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  WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES by Mia T, December 29, 2005       inch Sulzberger rushed to the C-SPAN confessional booth mere days after 9/11. He had to make certain no one would blame The New York Times for that. The Times' '96 endorsement of bill clinton1 was the problem. The endorsement, you may recall, was contingent on clinton getting a brain transplant--specifically of the character lobe.2 How could The Times square that shameful, irresponsible endorsement with this monstrous failure3? Sulzberger quickly explained that The Times was able to endorse clinton by separating clinton's "policies"...

But now that Judge Robertson has in a puff of conscience resigned from the FISA court, there is speculation out there that Robertson and Rockefeller are leakers and Robertson resigned because he was going to be forced out as having leaked and instead he forces himself out. He resigns and takes this moral high ground, "I will not sit here and preside over a court that violates the law in such a way" when in fact he may be dirty. This has been speculated in a number of places, nothing official, just wanted to pass this on, but for all...

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into whether Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Jay Rockefeller and Ron Wyden leaked details about a secret "black ops" CIA satellite program last December in a move that may have seriously compromised national security, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin said on Saturday. "The CIA made a request to the Justice Department to investigate and possibly bring criminal charges against these three [senators]," Babbin told WABC Radio host Monica Crowley. "My information is that investigation is ongoing." Rockefeller is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Durbin is the No....

The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee suggested Wednesday that Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller was suffering from amnesia or selective memory loss given his criticism of the Bush Administration’s surveillance tactics.“We’ve contacted the pharmaceutical companies -- they have memory pills for seniors and we’re trying to get a memory pill for those who attended the briefings because they’re having some amnesia and sort of a selective memory loss,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R.-Kan.) told HUMAN EVENTS. “There was always time for questions, always time for any point of view, and Senator Rockefeller was always in the end result very supportive,”...

It's one of the unsolved political mysteries of 2003: Exactly who drew up the plan for Democrats to abuse the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, or SSCI, as a stealth weapon to undermine and discredit President George W. Bush and the U.S. war effort in Iraq? The plot, authored by aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., vice chairman of the committee, has poisoned the working atmosphere of a crucial legislative panel in a time of war, Senate sources say. It centered on duping the panel's Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, into approving probes that in actuality would be...

Yesterday there were news reports about Senator Jay Rockefeller, who pulled a 2003 letter to Dick Cheney out of the vault. In that hitherto-secret correspondence, Rockefeller expressed "concerns" about the NSA intercept program. This morning, Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, responded: "I have no recollection of Senator Rockefeller objecting to the program at the many briefings he and I attended together," Mr. Roberts said. "In fact, it is my recollection that on many occasions Senator Rockefeller expressed to the vice president his vocal support for the program," most recently, "two weeks ago." There is no limit...

<p>RUSH: You know, sometimes -- frequently actually -- during all these breaks I go to the e-mail. I check things out, and I go to all the various accounts from which I receive mail, and the Rush@eibnet.com is where the kooks send me mail. I get eight, 10,000 shots a day in a 24-hour period in this account and, you know, sometimes I just peruse the subject line, and this one caught my attention, so I thought I'd read it. Subject line is: "9/11 Explanation is a Lie, Lie, Lie." I said, "Ooooh, okay." So here's the note to me: "Everybody in the country except you knows and understands the Bush official explanation of 9/11 is a cover-up and a lie. The truth is being told, and the people are starting to wake up and realize that Bush and his minions are pushing a big lie. When they can no longer cover their rear ends with lies they will be held accountable for their crimes against the people of this country." He goes on to give me two links here to show that Bush blew up the World Trade Center.</p>

Roberts Rakes Rockefeller - Tuesday, December 20, 2005 @ 12:53:30 PM Yesterday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), co-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee (and probable source of many leaks of secret information) released a hand-scrawled letter he had written to VP Cheney two years ago after being briefed on the NSA domestic intel effort. Rockefeller, trying to score political points, raised the letter as proof of his doubts about the NSA program, and that his hands were tied, unable to do anything about it. This morning, Intel Committee Chair Pat Roberts (R-KS) released this statement which blows Rockefeller out of the...

U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., spent a long session with a group of area Iraq War veterans at the Brushfork Armory Tuesday — so long, that he was more than a half hour late for a speaking engagement at the Princeton Elks Lodge for a group of 150 community and business leaders. But, he explained to the waiting group at the Elks Club he felt it was important to hear what the National Guard members who put their lives at risk in Iraq and Afghanistan had to say. He made them — and the national war scene — a priority.

