Democrats silent in face of Senate panel's findings - Robert Novak (puke)

[TacticalPeek]

July 15, 2004, 12:28AM
Democrats silent in face of Senate panel's findings
By ROBERT D. NOVAK

Like Sherlock Holmes' dog that did not bark, the most remarkable aspect of last week's Senate Intelligence Committee report is what its Democratic members did not say. They did not dissent from the committee's findings that Iraq apparently asked about buying yellowcake uranium from Niger. They neither agreed to a conclusion that former diplomat Joseph Wilson was suggested for a mission to Niger by his CIA employee wife nor defended his statements to the contrary.

Wilson's activities constituted the only aspects of the yearlong investigation for which the committee's Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, was unable to win unanimous agreement. Peculiarly, the Democrats accepted the evidence building up to the Wilson conclusions but not the conclusions themselves. According to committee sources, Roberts felt Wilson had been such a "cause célèbre" for Democrats that they could not face the facts about him.

For a year, Democrats have been belaboring President Bush about 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union address in which he reported Saddam Hussein's attempt to buy uranium from Africa, based on official British information. Wilson has been lionized in liberal circles for allegedly contradicting this information on a CIA mission and then being punished as a truth-teller. Now, for Intelligence Committee Democrats, it is as though the Niger question and Wilson have vanished from the Earth.

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Enjoy the quiet before the storm, Bob.

[shockingelk]

1. This says it all

"According to committee sources, Roberts felt Wilson had been such a "cause célèbre" for Democrats that they could not face the facts about him."

Republicans cannot talk about facts on issues, it's always "facts" about personalities.

Kerry: "My plan will bring back the manufacturing jobs that have moved overseas."

Republican response: "Kerry fell down while skiing and cussed someone out!"

[LittleApple81]

2. OK. I want to see what happens with this. The fact that she

recommended him would take nothing away from the case of destroying her cover.
But I want to hear Joe Wilson defend himself about the other allegations.
They still committed a crime by destroying her cover. But I don't like the fact that they now are accusing him of lying. I cannot imagine anybody exposing himself as he did in front of the entire world for a lie.