On Feb. 26, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, delivered a 60-minute speech detailing how the Bush administration has “intentionally obstructed Congress” in its investigations for the past seven years.

The first part of Rohrabacher’s speech covered his investigation of the ties between 1995 “Oklahoma City bomber and murderer Terry Nichols” and Al Qaeda’s terrorist leader Ramzi Yousef, “the mastermind of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993,” who were both in Cebu City in the Philippines during the same time frame, both using similar bombs, two years apart, to blow up American targets.

Rohrabacher said, “During my investigation, I secured Ramzi Yousef’s cell phone records. The records were part of the phone calls that he made when he was in that New York City area in the months just prior to the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.

“The phone records show that Ramzi Yousef made at least two phone calls to a row house in Queens, N.Y.

“That row house was occupied by the cousin of Terry Nichols’ Filipina wife. Let me repeat that. The terrorist bomber of the first World Trade Center attack, the nephew of al Qaeda 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, made phone calls to the same row house that was occupied by Terry Nichols’ cousins-in-law just two months before he exploded the bomb in the garage of the World Trade Center 15 years ago.

“I also asked the Department of Justice on numerous occasions to help me investigate the name Samir Khahil. This name is on a list of unindicted co-conspirators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, again in connection with Ramzi Yousef.

“It also is the name, by the way, of an Iraqi man in Oklahoma City who at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing employed an Arab immigrant who fits the description originally made by numerous witnesses as to John Doe 2.”

 Every effort to investigate this case has been “stonewalled” by the Bush administration, including not allowing Rohrabacher to interview Yousef, who has been in a Colorado prison for the last 10 years (see Patrick Briley’s “The Oklahoma City Bombing Case Revelations,” free download on the Internet).

Rohrabacher continued, “In 2005, Sandy Berger pled guilty to the mishandling and destruction of classified documents. These documents dealt with the failure of our intelligence agencies during the Clinton administration to prevent the horrendous attacks on 9/11.”

“As part of his plea, Mr. Berger agreed to a lie detector test. We are still waiting for that test to be administered.

“If Sandy Berger is not to be polygraphed to verify the documents that were stolen from the archives, we need to know why such verification is not being done. This administration wouldn’t even give a respectable answer to the rightful inquiry of members of Congress of why we are not verifying through a polygraph test what documents were stolen from the National Archives by the former National Security Adviser.”

Rohrabacher also said, “The tragic case of wrongly imprisoned Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean exemplifies the worst aspects of this administration’s attitude problem.

“Administration officials deliberately misled members of Congress in order to discourage them from pursuing the Ramos and Compean case. The President, instead of looking into the matter, has dug in his heels, permitting his appointees to slander these two agents.

“Under oath, Skinner acknowledged the information given to the Texas congressman was in fact false, but he smugly justified his blatant and willful lying by calling it ‘mischaracterization unfortunately repeated at the briefing.’ No, Mr. Skinner, it was a lie, no matter how colorful the euphemism.

“Our government provided a flawed immunity agreement, free health care and unconditional border crossing cards to an illegal alien criminal drug smuggler in exchange for his testimony that sent Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean to prison.

“Our government kept secrets from the jury that the drug dealer intercepted by Ramos and Compean had hauled another shipment of drugs across the border, this, while on a government-issued border crossing pass.

“The Justice Department’s unjust prosecution does nothing but tie the hands of our Border Patrol and prevent them from securing America against a flood of illegal immigrants, drugs, counterfeit goods and quite possibly, terrorists. This demoralizing prosecution puts the rights of illegal alien drug smugglers ahead of our homeland security and undermines the critical mission of better enforcing our immigration laws. The convictions against these agents demand oversight.”

Nearing the end of his speech, Rohrabacher said, “The American people should know it and should know that these charges come not from a partisan Democrat, but from a lifelong conservative Republican.”

The entire speech can be found at rohrabacher.house.gov.