Woo vs. Harmon - Witness Andrew H. Card

David C. Farmer, Successor-Trustee vs. Harmon

(Formerly Woo vs. Harmon & Nicholson vs. Harmon)

CV05-00030 DAE KSC

U.S. District Court For the District of Hawaii

Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang

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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS

ANDREW H. CARD

From wikipedia:

Andrew Hill "Andy" Card Jr. (born May 10, 1947) is an American politician and lobbyist, two time member of the United States Cabinet, and head of George W. Bush's White House Iraq Group. Card served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under George H. W. Bush and the White House Chief of Staff under his son. He announced his resignation as Chief of Staff March 28, 2006, effective April 14, 2006....

Private career

From 1993 to 1998, Card was President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association (AAMA), the trade association whose members were Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation. The AAMA dissolved in December 1998. From 1999 until his selection as President Bush's Chief of Staff, Card was General Motors' Vice President of Government Relations. Card directed the company's international, national, state and local government affairs activities and represented GM on matters of public policy before Congress and the Administration.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad announced on July 27, 2006 that Card was elected to the board, increasing the board's size to 10 members.

Government career

From 1989 to 1992, Card served in President George H. W. Bush's administration as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. Card served in President Ronald Reagan's administration as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was liaison to governors, statewide elected officials, state legislators, mayors and other elected officials.

From 1992 until 1993, Card served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush. In August 1992, at the request of President Bush, Secretary Card coordinated the administration's disaster relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. Later that year, Secretary Card directed President Bush's transition office during the transition from the Bush Administration to the Clinton Administration.

On November 26, 2000, Card was appointed to be chief of staff of Texas Governor and President-Elect George W. Bush upon Bush's January 20, 2001 inauguration. On September 11, 2001, it was Card who whispered in Bush's ear while the President was conducting an education event at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida that terrorists had attacked the United States.

Card is known to have headed the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), whose members include Karl Rove, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin. This group is known for controlling public relations for the Iraq War. It is now well documented that much of the information provided by WHIG was known to be false.

In March 2004 Card tried to convince Attorney General John D. Ashcroft to reauthorize a domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal. Ashcroft lay ill in an intensive-care unit when Card and White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales urged him to sign the papers. Ashcroft refused....

On March 28, 2006, the White House announced that Card would resign as Chief of Staff and be replaced by United States Office of Management and Budget director Joshua B. Bolten. Card's resignation was effective April 14, 2006. In his book State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, Bob Woodward states that Card resigned because he was concerned that the war in Iraq would be seen as another Vietnam War, after twice failing to persuade the President to dismiss Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, with the support of First Lady Laura Bush on his second attempt.

Honorary degree controversy

In 2007, Card received an honorary degree in public service from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The decision by the university administration to give Card the degree was met with protests and petitions from students, faculty, staff, and community members. They argued that Card played a critical role in disseminating deceptive and misleading evidence to justify the Iraq War. At the May 25, 2007 graduate school commencement ceremony, hundreds of students, faculty, and staff protested the award with boos and catcalls as Andrew Card accepted the degree. Protesters, including many faculty on stage, drowned out Provost Charlena Seymour's remarks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Card

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November 20, 2007

BUSH/CHENEY MISLED PUBLIC
ABOUT CIA IDENTITY LEAK

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.

"There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself."

Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card.

The excerpt, posted on the Web site of publisher PublicAffairs, renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. For years, it was McClellan's job to field — and often duck — those types of questions.

Now that he's spurring them, answers are equally hard to come by.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said it wasn't clear what McClellan meant in the excerpt. "The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information," she said.

Plame issued a statement saying the opposite.

"I am outraged to learn that former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan confirms that he was sent out to lie to the press corps," Plame said. "Even more shocking, McClellan confirms that not only Karl Rove and Scooter Libby told him to lie but Vice President Cheney, presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card and President Bush also ordered McClellan to issue his misleading statement."

McClellan turned down interview requests Tuesday.

Plame maintains the White House quietly outed her to reporters. Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said the leak was retribution for his public criticism of the Iraq war. The accusation dogged the administration and made Plame a cause celebre among many Democrats...

"Just when you think the credibility of this White House can't get any lower, another shoe drops," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "If the Bush administration won't even tell the truth to its official spokesman, how can the American people expect to be told the truth either?"

In the fall of 2003, after authorities began investigating the leak, McClellan told reporters that he'd personally spoken to Rove, who was Bush's top political adviser, and Libby, who was Cheney's chief of staff.

"They're good individuals, they're important members of our White House team, and that's why I spoke with them, so that I could come back to you and say that they were not involved," McClellan said at the time.

Both men, however, were involved. Rove was one of the original sources for the newspaper column that identified Plame. Libby also spoke to reporters about the CIA officer and was convicted of lying about those discussions. He is the only person to be charged in the case.

Since that news conference, however, the official White House stance has shifted and it has been difficult to get a clear picture of what happened behind closed doors around the time of the leak.

McClellan's flat denials gave way to a steady drumbeat of "no comment." And Bush's original pledge to fire anyone involved in the leak became a promise to fire anyone who "committed a crime."

In a CNN interview earlier this year, McClellan made no suggestion that Bush knew either Libby or Rove was involved in the leak. McClellan said his statements to reporters were what he and the president "believed to be true at the time based on assurances that we were both given."

Bush most recently addressed the issue in July after commuting Libby's 30-month prison term. He acknowledged that some in the White House were involved in the leak. Then, after repeatedly declining to discuss the ongoing investigation, he said the case was closed and it was time to move on.

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Andrew Card is expected to testify regarding his business, professional and personal relationships with Norman Mineta, Mark Foley; Leonard Millman; Ken Mehlman; Dan Inouye; Bill Frist; Tom DeLay; Dee Jay Mailer; Dirk Kempthorne; Norm Brownstein; Henry Paulson; Gale Norton; The Bureau of Indian Affairs; Daniel Akaka; The Nature Conservancy; Faye Kurren; Peter Savio; Neil Abercrombie; Dan Case; Jeffrey Case; Stephanie Case; Steve Case; Ed Case; Nainoa Thompson; Mark Souder; Rowena Akana; John Waihee III; John Waihee IV; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Tom Cole; The Council For National Policy; The Carlyle Group; American Insurance Group (AIG); James Baker; Goldman Sachs; Richard Rainwater; Linda Lingle; Condoleezza Rice; Dick Cheney; Donald Rumsfeld; Henry Kissinger; Robert Dole; Elizabeth Hanford Dole; James Ahloy; Aloha Petroleum; Enron; Chevron-Texaco; Robert F. Miller; Tesoro Petroleum; Faye Kurren; Judge Barry Kurren; Judge Rey Graulty; Mark McConaghy; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Noble Drilling Co.; McKenzie Methane; Earl Anzai; Lyn Anzai; Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate; Robert K.U. Kihune; Henry Peters; Gilbert Tam; Paul Alston; Donna Tanoue; Colbert Matsumoto; Catherine Austin Fitts; Tyco International; Kazu Hayashida, Jack Borja, Ted Stevens, V.K. Durham, Bob Ney, Henry Kravis, Kohlbert Kravis Roberts & Co., Carl Icahn, Roger Stillwell, Sibel Edmonds, Judge Alan Kay, Sam Pryor, Judith Neustadter Fuqua, John McCain, Frederick Black, Steven Griles, David Carey, and others to be named upon discovery.