Posted on 03/19/2004 4:11:22 PM EST by gcruse
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There hasn't been much in the mainstream press about a Democrat-written document, "The Treason Memo," aptly named because it appears that Democrats seem willing to sacrifice both bipartisanship and national security in their attempt to use the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) as a political weapon.
This memo is one of the unsolved political mysteries of 2003. Who drew up the plan for Democrats to abuse SSCI as a stealth weapon to undermine and discredit President George W. Bush and the U.S. war effort in Iraq hasn't been released, other than Vice Chairman of the committee, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), defending his staff and the outrageous document itself, calling it a "private memo that nobody saw expect me and the staff people that wrote it for me."
Senator Rockefeller has rebuffed calls from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) who, after reading the memo, ordered an end to cooperation with Democrats on the Iraq investigation. He also wants the responsible staffers to be exposed.
It centered on duping the panel's Republican chairman, Pat Roberts, into approving probes that, in actuality, would just be fishing expeditions inside the State Department and Pentagon, and its authors hoped to dig up and hype "improper or questionable conduct by administration officials."
The committee would then release information during the course of the "investigation," with Democrats providing their "additional views" that would, among other things, castigate the Republicans for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry. They would "manufacture and denounce" a cover-up where none existed.
They intended to drag the issue through the 2004 presidential campaign by creating an independent commission to investigate, according to the memo.
Fox News made the plan public on Nov. 6, 2003 and said the Democratic Committee members would launch the plan "when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority." This plan wrecked more than two-and -one-half-decades of unique bi-partisanship on the SSCI, whose job is to oversee the CIA and the rest of the nation's intelligence services.
This all started when the Democrats demanded that the committee staff be split, instead of reporting directly to the chairman, it now is bifurcated, with Republicans reporting to the GOP chairman and Democrats working for the Democratic vice chairman.
Mellon has worked at the Department of Defense (DOD) and civilians there have complained about Mellon, as he tried to keep conservatives out of key Pentagon posts and to undermine (tough) anti-terrorism policies after 9/11. He has worked for the late liberal John Chafee (R-R.I.) and for George Tenet, a Democrat and CIA chief.
He was a former SSCI staffer under Clinton (you might know) when he went to work as a deputy to the assistant secretary of defense for C3I (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence). There he held a civilian rank equivalent to a three-star general.
This gives a pretty good idea of the possible person behind this plan to highly abuse the SSCI committee.
Even revealing intelligence is part of their plan. No wonder those in the know feel this "dirty trick" is so close to treason
I had not thought to connect that memo to what we have seen transpire over the last few years.
Silly me.
I think there is almost certainly a connection. And the DNC (Soros, and other anti-Americans) are behind this clearly concerted effort.
Treason Memo reminder bump