JUST HOW are these members selected, appointed, nominated???
Senate Select Committee Intelligence
MEMBERSHIP
REPUBLICANS *DEMOCRATS
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Chairman *John D. Rockefeller IV
West Virginia, V Chrm--- Orrin G. Hatch, Utah--- *Carl Levin, Michigan---
Mike Dewine, Ohio--- *Dianne Feinstein, CA---
Christopher S. Bond, Missouri--- *Ron Wyden, Oregon---
Trent Lott, Mississippi--- *Evan Bayh, Indiana---
Olympia J. Snowe, Maine--- *Barbara A. Mikulski, MD---
Chuck Hagel, Nebraska--- *Jon S. Corzine, NJ---
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia---
Ex Officio Members
Bill Frist, Tennessee
Harry Reid, Nevada
John Warner, Virginia
Ref:
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Excerpt from http://floppingaces.blogspot.com
The Washington Times has some thoughts:
What was Mr. Berger doing with the documents? And why did he destroy only three? The likeliest answer is that he sought to conceal comments he or other Clinton administration officials wrote on them when they were circulating in January 2000. He couldn't have been trying to erase the document itself from the record, since copies besides the five exist elsewhere. What's likelier is that jottings in the margins of the three copies he destroyed bore telling indications of the Clinton administration's approach to terrorism.
These documents he stole were different drafts of the final report. They all had handwritten margin notes on the paper which makes them all unique, not only unique but valuable since it show's the mindset of those who wrote the notes, plus what they knew and when they knew it.
More:
In particular, the Washington Post reports [2] that Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge – and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999 and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts which reveal the thinking and agendas of the Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
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A government official with knowledge of the probe said Berger removed from archives files all five or six drafts of a critique of the government's response to the millennium terrorism threat, which he said was classified "codeword," the government's highest level of document security.
...Berger's attorneys have acknowledged that he removed numerous classified memos, and apparently discarded some, as he reviewed materials on behalf of the Clinton administration for the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. They said the removal of documents was inadvertent but that Berger was aware he was violating the law when he removed his handwritten notes without submitting them for review by National Archives staff.