[kidd]

Rush talking about this

[PeterFinn]

Anything to distract from the Alito nomination and keep the pot boiling over Iraq.

Effin' traitors the Democrats are.

[sonsofliberty2000]

ping

[txhurl]

bttt

I thought Hillary!'d authored that gameplan.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Roberts read the memo into the record in the senate yesterday after the closed session ended.

Also note that the republicans agreed only that 6 senators could check on the progress of the phase II investigation. This did not set up a new investigation, or require any work on phase 2. It is a fact-finding group to check what's going on with phase II.

We of course already know what is going on with phase 2. It was largely done in May, but the democrats wanted to put hundreds of quotes from white house officials and show how they compared to actual intelligence (to show "distortion").

The republicans, rather than deny the democrats that opportunity, merely said "Ok, but we will also include hundreds of quotes from democrat senators on the same issues.

The democrats balked at that, so there has been a fight ever since, and the report has sat unfinished.

Two days ago Roberts told the democrat staff that it was time to finish this up, there would be a week of hearings and then the report was coming out November 14th.

The next day, Reid pulls this stunt. I believe this is to argue that when the report comes out, it will "prove" what reid said yesterday, since there will be no evidence of wrongdoing.

[silverleaf]

In response to this fiasco, I think Sen Pat Roberts said that, regarding part 2 of his committee's investigation, whatever flew off the fan would have to be cleaned up.

I think he was implying that the democrats should have been careful what they asked for...they will not be "pleased" by the findings in the report of Senate findings the dems are demanding be expedited.

[Yosemitest]

Here's the reason why they did it, explained by the best mined in politics ... today.

See I Told You So: Senate Democrats Call Closed Session on Libby

November 1, 2005

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I see it on the screen now. I see it. The Democrats -- is just the Democrats or the whole Senate?
Okay, okay.
Rule 21 has been invoked by the Democrats. The whole Senate is in session behind closed doors. It's a closed session. Harry Reid invoked Rule 21 to discuss the Libby indictment and to pursue the notion that this prewar intelligence was known to be untrue, that Bush lied. Democrats are unhappy that Fitzgerald did not indict on this basis, so they are going to make it happen. I told you this was going to happen.
Folks, it's uncanny!
When are you doubting Thomases going to finally wake up and admit I know what I'm talking about?

After the past two weeks I've had, I don't understand how anybody could ever call here and disagree with me about anything. I predicted this to you.
I predicted whether they get the indictment they want or not, they're going to still proceed on a policy basis as though Bush lied -- and now they've invoked Rule 21 and they've got the Senate in closed session dealing with the notion the investigation, the Libby indictment, and what does it mean for the fact that president lied us into war.

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(AP: Democrats Force Closed Meeting on Iraq)

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So Democrats are obstructing because they... are unhappy that Fitzgerald did not indict on this basis...(to pursue the notion that this prewar intelligence was known to be untrue, that Bush lied)... , so they are going to make it happen.

Where's the backbone of the Republican Senators? Tell the Democrats to go pound sand. Everything the democrats want, they get? To hell with that.

The Republicans should block every move the Democrats want, and infuriate them more. Make the Democrats explode in rage. Then laugh at them in their faces as they continue to lie about everything. The Democrats don't realize just how angry the 'flyover country' has become with them.

And to those 'Demoacrats-In-Disguise' commonly called RINO's ... you better watch out, because the Republican Party has your number and your campaign cash is about to be diverted to your primary competitor.

NOT ONE PENNY!!!

I'm angry enough to pledge money to real conservatives who will run against these RINO's and replace them. How about $100.00 a head?

I encourage everyone to attack!

Lincoln D. Chafee of Rhode Island
Office Locations

United States Senate
141A Russell
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2921

170 Westminster Street
Suite 1100
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 453-5294

320 Thames Street
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Newport, RI 02840
(401) 845-0700

Susan M. Collins of Maine
Senator Susan M. Collins
172 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Phone:


Washington, D.C. Office (202) 224-2523

Augusta Office (207) 622-8414
Bangor Office (207) 945-0417
Biddeford Office (207) 283-1101
Caribou Office (207) 493-7873
Lewiston Office (207) 784-6969
Portland Office (207) 780-3575


Olympia J. Snowe of Maine
Senator Olympia J. Snowe
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-5344

John W. Warner of Virginia
Contacts for all offices Washington Office Address:

225 Russell Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Telephone:
(202) 224-2023
(202) 224-6295 FAX

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00a.m. to 6:00p.m.


