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To: dirtboy; Wolfstar; Shermy
Even before the memo was written, Rockefeller's staff already was off on its own, well outside the traditional bipartisan channels. According to the memo, the "FBI Niger investigation" of reports that Saddam Hussein's regime had tried to buy uranium from West Africa "was done solely at the request of the vice chairman."

So, it was Jay Rockefeller (and not Dick Cheney) who sent Joseph C. Wilson IV on his mission to Niamey? Was this, indeed, a partisan set-up from the very outset?

Would explain a lot...

9 posted on 12/22/2003 10:51:09 PM PST by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: okie01
From a previous FR reply of mine, behind which I stand, of course:

W. Va. Senator John D. Rockefeller, Democratic Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, someone who is absolutely in a position to know the truth about the matter, when asked on Fox News Sunday June 22, 2003, whether he'd heard any evidence to suggest President Bush lied regarding Iraqi WMD intelligence reports said, "No, I have not."

When asked why John Kerry was intimating Bush had lied, Rockefeller basically said, "Kerry is running for president. His agenda is not the same as mine."

This might suggest that Jay was stupid for letting himself appear to change his views so dramatically later.

It's my impression that his response at that time on FNS was genuine, but Democrats came down hard on him quickly thereafter for being so out of sync with their leaders' plans. I think, therefore, Jay doesn't really run that show.

I wouldn't be at all surprised that it's been a Mellon-via-BillyJeff/McAwful run show.

The salient point is probably that Rockefeller's signature alone has been doing a lot of requesting in the recent past, where before that, requests of the executive branch came under the signatures of both Chairman and Vice-Chairman.

"Aides to Rockefeller" as instigators/authors doesn't pass my smell test. He's allowed his office and seat to become the nexus of the partisanship and treason, and that's why the real kids in charge probably love the diversion.

HF

19 posted on 12/23/2003 7:46:16 AM PST by holden
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Thanks for the ping, okie01. While I'm not surprised to learn that the Wilson nonsense had its origin with the Dems on Capitol Hill, my guess would have been that it started on the House side with that creep, Henry Waxman. Unlike many FReepers, I don't see a Clinton conspiracy behind every Leftist/Dem move. There are plenty of Leftist/Dem Bush and/or America-haters with the power and venality to act on their own.
24 posted on 12/23/2003 11:08:17 AM PST by Wolfstar (George W. Bush — the 1st truly great world leader of the 21st Century)
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