16-03-2011, 04:14 AM
Sunshine Week is Underway and the Congressional Oversight Committee will be holding a full committee hearing (2157 Rayburn HOB) from 9am-11am on St. Patrick's Day - Thursday, March 17, 2011 on the subject of "The Freedom of Information Act: Crowd-Sourcing Government Oversight."
Also see: JFKcountercoup
jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com
Those scheduled to testify include: Miriam Nisbet - NARA; Daniel Metcalfe Collaboration on Government Secrecy; Tom Fitton Judicial Watch; Rick Blum Sunshine in Government; Angela Canterbury Project on Open Government Oversight.
This hearing may be televised in the USA on CSPAN live or delayed at another time.
It will be a good time to view the committee at work and see how such hearings are conducted, so when they finally get around to holding a hearing on the JFK Act we know what to expect.
The two on-line petitions we have going requesting the committee hold hearings - include the original petition to the Democrats (with over 350 signatures JFK ACT Oversight Hearings - Signatures) and the more recent one (with nearly 200 JFK Act Oversight Hearings - Signatures), which will be presented to the Committee chairman and subcommittee chairmen and other members of the committee this week.
Many thanks to all those who have signed on. To petition the government for such requests is one of the basic rights of a citizen in a free and open society, and one that we need to use in this case.
If you have yet to sign the petition you can do now or within the next week JFK Act Oversight Hearings Petition, and send the link to those friends you know who would like to sign it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/112263/petition.html
We also are requesting that people privately fax a letter to the Chairman of the Committee (Issa) requesting to be notified when a JFK Act Oversight Hearing is scheduled so arrangements can be made to attend or review the proceedings on CSPAN.
Here's my one-page letter that will give you an idea of what to day. If the committee gets 100 such faxes or letters mailed to them, they will hold a hearing, and you can be one who makes a difference. While some people may be shy about signing a public petition, your confidentially will be maintained and you can still have an impact by sending a one-page, polite fax and mailed letter to the Committee, as I have done.
Open Letter to the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee of the US Congress Rep. Darrell Issa (R. Calf.)
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-5074 /Fax: (202) 225-3974
Dear Rep. Issa,
As chairman of the House Oversight Committee, you are responsible for holding public hearings that oversee the laws of the United States, including the JFK Act of 1992 and the work of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), that has yet to be given any oversight since the Review Board was dissolved over fifteen years ago.
The last time the Republicans controlled the Committee they didn't conduct any oversight at all for over a decade, and the few years that the Democrats were in control they appeared sympathetic but "didn't want to rock the boat." Well now you are in the driver's seat, and are threatening to hold oversight hearings every week, and if you do, then oversight of the JFK Act should be given a top priority.
It is an important subject that many Americans are concerned about, and there will be an increase in interest with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy administration. There are many questions that deserve to be addressed, including why Secret Service records rwere intentionally destroyed after they were requested by the ARRB, why other important assassination records were destroyed, how national security records could go missing without any investigation of their disposition, and why significant numbers of records are still wrongfully and illegally being with held.
This is a non-partisan issue supported by both Democrats and Republicans, liberals or conservatives, conspiracy and non-conspiracy advocates alike, and is of serious concern to the majority of Americas who have lost their confidence in the government.
I believe you will take this issue seriously and request to be notified, if and when you decide to schedule an oversight hearing on the JFK Act, so I can make arrangements to attend and review the proceedings that will be of interest to all Americans.
Thank you for your time in this matter,
William Kelly
Billkelly3@gmail.com
If this doesn't work, the next step is to take out a full page display advertisement in the Congressional Weekly and publish the petition and try to embarrass them.
Let me know if anyone will be in Washington on Thursday and is interested in attending the meeting, which is open to the public.
BK
Also see: JFKcountercoup
jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com
Those scheduled to testify include: Miriam Nisbet - NARA; Daniel Metcalfe Collaboration on Government Secrecy; Tom Fitton Judicial Watch; Rick Blum Sunshine in Government; Angela Canterbury Project on Open Government Oversight.
This hearing may be televised in the USA on CSPAN live or delayed at another time.
It will be a good time to view the committee at work and see how such hearings are conducted, so when they finally get around to holding a hearing on the JFK Act we know what to expect.
The two on-line petitions we have going requesting the committee hold hearings - include the original petition to the Democrats (with over 350 signatures JFK ACT Oversight Hearings - Signatures) and the more recent one (with nearly 200 JFK Act Oversight Hearings - Signatures), which will be presented to the Committee chairman and subcommittee chairmen and other members of the committee this week.
Many thanks to all those who have signed on. To petition the government for such requests is one of the basic rights of a citizen in a free and open society, and one that we need to use in this case.
If you have yet to sign the petition you can do now or within the next week JFK Act Oversight Hearings Petition, and send the link to those friends you know who would like to sign it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/112263/petition.html
We also are requesting that people privately fax a letter to the Chairman of the Committee (Issa) requesting to be notified when a JFK Act Oversight Hearing is scheduled so arrangements can be made to attend or review the proceedings on CSPAN.
Here's my one-page letter that will give you an idea of what to day. If the committee gets 100 such faxes or letters mailed to them, they will hold a hearing, and you can be one who makes a difference. While some people may be shy about signing a public petition, your confidentially will be maintained and you can still have an impact by sending a one-page, polite fax and mailed letter to the Committee, as I have done.
Open Letter to the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee of the US Congress Rep. Darrell Issa (R. Calf.)
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-5074 /Fax: (202) 225-3974
Dear Rep. Issa,
As chairman of the House Oversight Committee, you are responsible for holding public hearings that oversee the laws of the United States, including the JFK Act of 1992 and the work of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), that has yet to be given any oversight since the Review Board was dissolved over fifteen years ago.
The last time the Republicans controlled the Committee they didn't conduct any oversight at all for over a decade, and the few years that the Democrats were in control they appeared sympathetic but "didn't want to rock the boat." Well now you are in the driver's seat, and are threatening to hold oversight hearings every week, and if you do, then oversight of the JFK Act should be given a top priority.
It is an important subject that many Americans are concerned about, and there will be an increase in interest with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy administration. There are many questions that deserve to be addressed, including why Secret Service records rwere intentionally destroyed after they were requested by the ARRB, why other important assassination records were destroyed, how national security records could go missing without any investigation of their disposition, and why significant numbers of records are still wrongfully and illegally being with held.
This is a non-partisan issue supported by both Democrats and Republicans, liberals or conservatives, conspiracy and non-conspiracy advocates alike, and is of serious concern to the majority of Americas who have lost their confidence in the government.
I believe you will take this issue seriously and request to be notified, if and when you decide to schedule an oversight hearing on the JFK Act, so I can make arrangements to attend and review the proceedings that will be of interest to all Americans.
Thank you for your time in this matter,
William Kelly
Billkelly3@gmail.com
If this doesn't work, the next step is to take out a full page display advertisement in the Congressional Weekly and publish the petition and try to embarrass them.
Let me know if anyone will be in Washington on Thursday and is interested in attending the meeting, which is open to the public.
BK