Posted on 11/17/2003 7:07:02 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2003
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FREE REPUBLIC NETWORK LAUNCHES WEB SITE ON SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MEMO, CALLS FOR SENATOR ROCKEFELLER TO RESIGN
(Washington, DC) The Free Republic Network today announced the unveiling of www.intelmemo.com, a new web site that provides news, analysis and research material regarding the plans by partisan Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to use sensitive intelligence data for political attacks against the Bush Administration, as outlined in a recently revealed internal memo. The Network also called for the immediate resignation of the Committee’s Vice Chairman, Senator Jay Rockefeller. Executive Director Robert Hahn released the following statement:
“The members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have access to our government’s most sensitive secrets. The lives of America’s soldiers and intelligence agents depend on their using that knowledge responsibly. It is now clear that certain partisan members of this vital committee have conspired to misuse their positions, influence, and access to classified information to undermine President Bush during the 2004 campaign season.
The leaked memo describes a phony ‘independent investigation’ designed to let the Democrats dig through classified material – information that should be used to improve our national security – to support and publicize their political agenda. We agree with Senator Zell Miller that this abuse must not be tolerated, ignored, or excused, and that “heads should roll.”
Therefore, I ask every American citizen to join me in calling for the immediate resignation of Jay Rockefeller from the United States Senate. As ranking Democratic member of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Rockefeller is responsible for the acts of his subordinates. We cannot permit America's national security to be damaged by partisan political warfare.”
The complete contents of the memo, press articles, transcripts from the Congressional Record and other information can be found at www.intelmemo.com.
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We are at war against the network of international terrorists who committed the mass murders of 9/11. We are at war against the survivors of Saddam Hussein's regime, and against the remnants of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Americans have died, and continue to die in this struggle.
However, their war is against President George W. Bush. And this war is the highest priority of Democratic decision-makers -- even within the traditionally nonpartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
On November 5, 2003, Americans were given an unprecedented look inside the Democrats' war, when Fox News published an astoundingly revealing memorandum from within the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, describing how Democrats on the Committee intend to use their positions, influence, and access to information - not to help win the war on terror, or to protect American citizens - but to undermine the Bush Administration. The memo describes their agreement to launch an "independent investigation" as a means to that end, timed to coincide with the 2004 presidential campaign.
The purpose of a real investigation, of course, is to gather information, analyze it, and arrive at a conclusion. But the memo makes it clear that the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee have already reached their conclusions. This "investigation" is a sham, intended purely to support and publicize their political agenda.
By signing onto this scheme, the Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Intelligence have abused their positions, undercut American troops and agents in the field, and violated their oaths of office.
Which party can be trusted with America's national security?There are people who actually think the Greens can be trusted to handle our national security? I guess what they mean to say is, there is no need for national security.Democrats 2578 (37.50%)
Republicans 3902 (56.76%)
Libertarians 78 (1.13%)
Greens 157 (2.28%)
None of the Above 160 (2.33%)
That pretty much goes for the Libertarians, too.
1. If there were, and Democrats knew it, then they are traitors, selling out their country with deliberate lies for personal political gain.
2. If there really were not good reasons, then the Bush administration either lied or erred, and Democrats would be doing a service to our system of Government by exposing it (and partisanship can be forgiven - it would even be a virtue).
Hopefully, as information is learned, it will be included, to inform this essential National Security issue that the voters will consider. This is the real center of gravity.
They are pouring their resources into making folks think that:
a. Saddam had no WMDs
b. He was not supporting al Queda.
If it can be shown that they knew that this threat was real against Americans, and they knowingly lied about it for political gain (aiding and abbetting the enemy in the process) then they will be well and truly screwed come election time.
The fact that they were being partisan will mostly inflame partisans of the other party, its just a minor irritation to the middle-of-the-road folks, who generalize that "all politicians are that way". What will really reasonate is who was actually lying to the public (playing us for fools). It will be worse for Democrats if they are caught, because it will have been life-threatening treason, as opposed to just butt-covering or manipulation.
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