Dems Send the Senate into Closed Session Over Plame Leak

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[LisaFab]

Harry Reid just made a motion, that was seconded, to send the Senate into closeed session.Schumer, Rockefeller and Durbin are before the press asking for a Senate Intelligence investigation into the Plame affair

[silverleaf]

Senator Frist is outraged. On FNC now. He calls this a "pure stunt".

Seems like an impure stunt to me. I'm sending my demokrat senator a note congratulating her party's willingness to investigate who sent Joe Wilson to Niger on taxpayer dollars, and why, and what the CIA did with the results of Wilson's trip.

[YaYa123]

So what are the Republicans going to do except whine and do toddler temper tantrums for the cameras?

[Mo1]

First is TICKED OFF!!

[Eagle of Liberty]

What Wilson said versus what he told the CIA.

I must have also missed the episode of this "True Reality Show" where someone in the CIA gave Wilson permission to discuss Intelligence Work with the General Public. Was that when the CIA did not make him sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement? Which CIA Officer decided that Wilson did not need to sign one? We want answers. Investigate away!

[MHT]

Good, a Senate doing nothing keeps America safer than a bunch of Senators raising taxes and increasing regulation.

What they really want is media coverage--but how will they get their fair share of sound bites and face time with the doors closed?

[goldstategop]

NO ONE CARES. The public doesn't give a damn about a non-existent crime. No one was harmed. Even Libby wasn't charged with breaking any laws, just with lying to the GJ. The Democrats were never that exercised over Clinton's lies. At the time, they dismissed them because they were about sex. Hey Dems, when you come right down to it, some lies are more equal than others, eh?

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[Cboldt]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 29, 2003

SCHUMER CALLS FOR SPECIAL COUNSEL TO BE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE ILLEGAL LEAK OF CIA AGENT'S IDENTITY

CIA is urging Justice Dept to open criminal inquiry into whether Administration officials leaked identity of a CIA agent to discredit a critic of the White House's uranium claims ...

http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR02064.html

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September 30, 2003

Dems seek CIA special counsel
By Jonathan E. Kaplan and Geoff Earle

A phalanx of Democratic senators yesterday urged Attorney General John Ashcroft to name a special counsel to investigate whether Bush administration officials illegally leaked the identity of a CIA operative in an act of political payback.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) Schumer said the situation required the "most independent, most thorough, and most fearless investigation possible."

Sens. Tom Daschle (S.D.), the minority leader, Joe Biden (Del.) the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Carl Levin (Mich.), the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee and Jay Rockefeller (W. Va.), the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee all echoed Schumer's call.

Schumer said an internal Justice Department investigation requested by the CIA would lack credibility since all Department of Justice (DOJ) officials ultimately report to Ashcroft, who serves at the pleasure of the White House, creating an inherent conflict-of-interest.

Meanwhile, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has asked Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) for a "full accounting" into whether White House officials sought to disclose the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA covert operative to retaliate against Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had criticized White House claims about Iraq's efforts to acquire nuclear material after having conducted an official investigation in Africa.

In a letter to Davis, Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the government affairs committee, wrote: "Congressional oversight of the Wilson case is imperative."

Waxman added that he would like to hold hearings and obtain a copy of the CIA request that DOJ investigate the matter.

http://www.hillnews.com/news/093003/cia.aspx

Frist is on FoxNews. He is pissed off that Rule 21 was invoked without notice to the majority party.

[LisaFab]

John Kyl follows Lott to the microphone.

You should have seen Reid sputtering when he made the motion. Priceless!

[right right]

Let's play hardball with the arses. The risk of letting them take over is too great. Repubs are perceived as weak and pretty much act that way. Pour it on them with EVERYTHING on the line. If we lose this country to the libs, it had best be with a big fight.

[advance_copy]

The RATS have disrupted the United States Senate because their moonbat tinfoil hat conspiracy theories are off the front pages.

[areafiftyone]

So what are the Republicans going to do except whine and do toddler temper tantrums for the cameras?

That's what I'd like to know.

[YaYa123]

Good catch alerting us to this, LisaFab.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Or a CIA led coup-d'etat.

I heard him say that. More like a CIA led game of Wag-The-Dog.

[Republican Wildcat]

Yep.

[mathluv]

He is ticked! Put on Lott. Never done in the past - the two leaders would always talk first. Evidently Reid did not warn him ahead of time.

[texianyankee]

"BINGO! The Alito stories were taking away from the Plame and the Dems can't stand it!"

I think you guys got it right.....the dims cant sink any lower....or can they?

[Soul Seeker]

Santorum slapping them. LOL

Stating they did this to avoid cutting spending.

[YaYa123]

CNN showing Schumer's comments from moments ago. It seems not only did dems shut down the Senate, they beat the Republicans to the microphones.

[LisaFab]

Santorum is saying they closed the session because they hate spending cuts! Says they can't move on...they're replaying the 2004 elections!

[Peach]

MSNBC: Trent Lott is furious that this has been done without notification. He said that ALWAYS in the past, this was done with notification to the other side.

Banner on MSNBC says they are discussing pre-war intel and the Libby indictment.

This is the beginning of impeachment discussions on the party of the Democrats, imo.