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Saturday, November 8, 2003; Page A18 Angry about a leaked Democratic memo, the Republican leadership of the Senate yesterday took the unusual step of canceling all business of the committee investigating prewar intelligence on Iraq. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called on the author of the memo -- which laid out a possible Democratic strategy to extend the investigation to include the White House and executive branch -- to "identify himself or herself . . . disavow this partisan attack in its entirety" and deliver "a personal apology" to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence....

Remember Mike Spann? He was the CIA agent who became the first U.S. combat fatality in Afghanistan. He died in a prison uprising. He was there interviewing members of the Taliban to get information that would save American lives later. It is called intelligence. The United States does not use torture to gather it, nor should it. That would be the easy way. The United States, like Tina Turner singing "Proud Mary," does not do things nice and easy. We are a nation of laws, not men. A whole slew of laws in the 1970s made the job of men...

The Senate's top Republican sharply accused Democrats Friday of undermining the Senate Intelligence Committee in their zeal to score political points against President Bush. Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee also suggested that an escalating partisan fight over the committee's inquiry into prewar intelligence could prompt the panel to finish its investigation more quickly than had been anticipated. Frist was the latest Republican to denounce a Democratic memo leaked this week that outlines a strategy for exposing contradictions between intelligence reports and Bush's claims about Iraqi weapons programs. The memo suggested that Democrats "pull the majority along as far as...

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Ut., said Thursday that Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga, was right to charge this week that a memo outlining plans by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats to politicize Iraq war intelligence borders on "treason." But the Utah Republican defended the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, saying he shouldn't have to resign as the committee's vice chairman even if he's found have authorized staffers to prepare the bombshell document. Asked about Sen. Miller's comment on Wednesday that the memo was "treason's first cousin" and that "heads should roll" over the episode," Sen. Hatch told radio host Sean Hannity,...

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Ut., said Thursday that Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga, was right to charge this week that a memo outlining plans by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats to politicize Iraq war intelligence borders on "treason." But the Utah Republican defended the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, saying he shouldn't have to resign as the committee's vice chairman even if he's found have authorized staffers to prepare the bombshell document. Asked about Sen. Miller's comment on Wednesday that the memo was "treason's first cousin" and that "heads should roll" over the episode, Sen. Hatch told radio host Sean Hannity,...

A former member of the Clinton administration is being linked to a bombshell Senate Intelligence Committee memo outlining a strategy to use information gathered by the committee to help drive President Bush from office in 2004. In an editorial Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports: "[Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-WV] refuses to denounce the memo, which he says was unauthorized and written by staffers. If that's the case, at the very least, some heads ought to roll. A good place to start would be minority staffer Christopher Mellon, who serves as deputy assistant secretary of defense for...

<p>Even the Senate Intelligence Committee isn't safe from Democratic partisanship.</p> <p>One of the last redoubts of peaceful coexistence in Congress has been the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sensitive matters of national security come before it, and the tradition is for Senators to leave their party affiliations at the door.</p>

<p>Senior Senate Republicans said yesterday that unless Democrats disavow a plot to use the traditionally nonpartisan intelligence committee to wage political attacks on the Bush administration, they would consider taking away Democrats' power-sharing privileges.</p> <p>Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said that if Democrats expect cooperation from the White House in the investigation of intelligence failures that preceded the war in Iraq, "they've got to stop the politics."</p>

<p>November 7, 2003 -- POLITICS is an honor- able profession prac- ticed by men and women who occasionally do dishonorable things. On the playing field of national politics, the competition between the two major parties (also known as partisan politics) is most often constructive because it is a means by which we become a more perfect union.</p>

<p>November 7, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman canceled a hearing yesterday and froze all work in response to the Democrats' refusal to condemn a staff memo that spells out how to play politics with prewar intelligence. But Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) dug in his heels and refused to disavow the memo or discipline the Democratic committee staff who wrote it.</p>

