Posted on 05/13/2005 4:59:18 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
Minority Leader Harry Reid strayed from his prepared remarks on the Senate floor yesterday and promised to continue opposing one of President Bush's judicial nominees based on "a problem" he said is in the nominee's "confidential report from the FBI."
Those highly confidential reports are filed on all judicial nominees, and severe sanctions apply to anyone who discloses their contents. Less clear is whether a senator could face sanctions for characterizing the content of such files.
"Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway," Mr. Reid said on the floor yesterday, about the Michigan Appeals Court judge who is nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
"All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there is a problem there," Mr. Reid continued.
Republican staff members and supporters of Mr. Bush's nominees were outraged.
"Can you think of a better way to trash someone's reputation?" Sean Rushton of the conservative Committee for Justice asked after seeing a transcript of the remarks. "Say that there is bad stuff from an FBI investigation in a file somewhere and leave that hanging. This is character assassination of the lowest order and completely improper."
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yeah ,... I wish it was the treatment NYPD calls[unofficially] "a tune-up"
Not if he's professing to be something he isn't.
I'm pretty sure that lying and slander and breaking the law aren't good Mormon principles.
Just heard on Laura Ingraham that the ONLY people that can view these files are those on the JUDICARY COMMITTEE.
Guess what.........REID is NOT on that committee!!!!
Senator Allen on CSPAN2 now...
The mere fact that he MENTIONED a "problem" in the file.....is enough.
Throw is silly little a-- in jail.
He just violated federal regulation.
If there were anything really juicy in the file, the Rats would have given it to Nina Totenburg already --- like they did with Clarence Thomas.
Oh, Peach, there won't be any fallout! Our side does not play hardball.
And what would an FBI file on Ried show?!
Better yet.........what would some of his files in the offices of some of those wacked out Communist organizations reveal????
Go to Foxnews.com and click on Tony Snow Show. I got it there.
Bill and Hill set the stage for this FBI abuse. Something needed to be done then.
yeah ,...I've got Tony Snow audio on the computer , Allen on TV
Tony Snow mentioned on his radio show that it was illegal for Reid to have read the file
Sure he THINKS he's smart. But anyone watching this has got to be thinking he's got an IQ below 50. He's dumb as a door knob. Just to show you how dumb this guy is, even his apologies are transparently underhanded. After he insulted Bush the other day by calling him a "loser" in front of a bunch of school kids, he called Karl Rove to apologize. He said that he was apologizing to Rove because the "President is probably asleep."
And Reid recommended that everyone go upstairs to read the file
Judiciary Committee Rats:
Leahy
Kennedy
Biden
Kohl
Feinstein
Feingold
Schumer
Durbin
http://judiciary.senate.gov/members.cfm
Good question from that reporter........
Sadly, you're right.
so , anything gonna happen today?? BTW we all know Fri 13th is a dud , usually
Reid may have opened an interesting can of worms. Maybe this peeking in FBI files goes on a lot more than people know. How else to explain such a "slip." He is so comfortable with the procedure that he forgot it was not permitted.
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