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CSPAN2 Now -- GOP hollering over Democrat intelligence committee memo
CSPAN | 11/05/03 | CSPAN

Posted on 11/05/2003 6:39:50 AM PST by dep

Saxby Chambliss begins, saying, "There was a very clear and definite outline of undermining the President, the DoD, the intelligenct community; it would truly undermine the opposition in Iraq." Demands that Democrats disavow the memo and its contents.


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To: San Jacinto
I think all Senators secretly belong to the actors union.
81 posted on 11/05/2003 7:14:46 AM PST by tractorman (9 out of 10 criminals oppose concealed carry laws)
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To: DeuceTraveler
Even this hearing is not worth listening to C-SPAN, they have truly gone over to the dark side.
82 posted on 11/05/2003 7:14:47 AM PST by OldFriend (DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
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To: Ancesthntr
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.


84 posted on 11/05/2003 7:15:05 AM PST by Happy2BMe (Nurture terrorism in a neighborhood near you - donate to your local community mosque.)
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To: seamole
good point.
85 posted on 11/05/2003 7:16:00 AM PST by dep (Ense Petit Placidam Sub Libertate Qvietem)
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To: dep
Bye Bayh.
86 posted on 11/05/2003 7:16:40 AM PST by EllaMinnow
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To: mabelkitty
Is your post #12 a direct quote from the memo?

Here is the number for the US Capitol......you can ask for any elected official.........1-877-762-8762

87 posted on 11/05/2003 7:16:53 AM PST by OldFriend (DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
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To: cyncooper
Intelligence is dumb
88 posted on 11/05/2003 7:16:55 AM PST by woofie (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like Grandpa ...not screaming, like the passengers in his car)
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To: seamole
Bayh: We have to get beyond this current controversy.

We need to get to bottom of the possibility of misuse of information. Not for political gain but for security.

Need objective search for the truth and he believes that is what Rockefeller is after.

He brings up the British and the dossier! Says no one on his side of the aisle is suggesting they go that far, but a fair and dispassionate investigation.

Speaking too closely to the microphone and he did not separate himself from his fellow RATs.

Wyden up. Did I know he had a serious lisp? I did not, but he does.
89 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:07 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: Principled
Kit Bond - Missouri
90 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:29 AM PST by rootntootn
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To: San Jacinto
Actually, I'm fairly impressed with the Republican Senators' public response to this. I expected a little more milktoast.

I agree. Roberts feels the responsibilty of being chairman and knows he has a sober job to do. He is truly concerned for the safey of our country and that the intelligence we get is improved and sound and can be relied upon by us us well as our allies. I think the Rats are going to pay at the ballot box in '04 as they did last night.

91 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:32 AM PST by ncweaver
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To: seamole
They have no choice now. If they don't the anti-war types will have a fit.
92 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:36 AM PST by hchutch ("I don't see what the big deal is, I really don't." - Major Vic Deakins, USAF (ret.))
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To: Happy2BMe
wyden now lisping his i-wannabe-significant best. says there are lots of memos on capitol hill.
93 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:53 AM PST by dep (Ense Petit Placidam Sub Libertate Qvietem)
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To: dep
to me Oregan senator Ron Wyden has that lisp like a piece of meat is stuck in his throat...Boy to slap him up side the head to dislodge that lisp
94 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:53 AM PST by cars for sale
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To: woofie
Intelligence is dumb

An old Democrat expression

95 posted on 11/05/2003 7:17:59 AM PST by woofie (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like Grandpa ...not screaming, like the passengers in his car)
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To: dep
Dems are playing the ole shell game--it's not the content of the memo that is of importance, but the reason we went to war.


96 posted on 11/05/2003 7:18:04 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: cyncooper
They're acting like Rockefeller is still chairman. Delusional jerks.
97 posted on 11/05/2003 7:18:25 AM PST by EllaMinnow
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To: dep
...thith ith theriouth...
98 posted on 11/05/2003 7:18:38 AM PST by maggief
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To: All
A lot of the dimwits are circling around rockerfeller this morning which tells me one thing for sure. Either he (rockerfeller) wrote that memo or someone on his staff did.
99 posted on 11/05/2003 7:18:50 AM PST by RepublicanArmy (God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
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