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<p>MEMOGATE INDIRECTION: Rockefeller and Daschle, as we have argued, are decoys, useful idiots, more cutout than cutthroat, less sockdolager than sock-puppet. Rockefeller's too genteel; Daschle's too "concerned." Neither, frankly, has the requisite utter disregard for life. And perhaps most important, (insofar as decoy suitability is concerned), each is sufficiently insipid to ensure insufficient opposition ire.</p>

I have looked everyday since Hannity, Matt's friend, broke the story...I watched Bill Frist show the first sign of backbone EVER in the senate by cancelling the committee meetings....These are both big news stories, and Matt, like the NY times and the other democrat house porgans are silent....has Matt gone over to the enemy.....

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kans., left open the possibility on Sunday that committee Republicans may complete their probe into pre-war Iraq intelligence without Democrats unless minority members disavow a memo outlining plans to politicize the investigation. "Somebody has to disavow this memo or it's going to be very difficult to put this committee back together again," an angry-sounding Roberts told "Fox News Sunday." "We are going to finish the inquiry - that's our primary duty right now," he added, saying that the probe was "about 90 percent done." Asked if he thought it "would be possible to...

Al Gore has charged that the Bush administration is attempting to cover-up the 9/11 investigation by dismissing the Senate Intelligence Committee. In a speech sponsored by the Communist Group Moveon.org, Gore dismissed the partisan Democrat memo advising the committee to use intelligence information for political purposes as "trivial", and accused Bush of over-reaching in his authority, in much the same way as Richard Nixon did when he fired his Chief Investigator during the Watergate scandal. It was reported here that Senator Frist disbanded the Senate Intellignce Committee after the partisan memo revealed it would be unable to carry out its...

Write FOR "MemoGate" SUNDAY!  “If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin. The ones responsible - be they staff or elected or both should be dealt with quickly and severely sending a lesson to all that this kind of action will not be tolerated, ignored or excused.” -- Senator Zell Miller (D-GA)The Senate Democrats have gone too far, but nothing will be done unless you help take action. Please write a “letter to the editor” of your local newspaper and tell them why the U.S. Senate must investigate the Dem Memo!1) Click here if...

<p>The following is a transcribed excerpt from FOX News Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003.</p> <p>TONY SNOW, FOX NEWS: Now joining us for the Democratic side is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan. He's in our New York studio.</p>

The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a senior Democratic member of the panel clashed in unusually sharp and public ways today in a dispute that has interrupted the committee's review of prewar intelligence on Iraq. The dispute stems from the leak of an internal draft memorandum by a Democratic staff member. The memo suggested that because the committee's inquiry was focusing on the work of intelligence agencies, and not on how the White House used intelligence, Democrats should be ready to disavow the panel's findings and "pull the trigger" to demand an independent investigation. Senator Pat Roberts,...

<p>A leaked memo from the office of West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller urges fellow Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to use its probe into Iraq war planning as a staging ground to beat President Bush. It calls for an independent investigation of the president next year, timed for maximum negative impact on Mr. Bush's re-election effort.</p>

Part of what's feeding the bitterness between Democrats and Republicans in the "Memogate" scandal that engulfed Sen. Pat Roberts' investigation of pre-Iraq war intelligence last week is another intelligence scandal that made headlines for a few days last summer, then faded away: the outing of Valerie Plame. Plame was the CIA operative named in a July column by conservative commentator Robert Novak detailing the search for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Because her husband is Joseph Wilson, a retired diplomat who had criticized the Bush administration after an Iraqi-weapons-search trip to Niger, Democrats--and Wilson--suspected that Plume's identity was leaked,...

There was a time on Capitol Hill when those who had to deal with matters of national security and intelligence felt a duty to conduct business without regard to partisanship. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had always served as a bastion of such commonality of purpose. But no more. A memo written by Democratic staffers and first revealed on the Fox News Channel discloses an appalling strategy that proposes to sacrifice the national interest to partisan politics. The committee has been investigating the pre-Iraq war intelligence and, of course, is in receipt of all manner of classified documents in...

The uproar over a leaked strategy memo for Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee appears to be much ado over nothing. Sen. Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, said the memo "lays bare what we've started to see for some time: an orchestrated effort by Democrats at a time of war to improperly use an intelligence investigation as a weapon against President Bush." Even some Democrats are criticizing the memo, prepared by a staffer for Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., the Intelligence Committee's co- chair, but not distributed. "If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin," said...

WASHINGTON -- Veterans Day -- the national holiday we celebrate this week -- used to be called Armistice Day. Until 1954, when President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law a bill proclaiming November 11 a day to honor veterans, Americans recognized the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month as the moment when the guns stopped firing in "The War to End All Wars." The 1918 agreement to end the carnage of World War I was anything but an unconditional victory for the Allies over the Central Powers -- and it eventually led to a far less than...

MEMOgate: democrat party treasonhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.com/ Secret Democrat manifesto detailing the undermining of President Bush in wartime by the seditious misuse of classified intelligence data from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.   DEMAND FULL INVESTIGATION INTO MEMOGATESIGN PETITION  Full investigation into "Memo Gate"   View Current Signatures   -   Sign the Petition   To:  Senate Ethics Committee The Democrat senators on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee are putting American lives at risk. The Democrat memo that surfaced last week uncovered a detailed "plan" by Democrats on the Select Intelligence Committee to use the resources of that committee as a...

Sen. Pat Roberts lashed out Friday at Congressional Democrats, accusing them of using his inquiry into pre-Iraq-war intelligence for political gain. "Until this reprehensible attack plan and strategy to derail this committee's important work is addressed, I'm afraid it will be impossible to return to business as usual," Roberts said on the Senate floor. He said the investigation's quality is threatened unless Democrats "accept responsibility for destroying" the committee's nonpartisanship. Roberts was one of a procession of Republicans decrying a memo prepared by Democratic staff on the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence, which Roberts leads. The memo, leaked to Fox...

<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>

Please click HERE to sign the petition.Here is the petition text: To:  Senate Ethics CommitteeThe Democrat senators on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee are putting American lives at risk. The Democrat memo that surfaced last week uncovered a detailed “plan” by Democrats on the Select Intelligence Committee to use the resources of that committee as a political tool against the White House. Under the guise of a non-partisan “investigation” the Democrats plan, as revealed by the memo, is to find something, anything, to “castigate the majority” and make it appear that “senior administration officials who made the case for. . ....

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has temporarily disbanded the Senate Intelligence Committee until committee Democrats reveal the identity of the author of a memo outlining a their plan to politicize intelligence data in a bid undermine President Bush's reelection. "The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has been harmed by a blatant partisan attack," the Tennessee Republican said in a floor speech yesterday, concluding that the memo had rendered the committee "incapable of meeting its responsibilities to the United States Senate and to the American people." "Those responsible for this memo appear to be more focused on winning the White House...

  MEMOgate: democrat party treasonhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.com/ Secret Democrat manifesto detailing the undermining of President Bush in wartime by the seditious misuse of classified intelligence data from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.   Saturday, November 08, 2003   If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin. The ones responsible - be they staff or elected or both - should be dealt with quickly and severely sending a lesson to all that this kind of action will not be tolerated, ignored or excused. Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga. Raw Data: Dem Memo on Politicizing IntelligenceFox News ^ |...

<p>Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Democrats have been "wholly inadequate" in explaining a memo laying out political strategies for using the nonpartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, and he called on Democrats yesterday to name the staffer who wrote it and have the person apologize.</p>