House Blocks Free Access To Goldstone Report

On November 4, the House of Representatives voted 344-36 (22 voted present) in favor of a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which chronicled the war crimes committed during last year's Gaza war.  Not only that, in a break with normal procedure, the House refused to agree to Rep. Keith Ellison's (D-MN) request to publish the Goldstone Report in the Congressional Record.  Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) objected to publication and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman (D-CA), agreed with her.  Bottom line: the American people will not be able to access the Goldstone Report on a US government website (which was surely Ros-Lehtinen's intention).