Sean Hannity has a scoop on dem party corruption (Vanity)

Sean Hannity radio show ^ | 11/04/03 | Unknown Democrat (via Sean Hannity)

[jocon307]

Is anyone listening to Hannity? He just read a memo from a dem party staffer (i think) on the select committe on intelligence (or some such), which, as he describes it, shows the the dem committe members are pre-planning a political assault on the pres. and care nothing for our security, which is their job.

He's acting like this is the hottest scoop since I don't know what, I'm at work so I'm only 1/2 listening, plus he read the whole thing which seemed to be a least 2 pages long, a little tough to follow being in beaurocrat-speak.

Is this really important? And will this story grow legs?

[aristeides]

Pataki is a Republican.

[nopardons]

Right you are; this IS serious...VERY !

[TonyInOhio]

Hannity just said there will be a Senator resigning from office because of this.

Remember the Clinton Dictum: Democrats Don't Resign.

[JFC]

If anyone can get into Newsmax.com... they have the memo. I can not get in there.

[JFC]

If anyone can get into Newsmax.com... they have the memo. I can not get in there.

[JFC]

If anyone can get into Newsmax.com... they have the memo. I can not get in there.

[JFC]

If anyone can get into Newsmax.com... they have the memo. I can not get in there.

[Republican Red]

Intelligence Committee Pat Roberts, Kansas Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV West Virginia, Vice Chairman Orrin G. Hatch, Utah
Carl Levin, Michigan
Mike Dewine, Ohio
Dianne Feinstein, California
Christopher S. Bond, Missouri
Ron Wyden, Oregon
Trent Lott, Mississippi
Richard J. Durbin, Illinois
Olympia J. Snowe, Maine
Evan Bayh, Indiana
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska
John Edwards, North Carolina
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
John W. Warner, Virginia

[mewzilla]

Oh so now it's a guessing game?

Oh, this is not a game to me. It's treason.

[kevao]

We heard you the first time.

[concerned about politics]

Quick, does anyone know...is Zell Miller on the committee?

No Miller...First page of this thread has the list. Can't miss it. I'd copy, but have a 56K dial up. This thread is moving fast!

[Pukin Dog]

Gee, the REPUBLICAN Chairman is actively supporting DEMOCRAT investigations into the REPUBLICAN Administration. That is not stupid?

Were you born Tuesday?

When there are legitimate questions regarding intelligence matters, how would it look for the committee chairman to NOT allow investigations to proceed? You missed the entire point. Democrats DONT want to investigate anything. What they want is to create a public demand for an INDEPENDENT investigation, which will create public doubt about Bush, because of how the Media will spin it.

The creation of an Independent Investigation is as good as an admission of guilt in the eyes of the media. Internal investigations can be dismissed as politically motivated attacks. That is why the Democrats are doing this. Roberts is NOT stupid. If he did not cooperate, he would give the Democrats ammunition for suggesting that there should be an independent counsel. Get it?

[KarlInOhio]

*snicker* I get it, Karl. Is it true he [DeWine] sees John Glenn when he looks in the mirror? :-)

It could be worse. Voinovich sees Metzenbaum.

[retrokitten]

You don't have to beg! LOL!

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003 4:38 p.m. EST
Dem Intel Committee Memo Reveals Anti-Bush Plot

A memo circulated among Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence shows the committee's minority plotting to use classified information against the White House in next year's presidential campaign.

The document, obtained and disclosed by nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity Tuesday afternoon, suggests that the top priority among senior Democrats entrusted with guarding the nation's security is instead driving the Bush administration from power based on claims it exaggerated intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq.

The memo as reported by Hannity reads as follows:

"We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

"1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.

"For example, in addition to the President's State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department.

"The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and cosigns our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. [We can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.]

"2) Assiduously prepare Democratic 'additional views' to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it.

"In that regard we may have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims. We will contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry.

"The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an Independent Commission [i.e., the Corzine Amendment.]

"3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration's use of intelligence at any time. But we can only do so once.

"The best time to do so will probably be next year, either:

"A) After we have already released our additional views on an interim report, thereby providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public. Additional views on the interim report (1). The announcement of our independent investigation (2). And (3) additional views on the final investigation. Or:

"B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.

"In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.

"SUMMARY: Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet we have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral preemptive war.

"The approach outlined above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives." [End of Memo Excerpt.]

The revelation that Democrats are using the intelligence committee to conduct opposition research for the coming presidential campaign demands an investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee, Hannity said.

[Republican Red]

Lets try that again with some line breaks

Intelligence Committee

Pat Roberts, Kansas
Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV West Virginia, Vice Chairman
Orrin G. Hatch, Utah
Carl Levin, Michigan
Mike Dewine, Ohio
Dianne Feinstein, California
Christopher S. Bond, Missouri
Ron Wyden, Oregon
Trent Lott, Mississippi
Richard J. Durbin, Illinois
Olympia J. Snowe, Maine
Evan Bayh, Indiana
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska
John Edwards, North Carolina
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
John W. Warner, Virginia

[Neets]

Hey!!
Can you get into Newsmax???

[kevao]

Wow. With the exceptions of Orrin Hatch and John Warner, I wouldn't put it past any one of these senators.

[onyx]

Alan might be "Dashole saddened" as well. LOL!!!!!!!!!!

[Neets]

Indeed, and as such, the source should come out...and Ihope Sean's editorial comment about a Senator possibly resigning as a result of this memo is more than just that....


,,,,,,,,,,,,somehow, I doubt it.