Indeed. BUMP!
Posted on 05/25/2005 10:48:22 AM PDT by InfoReporter
WASHINGTON, May 25 - The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said today that John R. Bolton might have mishandled classified information by sharing with another State Department official details about a communication intercepted by the National Security Agency.
The assertion, by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, followed a two-week review of the issue by the committee's staff. Mr. Rockefeller outlined his findings in a three-page letter to the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the same day that the full Senate is beginning debate on Mr. Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the United Nations.
"On at least one occasion," Mr. Rockefeller said in the letter, Mr. Bolton appeared to have shared with another State Department official information he received from the security agency about an intercepted communication. Mr. Rockefeller said Mr. Bolton appeared to have taken the step even though the security agency had directed that "no further action be taken on this information without prior approval of the N.S.A."
Mr. Rockefeller recommended that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee interview Mr. Bolton "to conduct a more complete understanding of the extent to which he may have shared with others" information obtained from the National Security Agency, including identifying information about 19 Americans mentioned in classified intercepts.
Mr. Rockefeller's claim added a critical new allegation to what has already been a contentious debate on Mr. Bolton's nomination. But Republican aides on the Senate Intelligence Committee immediately disputed Mr. Rockefeller's assertion, saying that their own review showed that Mr. Bolton's handling of the information had not been a problem in any way.
Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the committee, was expected to send a letter of his own challenging Mr. Rockefeller's findings.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How much of a dipS#!t is Lugar fro letting this entire thing get out of control. What an ineffective wimp
Where are the calls from the Democraps for the prosecution of "Socks" Burger for not only the theft of classified documents, but the destruction of some of them?
"no further action be taken on this information without prior approval of the N.S.A."
Did he take "further action"? Sounds like a weak argument.
More leakage.
Meanwhile, Rockefeller still admires the work that Sen. Patrick "Depends" Leahy did for the Soviets.
No, I believe he told Patrick Leahy ...
... who, in 1987, was asked to leave the Senate Intelligence Committee after he disclosed publicly confidential information the Intelligence Committee had voted to keep secret. ...
Berger got it from Leahy
Good grief. He's next on the schedule.
Indeed. BUMP!
Yes, it's the GOP's fault. How surprising. [yawn]
InfoReporter
Since May 25, 2005
Is that you Howard Dean, or are you Jayson Blair?
I wonder how leaky Leahy feels about that...
avg_freeper Says Rockefeller May Have Mishandled Goats.
"Lemme guess ... he disclosed something to Sandy Berger ..."
You nailed the senator.
Really nailed him.
Is that you Howard Dean, or are you Jayson Blair?
Hmm, no comments of his own. I'll go with Jayson.
More BS from the lying maggots of the NY Slimes and $enator Rockatellitall.
The NYT quoting Democrats. That's as far as I needed to read.
#1 It's a Democrat claim.
#2 It's a Rockerfeller claim
#3 There's this gigantic weasel word, 'may', dead center in the middle of it.
This is nothing but trash used as a delaying tactic.
We need to make a deal with the "honorable" Senator. If this proves to be true, we'll pull the Bolton nomination. If it proves to be false, Senator Rockerfeller will resign immediately from the US Senate.
Sooooooo, what's your take on all this?
It appears that another quisling of $oreA$$ has posed as a conservative to post more NY Slimes lies.
Is that you Jayson?
Are you sober? Are you in a hot tub with more of your homosexual buddies while posting this?
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