Rockefeller SLAMS The Intel Investigation in WP Today!

[Beetwasher]

This is incredibly important. It's buried on A 25 of the Post! :mad:

Avoiding A Critical Inquiry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54789-2003Nov17?language=printer

No decision can be more sobering and important for our president and the country than the decision to send America's sons and daughters to war. Since Sept. 11, 2001, that decision has become even more difficult. Now the United States may have no choice but to be ready to strike preemptively if a threat from terrorists or rogue nations rises to a clear and present danger. But initiating war by preemptive attack unquestionably requires that an enemy have not only the desire but also the capability to carry out an attack against our citizens.

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[welshTerrier2]

1. Agreed !!! This is Critically Important ...

i think the paragraph you highlighted, though, missed the essence of what Rockefeller was saying ... the bottom line is that he's accusing the Republican chairman of the committee with blocking a proper investigation of what bush did and didn't do ...



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But the committee's Republican chairman has refused to look at the whole picture, excluding from the inquiry the subject of how intelligence was used, or potentially misused, and whether policymakers in any way shaped the intelligence they received.

In what is beginning to look like a coordinated effort to shield the administration from scrutiny, Republicans claim that reviewing the ways intelligence was used is not part of the committee's responsibilities. In this they plainly misread the committee's history and organizing resolution, which explicitly calls for oversight of "the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of information which relates to a foreign country . . . and which relates to the defense, foreign policy, national security or related policies of the United States."

The chairman recently went so far as to say that "there is no doubt how the intelligence was used" prior to the war, and so there is "nothing to review" . In fact, there is disconcerting evidence that in this administration, the policymaking is driving the intelligence rather than the other way around. This has added to a growing doubt among the American people about why we went to war, and it is our job to conduct for them a thorough review of the underlying facts.

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[Beetwasher]

4. Thanks

I merely posted the first paragraph, but those are indeed the most essential...

[kentuck]

2. It would be more effective if he simply requested commission disband

Since they have no plans of investigating anything anyway...That might make a more powerful statement?

[Cocoa]

3. Rockefeller is doing the press's job for them

They should pay him for his reporting services, there's no reason that they have to wait for the dems to complain before writing about this, just like they had no reason to totally ignore the Plame Novak leak for three months until the CIA called the investigation.

[Sperk]

5. If Senator Roberts wants to see what an unpatriotic American

who puts one's own needs about the good of the country...he should look in the mirror. This Senate is a disgrace! Shame on all you who care more about winning elections than protecting our country! :mad: