The Wichita Eagle | 11/08/2003 | Roberts fires back at Democrats
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/7211304.htmBY ALAN BJERGA
Eagle Washington bureau
"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.
"Numerous questions have been raised" about how Bush may have manipulated intelligence data to lead the nation to war, said Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. But Roberts has "rejected" any questioning leading in that direction, he said.
But that view is being drowned out in many media outlets as conservative talk radio shows and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and other publications -- plus dozens of Republican lawmakers -- have weighed in against what's being called "memogate."
On Friday, the Journal said in an editorial that until Democrats fired whoever wrote the memo, the Intelligence Committee should be "shut down, cleaned out and reconstituted later, preferably after the next election."