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Did Hillary reveal who leaked report in her questioning of Rumsfeld today?
Senate Armed Services Committee ^ | 5/7/04 | Senate Armed Services committee

Posted on 05/07/2004 8:41:35 PM PDT by abner

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CLINTON: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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The atrocities that have been depicted in photographs were very graphically, verbally, described in the Taguba report. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to read those descriptions and have one's stomach just turn in disgust.

The focus on the pictures being released is, with all due respect, missing the point. The report was well known, and apparently discussed on numerous occasions. And obviously, the release of the pictures to the entire world was devastating.

But the underlying conduct, and the failure of the command, both at the site and further up the chain, to act with the appropriate quick response, is really at the heart of what the most serious problems we face here today are.

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Rummy answers:

RUMSFELD: Well, Senator, first let me say, with respect to the question that Senator Reed raised, I can't conceive of anyone looking at the pictures and suggesting that anyone could have recommended, condoned, permitted, encouraged, subtly, directly, in any way, that those things take place.

Second, the decision that was made by the president of the United States that you referred to was announced. And in the announcement it was said that the Al Qaida in Guantanamo that are captured in the world, mostly in Afghanistan, would be treated consistent with the Geneva Convention. That is a fact.

You say the report was well known. I don't know how you know that. All I know is when it made the public, when somebody took a secret document out of prosecutorial channels and released it to the press, I do not believe it was yet anywhere in the Pentagon. Certainly, I had not been given it or seen it.

I quite agree with you. When you read the report, you do get an impression, as you suggested, that there is something much worse than what was in the press release, for example, in January or the discussion in March by the Central Command.

RUMSFELD: But that was not something that had been moved past the Central Command, to my knowledge. It may have been somewhere in the Department of Defense, but certainly I had not received a copy. It was still in those channels.

WARNER: Thank you very much, Senator.

1 posted on 05/07/2004 8:41:36 PM PDT by abner
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To: maryz; goodnesswins; TomGuy; cyncooper; cake_crumb; A Citizen Reporter; Carolinamom; Howlin
Ping!
2 posted on 05/07/2004 8:42:50 PM PDT by abner (FREE THE MIRANDA MEMOS! http://www.intelmemo.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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"You say the report was well known. I don't know how you know that. All I know is when it made the public, when somebody took a secret document out of prosecutorial channels and released it to the press, I do not believe it was yet anywhere in the Pentagon."

Well...

3 posted on 05/07/2004 8:43:00 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: Reactionary
By jove, it jumps out at you too!

4 posted on 05/07/2004 8:44:00 PM PDT by abner (FREE THE MIRANDA MEMOS! http://www.intelmemo.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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To: abner
nice job, Teri.
5 posted on 05/07/2004 8:44:36 PM PDT by LurkerNoMore!
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Ping!
6 posted on 05/07/2004 8:45:30 PM PDT by abner (FREE THE MIRANDA MEMOS! http://www.intelmemo.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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Ping!
7 posted on 05/07/2004 8:46:14 PM PDT by potlatch ( Medals do not make a man. Morals do.)
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To: Reactionary
Leftover Clintonoids still in the Pentagon. All the slime from the last administration needs to be shitcanned immediately.
8 posted on 05/07/2004 8:46:31 PM PDT by Morgan's Raider
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To: AFPhys; prairiebreeze; Miss Marple
AFP - you mentioned you would like to see a separate thread about this matter and another freeper has made one.

Mark for discussion tomorrow.
9 posted on 05/07/2004 8:46:51 PM PDT by Peach
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To: LurkerNoMore!
Thank you dear... I never listen to Hillary but tonight when I was listening to the repeat on C-Span, it was obvious. To be fair, the live thread caught it right away also.
10 posted on 05/07/2004 8:47:02 PM PDT by abner (FREE THE MIRANDA MEMOS! http://www.intelmemo.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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I have to tell you, that when I was listening to the hearing and she said this phrase:

"The focus on the pictures being released is, with all due respect, missing the point."

That's what made me stand up and take notice. She is complicit in the picture release.

11 posted on 05/07/2004 8:47:08 PM PDT by A Citizen Reporter
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She has her hands totally trapped in the cookie jar.
12 posted on 05/07/2004 8:48:29 PM PDT by abner (FREE THE MIRANDA MEMOS! http://www.intelmemo.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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Aha! You found it at the same time I was posting excerpts on the live thread.

Well, that IS an interesting exchange.
13 posted on 05/07/2004 8:48:46 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: abner
guess my theory is this: If she isn't behind the leak, she knows exactly who is.

If we can find out who that Staffer was that was in this prison and we might find out if she is

14 posted on 05/07/2004 8:49:04 PM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: abner
This is the story that broke the report first:

TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB

15 posted on 05/07/2004 8:49:14 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: abner
Thanks for the post, abner. Hillary's moles and leftovers in the Pentagon and elsewhere are hard at work to leak information to her and other democrats in order to undermine the presidency, our troops and, in effect, aid the terrorists who are at war with America. Some DARE call it TREASON!
16 posted on 05/07/2004 8:49:20 PM PDT by Angelwood (FReepers are Everywhere! We Support Our Troops! (Hillary's Vast Rt Wg Conspiracy))
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To: dd5339
Thread to follow.
..not suprising that something this sleazy would have the Clintoon's greasy fingerprints on it.
17 posted on 05/07/2004 8:49:23 PM PDT by cavtrooper21 (Hooah??? HOOOAAHHHH!!!!!)
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To: LurkerNoMore!
Hillary!™, Petard,

Petard, Hillary!™


18 posted on 05/07/2004 8:49:45 PM PDT by null and void (Hoist away! ... kaBOOM!)
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She has her hands totally trapped in the cookie jar.

She did look a little pale after the hearing

19 posted on 05/07/2004 8:50:00 PM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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Rummy's reaction to it was blatant. My guess is that someone is investigating now.
20 posted on 05/07/2004 8:50:16 PM PDT by abner (FREE THE MIRANDA MEMOS! http://www.intelmemo.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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