Hannity has info that could force Senators to resign?

[tritsofme]

Thats what the freakers are saying?

Does anyone know whats going on?

The shadow of McCarthy is very dark over this nation.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1014660/posts?q=1&&page=

[fizzana]

1. Without looking too deeply into it, it sounds like BS to me.

n/t

[tritsofme]

4. Apparently he had the Chairman of the

Senate Select Intelligence Committee on the air...

[annxburns]

2. Please ...

... Hannity KNOWS the intelligense will display no evidence and the PNAC agenda will be exposed to America. He is just trying to give Bush an excuse not to cooperate.

Freepers - "Nuke the Dems". Man they are scary sub-humans.

[rooboy]

3. Gee...

I hope it's not something as bad as leaking the name of a CIA agent.

Or presenting false evidence that started a war.

Or giving no-bid contracts to buddies.

Or being addicted to oxycontin.

Those things would be real bad.

[brainshrub]

5. Here is the alleged memo:

The memo as reported by Hannity reads as follows:

"We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

"1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.

"For example, in addition to the President's State of the Union speech, the chairman has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department.

"The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and cosigns our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority.

"2) Assiduously prepare Democratic 'additional views' to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it.

"In that regard we may have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims. We will contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry.

"The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an Independent Commission

"3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration's use of intelligence at any time. But we can only do so once.

"The best time to do so will probably be next year, either:

"A) After we have already released our additional views on an interim report, thereby providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public. Additional views on the interim report (1). The announcement of our independent investigation (2). And (3) additional views on the final investigation. Or:

"B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.

"In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.

"SUMMARY: Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet we have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral preemptive war.

"The approach outlined above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives."

[Nashyra]

6. Just read my first Freep post

they are actually excited because the Senate Dems might be ready for an all out assault on the Pres and not worried about our security. Let them complaim, loud and clear then we can bring up the * vacation after he was warned on Aug. 6th about an impending attack back in 2001. I've just about had it, I can not believe that this earth is inhabited with so many f)(*&^ stupid and selfish people. In the US we have a great many and it is very dangerous because they truly believe they are right and they are fair. God help us all.

[annxburns]

16. Okay now that I've seen the memo ....

... I know what this is about. The White House is not cooperating with the commission and the Repubs on the commission are not standing up to them. The Democrats are threatening to establish their own independent commission because of this. The memo is the threat. It basically says, fess up and give us the info - or we launch our own commission.

That's all it is, and it has been reported in the news for the last week. This "scoop" is nothing new, just a bunch of grandstanding by Hannity to excuse Bush not cooperating.

[Rose Siding]

27. It's WONDERFUL news.

I was hoping they had strategized a plan. It's likely that the "leak" was intentional and will serve it's intended purpose.

[59millionmorons]

30. We think alike

I was out for my nightly jog listening to Hannity whining and I was thinking to myself that this nutcase doesnt get it. The Democrats are warning the GOP if they try to pussyfoot around they are going to do this themselves. This memo is a great tool, they have the GOP and Bush by the balls either cooperate or we nail you on our own. Hannity doesnt realize this was likely leaked on purpose. Damn I am so happy that the Dems have a plan.

[Unity]

7. I don't think they'd want to shine a spotlight on this subject...

It will show the lies that led us to this debacle of a war. Do they really want to open this can of worms? I say let them try, let's get EVERYTHING into the open.

[proud patriot]

8. Oh poop

shucks

dagnabit

[bobbieinok]

9. there's a link there to a story in newsmax

Claims democrats on intelligence committee are planning to use classified info vs aWol in 2004 and that this is treason and links to Coulter on dems and treason.

Reproduces what they claim is a memo written by democrats.

[janx]

23. If this is being pushed by Newsmax, you KNOW it's junk.

.

[Cat Atomic]

10. If Hannity had anything good, he'd be screaming it at the top

of his girly voice.

He's full of shit, as usual.

And if he does have anything, the question is who gave a Fox News/hate radio hack a internal memo?

[leetrisck]

17. My question exactly! Hannity is soooo full of

himself - he imagines himself a serious reporter I think - he's a gossipmongering screamer.

[janx]

36. I know! He won't say who gave it to him. It's possible that

somebody knew he was rather slow, so s/he decided to use him.

