Posted on 11/05/2003 2:47:39 PM PST by 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.
My research indicates the first significant federal office holder ever thrown out was William Blount, Senator from Tennesse, 1796-1799. So egregious was the accusation of plotting with the British to attack Spanish Florida and Louisiana, in the hope of gaining new land for Tennessee, the Senate immediately expelled him. Because of the expulsion, the impeachment case was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
... I hear it all the time...
Let's be fair. There are a LOT of conservatives who believe (know) that the GOP has strayed in several important ways. ...anyway, you guys are still -hanging on..
We are probably up against filing deadlines, but we need to find conservative Dems to challenge the liberals in the primaries!
Well, the only Democrat worth being elected President, Zell Miller, said, and rightly so, that heads should roll, and
We'll see what the NY Slimes says tomorrow......I wouldn't hold my breath.......these f**ks are so low they can't even pretend to be outraged.....
The deadline to file and pay fees with the Cal. Sec. of State, at least for candidates for March 2004 partisan nomination elections for US Senate, is December 5.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/cand_qual_ussen.pdf
From the CA message Board: - by pogo101 11/05/2003
Fortunately, this will put an end to that, now that we have proof of their political motives.
This is the kind of stupid politician tricks that went on during the Vietnam war. The Pentagon Papers for example. The liberal newspapers and politicians knew the secret Papers contained information that would bolster the media dominating "anti-war" movement chances to end the war in the Communists' favor. Perhaps that alone won for the America press the coveted Gen. Giap "Most Valuable Guerilla Award."
We are already in a politicians' quagmire exactly like the Vietnam quagmire. We are doomed to lose this war unless the war is taken out of the hands of politicians and put into the hands of patriots. I'd rather lose my constitutional rights temporarily than permanently.
How to get the country into the hands of patriots is the question. President Bush could be the one if he had to guts to call the enemy by name, radical Islam; put on a stovepipe hat; and arest the copperheads and traitors!
What would President Lincoln do?
Is this who was on around 5ish EST? If so, I didn't take it as though he was "implying" at all. He came right out and said he believed it did come from Daschle.....Sean asked him something about does he know this as a fact? (I believe he then said no, but it couldn't have come from anyone else.) I was quite surprised the finger was pointed at Daschle (even by a Pubbie Senator).
RRIIIGGHHTT!!!!
Yes it was him, and thanks for clarifying on how definative he was. My earbuds were slipping and my reception was full of static since as soon as I decide to take a ride on my bike to the store, what was a misty afternoon, was interupted by a nasty thunderstorm. : )
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