The Kerry Campaigner on the Republican Staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee (Hagel)

National Review ^ | Byron York

[AdvisorB]

We (the GOP) should trade Hagel and an undisclosed sum of money, and a future number one pick to the RATs for Ben Nelson. That would be an even exchange.

[Txsleuth]

PING

[slowhand520]

I like that

[ncountylee]

Having a Richard Clarke butt boy on staff is way beyond stupid. Of course, we are talking about Chuck Hagel who constantly insults the fine people of Nebraska.

Remove Hagel from the committee at the minimum.

[P-40]

part five concerns the public statements made by government officials in the lead-up to the war.

This "phase two" is going to be a waste of time unless someone can come up with some good reasons about why they were saying one thing in the years before the war and why they were saying something different a few months after it started.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

“Blake and I were sitting in Rand’s office, watching Dick testify before the 9/11 Commission while Rand was checking over our final draft,” he said. “His testimony was pretty moving because he (Dick) apologized to the families of the victims of 9/11. Dick also specifically mentioned his close friendship with Rand. So imagine: Blake and I looking at each other, wide-eyed, as we watched Dick talk about Rand while he was reading our stuff!”

Oooo-eeeee!

[Prokopton]

“We don’t have a majority on the committee,” says one Hill Republican, noting that while the GOP, of course, maintains formal control of the committee — there are eight Republicans and seven Democrats — Republican lawmakers have lost effective control because two of their own, Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Olympia Snowe of Maine, sometimes side with Democrats"

Now they're finally getting it. Having RINO's is no better than having Democrats and that includes control of committees. This has been one of the top arguments of the "GOP at all costs" crowd, that we must control the committees. This shows that just because you have GOP by a majority of the committee members names, it doesn't mean you control the committee.

[SoFloFreeper]

Hagel is a joke of a conservative.

[Mo1]

Now, National Review Online has learned that a key Republican committee staffer in the politically charged prewar intelligence investigation is a veteran of the 2004 Kerry presidential campaign. Eric Rosenbach, hired by Sen. Hagel to work on prewar intelligence issues, came to the Senate after completing studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government under Rand Beers, a top foreign-policy adviser for Kerry. In Fall 2004, Rosenbach took three weeks to volunteer for the Kerry campaign in York County, Pennsylvania.

Under Rand Beers ???

Good Grief

[McGavin999]

How on earth can Hagel think he could ever be considered for president? He has such totally poor judgement that he would endanger the entire country. On top of that he is basically DUMB. This is a prime example of just how dumb he is.

[Txsleuth]

THIS ought to put the final dagger in Hagel's chances of running for POTUS!

[Mo1]

I am so angry at this news

Rand Beers????

[hipaatwo]

Does this anger me, yes. Does it surprise me, no. All it does is explain why he's been such an ass all this time.

[b4its2late]

Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Olympia Snowe of Maine, sometimes side with Democrats.

Sometimes? More like most times.....

[The South Texan]

"Senator Hagel knew that he worked for Rand Beers,” Hagel spokesman Mike Buttry tells NRO. “He did not know that he had volunteered in the Kerry campaign.”


Right. And it's hot in the Arctic circle.

[Morgan in Denver]

Nebraska is stuck until 2008. Maybe the Republicans in Nebraska will come to their senses and someone will challenge Hagel for the nomination. In the mean time, I have to agree with the concept of the Senate Republicans policing their own to keep people like this off critical committees.

[Txsleuth]

AND, he wrote a book in collaboration with Richard Clarke!

[bcsco]

"Hagel is a joke of aNO conservative.

There, fixed it!

[D-Chivas]

Chuck Hagel can't be trusted, but we knew that already.