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Written by UFPPC

Published: 25 August 2004

At 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 25, a delegation of five UFPPC members met with Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA 9th) to thank him for his efforts on the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and for further discussions on this matter, which is much in the news this week. The UFPPC members urged Congressman Smith to work with others to assert Congressís prerogatives in the Abu Ghraib affair by seeking and conducting a full-fledged, unlimited Congressional inquiry into a matter of immense importance to the honor and standing of the United States in the eyes of the world, but that at present is being whitewashed through in-house investigations within the Department of Defense.  --  Congressman Smith is well placed to exert influence on the issue, being a member of both the House Armed Services Committee (where he works on subcommittees for Tactical Air & Land Forces, Terrorism, and Unconventional Threats & Capabilities) and the House International Relations Committee (where he belongs to the subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific). While not optimistic about action on Abu Ghraib and related matters from the present Congress, both houses of which are controlled by members of the Republican Party, Congressman Smith held out hopes for a new approach from the 109th Congress, should there be a change of administrations.  --  UFPPCís visit was arranged by Kristi Nebel.  In attendance were UFPPC members Kristi Nebel, Mark Jensen, Marty Webb, Steve Nebel, and Ted Nation, who met for about forty minutes with Congressman Smith and his aide, Sean Eagan, in the Federal Building in Tacoma and gave him the following letter....

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