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Sen. Intel Chief Calls on Kerry to Release Records
Newsmax.com ^ | Aug. 15, 2004 | Newsmax

Posted on 08/15/2004 11:39:56 AM PDT by NavySEAL F-16

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004 12:32 a.m. EDT

Sen. Intel Chief Calls on Kerry to Release Records

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts called on Sen. John Kerry to release his Intelligence Committee attendance records on Sunday - as controversy swirled over claims that the top Democrat was mostly a no-show during important hearings.

"The easiest way out of this is for John Kerry and John Edwards to request [Committee Vice Chairman] Sen. Rockefeller and myself to release the attendance [records]," Roberts told NBC's "Meet the Press." Roberts urged that any Kerry record release should cover "not only of the public hearings, which they have rebutted, but the closed hearings," adding, "It is important, because you have to be in attendance to learn the job."

The Kerry campaign has acknowledged that the Massachusetts Democrat missed scores of public hearings, but insisted he attended "private" sessions and is a "hard-working" member of the Intelligence Committee.

Asked if the "hard-working" description was accurate, Sen. Roberts declined to back Kerry up.

"Well, 'hard-working member' is in the eyes of the beholder," he told "Meet the Press."

A Bush Cheney campaign commercial set to debut on Monday accuses Kerry of being absent for 76 percent of the Intelligence Committee's hearings, noting that he was completely AWOL for the entire year after the 9/11 attacks.

"That same year," the ad says, "Sen. Kerry proposed slashing the intelligence budget by $6 billion."

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Jane Harman, who appeared on "Meet the Press" with Roberts, said she couldn't defend Kerry's Intelligence Committee attendance record.

"I don't know what the facts are and I really can't speak to that," she explained.


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To: Wild Irish Rogue

Perhaps F'n has Borderline Personality Disorder.


101 posted on 08/15/2004 7:43:33 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina

I e-mailed them twice over 7 hours ago.I guess they really aren't worried about fact checking.I have pretty much quit opening threads that source them.They are just not very reliable and prone to exageration.


102 posted on 08/15/2004 7:57:36 PM PDT by Blessed
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To: arasina

" Perhaps F'n has Borderline Personality Disorder."

IMHO-He has more than a borderline disorder.
Substitute the name of George Bush and the media would have him in an institution by now.

Sleepwalking,banging on the walls and screaming in the middle of the night,
in the fetal position for a week end at least,
completely fabricating your military history,
not knowing your ethnicity,
flip flopping on every issue
and constantly lying- say to me that John Kerry has major psychological problems.
I am appalled that the MSM has turned a blind eye to Kerry's mental problems.


103 posted on 08/15/2004 8:04:06 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: NavySEAL F-16

**Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts called on Sen. John Kerry to release his Intelligence Committee attendance records on Sunday**

And we want to see all of your military records too! (Including the good, the bad, and the ugly.)


104 posted on 08/15/2004 8:06:39 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: dennisw

Any time a photo comes up where I can see John Kerry's hands, I get the heebie-jeebies. Why does he allow his nails to be so long? No wonder he can't throw a football.


105 posted on 08/15/2004 8:10:00 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (John Kerry '04 -- Supporting everything while supporting nothing for all Americans.)
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To: Bonaparte
"Yes."

That's terrific!

I'm not a letter writer, but this needs our collective efforts.

106 posted on 08/16/2004 2:59:53 AM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: SandRat
"Think it has potential for a chant at every Kerry campaign stop?"

Each and every stop, until the noise is deafening!

HEY! HEY!
HO! HO!
Kerry sign the
FORM ONE EIGHT OH!

107 posted on 08/16/2004 3:02:18 AM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: etradervic
Having put the knock on "Compassionate Conservatism", why don't we raise the specter of "Lenient Liberalism"?

And what better spokeman for that would there be than M. Kerry, oui?

CA....

108 posted on 08/16/2004 12:44:22 PM PDT by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've once again found that silly grin!)
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