Posted on 09/10/2006 5:34:13 AM PDT by Stajack
As the Senate Intelligence Committee struggles to complete its investigation into prewar intelligence, some Republicans have become increasingly concerned that they are at a disadvantage in the bitter and partisan fight over what is known as “Phase Two” of the probe. “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, 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.
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Just goes to show that "intelligence" and "politician" can't occupy the same space and time. I'd kick all their arses out of there and replace them with monkeys. Do just as good a job.
It is disgusting.
Hagel is up for reelection in '08. There must be some good candidates to challenge him from within the party. How about Tom Osborne? Or is he damaged goods since he lost the primary for governor? Of course Hagel, being so full of himself, might just bow out of a Senate race and run for president instead!
Isn't this just swell.
. . .if all this was just benign background; it would be laughable. . .
Instead it challenges one's sense of reality as to how our Repubs can be so outfoxed in their own back yard at the Capital.
Would reccomend that OUR Repubs take some jihadist training so as to deal with the Democrats and Rinos that sit in the power seats as they fashion policy and history in their own image.
I hope these Repubs can do more than 'raise their eyebrows' as they ponder a strategy to deal with another coup by Demrats.
I have no empathy for these guys. They are the ones through their own stupidity that put the others on those committees. As if they didn't do it on purpose too. Let's face it; they have their agenda and the American people have theirs and the two don't even come close to matching. We really should get rid of these non effective wimps.
And, to think Hagel of Nebraska and Snowe of Maine were thought to have been the best these states could provide for the GOP.
Both are RINOS and, good be the day they will be replaced with real conservatives.
Hard for me to phantom how much control a minority still has in the leadership of our government.
So is this the mole that spilled the beans on all our secret stuff and not Jay Rockefeller????
I think all the committee staffers (for Dem or Repub) should be looked at, as far as that's concerned.
Great question. I don't know the answer, but I DO know that our supposedly "Republican" government is INFESTED with folks like Rosenbach, who are doing whatever they can to throw a monkey wrench in the works until a Democratic regime is back in power.
Great pedigree, huh?
And when you add 'Senate' to 'intelligence' you have created the epitome of an oxymoron.
Don't you love it when your elected "leaders" are too damned cowardly to replace the trash on these committees?
Don't you love it when your elected "leaders" are too damned cowardly to replace the trash on these committees?
Don't you love it when your elected "leaders" are too damned cowardly to replace the trash on these committees?
Vote the ALL out and start over new. We wouldn't lose anything, but might gain back our freedoms.
It ain't gonna happen Bub. The time for correcting this country's course via the ballot box is long past.
Yeah. . .'who coulda. . .shoulda. . . known?'
Seems this would be a good starting point for those pesky, Republican-destroyng, Bush and Administration destroying leaks. . .
Oh well, I guess we just keep movin on. . ..nothing to worry about.. Really. . .
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