[ComerPerro]

11. So, what the f**k did I miss today?

So, lets see, Hannity is worried that the Dems are going to start attacking Bush, so he is going to blackmail some of them with information he has?

Have they done anything worse than Bush? How could they possibly have?

[BuckeFushe]

32. My response to Hannity

Pot, meet kettle.

[Tempest]

12. Hannity is no Larry Flint

Hannity has jack squat.

[Scott Lee]

20. All Flynt had to do was drop a little info....

And boooom, Livingston was not only OUT of succession to the House Speakers Chair, but IN the Newt Gingrich Adulterers Club for Men.

You're right - Sean Hannity is no Larry Flynt.

[burr]

13. Alright!!!

Is it Zell Miller and Saxby Chambliss...please say yes!! What about Bill Frist? :thumbsup:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. Bring 'em on, Sean.

Shitehawk.

[Monte Carlo]

15. If Sean Hannity says so, it MUST be true...

Because we all know that Hannity is a pillar of virtue.

[SeattleRob]

18. You got to hand it to Hannity and the freepers...

What are they getting all worked up about? It sounds as if the memo talks about political strategy. How do they get that spin of revealing "classified information?" Must be a freeper thing.

[yankeeinlouisiana]

19. Hannity is an idiot.

I read the memo. It's a memo from Senate Intelligence Committee to other Senate Intelligence Committee members. If they can use classified info to get a special prosecutor, then more power to them. And then maybe some of the classified infor can be declassified. It doesn't say that they're leaking classified information to the newspapers or senators outside of the committee. Sean is just blowing smoke.

[teryang]

21. uh-oh, looks like traitors in Congress!

How dare they! Time for the Grand Inquisitor.

Who listens to this cable bullshit?

[jenk]

22. operation "divert attention from war"

I think hannity is being set up here

we got Rush, Hannity is next.

he's going to have egg on his face BIGTIME!

[annxburns]

24. Yep ....

... what Hannity is really trying to excuse is this ...

From
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=199957

By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (November 4, 1:12 p.m. AST) - The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday he spoke too hastily when he said the White House would provide his panel with the documents and interviews it is seeking for its inquiry on prewar intelligence on Iraq.
But the chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said he is optimistic hat the committee will get everything it wants.

"There has been a willingness to provide a great many of the list (of materials) that we requested," he told reporters.

Also, Roberts and the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, said the committee is unlikely to complete an interim report on the intelligence before Congress adjourns for the year late this month or in December. Public hearings probably also will be postponed until next year. (snip/...)

http://www.adn.com/24hour/politics/story/1044141p-7337795c.html

[DancingBear]

25. Rumor has it that Hannity is the submissive in an S&M relationship

well, maybe I just made that up.. :)

But think about it - "Mistress Carla, I've been very bad today - slap me and make me eat from the dog bowl."

Hell, rings true to me.

[ComerPerro]

28. Actually, its probably more along the lines of

"Mister Carl"...


Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[janx]

26. The Senate Intelligence Committee has been having a heck

of a time getting information from the White House, DOD, etc. This memo appears to be their strategy to get the information.

Nothing more.

Edit: But Hannity's too dim to realize that.

[leetrisck]

29. Orrin Hatch was last known person

to leak something serious - he's still there! Besides the Admin gave all the info to Bob Woodward anyway - so how secret could anything be?

[snippy]

31. Only republicans can think it treasonous for politicians in one political

party to criticize politicans in the other political party. Well, only republicans and Stalinists and other like minded totalitarians. The danger is that they actually believe the totalitarian shit they say.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. riiiiiight.....

and sean was also physically assaulted by al franken, who 'had to be removed from the studio by FOX security'

-as he so often tells


this all sounds like limbaugh's 'big news is coming't to implicate the left threat regarding the wilson leak that he threatened us with just before being hauled off to detox

[TacticalPeek]

34. That info should force so-called Chairman Roberts to resign.

Oh wait, that would require a conscience and sense of shame.

Nevermind.

[janx]

35. What is going on with this? Freepers now saying that

the memo was a draft that was taken from a waste basket in Rockefeller's office?!

Does anyone know anything about this?

It still sounds like junk, but the rumor mill is taking some interesting turns.