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  • Frist: Memogate Dems Can't be Trusted with Intel Secrets

    11/12/2003 6:44:18 PM PST · by kattracks · 38 replies · 1,249+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 11/12/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
    Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Wednesday that he was forced to limit the activities of the Senate Intelligence Committee because he no longer believes Democrat members who sanctioned the partisan misuse of committee resources can be trusted with foreign intelligence secrets. Noting that committee Democrats have yet to identify the author of a controversial memo urging that intelligence data be used as a political weapon against President Bush, Frist told radio host Sean Hannity, "If those people are still in the room handling intelligence given to us by other nations so that they can undermine our Commander-in-Chief, that...