Dems close-Senate playbook in 2003 memo

World Net Daily ^ | November 2, 2005 | unstated

[JesseJane]

Document advised leaders to 'pull the trigger' on investigation

A controversial memo [(aka Rockefeller Memo)]

by a Democrat on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that surfaced in 2003 appears to contain the playbook party leaders used yesterday when they made the rare move of closing the chamber.

The memo, offering ways Democrats could make the greatest gain from controversies over intelligence data used in the run-up to the Iraq war, says "we can pull the trigger on an independent investigation at any time."

Democrats, the document advised, should, "Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority."

Yesterday, Minority Leader Harry Reid accused Republicans of stalling a bipartisan review of pre-war intelligence before forcing the Republican-controlled Senate into the closed session, igniting anger from GOP leaders.

Reid charged his colleagues across the aisle "have repeatedly chosen to protect the Republican administration rather than get to the bottom of what happened and why."

[Mamzelle]

So, is our side moving to get rid of Rule 21?

[jeremiah]

Frist NOW says from here until the end of the year, he can no longer trust "dirty harry" Reid. Are Republicans always this stupid? Never ever ever ever trust an opponent, politics is war without bullets. It is about time the R's begin fighting.

[patriciamary]

But the question is will they???

[Inwoodian]

"...usefully collaborate with the majority..."

Sounds like the playbook of Vladimir Lenin or Saul Alinsky.

[nodumbblonde]

ping for later

[mosquitobite]

oooh! Good reminder Jesse!

[jwpjr]

re: Are Republicans always this stupid?

Well, I can't speak to the 'always' part, but it's been going on for at 20 years. President Reagan agreed to what was at the time the largest tax increase in the nation's history in return for an agreement with the Dems, who controlled Congress at the time, that they would cut $2 of spending for every $1 of tax increase. Guess what? They got the tax increase and then beat Reagan over the head with it for years and years, but instead of cutting spending they INCREASED it.

I used to hope that we would learn how to deal with these lying bastards. I'm getting old and will pass that dream on to one of my grandchildren.

[Graymatter]

Rush Limbaugh is commenting on this now, http://www.wabcradio.com/

[Falcon4.0]

No, they're going belly up like my dog does when I get mad at her for chewing something up.

[caisson71]

If I had a stud in my string of horses that produced offspring like our Republicans, I'd castrate him AND sell him for glue.

[Doogle]

could make the greatest gain from controversies over intelligence data used in the run-up to the Iraq war, says "we can pull the trigger on an independent investigation at any time."

..anyone wanna guess how Sandy Burglar and Jamie Gorelick operated to suppressed information about ATTA and ABLE DANGER?....there's more "dots" to be connected

Doogle

[PureTrouble]

Its not time yet, before Christmas, people forget a lot over the Christmas Holiday.

Right now the Republican party's strategy is to let the Dem's cry wolf as many times as they can.

Then let the Dem's try to use the stuff they believe to be true in elections and the Republicans will rip the Dem's a new one with actual evidence instead of "feeling".

[lentulusgracchus]

If I had a stud in my string of horses that produced offspring like our Republicans, I'd castrate him AND sell him for glue.

LOL -- sounds like your frustration level is pretty high! Have a virtual beer on me!

;^)

[lentulusgracchus]

..anyone wanna guess how Sandy Burglar and Jamie Gorelick operated to suppressed information about ATTA and ABLE DANGER?....there's more "dots" to be connected

Now, there's an idea. The DemonRats want to have an intel investigation? Great! Let's investigate Jamie Gorelick and how she screwed with the 9/11 Commission, and then let's investigate Sandy Berger's pants and what he did with all our documents that he stuffed down them and stole!

(Hey, Sandy -- can you spell, "Chinagate"?)

Let's investigate all that and just be reeeeaaall public about calling for the investigation.

Just like "Dirty Harry" Reid.

I'm sure he'll understand.

[JesseJane]

Quoting from the beginning of the memo...the RINO version:

..."1) Pull the majority CONSERVATIVES along as far as we can "...

[JesseJane]

Darnit GM, I joined in late.. thanks for the post !

[JesseJane]

DATE: Aug. 11, 2003

[snip]

THE MEDIA CLAIM TO HAVE NAILED PRESIDENT BUSH IN A BIG whopper over Iraq. Ralph Nader is saying Bush can be impeached over this. The media drumbeat culminated in a CBS Evening News story by defense reporter David Martin that has been seized upon by the left as proof that Bush has been caught in a deliberate lie. The story ran on the CBS News website under the headline, “Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False.” The headline was later changed to, “Bush Knew Iraqi Info Was Dubious.” These headlines are false. This is all about Bush’s statement in the State of the Union address that, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

The problem is that the CIA signed off on Bush’s statement without confirming it, and Director George Tenet said it shouldn’t have been in the speech. Martin’s story acknowledged the President’s statement was at least technically correct-because the British had made such a claim. But British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insists they have “reliable intelligence” on this matter-not the forged documents which have also been in the news-which had not been shared with the U.S. That’s apparently because it was too sensitive to be provided to the CIA.

We suggest writing to David Martin about this, asking why the CIA could not be trusted with this information. That’s the real story. It looks like another CIA failure. Since the end of the war, Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi, who headed Iraq’s gas centrifuge program for enriching uranium, alerted journalists and former weapons inspector David Albright to nuclear parts he had hidden in his garden on orders from the former regime. CNN reports the CIA was slow to take note of this, too. Jack Straw noted that the report by Ambassador Joe Wilson, who investigated the matter on behalf of the CIA, confirmed that in 1999 an Iraqi delegation “sought the expansion of trade links with Niger-and that former Niger government officials believed that this was in connection with the procurement of yellowcake” or uranium oxide. Uranium is Niger’s main export. So why a controversy over 16 words in the State of the Union? The media-and the liberals-are looking for something to use against Bush. Source: http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2003/15.html#8

[JesseJane]

SPEAKING OF INTELLIGENCE, WHO SAID THAT SADDAM WAS TRYING TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR weapons?

And that Saddam was developing unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering chemical and biological warfare agents?

It was Kerry.

The President, Kerry and many others relied on intelligence that may turn out to have been seriously deficient. In Britain, meanwhile, the British Broadcasting Corporation has issued an apology to Prime Minister Tony Blair for claiming that he manipulated intelligence to get Britain into the war. That followed the release of a report on the matter by Lord Hutton, Britain's most distinguished law lord.

[snip] Source: http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2004/feb-b.html

[princess leah]

"prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority"

They need to update their playbook since this was written before J F'ng Kerry LOST the election to say: "prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we failed with our lies, deceits, character smears in attempting to get this administration impeached"