Rockefeller brings intel case to the Senate floor [Questioning at GITMO]

THE HILL ^ | 4-19-05 | Alexander Bolton

[OXENinFLA]

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is taking the unusual step of bringing to the Senate floor a partisan dispute between the members of the normally secretive panel.

Rockefeller’s action comes shortly after the panel’s chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), clamped down on information about the committee’s proceedings during a closed-door business meeting that took place last Thursday. The Democrat had intended to press Roberts again on initiating an investigation of the intelligence community’s treatment of detainees captured in the war on terrorism.

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After the meeting, Rockefeller filed an amendment to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill expressing a sense of the Senate that the committee “should conduct an investigation into, and study of all matters relating to the authorities, policies, and practices of the departments, agencies, interrogation, or rendition of prisoners for intelligence purposes.”

It is the first time in Senate aides’ memory that a Senate Intelligence vice chairman has gone to the floor to attempt to pressure his chairman publicly on the management of what has traditionally been a nonpartisan committee.

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[OXENinFLA]

Once again a Dem is working for the terrorists!!

Thanks for pointing this out Txsleuth.

[OXENinFLA]

PING...

[OXENinFLA]

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[auboy]

Jay would still be complaining if we put up the terrorists in a Hilton and had Paris serve them "highballs". Liberals like Rockefeller want America to follow international appeasement and law, at the expense of our safety and Constitution. Jay and his like should flee our shores and return to the Europe they so love.

After all, Europe has been a beacon of freedom, fairness, peace, and love for centuries. /sarcasm

[harpu]

You know, when you look at these two butthole senators from West Virginia, you really got to wonder what the people who elect these morons are drinking over there.

[demkicker]

This is absolutely disgusting and outrageous! Ironic isn't it that a Rockefeller (of all people) is openly expressing such hatred for this country that he will now break with Senate rules and fall on his sword to protect terrorists!!!

This man should be falling down on his knees everyday and thanking God for the privilges he's received from this country. I'll never understand the liberal way of thinking.... People like Rockefeller enjoy THEIR elite stature and wealth which was made possible by the American dream (read capitalism) and its people, but show such hatred and contempt for this land of opportunity by protecting evil doers. I cannot comprehend their reasoning or purpose, but will fight them until my last breath.

[demkicker]

You know, when you look at these two butthole senators from West Virginia, you really got to wonder what the people who elect these morons are drinking over there.

Has to be Mind Erasers....

[OXENinFLA]

Now tell me what you really think. };o)

[Mo1]

Gee .. if I recall correctly .. Jon Corzine traveled to Guantanamo back at the beginning of the year to check out how things were at Gitmo and the complaints being made about procedures

And he didn't find any problems

Could Jay just being trying to cause trouble ??

Hmmmmm ... why do I keep remembering MEMO Gate??

[Txsleuth]

I think this whole thing goes back to the fact that these dems just hate George Bush---and they are using any little negativity to try to skewer him--

I know that Rockefeller and Levin were/are determined to somehow hang Bush with the "fact" the Bush knew there were NO WMDs and that he just WANTED to go to war with Iraq, so he, Cheney, Rummy, now Bolton all strong armed every single intelligence employee to "fix the books" to make it look like we had a reason for invading Iraq---

What is so ironic is, there have been article after article listing quotes made on the Senate floor and on TV from back in the 1990's from these same Senator that are JUST AS ADAMANT that Saddam had the WMDS and MUST GO---

So, it all boils down to them not wanting Bush to get credit for anything good, and wanting him to be responsible for anything bad....

[Txsleuth]

Thanks for posting this article---if Rockefeller is willing to go to the extent of doing something that has never been done before, it is just evidence that these guys have gone mental in their hate of President Bush---

Lets hope that cooler heads will talk him out of it--the last thing we need is the terrorists to see a US Senator calling out the President on the floor of the senate....

Which is exactly what he is doing, no matter what way he wants to spin it!

[OXENinFLA]

MEMO Gate??

The "pull the trigger only once" one?

[Mo1]

http://www.intelmemo.com/
The leadership of the Democratic Party is also at war.
However, their war is against President George W. Bush. And this war is the highest priority of Democratic decision-makers -- even within the traditionally nonpartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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.