LINKS to Senate Intelligence Committee members

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http://intelligence.senate.gov/members.htm

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1. Press releases

http://intelligence.senate.gov/press.htm

[H2O Man]

3. Thank you. n/t

[vlup2es]

4. SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMM. PHONE NUMBER

202 224-1700

BELOW IS WHY WE ALL NEED TO CALL.

• Prayer for the governed
I shall wrap myself in the flag of my country and hold a Bible high in my hand. My songs of privatization, reverence and traditional values will be heard throughout the land.
I will align myself with those of power and wealth, forsaking the downtrodden and unfortunate and proclaim my actions to be in the best interest of all. I will divert funding from education of our youth, saying to critics that no child will be left behind. I will repeal legislation that protects the citizenry from environmental pollution and deny them redress through the judicial process.
I will call it necessary.
I will invade foreign powers, categorizing them as evil, and imprison and torture their people. And this, I will say, is justified in that we bring hope, freedom and democracy to the conquered. I will take from the impoverished, the elderly and the infirm and they will believe that this is right and good. For it is by their faith, rather than their understanding, that I have been entrusted with the power to lead them. And they will not readily admit the fallibility of their beliefs. Let us pray.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi vlup2es!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[vlup2es]

14. Response

Hey thanks.

Some intelligent people who can actually spell!

Rockefeller really gave them hell on the floor just now. Makes me wonder just how much we do not know.

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5. This one by Roberts about ALL documents

JUNE 11, 2003

SENATOR ROBERTS: INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT TO INCLUDE THOROUGH REVIEW OF INTELLIGENCE ON IRAQ'S WMD


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"While some of the criticism leveled on the intelligence community has been understandable given the circumstances and, at times, constructive, some of the attacks have been for political gain. I will not allow the committee to be politicized or to be used as an unwitting tool for political strategists. That is not good for the community or for our national security. Such action has already caused divisiveness and those within the intelligence community to go back to the days of risk aversion, the primary cause of 9-11."



"All of the documents are and will be available to Committee members beginning Monday," Senator Roberts said. "I am recommending that they personally review each and every document so that their public statements are based on fact and so the committee can make informed decisions. The next time a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee expresses an opinion on this topic, I encourage you to ask them if they have done their homework. As Chairman, I intend to do mine."

"I am concerned by the number of anonymous ‘officials' that have been speaking to the press alleging that they were pressured by Administration officials to skew their analysis, a most serious charge and allegations that must be cleared up," Senator Roberts said. "I can tell you the committee has yet to hear from any intelligence official expressing such concerns. If any officials believe, however, that they have been pressured to alter their assessment, they have an obligation and I encourage them to contact the committee for confidential discussions."

Sounds like a threat. Notice Libby is out covering the reporters.

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6. Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel

Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005 /...

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"The new information that Cheney and Libby blocked information to the Senate Intelligence Committee further underscores the central role played by the vice president's office in trying to blunt criticism that the Bush administration exaggerated intelligence data to make the case to go to war."

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"Had the withheld information been turned over, according to administration and congressional sources, it likely would have shifted a portion of the blame away from the intelligence agencies to the Bush administration as to who was responsible for the erroneous information being presented to the American public, Congress, and the international community."

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"In addition to withholding drafts of Powell's speech -- which included passages written by Libby -- the administration also refused to turn over to the committee contents of the president's morning intelligence briefings on Iraq, sources say. These documents, known as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB, are a written summary of intelligence information and analysis provided by the CIA to the president."

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11. This is extremely important

kick this so people will see it please!

[RedEarth]

2. call everyone on the list and demand a full, transparent hearing into

the steps that led to the Iraq invasion......Demand it.

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7. Easy reading Senate Report on Pre-War Intelligence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_of_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq

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9. On Phase II from the Wikipedia link

Phase two" of the investigation
At the time of the report's release (July 9, 2004), Democratic members of the committee expressed the hope that "phase two" of the investigation, which was to include an assessment of how the Iraqi WMD intelligence was used by senior policymakers, would be completed quickly. Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) said of phase two, "It is a priority. I made my commitment and it will get done."

On March 10, 2005, during a question-and-answer session after a speech he had given at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Senator Roberts said of the failure to complete phase two, "hat is basically on the back burner." Senator John D. Rockefeller (D-WV), vice chairman of the Committee, made a statement later that day in which he said, "The Chairman agreed to this investigation and I fully expect him to fulfill his commitment... While the completion of phase two is long overdue, the committee has continued this important work, and I expect that we will finish the review in the very near future."

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10. and more backpeddling

In a statement regarding the release of the report of the presidential WMD commission on March 31, 2005, Senator Roberts wrote, "I don’t think there should be any doubt that we have now heard it all regarding prewar intelligence. I think that it would be a monumental waste of time to replow this ground any further."

On April 10, 2005, Senators Roberts and Rockefeller appeared together on NBC's Meet the Press program. In repsonse to a question about the completion of phase two of the investigation,
Roberts said, "I'm perfectly willing to do it, and that's what we agreed to do, and that door is still open. And I don't want to quarrel with Jay, because we both agreed that we would get it done. But we do have--we have Ambassador Negroponte next week, we have General Mike Hayden next week. We have other hot-spot hearings or other things going on that are very important."

Moderator Tim Russert then asked Senator Rockefeller if he believed phase two would be completed, and he replied, "I hope so. Pat and I have agreed to do it. We've shaken hands on it, and we agreed to do it after the elections so it wouldn't be any sort of sense of a political attack. I mean that was my view; it shouldn't be viewed that way."

As of July, 2005, phase two of the Committee's investigation had not yet been completed.

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12. Joe Wilson vs the Senate Intelligence committee

http://www.politicsoftruth.com/editorials/Statement.html

July 15, 2004

The Honorable Pat Roberts
Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

The Honorable Jay Rockefeller
Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence


Dear Senator Roberts and Senator Rockefeller,

I read with great surprise and consternation the Niger portion of Senators Roberts, Bond and Hatch “additional comments to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee's Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Assessment on Iraq. I am taking this opportunity to clarify some of the issues raised in these comments...."

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13. Thanks for posting this. We need to contact Republicans as well as Dems.

I ready to go!