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House Intel Chair Suspends Staff Member
Breitbart.Com ^ | 10-20-06 | Katherine Shrader

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.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: intel; larryhanauer; leak; terrorism
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I have been saying this for a long time that the leaks are coming from Dem staffers on the Intel Committee. I always had my money on Rockefeller and his peons. I surely hope that they can find evidence of this and route out all the treasonous scum in the Democratic Party.
1 posted on 10/20/2006 7:11:39 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior
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leakign secrets to the media! shades of Valerie Plame! why didn't they frog walk him out of the building?


2 posted on 10/20/2006 7:15:46 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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Surprise, surprise, surprise....

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)

3 posted on 10/20/2006 7:16:23 AM PDT by lOKKI (You can ignore reality until it bites you in the ass.)
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To: camle

Well, somebody leaked the report - and it wasn't a Republican.


4 posted on 10/20/2006 7:17:07 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: ritewingwarrior

Is this a hint at George and Karls 72 hour surprise, massive intel leak scandel for Congressional dims.


5 posted on 10/20/2006 7:17:29 AM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid. It's also WWIV.)
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To: teddyballgame

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.


6 posted on 10/20/2006 7:17:56 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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"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."

Looks like they got the right guy this time - the dems are squeelin.

7 posted on 10/20/2006 7:17:57 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (Religion of peace my arse - We need a maintenance Crusade - piss on islam)
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"The Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Jane Harman of California, wrote to Hoekstra that she was "appalled" by his action,"

I bet she is...


8 posted on 10/20/2006 7:19:02 AM PDT by babygene
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

I hope the "element of surprise" was used to include impounding a PC.


9 posted on 10/20/2006 7:19:07 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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Why can't he be identified?

Well, time to get the usual suspects together... dig time.


10 posted on 10/20/2006 7:19:10 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Caliphate News Network... Whores for terrorists.)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

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.


11 posted on 10/20/2006 7:19:35 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior (Where does free speech end, and sedition begin?)
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To: east1234

Don't think so.


12 posted on 10/20/2006 7:19:46 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Caliphate News Network... Whores for terrorists.)
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To: ritewingwarrior

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.


13 posted on 10/20/2006 7:20:35 AM PDT by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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Jane Harman of California, wrote to Hoekstra that she was "appalled" by his action, which was "without basis."

May she so testify...at the staffer's treason trial.

14 posted on 10/20/2006 7:20:56 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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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


15 posted on 10/20/2006 7:21:59 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Caliphate News Network... Whores for terrorists.)
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To: ErnBatavia

Hey DUmies, this is what an October Surprise is suppose to look like.


16 posted on 10/20/2006 7:22:40 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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A conference call to the committee's nine Democrats on Wednesday to inform them of the aide's suspension prompted outrage, said two congressional officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal committee business.

What do we get from this quote?

A) These congressional officials are Dems

B) They have not learned

C) Which part of "Unauthorized to speak" do they not get?!??
17 posted on 10/20/2006 7:25:01 AM PDT by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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To: teddyballgame

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?


18 posted on 10/20/2006 7:26:13 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Paloma_55

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.


19 posted on 10/20/2006 7:26:55 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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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?


20 posted on 10/20/2006 7:27:52 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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