[Cincinatus' Wife]

Leaked memo causes furor - Democrats' Iraq probe is set back as GOP attacks*** Senate Democrats were forced on the defensive yesterday after Republicans obtained a leaked memorandum outlining an opposition strategy for criticizing the administration's use of intelligence prior to the invasion of Iraq. The contents of the memo, first reported late Tuesday by conservative radio and Fox News Channel commentator Sean Hannity, prompted harsh condemnations by Republicans, including members of the Intelligence Committee. It also prompted calls from both sides of the aisle for further investigation. Republicans demanded scrutiny of whether Senate rules had been violated by the drafting of the partisan memo, while Democrats demanded a probe of how the document….***

[PJ-Comix]

Did anybody see ANYTHING on the lamestream news yesterday about this memo? I watched Petah Jennings and saw NOTHING. However, Petah must have been VERY AWARE of the memo since he led off his broadcast with a story (delivered in urgent tones) about some obscure Lebanese businessman who claims that a bigwig Iraqi was willing to let an American disarmament team into Iraq shortly before the war broke out. This turned out to be a complete NON-STORY (nothing much in the news about this today) but it served as a convenient smokescreen for Petah to use to divert attention away from the memo.

Let's see. Petah reports on a non-story about Iraq and completely ignores a major story concerning the memo. Way to go, Petah!

[SwinneySwitch]

Typical demonrat spin!

[Ramius]

Break-in... hehehe... in their dreams.

"Paging Mr. Liddy... please pick up the white courtesy phone..."

[alloysteel]

The Democrats would LOVE to turn this into something resembling the Watergate breakin, and tie it to some sinister plot by the Bush Administration and John Ashcroft.

[cwb]

Why is it is that when a republican memo goes public, it's leaked...but Democratic memos are stolen? Hmmm.

[Petronski]

Rockefeller questioned how the document ended up in the hands of the media, suggesting the committee's Republican staff may have plucked it from a garbage can or broken into a Democratic computer.

LOL

[Enterprise]

Dressed in black, looked for they cannot be seen, listened for they canot be heard. The ninja Republicans!

[freedomcrusader]

The demonRATS are more concerned about keeping their internal memos secret than they are in keeping intelligence secret.

[KellyAdmirer]

Rockefeller questioned how the document ended up in the hands of the media, suggesting the committee's Republican staff may have plucked it from a garbage can or broken into a Democratic computer.

Ummm, if either of those scenarios is true - plucking sensitive documents from the trash or invading a supposedly secure computer - may I suggest that the security procedures of senior members of the, ahem, Intelligence Committee are lax and this is a sign that the people responsible for our nation's security and protecting vital intelligence secrets - that means you, Jay - are incompetent boobs?

Anyway, I highly doubt there was any Watergate-style break-in, "Security Risk" Rockefeller is just dancing as fast as he can to shift the blame off himself for injecting partisanship into national security.

[Republican Red]

Last night Hannity was begging Senator Corizine to get his Democratic friends to investigate the matter and call Hannity to testify under oath and make him testify how he got the memo.

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

[em2vn]

"Rockefeller questioned how the document ended up in the hands of the media, suggesting the committee's Republican staff may have plucked it from a garbage can or broken into a Democratic computer."
Well senator this certainly says a lot about how you view security. What else has your staff left in the trash or on an unsecure computer that can be plucked by agents bent on the destruction of our nation.
I would think your sloppy staff should be fired and you should be driven from office tied to the back of a muddy hog.

[petitfour]

Maybe someone obtained the memo during the Halloween costume fiasco last week. Except that was in a House office building which contains a lot of House intel committee members' offices. Maybe Senator Rockefeller has employed a nonRAT who is actually spying for the other side. Maybe maybe maybe.

[WhiteGuy]

More politics as usual from our elected.

Could this be another distraction?

[DManA]

By all means. Lets have a big long public investigation that keeps this memo in the forefront of the citizen's minds for months.

"At some point very soon the committee and the Senate will have to explore the chain of events surrounding this draft memo, since it raises serious questions about whether the majority is obtaining unauthorized access to private, internal materials of the minority, and who made the decision in this case to leak the draft memo," Rockefeller said.

[Sabertooth]

Rockefeller noted that the document had not been approved by or shared with members of the committee. "But it clearly reflects staff frustration that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation has not tackled the tough issues and frustration with the difficulties we have had in obtaining information from the administration," he said.

Rockefeller questioned how the document ended up in the hands of the media, suggesting the committee's Republican staff may have plucked it from a garbage can or broken into a Democratic computer.

"At some point very soon the committee and the Senate will have to explore the chain of events surrounding this draft memo, since it raises serious questions about whether the majority is obtaining unauthorized access to private, internal materials of the minority, and who made the decision in this case to leak the draft memo," Rockefeller said.

We're about to get a new litmus test for "Rockefeller Republicans."

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

Frist, Roberts and Hatch should huff and puff to the Democrats
"three or four more times, and we'll give you such a finger-wagging!"

That'll show those mean, partisan so-and-soes.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

When trying to decipher this mess, it helps to remember that the Twin Towers were nick-named David and Nelson for a reason -- they financed and built them.

Especially on intelligence committees, it can be difficult to actually know where anyone's coming from.

Like Mena, ulimately nothing will come from this committee. IMO, in this case, that's good news.

[MrConfettiMan]

How much you want to bet this [Republican break-in] is the lead story on all the network news programs tonight?

[pwatson]

Today’s Dallas Morning News, Bush missed deal to broker peace with Saddam, nothing about Democrats willing to dance on graves of our dead soldiers for political power.

[ZULU]

The Republicans are fighting a war against an enemy whose goal is to destroy America and western civilization.

Rockefeller and the left-wing hacks in the Democratic Party are fighting a war against the Bush Administration in an attempt to frustrate the American War effort and get themselves back in power.

People like that would have been called "traitors" in WW2 or during the American Revolution.

Retiring Senator Miller is correct in his assessment of the Democratic Party, but he doesn't go far enough. They are obstructionist, evil, and anti-American. They support a world-state agenda, eroding our defenses, and destroying our lifestyle. Their solution to poverty is to make everybody poor - except themselves, instead of trying to elevate the lifestyles of all Americans.

Rockefeller is a perfect clone of his equally liberal and equally evil relative, Nelson ROckefeller, ex governor of New York State and one-time Vice-President.

[ZULU]

The Republicans are fighting a war against an enemy whose goal is to destroy America and western civilization.

Rockefeller and the left-wing hacks in the Democratic Party are fighting a war against the Bush Administration in an attempt to frustrate the American War effort and get themselves back in power.

People like that would have been called "traitors" in WW2 or during the American Revolution.

Retiring Senator Miller is correct in his assessment of the Democratic Party, but he doesn't go far enough. They are obstructionist, evil, and anti-American. They support a world-state agenda, eroding our defenses, and destroying our lifestyle. Their solution to poverty is to make everybody poor - except themselves, instead of trying to elevate the lifestyles of all Americans.

Rockefeller is a perfect clone of his equally liberal and equally evil relative, Nelson ROckefeller, ex governor of New York State and one-time Vice-President.