[Howlin]

BTW, he supposedly had this hiden in his office safe!

[The_Victor]

Sheesh, what abysmal handwriting.

"Clearly the aitiuties [?] raise profound oven light issues."

I thought democRATs used the latest (30 years in future in some cases) technology to produce memos to file. This looks to have been written in haste. Not the sort of product one would send to the VPOTUS.

[Ramcat]

BTW, he supposedly had this hidden in his office safe!

There's your leaker.

[The Electrician]

If I had a little more time on my hands, a little effort with Photoshop could produce all sorts of fun and interesting letters in Jay Rockefeller's own handwriting on US Senate letterhead. For example, perhaps a letter to Osama telling him not to use his cellphone because it is being monitored. Or a memo to Joseph Wilson thanking him for forging the Niger letter. Or a thank you to Saddam with cc: to Kofi for including him in the oil-for-food kickbacks. Where are Dan Rather and Mary Mapes when we need them?

[Sacajaweau]

What doesn't make sense is that he addressed this to Cheney, exclusive of all others.

If you're on a committee, you just sit there?? You don't ask questions? Your cohorts don't ask questions.

Not only that, his letter in no way addresses what his particular issue is.

One would think therefore that there would be several letters to Cheney about the EXACT same thing.

[Sacajaweau]

Howlin....Despite the "This is my copy" bit it still doesn't mean that the letter was EVER delivered to Cheney.

Note: July 17, 2003 was three days after Novak's article.

[El Gato]

I hadn't seen that when posted that he was really complaining about not being able to release the info to his leaky staff, but he even says that.

Dumb as a box of Rocks. Personally I think we should do away with all Congressional staff, other than a few secretaries and clerks, and those should be in a pool, not hired and fired by individual CongressCritters.

[beyond the sea]

Where's Buckhead?

;-)