JAY [Rockefeller] SAYS America safer WITH SADDAM in power

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[Armedanddangerous]

(CBS) When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts, left town without doing interviews, calling the report a rehash of unfounded partisan allegations.

Its statements like this one, made Feb. 5, 2003, by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell that have become so controversial, implying Iraq was linked to terror attacks.

"Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associated collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants," Powell said.

But after 2 1/2 years of reviewing pre-war intelligence behind closed doors, the lead Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.), who voted for the Iraq War, says the Bush administration pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.

"The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said 'we want to go to war,'" Rockefeller told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. "Including me. The difference is after I began to learn about some of that intelligence I went down to the Senate floor and I said 'my vote was wrong.'"

Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.

He said he sees that as a better scenario, and a safer scenario, "because it is called the 'war on terror.'"

[KosmicKitty]

My understanding is that he died, and his secretary did her best to prop him up in a chair as if he were reading the newspaper....unfortunately she did not know how to let the air out of his "unit".....so he was found with his body limp, reading the newspaper, in full salute.

Yeah, not the best way to be found.

Didn't the secretary know that's one of the many uses of duct tape!!

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

My thoughts on Mr. Rockefellers' cries lead me to believe he was involved in war profiteering of some kind. Why else would someone think it is best to leave Mr. "I can kill all the Iraqis I want," Saddam in charge?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I believe that Rocky knows he's in deep sh!t as far as leaking intelligence to the press. I think that he feels that if he becomes highly visible on this cr@p, when the indictment comes, he can say that the Bush Whitehouse is going after him because he's a high-profile, outspoken critic of Bush's policies. I think it's just CYA!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

But after 2 1/2 years of reviewing pre-war intelligence behind closed doors, the lead Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.), who voted for the Iraq War, says the Bush administration pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.

So what does Rockefeller have to say about identical statements by Krinton & Gore in the 1990s?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I say put Rockefeller in front of the families of the 1.5 million Iraqis murdered by Saddam over his 35 year regime and let him try to shovel that crap.

[getbillnow]

I'm sick of the cowardice of the left and their kook base. It is to the point of locking them all up for treason. Perhaps a day at Club Gitmo with their friends might open their eyes if they last a day.

[headstamp]

Once again Dem/Libs suffer from "selective amnesia syndrome".

[eleni121]

I suggest that rockyfellar concern himself with safety in his state's coal mines..and leave national concerns to better informed people.

[eleni121]

The other Jay has lived off the govt teat most of his adult life.

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LOL. Good point about the JayBird that dummies in W Virginia keep voting for. JayBird has never had a real job in fact. He went from "school" to the peace corps - as a "staffer" in washington DC - to politics.

[BamaAndy]

Idiots are elected and we suffer as a country.

[GretchenM]

When's he up for re-election?

[Armedanddangerous]

I THINK he ran and won in 2004.

That means it's 2010 before he's up again...I think..

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

In related news, Jay Rockefeller sucks.

I say the war in Iraq is a rousing success on humanitarian grounds alone. Are you saying that the millions killed by Saddam are no big deal and to be ignored? Chew on this, Jay:

The horror of Saddam’s mass graves
The Killing Fields of Iraq

[zot]

Yes, I agree. This is the RAT party line. They will say and do anything to regain political power.

[the anti-liberal]

I'm sorry of someone already broached this, but didn't Rockefeller warn Saddam Hussein, et al, that we were coming?

Isn't he, in effect, responsible for Saddam "flushing the evidence down the toilet" before our arrival, hence "no WMD's"?

I don't understand why he's still in office.

[Prost1]

The problem Rockefeller, Durbin, Reid et.al have is that we are spending BILLIONs in/on Iraq!

That is money that could be going to their favorite union worker! Or, make work project with get out the votes written on it!

It is enough to rebuild New Orleans and South Florida into a (dare I write) black (chocolate) stonghold!

That is what this is about. Money and votes!

It is not about our NATIONAL SECURITY. The dems hate the word!

[killermedic]

Please Mr. Rellafocker, Please move to France if the ingnominy of how this country was founded hurts your poor little fragile feelings and makes you feel less important about your self-esteem. Oh and by the way.......Go F%^& yourself on the way out.

[piasa]

I'm sorry of someone already broached this, but didn't Rockefeller warn Saddam Hussein, et al, that we were coming?

WALLACE: "Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller?"

SEN. ROCKEFELLER: "No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11."

[piasa]

Source : ------- FOX NEWS SUNDAY via "Rockefeller's Confession :What was the West Virginia Democrat doing as a freelancing prewar diplomat?," By William J. Bennett,
November 14, 2005, 3:41 p.m.

[piasa]

JULY 23, 2005 : (REPORT : AT CIA REQUEST, DOJ LAUNCHES CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED LEAKS BY DEMOCRAT SENATORS DICK DURBIN, JAY ROCKEFELLER AND RON WYDEN) 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."
---------- "Report: Justice Department Probing Durbin, Rockefeller CIA Leak," NewsMax.com, Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:11 p.m. EDT, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/23/131312.shtml JANUARY 2006 late : (REPORT : ROCKEFELLER LOOKING FOR COVER?) Word out of the Defense Intelligence Agency and law enforcement sources has the FBI and the Department of Justice comparing notes and dates on who in the U.S. Senate received national security briefings on both the overseas terrorist prisons and the NSA overseas terrorist monitoring programs, and when those briefings took place.
"The number of Senators who received briefings is not as large as people think," says one law enforcement source. "These were programs with a limited 'Need to Know" list on Capitol Hill."
Federal investigators looking into the leaks of both those programs to the press are zeroing in on the Senate, and are expected to continue to hold interviews of both Senators and their senior staff in the coming days. "This investigation is moving forward at a pretty fast clip," says the law enforcement source. "We're not looking at a two-year probe. We're talking about moving fast."
As yet, cooperation from the media outlets -- the Washington Post and the New York Times has been minimal, but investigators aren't sure they will need full cooperation to make the case. "The Hill may be all we need," says the source.
Focus of the investigation remains on the staffs of two Senators, Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Dick Durbin, as well as committee staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee and career intelligence staff detailed to U.S. Senate offices and committees.
Last week, it was revealed that on February 17 Senator Rockefeller had sent a letter to the White House claiming that the Bush Administration had illegally leaked classified materials to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward for a book project he was working on with cooperation from the Bush White House.
A number of people of Capitol Hill and in the intelligence community interpreted the letter as an attempt by Rockefeller to play defense should it be revealed that his office or staff tied to him on the Intelligence Committee are somehow involved in the serious leak cases. -------- CLOSING IN (The net tightens on Rockefeller and Durbin) The American Spectator ^ | 2/27/2006 | The Prowler