of unreasonably high hurdles.

We have to descend into the bowels of the Capitol Visitors Center, to a room four levels underground. Per the instructions of the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, note-taking is not allowed.

Once we leave, we are not permitted to discuss the classified summary with the public, the media, our constituents or even other members. Nor are we allowed to do anything to verify the validity of the information that has been provided.

And this is just the classified summary. It is my understanding that the House Intelligence Committee made a formal request for the underlying intelligence reports several days ago. I haven't heard an answer yet. And frankly, I don't expect one.

Compare this lack of transparency with the administration's treatment of the Benghazi attack. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to her credit, made every single relevant classified e-mail, cable and intelligence report available to every member of Congress. (I know this, because I read them all.) Secretary Clinton had nothing to hide.

Her successor, John Kerry, has said repeatedly that this administration isn't trying to manipulate the intelligence reports the way that the Bush administration did to rationalize its invasion of Iraq.

But by refusing to disclose the underlying data even to members of Congress, the administration is making it impossible for anyone to judge, independently, whether that statement is correct. Perhaps the edict of an earlier administration applies: "Trust, but verify."

The danger of the administration's approach was illustrated by a widely read report last week in The Daily Caller, which claimed that the Obama administration had selectively used intelligence to justify military strikes in Syria, with one report "doctored so that it leads a reader to just the opposite conclusion reached by the original report."

The allegedly doctored report attributes the attack to the Syrian general staff. But according to The Daily Caller, "it was clear that 'the Syrian general staff were out of their minds with panic that an unauthorized strike had been launched by the 155th Brigade in express defiance of their instructions.'"

I don't know who is right, the administration or The Daily Caller. But for me to make the correct decision on whether to allow an attack, I need to know. And so does the American public.

We have reached the point where the classified information system prevents even trusted members of Congress, who have security clearances, from learning essential facts, and then inhibits them from discussing and debating what they do know. And this extends to matters of war and peace, money and blood. The "security state" is drowning in its own phlegm.

My position is simple: if the administration wants me to vote for war, on this occasion or on any other, then I need to know all the facts. And I'm not the only one who feels that way.

Alan Grayson, a Democratic representative from Florida, is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

To be successful at deceiving and manipulating, sociopaths must control information. When information is being controlled (withheld, twisted, spun, propagandized, distorted, or falsified), you can be sure there is a sociopathic mind behind the manipulations. The inner core of the United States government is clearly of one sociopathic mind. Truth is being withheld, and lies are being manufactured. Do we accept to be led by sociopaths? Do we even recognize it? How much more evidence do we need? And when we are finally convinced of it, if ever, what are we going to do about it?

AG is trying to do the first thing in front of his nose and that is stop the war.

The big problem is the lie is so huge, that to actually grab it by its roots, is an absurdity. So peeps try to manage it, like AG or Ron P., etc.. To an actual 5th column that appears to be fighting evil, when in reality its keeping the Con ongoing through War!

The matrix is everywhere, it has force, it has gravity...

Yes, I agree. I have been digging for the roots, and all indications are that the root is sociopathy. At first, this idea was ignored by others, then ridiculed, but now it is gaining ground.

What was it that Gandhi said?

The one Lone Ranger amongst Congress in big AG to stop the war and Zook finds the one guy he wants to give no credibility too.

How funny is that?

Wheres the discernment?

Of course, if Zook is here as a gatekeeper, then you would expect him to specifically target Grayson.

Alan Grayson "Which Rebels Are We Talking About?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfEBGVufs5s

WTF? Where's the equivalent inspection and disarming of the United States and their chemical weapons? The spin here in this newscast is just completely over-the-top. Great victory for Obama? Rah-rah, he's our man! Thank goodness Grayson is not a cheerleading bimbo like the news anchor.

We are driven by war and debt...