NIGERGATE: The FBI re-opens the case, joint investigation with SISMI, the role of the French 007’s to be examined Chiocci and Sechi strike again. The following appeared in the Sunday edition of Il Giornale, interesting reading indeed. Of particular interest is the French slant, interesting because it needs to be investigated, interesting also because the first to point it out were the people her at FR. This new joint FBI-SISMI investigation has to be followed closely because it’s going to turn up some startling little gems, a lot of people are going to get very upset. Lets watch it happen………....

"I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11." So spoke Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) on “Fox Sunday” on November 14, 2005, who at the time of his trip was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and is now its vice chairman. Please read the first paragraph...

My new Daily Standard column comes out today, and I wrote about the stunning admission from ranking Senate Intelligence Committee Democrat Jay Rockefeller that he discussed American terror-war strategy with terrorist sponsor Bashar Assad. While the column does not call for a charge of treason, it does ask how Rockefeller can possibly avoid an indictment for a violation of the Logan Act: If Rockefeller discussed war plans with Assad while the United States had begun military operations against global terrorist organizations, which Assad has been known to fund, surely it is a major breach of the senator's duties? The Logan...

homas J. Dodd of Connecticut was the last United States Senator to be censured by his colleagues. He was so reprimanded in 1967 for using his office to transfer campaign funds for personal use. One would think that a Senator giving an enemy of the United States a warning of possible imminent danger to that enemy’s ally would at least warrant the same mark as campaign fund embezzlement. As Bill Bennett has pointed out in his much-noted article on National Review Online, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia admits that well over a year before the commencement of military operations...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Damascus al-Shaab palace on Monday received the US senator J. Rockefeller and members of the accompanying delegation. The meeting was attended by the deputy premier and foreign minister Farouk al-Shara and the US ambassador in Damascus Theodore Qattouf. Discussions dealt with results implied by the incidents of September 11, 2001 in the US at the regional and international levels. The President stressed that fighting terrorism should be based on analyzing reasons behind it, noting that the already debated concept of terrorism is a terrorism which is too far from Islamic values. He explained that...

PRESIDENT BUSH'S DECISION to finally push back against the "Bush lied!" fable paid off in strange ways this past week. Democrats seemed caught by surprise that the president would attack them so frontally on Veteran's Day; the shock caught them flatfooted all weekend long. Senators from the minority caucus could not explain their own words from 2002 supporting the same intelligence, and the same conclusions, as the Bush administration. The strangest episode came from an appearance by Senator Jay Rockefeller on Fox News Sunday: WALLACE: OK. Senator Rockefeller, the president says that Democratic critics, like you, looked at pre-war intelligence...

In Washington, soft-spokenness is often confused for intelligence and subtlety. We're so accustomed to shouting that when someone whispers we assume there must be something more thoughtful in the offing. A case in point is Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader. Just the other day he told reporters, "There's a dark cloud hanging over the White House." Then, to clarify this obscure metaphor, he added gravely, "It's really a storm cloud." One expects more Solomonic nuance from the man any day now: "Something's fishy in the White House. And by that I mean the White House really smells much like...

Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, the following exchange took place between Chris Wallace and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: WALLACE: Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller? SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told...

We have witnessed the onslaught of criticism from the Democrats on the pre-war intelligence leading to the Iraq war. We have listened to the unfettered Bush bashing coming from Democrats who spoke out in support of the pre-war intelligence and voted to go to war. We have the Clinton administration’s authorization of regime change in Iraq. Yet it is still Bush’s fault according to the Left. Yesterday on Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace spoke with U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The conversation was particularly revealing as to what the Democrat Senator...

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says he gave advance warning of our plans to invade Iraq to the president of a terrorist state, Syria. A full-scale investigation is warranted. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia has been relentless in seeking information to undercut our mission in Iraq. But he has some of his own explaining to do. [...snip, Rocky's confession on FNS] What exactly is a U.S. senator with special access to classified information doing providing private briefings to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [...snip...] Rockefeller's little venture in freelance diplomacy may have violated the Logan...

The more Democrats try to force the pre-war intelligence and decision to go to war issues into something politically advantageous to themselves, the more twisted they and their logic becomes, and the more trouble they keep causing for themselves. The Sunday talking head shows can be fascinating, if you can keep your head from exploding while watching. This Sunday's edition of FOX News Sunday, with Chris Wallace, was certainly no exception. Watching Sen. Rockefeller--who was appearing with Republican Senator Pat Roberts, Chair to his Vice Chair on the Senate Intelligence Committee--trying to wriggle and slither himself out of the 2002...