Leaked memo sparks rancor in Senate - Rockefeller suggests Republican break-in

Boston Globe ^ | November 6, 2003 | Robert Schlesinger

[Cincinatus' Wife]

WASHINGTON -- The festering quarrel over the Senate investigation into pre-war US intelligence on Iraq flared up yesterday as Republicans and Democrats traded charges of politicizing the probe and engaging in office espionage.

At issue was a draft strategy memorandum written by a Democratic staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Leaked to the media Tuesday night, it laid out how the party could steer the probe in an effort to produce the information most damaging to the Bush administration.

[HenryLeeII]

Gee, this report is soooo non-biased!

[Hatteras]

Babs Mikulski?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Watergate?

Why not? They've got nothing else. The slime is getting thick.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gee, this report is soooo non-biased!

The Democratic Party foot soldiers.

[CWOJackson]

Like I was telling someone else. I seriously do believe that some of the liberal fossils believe that if they invoke certain buzz words, Watergate - Vietnam, that they will re-energize the aging hippie population into rioting in the streets.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

To any unbiased outside observer I think the dumbocrat obsession for honesty would appear somewhat "selective" and directed at republicans only.

Indeed, it does.

[Thud]

ping

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I do too. Trigger words like McCarthyism, lynching, working families, Watergate, etc. come as natural as breathing to them.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yes, this Democratic Party identifies with anti-American sentiment.

[jackbill]

Hasnnity can't wait to tell all how he got the memo.

Last night on Special Report, Bret Baer told Brit Hume that he could assure him that the memo didn't come from a trash can and was not gotten by breaking into someone's computer.

Isn't it just possible that a Democrat staffer really takes bipartisanship seriously and takes intelligence secrets seriously and leaked the memo to force the culprits to stop?

[Maelstrom]

He has an airtight alibi.

He was on-air at the time with millions of listeners.

I was one.

[Wolfstar]

I am not persuaded that our party will do much more than wring their trembling hands in limp fury.

You are SO right, and it is such a frustrating situation. I wish I could reach across the miles from California to DC, grab those Cowardly Lion Repubican senate "leaders" by the lapels and shake some sense into them. Grrrr. What on earth is it going to take for them to grow some spines?

[Sabertooth]

I wish I could reach across the miles from California to DC, grab those Cowardly Lion Repubican senate "leaders" by the lapels and shake some sense into them. Grrrr. What on earth is it going to take for them to grow some spines?

I kinda resent that whole "cowardly lion" thing.

When GOP Senators fantasize about growing spines, they see this...

[Little Ray]

I think its called "projection."

[Wolfstar]

At least it's pretty. :-)

[Sabertooth]

At least it's pretty. :-)

Not very. Every one of those white hairs is a venomous calcium spicule that can even pierce the callouses on your hands. Hurts, swells, and throbs for a couple of days.

Don't tell the Senators, though. Totally a passive defense.

[Wolfstar]

PS: Sorry, Sabertooth. As an animal-lover myself, I sure didn't mean to insult lions of any variety by comparing them to what passes for Republican leadership in the senate. I was, of course, thinking of the Wizard of Oz and fantasizing about how the fairy tale could be made real. Sigh.

[Wolfstar]

Don't tell the Senators, though. Totally a passive defense.

Isn't passivity what they are best at?!

[HamiltonJay]

BWHAHAHAHAHAAHAH the Dems try to use their position on the "non partisan" intelligence committee to politicize the war and undermine a President in war time... or basically engage in TREASON! Or damned close to it... and get caught, and they want to claim they had a break in????? Its official

DEMOCRATS ARE TRAITORS, PERIOD

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The bottom of the barrel has been fairly well scraped clean.