John McCain of Arizona
contacts
241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg.
United States Senate
, Washington DC 20510

Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862

Phoenix
5353 North 16th Street
Suite 105
Phoenix, Arizona 85016

Phone: (602) 952-2410
Fax: (602) 952-8702

Tempe
4703 S. Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1
Tempe, Arizona 85282

Phone: (480) 897-6289
Fax: (480) 897-8389

Tucson
407 W. Congress Street
Suite 103
Tucson, Arizona 85701

Phone: (520) 670-6334
Fax: (520) 670-6637

Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina
contacts for all offices
Washington Office
290 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5972 phone

Upstate Regional Office
101 East Washington Street, Suite 220
Greenville, South Carolina 29601
(864) 250-1417

Midlands Regional Office
508 Hampton Street, Suite 202
Columbia, South Carolina 29201
(803) 933-0112 phone

Pee Dee Regional Office
McMillan Federal Building
401 West Evans Street, Suite 226B
Florence, South Carolina 29501
(843) 669-1505 phone

Lowcountry Regional Office
530 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, Suite 202
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29464
(843) 849-3887 phone


Piedmont Regional Office
140 East Main Street, Suite 110
Rock Hill, South Carolina 29730
(803) 366-2828 phone

Golden Corner Regional Office (part-time)b 135 Eagles Nest Drive, Suite B
Seneca, South Carolina 29678
(864) 888-3330

Senator Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican
contact for all offices
Washington, D.C. Office
140 Russell Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2315
Fax: (202) 224-6519
TDD: (202) 224-9921

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Someone tells me.

We've got Graham and DeWine off the Gang Of Seven - McCain is sitting on the fence along with Warner but they'll probably end up voting for Alito. That leaves the Weak Sisters and Chaffee on the other side.


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

I'm still watching, though, and not yet convinced.

[balch3]

A state of insurrection exists in the Senate Democratic leadership. Reid should have been arrested yesterday.

[ladiesview61]

Rush is saying the Dems hatred for Bush and his administration,is so ingrained in their thoughts...and the fact that Bush "lied" about weapons of mass destruction,is so cemented in their minds, that they can't see or face reality. He's loving how they are imploding right before our eyes. He said he lives for this day...
Rush just loves these "see I told you so" moments. haha

[mtntop3]

Reid and Jay Rockefeller are asses. Rockefeller's secret memo reeks of a conspiracy which would in effect undermine the U.S. government and put to risk its citizens in time of war including our great men and women serving in the armed forces.

[piasa]

2004 : (LEAKS BY DURBIN, ROCKEFELLER & WYDEN CONCERNING A CIA SATELLITE PROGRAM - See MISTY?) The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into whether Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Jay Rockefeller and Ron Wyden leaked details about a secret "black ops" CIA satellite program last December in a move that may have seriously compromised national security, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin said on Saturday.
"The CIA made a request to the Justice Department to investigate and possibly bring criminal charges against these three [senators]," Babbin told WABC Radio host Monica Crowley. "My information is that investigation is ongoing."
Mr. Rockefeller is the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Mr. Durbin is the number two ranking Democrat in the Senate.
Media reports on the satellite leak last December indicated that the Bush administration was concerned about public comments by Durbin, Rockefeller and Wyden and that the CIA had requested a Justice Department probe.
"The formal request for a leaks investigation would target people who described sensitive details about a new generation of spy satellites to The Washington Post, which published a page-one story about the espionage program Saturday [Dec. 11, 2004]," a Justice Department official told the Associated Press at the time.
But the same official told the AP that Justice "has not decided whether to investigate."
Former Deputy Undersecretary Babbin's comments on Saturday were the first indication that such a probe was actually launched and is ongoing.
"The fact of the matter is that [Durbin, Rockefeller and Wyden] divulged something that was above and beyond top secret and frankly, they probably blew the strategy and the hundreds of millions of dollars that were being spent to pursue it," he told Crowley.
"The acknowledgement of [the "black ops" program's] existence is not even proper and the acknowledgement of them and the details of them can very well damage national security," Babbin added.
Asked if he thought the three Senate Democrats should have their security clearances revoked for the duration of the leak probe, the former Defense Department official said, "Absolutely and forthwith. I mean, they should have been revoked at the time of the leak."
"There's really not much doubt about the leak having occurred," Babbin told Crowley. "It's in the press records, it's in the Congressional record. We know what they did." "The only question," he explained, "is how much damage was done by the leak. And that's part of the criminal investigation right now - to do a damage assessment, to figure out how much this is going to cost us strategically and militarily." --------- "Report: Justice Department Probing Durbin, Rockefeller CIA Leak," by Carl Limbacher, NewsMax, 7/23/05 , http:/newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/23/131312.shtml

[ntnychik]

"The Memo" playing out in real time.

[Rosemont]

Republicans need to be reminded of this every day until they decide to fight back.

[NRA2BFree]

Bump for later.