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?

[concerned about politics]

"SUMMARY: Intelligence issues are clearly secondary

From the intelligence committee!
The people who are suppose to protect America, not eliminate a sitting president!

[prairiebreeze]

Clinton used the same info to bomb Iraq.

Ah yes, you reminded me of one of my initial reactions to this story which was, how much can they really say with all of the documentation of the Clintoons and Company about WMD etc.

Prairie

[mewzilla]

I was thinking about the FNC's panel's acceptance of the memo and all it implies. I know the Dems have lost it. Now I'm wondering abput FNC.

[ladyinred]

There may be a traitor in their ranks. How fitting.

One last decent democrat, how comforting.

[b4its2late]

Yes he and Sweet Baby James are the only two that know where it came from and who it came from (two different things).

[GOPrincess]

Sean told Sweet Baby James on the air to be sure that the info showing the source was redacted before the memo was shared with a "big" someone who called in and wanted to see it. Said he and James are the only ones who know where it came from.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Outrageous! Just Outrageous! Says Tom Daschele

[onyx]

Did you hear Sean grill Roberts? Sean has never been better.

[Dog]

No.....why?

[Steve_Seattle]

"In that regard we may have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials."

The Dems are clearly hoping the general public forgets that senior Democrats - including President Clinton, Gore, Daschle, Gephardt, Lieberman, Kerry, etc. - all made similar statements from the 1990's right up to the start of the war. And they did this using intelligence from both the Clinton and Bush administrations. The Republicans need to prevent the Democrats from re-writing history.

[Qwinn]

"But their real motive, of course, is just to cause trouble for Bush, even if it hinders the effort in Iraq and encourages Saddam's diehards to ever more extreme tactics."

I don't think it qualifies as an "even if". That would be a certainty. I would agree that there is probably nothing prosecutable here under criminal law, BUT there is probably more than enough to get an indictment by a Senate Ethics Committee (which is not just bound by statute). The charge of "treason" is valid, IMO - not in the sense of prosecutable, but in the sense of emphasizing that the Democrats are more interested in politics than in accurate intelligence, which in ITSELF could fully explain any "intelligence failures" of the past.

They've been accusing Bush of "politicizing" and "massaging" Iraqi intelligence for political gain for a year now... and now here they are doing the same thing! This is -very- significant, because if this is "politics as usual", then it's also true that what they accuse Bush of doing, even if it were true (which it isn't), was also "politics as usual" and they've been carping about nothing they wouldn't do themselves.

Qwinn

[GOPrincess]

I was particularly perplexed by the reaction of Fred Barnes...Mort seemed to think it was a bigger deal than Fred! Go figure. That was a surprise.

[mewzilla]

One last decent democrat, how comforting.

But that'll depend on who did the leaking and why. I can think of a few scenarios where the leaker might have as bad or worse motives than the author of this thing.

[Pukin Dog]

Good to see you get it.

However, no one on the Fox panel has had time to investigate what the memo really means. Everyone is scrambling right now, digging for Senate quotes, finding out what Roberts intends to do. Nobody wants to overstate, and nobody knows everything that Hannity knows either.

I would wait a day or two and see where it goes.

[Mo1]

I will bet Roberts is one ticked off dude right now.......this memo shows him to be a dupe.......a BIG DUMB DUPE who got rolled

He should be ticked .. and you're right, they made a COMPLETE fool of him

[mathluv]

An aide of Martin Frost was shown on a security tape in the area of a meeting room, with material that looked like what turned up missing from the pubbies. Later, martin had a copy of the map that had gone missing. Nothing ever happened about it that I know of.

[b4its2late]

Listen to the replay if you get a chance. Roberts was concerned with talking to Rockyfeller first. Hannit's show is repeated on his website, the whole 3 hours of it and Roberts came on at the top of the last hour.....Roberts says it's and ethics violation if it's from committee. Sean told him to have their computers checked, locked, frozen, whatever....Sound like an FBI case to me.

[Pukin Dog]

You never underestimate your enemy.

That is what the Dems do to Bush, and he beats them every time.

[nicmarlo]

The Dems sound just like Islamists on a jihad, don't they?

Very much so.

[Wait4Truth]

Yes, Ann would be good, too. Actually, we need ALL of talk radio to stay on this. Using intelligence to destroy a president and hurt the war effort is inexcusable and should not be allowed to slide.