[cyncooper]

The Senate and the House leadership get essentially the same threat assessments (TA) that the President does.

There's a quote from Bob Graham of all people that's been posted (I'm not going to take the time this minute to find it) from back when that characterizes the threat and it was helpful for the administration. (obviously statement made before spin crafted)

[deport]

There's a quote from Bob Graham of all people that's been posted

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It was from a WSJ article yesterday but here it is within a thread.....

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Ben-Veniste's rudeness was clear for all to see, but to understand just how dishonest was his line of questioning, look at this article from the May 27, 2002, issue of Human Events, a conservative Washington weekly:

Sen. Bob Graham (D.-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told HUMAN EVENTS May 21 that his committee had received all the same terrorism intelligence prior to September 11 as the Bush administration.

"Yes, we had seen all the information," said Graham. "But we didn't see it on a single piece of paper, the way the President did."

Graham added that threats of hijacking in an August 6 memo to President Bush were based on very old intelligence that the committee had seen earlier. "The particular report that was in the President's Daily Briefing that day was about three years old," Graham said. "It was not a contemporary piece of information."

Graham is far from a supporter of the Bush administration, as he made clear last year in his brief but loopy presidential campaign. The 9/11 commission is supposed to be an impartial search for the truth. Is there any doubt that Ben-Veniste is guilty of trying to turn it into a partisan witch hunt?

[TomGuy]

Trent Lott in an interview several weeks ago also said the Congressional leaders get basically the same intel as the WH.