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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. december 2005 / Time Line December 21, 2005
Version 3.520. December 2005, 22. December 2005
12/21/2005
Conyers introduces bills to
censure Bush and Cheney
Conyers introduces bill to create a select committee to investigate
possible crimes and make recommendations regarding grounds for
impeachment
Congressman John Conyers has introduced three new pieces of
legislation aimed at censuring President Bush and Vice President
Cheney, and at creating a fact-finding committee that could be a
first step toward impeachment.
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=8329176
For more information on these bills, visit
http://www.CensureBush.org
That link will take you to a newly revised After Downing Street
site, where you'll find at the top an extensive new report produced
by the House Judiciary Committee and titled "The Constitution in
Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation,
Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War."
The Censure Bush campaign will provide a new focus for town hall
meetings about Iraq, approximately 60 of which are scheduled all
over the country on January 7th. See:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event
Get more information:
http://www.CensureBush.org
CensureBush.org Campaign Launched in Response to New House
Legislation
The AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, an alliance of over 100
grassroots organizations, has launched a new campaign called
CensureBush.org in order to support new legislation introduced by
Congressman John Conyers that would censure President Bush and Vice
President Cheney and create a select committee to investigate the
Administration's possible crimes and make recommendations regarding
grounds for impeachment.
H.Res.635 would create a select committee - modeled after Sam
Ervin's Watergate committee - to investigate the Administration's
intent to go to war before congressional authorization,
manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing
torture, and retaliating against critics, and to make
recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.
H.Res.636 and H.Res.637 would censure, respectively, Bush and
Cheney for failing to respond to requests for information
concerning allegations that they and others in the Administration
misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to
go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated intelligence
information regarding the justification for the war, countenanced
torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in
Iraq, and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of
the Administration, for failing to adequately account for certain
misstatements they made regarding the war, and – in the case
of President Bush – for failing to comply with Executive
Order 12958.
These two efforts are complementary - H.Res.635 seeks
accountability for the Bush administration's monumental crimes,
while H.Res.636 and H.Res.637 seek accountability for their
coverups.
12/21/2005
Oak Ridge Uranium Facilities to Be Destroyed
Global Security Newswire
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_12_21.html#A7F92E40
Contractors have received U.S. Energy Department authorization to
accelerate the dismantlement of former uranium enrichment
operations at the Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee, the Associated
Press reported yesterday.
Workers from Bechtel Jacobs Co. have been doing preliminary work on
the K-25 and K-27 enrichment facilities. Now they can begin
removing uranium deposits, injecting stabilization foam into pipes,
dismantling radioactive equipment, and destroying the
structures.
Equipment is expected to be sent to an on-site nuclear landfill.
Most of the K-25 site will be destroyed, although the northern
section will be preserved, AP reported.
Work must be completed by the end of 2008, according to AP.
“What we are free to do now is removal of any process
equipment and to focus on the high-risk work,” Steve
McCracken, head of DOE cleanup at Oak Ridge, told the Knoxville
News Sentinel.
K-25 was used to separate uranium isotopes and concentrate U-235
for weapons. No work has been done at that site since the
mid-1960s, AP reported (Associated Press, Dec. 20).
12/21/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Arlington, Va., is being awarded
$20,000,000 for Modification 05 to Task Order 0023 under a cost
reimbursement, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity emergency
construction capabilities contract (N62470-04-D-4017) for disaster
recovery efforts in support of response to the immediate aftermath
of Hurricane Wilma for clean up and repair to the family housing
units and continued hurricane relief efforts in South Florida and
the Key West Florida region. Award of this modification brings the
total task order amount to $70,000,000. Work will be performed in
the areas noted above, and is expected to be completed by January
2006. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal
year. The basic contract was competitively procured with 59
proposals solicited, three offers received and award made on July
26, 2004. The total contract amount is not to exceed $500,000,000,
which includes the base period and four option years. The Naval
Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the
contracting activity.
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