[dts32041]

The real failures where the ones standing in front of the camera csting blame at the CIA, for the rules they made for it to work.

Church, torch, kennedy, et al

[Piquaboy]

If the senate has any intelligence, they should be made to prove it.

[zarf]

As long as I can remember the left has characterized the CIA as the all knowing, all seeing evil that controls world events with fine precision.

Remember how the CIA controlled the minds of minorities by using radio signals broadcast through teeth fillings?

[marty60]

The Senate NEVER admitts that THEY are the real problem. They spent 20 plus years trying to destroy the CIA, NOW they blame the CIA for being infiltrated by leftie Ivans. When your job is to provide political cover for evil DUMS your destin for failure.

Frankly, I would fire every analyst, and find people that are truly interested in the security of the United States....Not some sleezy Evil Dum politcian.

[tkathy]

Where is the senate and Kosovo???

[xzins]

During the mid-nineties until recently, Kerry was on the Intel committee (ranking?), and during that time he voted against every funding increase....along with the other Democrats.

If they had access to everything, then why weren't they so smart as to see this coming?

[2nd Amendment]

Saddam gone! Chance for Middle east democracy. Kurds safe . . No intelligence failure!

[AmericanChef]

They got The Report, waited 5 minutes, then called in the cameras.

[OldFriend]

The intelligence was true and accurate. That they were unable to act upon that information is hindsite criticism.

Even today we are unable to round up suspects as evidenced by the hysterical reaction to putting women's underwear on the head of suspected terrorists.

We can only pray for Attorney General Ashcroft and President Bush and hope that the terrorists don't know for sure what we know or what we will do with what we know.

Rant over!

[TomGuy]

The Washington, DC, elected are doing one of two things:

1. Either all their bickering and criticizing are only staged for show and behind the scenes they work better than we know, or

2. They are shaking in their boots.

If another major attack occurs on American soil and thousands of Americans are murdered, not one elected (Senate/House/Presidency) would probably get re-elected his/her next term.

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Watching Senator Roberts buttcovering and Senator Rockerfeller politicizing yesterday was sickening. These are the people who represent America? We are in deep doo-doo.

They better hope the agencies they most severely criticized are watching their backs.

In the 1970's the CIA took allot of hits as the badboy; they were blames for most of the Nation's ills. It seems after yesterday's report, they are again the badboy scapegoat.

The Senators aren't asking the right questions (no more so than the 9-11 Commission is). The real question is: Why did the Intel agencies fail? Senators don't want that truth coming out. That truth reflects too much on the dismantling our of Intel services after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Senators want to point fingers and cast blame---elsewhere. They should be figuring out what the problem was and how to correct it.

Tenet, to the 9-11 Commission just a couple of months ago, said it would take ANOTHER five years for the CIA to be 'up to speed'. That sounded ludicrous then. Now, I wouldn't doubt it. Our 'elected' on Capitol Hill still seem to be clueless that terrorism is a worldwide threat and foreign terrorists do operate WITHIN our borders.

[visagoth]

[arasina]

I'm suspicious of this choice by the Senate Intelligence Committee to suddenly place all of the "blame" on the CIA and exonerate President Bush. They are still up to something. Just a little reminder about what we are dealing with:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, November 5, 2003

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today released the following statement concerning a memo written by Democratic staff on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that suggests ways to politicize intelligence data:

“I have often said that the process in Washington is so politicized and polarized that it can’t even be put aside when we’re at war. Never has that been proved more true than the highly partisan and perhaps treasonous memo prepared for the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.

“Of all the committees, this is the one single committee that should unquestionably be above partisan politics. The information it deals with should never, never be distorted, compromised or politicized in any shape, form or fashion. For it involves the lives of our soldiers and our citizens. Its actions should always be above reproach; its words never politicized.

“If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin. The ones responsible - be they staff or elected or both should be dealt with quickly and severely sending a lesson to all that this kind of action will not be tolerated, ignored or excused.

“Heads should roll!”

To read the original leaked memo to the Democrat members of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, click here: DemMemoGate

[Morgan in Denver]

No comment on this committee should be uttered without reference to Sean Hannity's book "Deliver Us From Evil", Chapter 8: Playing Politics at the Water's Edge. Hannity exposes Senator Jay Rockefeller as the person behind the infamous memo outlining how Democrats planned to politicize the committee; to benefit Democrats and make the Bush administration look bad.

Also from that chapter is the comment by Democrat Zell Miller of Georgia, who described the plot as "the first cousin of Treason."

[lainde]

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