House Intel Chair Suspends Staff Member

AP ^ | By KATHERINE SHRADER

[Jewels1091]

WASHINGTON -- House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra has suspended a Democratic staff member because of concerns he may have leaked a high-level intelligence assessment to The New York Times last month.

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press Thursday night, Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., a committee member, said that an unidentified staffer requested the document from National Intelligence Director John Negroponte three days before the Sept. 23 story about its conclusions

[Donna Lee Nardo]

LOL at your pic AND poem!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

That's quite a crew, hmmm? Soon, there will be more to add.

[Txsleuth]

PING

[Obadiah]

Very, very good. You raise an excellent question that everyone wants to know.

Why is it that the Republicans let themselves be taken to the political cleaners over Foley, yet run away and hide when Democrats do egregious criminal damage to our country over and over again??

[SE Mom]

Just.
Unbelievable.

[defconw]

Good for Pete. Will any Rats rush in to take the blame? No, they will let some staffer take the hit. It's ridiculous, no staffer would ever do this without the consent of their boss. Please! This is big time!

[Enchante]

Dear Jane Harmon,

You are SCUM and all of your fellow leaky 'Rats in Congress are SCUM. Let's hope you all get the thorough thrashing at the polls that such anti-American treasonous weasels deserve.

Sincerely,

John Q. Public

[thelastvirgil]

"requested the document from National Intelligence Director John Negroponte three days before the Sept. 23 story about its conclusions."

BRILLIANT! Let's see if I have this straight; this weasel (right under the noses of the committee members) asks for and gets the NIE three days before the Slimes publishes it, and it takes just over three weeks to pin this down? With people this brilliant running the government, we are doomed. The perp should be jailed, the dimwit that had him on staff should be drummed out of the congress, and the RNC should go wall-to-wall, with paid ads, exposing the RATS for what they are.

[SueRae]

That picture is worth a thousand words. It should be made into a campaign poster.

[Current Occupant]

Well, well, well...wonder if THIS is going to make HEADLINE news before the election?????

No and I would never expect it to. What puts my shorts in a bunch is the fact that the new media talkers will talk about it but won't call for our hiding under his desk AG to wake up and do his job.

I think we need to pressure the talkies to concentrate on the inaction of this AG.

[nitejohnboy]

Identify the sucker! Tnen we can "connect the dots" back to his sommabitch bosses!

[Gritty]

[nitejohnboy]

Great cartoon. The bar scene from Star Wars but in real life not fiction!

[Bahbah]

I JUST WANT TO PUNCH SOMEONE over these constantly overlooked travesties of justice.

There is nothing that has confused and befuddled me more that the weakness of the current Justice Department. It has caused me to seriously question just about everything about AJ Gonzales.

And speaking of punching someone, I want to punch the next politician or pundit who intones "We are a nation of laws" when we clearly are not when it comes to the powerful and the connected who get a pass, even for stealing or passing on national secrets. The law only applies to some of us.

[Current Occupant]

There is nothing that has confused and befuddled me more that the weakness of the current Justice Department. It has caused me to seriously question just about everything about AJ Gonzales.

Bingo. That's exactly where our focus should be.

[spokeshave]

Perhaps they suspended him from a meat hook..../sarcasm

[Raebie]

At least CBS has it on their front page. Small print, but not buried at least.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Suspension? How about ARREST and JAIL!

[elhombrelibre]

I think that'd make the TV MSM.

[right-wingin_It]

ahem..

An aide to California Rep. Jane Harman (news, bio, voting record), the committee's top Democrat,...