<p>Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, authorized the memo outlining ways to use classified information to attack President Bush, according to a Senate source reported by Sean Hannity on his radio program. In speeches on the Senate floor, Mr. Rockefeller and Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Jon Corzine refused to repudiate the memo categorically. This is unacceptable. America is at war and cannot afford to have its intelligence services further compromised.</p>

President Bush should stop cooperating with Senate Intelligence Committee probers until the person who authored a memo urging Democrats to use committee resources for corrupt partisan purposes is fired, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Wednesday. "This is a real crisis of whether or not the Congress can perform honest, non-partisan, intelligence oversight aimed at protecting the nation," Gingrich told radio host Sean Hannity. "I don't see how the White House can cooperate with an intelligence committee which has this level of partisanship," he added. "[What the memo suggests doing] violates every rule that we've had for managing...

Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush CapitolHillBlue ^ | January 6, 2003 | By DOUG THOMPSON Posted on 01/28/2003 2:07 AM EST by JohnHuang2 Democrats plan to undermine public confidence in President George W. Bush by challenging his credibility and raising doubts about America, sources within the party tell Capitol Hill Blue. A multi-pronged attack against Republicans and the President will focus not only on economic issues, but question American values, raise doubts about how this country is viewed by other nations and question the patriotism of Bush and his party. The extensive campaign, developed by senior...

Over the past decade, the mass media has made a concerted effort to alter the public’s perception of two very different foreign policy “scandals”: the Cox Report and the infamous “16 words” in George W. Bush’s most recent State of the Union Address. The differences between how the so-called mainstream media – CBS, NBC, ABC, Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report and the New York Times – could not be more obvious. Whereas the media single out George W. Bush for blame over the “16 words,” they deflect criticism of Bill Clinton’s role in transferring nuclear secrets to...

<p>A barely contained partisan squabble over assessing blame for the apparent failure to find chemical and biological weapons in Iraq broke into the open yesterday when Republican senators said they had a memorandum indicating their Democratic colleagues were preparing a campaign to disparage a Senate committee report on the quality of prewar intelligence before it is even completed.</p> <p>A senior Democrat countered that Republicans had probably stolen the memo from a trash can or a computer file.</p>

Intelligence: A memo suggests Democrats are trying to undermine a Senate investigation into prewar Iraq intelligence. The reason? Political gain — not U.S. security. It's inevitable that, even in matters of peace and war, politics will inevitably intrude. But it's rare that one party goes out of its way to obstruct an intelligence inquiry by the Senate, and even rarer that one party schemes to do so for purely political gains — while the U.S. is engaged in a deadly war on terror.But that's exactly what some Democratic staffers on the Senate Intelligence Committee did in a recent memo.In it,...

Just in case more comes out so a thousand threads won't be started.

WASHINGTON - Democrats are plotting against him, Republicans won't give him information and conservative radio listeners are calling him a dupe -- of the Democrats."I've had better days," said Sen. Pat Roberts on Tuesday, when his investigation of pre-war intelligence on Iraq spun into a multi-level theater of frustration.... But the memo wasn't Roberts' only problem Tuesday. Conservatives from the White House to the airwaves found Roberts an easy target.

     An opportunity to avoid war lost by the Bush administration or an opportunity taken advantage of by ABC News to push its anti-war agenda? ABC led Wednesday night with “an ABC News investigation” of what Peter Jennings characterized as “what appears to be an opportunity lost” to work with “a man who was in the process of trying to broker a deal that might have avoided war with Iraq.”      Brian Ross proceeded to recount how in the weeks before the war a Lebanese businessman forwarded an offer from Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief to allow U.S. agents to travel...

It must be said that Fox News has truly served our country by exposing this memo for all to see......Those who try to fault Fox, (because it's blowing everyone off the tube, really) because it doesn't use the NY Slimes as it's ONLY source to decide what is and what isn't news, has forced others in the media to deal with the fact that there is now a whole in the wall of lies and propaganda that was built by Time/Life, (originally to "sell" the "Oswald did it" Warren Report).Matt Drudge, Fox News and the internet.....flash to the NY Slimes:...