Posted on 02/20/2004 5:52:13 AM PST by diotima
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.
Read the memo on intelmemo.com
On January 15, 2004 The Free Republic Network filed a complaint with the Senate Select Ethics Committee alleging improper and unethical conduct by Senator Jay Rockefeller and Democrat members of the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Read the FR thread here.
Earlier last week, we received a response from the SSEC: (click for larger image)
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Zat so? That's DISGUSTING. I'm OUTRAGED over that letter you received in response and the above.
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The small letter is too small, the full size is way too big.Let's see if we can find the "Just right" size happy medium ...
My gosh ! After reading this letter now, my response is:
WHAT A CROCK !! G-R-R-R-R-R-R !!!!
No, I hadn't seen this yet. Thanks.I am speechless right now. Ping to yall ...
See my post #91 also.
NOT CONFORMING JUDGES
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is reported by Senate sources to be leaning on Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch to get more aggressive in pushing President Bush's nominations for the federal judiciary in a way that would add to the number of filibusters.
Hearings have been held on Claude Allen, who once was press secretary to former Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. But Hatch has bowed to Democratic demands and not forced a committee vote on Allen. Hatch has not even called hearings on another 4th Circuit nominee close to Helms, Chief District Judge Terrence Boyle, or four judges for the 6th Circuit opposed by Michigan's Democratic senators.
Frist wants to speed movement on these nominations even though confirmation is unlikely. The Republican rationale is to add to the long line of filibusters in the Senate in hopes they will backfire against the Democrats.
My pleasure.Makes me wonder what kind of deal might have been cut. An outrage !
I'd like to see that coincide with really important cases that are making their way through the system, like the reverse of what the democrats did by stalling confirmation so cases would go the way the special interests groups who paid them, want.
If that happened it would show that we mean business. You can recess appoint Supreme Court Justices too. I think if Bush started filling the vacancies with a bunch of Bork clones, that might bring the democrat obstructionists back to earth.
I suspect it's something along the lines of, "You do what we tell you to do, and those 900 FBI files will stay in their folders."
The only problem with that premise is that it presumes that "we" do mean business.
I think if Bush started filling the vacancies with a bunch of Bork clones, that might bring the democrat obstructionists back to earth.
If wishes were horses...
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