Zell Miller Slams Dem Intel Memo as 'First Cousin to Treason'

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/05/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., said Wednesday that a memo urging Democrat members of the Senate Intelligence Committee to politicize Iraq war intelligence is "perhaps treasonous."

In a statement released by his office, Sen. Miller said:

"I have often said that the process in Washington is so politicized and polarized that it can't even be put aside when we're at war. Never has that been proved more true than the highly partisan and perhaps treasonous memo prepared for the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee."

The retiring Georgia Democrat continued:

"If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin. The ones responsible - be they staff or elected or both - should be dealt with quickly and severely sending a lesson to all that this kind of action will not be tolerated, ignored or excused."

Miller expressed his dismay that Senators entrusted with the nation's most sensitive intelligence information would try to use it for partisan purposes.

"Of all the committees, this is the one single committee that should unquestionably be above partisan politics," he said. "The information it deals with should never, never be distorted, compromised or politicized in any shape, form or fashion."

The memo, first detailed on Tuesday by nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity, outlined a plan to use intelligence gathered by the committee to attack the White House during next year's presidential campaign.

NewsMax.com was the first news outlet to print the content of the memo in full.

To read the document Sen. Miller describes as "perhaps treasonous," Click Here.

[Keith in Iowa]

Text of memo & discussion: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015502/posts

[katana]

Somebody ought to explain to Zell that he doesn't have to leave the democratic party. They left him years ago and hanging on to calling himself a member of their party is delusional and sad.

[skeeter]

(checking watch)I'm sure ABCCBSNBCCNN will pick up and begin reporting this explosive charge by a respected US senator any minute now...

[chiller]

It is treason. Playing with the lives our US solidiers for blatant political advantage. Who thinks the Libs aren't low-life scum bags?

[what's up]

Bet the guilty party is Carl Levin and his staff.

[chiller]

And the senator reponsible (Rockefeller?) must be asked to resign his committee and Senatorial seat.

[kattracks]

And there should be an investigation to see what other traitors are involved in this.

[skinkinthegrass]

Somebody ought to explain to Zell that he doesn't have to leave the democratic party. They left him years ago and hanging on to calling himself a member of their party is delusional and sad.

..That's the same way, RR put it, in the 70s...once a proud Pol. Party, has been reducted to/by the Clintons. How the party has fallen, since the likes of Willian Jenny Bryan...Woodrow Wilson...Harry Truman. Where's FDR? FDR was a Marxist...and the Dems are going lower still...with ???/Shrillary in '04.

[dennisw]

Zell tells it like it is!

[Solamente]

That Zell is a real standup guy!

[Uncle George]

Looks to me like a big WHUP-ASS Commie cleaning is about to take place----YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[newgeezer]

Is it just me, or did ol' Zell finally grow some testicles at the very moment he decided to retire?

Because, it sure seems as if having that Kennedy/Harkin/Daschle/Clinton/Schumer 'D' after his name suited him just fine, so long as reelection was Job Number One. Where was ol' Zell when Jeffords bolted and gave Senate control to those Dems he's having so much fun criticizing lately???

Perhaps I'm missing some significant fact in all of this. Otherwise, p*ss on him and his too-little, too-late testosterone fit.

[wzlboy]

Give 'em HELL ZELL bump!!

[StriperSniper]

Today Sean said that his source has said the staffer wrote it under orders from Rockefeller. Then when Saxby Chambliss came on he said that Jay's orders come from higher up implying Dashole(Hitlery's puppet).

[Snowy]

Sadly, they will not lose votes over this. The average rat doesn't pay attention to politics, especially if the alphabet soup news doesn't mention it.

[newgeezer]

Perhaps one or more of you Zellites can set me straight (please refer to my #14).

Now that he's got nothing to lose (e.g. the seat, the prestige, the pension, the whatever-else-goes-with-it), the 'real' Zell shows up? Yeah, what a stand-up guy, indeed.

Maybe he's going out with a 'bang' in hopes of causing everyone to take notice of and remember the 'real' Zell as a stand-up guy, a patriot's patriot. In that case, maybe nothing's changed after all; the real Zell cares about Zell.

If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear about it.

[cwb]

While your point is valid, it is never too late. The damage his book, his interviews and his statements/memo are doing to his party are being felt.

[cwb]

...and his votes still count until he retires.