Posted on 10/20/2006 7:11:39 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior
Democrats say the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee had no grounds to suspend a staff member who's come under scrutiny for the leak of a secret intelligence assessment.
The unidentified staff member, a Democrat, was suspended this week by Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and is being denied access to classified information pending the outcome of a review, Hoekstra's spokesman, Jamal Ware, said Thursday.
The Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Jane Harman of California, wrote to Hoekstra that she was "appalled" by his action, which was "without basis."
The leak to The New York Times of a National Intelligence Estimate on global terror trends caused a political uproar last month. In the assessment, completed in April, analysts from the government's 16 spy agencies concluded that the Iraq war has become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists, breeding deep resentment of the U.S. that probably will get worse before it gets better.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
leakign secrets to the media! shades of Valerie Plame! why didn't they frog walk him out of the building?
October surprise!
Get the little so and so and put him or her in prison for 10 or 15 years.*
(*This assumes a proper trial, and a determination of guilt. If innocent, we can straighten it all out in December, right after the Mark Foley thing is finished up)
Well, somebody leaked the report - and it wasn't a Republican.
Is this a hint at George and Karls 72 hour surprise, massive intel leak scandel for Congressional dims.
Jane Harman of California, wrote to Hoekstra that she was "appalled" by his action, which was "without basis."
Me thinks the lady do protest too much.
Looks like they got the right guy this time - the dems are squeelin.
"The Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Jane Harman of California, wrote to Hoekstra that she was "appalled" by his action,"
I bet she is...
I hope the "element of surprise" was used to include impounding a PC.
Why can't he be identified?
Well, time to get the usual suspects together... dig time.
Now they need to look into the links between these same staffers and the Wiretap and SWIFT programs. I want to see one of these liberals swing.
Don't think so.
The first thing they should have done was grab the Times reporter and editorial staff and put them in gitmo.
Before this is done, the Dems will be screaming "political vendetta" and "illegal wiretapping" although I would bet there were search warrants on the phone lines.
May she so testify...at the staffer's treason trial.
I saw her on CSPAN after Hoekstra a couple weeks ago... the callers were straight out of FR (it seemed), one asked her point blank if she was the one leaking. I fell off my chair.
BTW, this is who they're hurting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSbCnWe6e1o
Hey DUmies, this is what an October Surprise is suppose to look like.
i was just wondering why there isn't the hue and cry that there was when the dems thought rove outed plame.
where's the investigation? the special prosecutor? the indignant talk show hosts?
According to another report this individual requested the document from Negroponte three days before the leak. I wonder if the version supplied had special language in it which if quoted directly would point to the individual.
Have you noticed that the word treason never seems to apply to domocrats? Why is it when they do something really wrong we don't get to shout to the sky about it? Why is it our fault for doing something about the wrong doers?
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