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?

[Dog]

Mort said they are crossing the line...

Mora said it maybe an ethics violation....

[Mo1]

Mara on FNC is saying this is pretty Standard stuff

HELLO?!?!?!

[Alas Babylon!]

Mara LIARsen is saying this is "pretty standard stuff". Yeah, for the Democrats!!!! But Fred Barnes agrees.

[sonsofliberty2000]

I gotta go to class! This always happens when I gotta leave! It always starts getting good. Keep this thread going and will someone please ping me if something out of the ordinary happens! Please!!!

Patriot Paradox

[onyx]

HUGH HEWITT has it now --- legs are a growing!

[Shermy]

"You all want a live thread for the 9 dwarves debate tonight??"

Yes, this memo story is already old... :)

[sweetliberty]

"we have men (and Women?) losing thier lives everyday."

Oh, but don't you know that they will use that to beat the president with as well? They will somehow manage to pin each and every death in Iraq (and probably in Afghanistan, as well) personally on GW Bush.

[concerned about politics]

Whoa, whoa, cowboy. He said it was written by 'Staff'. He did not say WHICH staff.

Sean has a copy of the original. It has a header on the top of the paper. He knows who's office it came from.

[nicmarlo]

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.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/11/4/165925.shtml

[Wait4Truth]

Whatever. This is the INTELLIGENCE Committee for the United States of America. If you don't see anything wrong with what they are doing, so be it.

[MEG33]

No one is denying it was written ,just no one is owning up to it..Perhaps the bipartisan Select Committee Chairman just got a glimpse of what bipartisan means to the Dem members.They are trying to prove the White House jazzed the intel to go to war.It is getting play on Fox.

[Saundra Duffy]

The House Intelligence Committee had a certain democrat member - GARY CONDIT - sitting on it.

"We have not forgotten; Gary Condit's rotten!" WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY?!

[prairiebreeze]

They all pretty much said this is standard politics except for now having it come out of the Intel committee.

Criminey! I think this should be DAMNING for the Dims! I hope it gets lots more coverage, but think it'll be a minor story in a couple days.

When the ruckus dies down the Dims will continue on with their major plan

Prairie

[mewzilla]

The FNC panel is spinning this as no big deal, especially (unsurprisingly) Liason. Not illegal. But if info was declassified to be used against Bush, to heck with national security, what's that if not treason?

[Steve_Seattle]

Regardless of who wrote it, it shows how the Dems are thinking, and it shows the Dems to be more concerned about exploiting problems in Iraq for their own political benefit than with forming a united front with the administration against a deadly enemy. At a time when American soldiers are dying on an almost daily basis, this politicization of the Iraq situation may not sit well with the public. But, I reiterate, what the Dems are doing is not treason; it just smells a bit like treason..

[Pukin Dog]

He knows who's office it came from.

Good. Then, if Rockefeller lied, Hannity can nail him to the wall.

[streetpreacher]

It's big:

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.

That's the spin. In reality, the memo just calls for getting more information made public by duping the majority (past successes must be encouraging), and then using that public information to hurt the President by seeking an independent counsel. There's nothing here about using current known classified information against the Prez. This is much ado about nothing. Sheesh! Maybe I should go into talk radio, for all the critical thinking skills it requires.

[Alas Babylon!]

I hope it gets lots more coverage, but think it'll be a minor story in a couple days.

Are you kidding? Dan Petah, and Tom won't even tell their viewers about this once!

[Mo1]

Someone took it from his waste basket..

ALso .. Sean made it a put to tell Sweet Baby James to block out the person who sent it to him when they sent a copy to Roberts

Rockefeller has no clue how Sean got the memo

[onyx]

Yes, and they've been quite successful thus far, thanks to the nightly news casts. Damn them all.

This memo is a whole different "thang" --- possibly treason.

If verified, we want blood.