This Thread Reveals the GOP Congressmen Who Pushed Iraq WMD Doc Dump

[Dems Will Win]

REPUBLICAN PERPETRAITORS HOEKSTRA AND ROBERTS

In a KOS thread, bluerevolt found this March article on the WMD document dump. Now we know who the top GOP morons were who shoved this through for political advantage/pressure: Peter Hoekstra and Pat Roberts, the Chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committee. I guess that's the Republican version of intelligence!

Hunter says this:

It was among the more moronic of efforts -- it made no sense from the beginning, except as desperate partisan hackery -- done after public pressure from the GOP in congress, which in turn was based on a groundswell of outrage from (sigh) conservative pundits, bloggers and other far-far-right Republican acolytes that these documents were not being translated speedily enough, and so they should be released to the public so that the public (meaning desperate GOP supporters with time to kill) could pore through them themselves, looking for any shreds of political advantage in the trove.

Now, nobody really expected that these documents contained anything terribly meaningful. The evidence on the ground has demonstrated, through actual fact, that the weapons programs had indeed been shut down. The whole point of the exercise was a political one. But as it turns out, mixed in with those documents have been documentation of Iraq's previous weapons programs, including instructions for how to make Sarin nerve gas and, now, detailed explorations of how to make a nuclear weapon.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/3/16123/1422

US intelligence officials say nearly all the documents released have been given at least a cursory reading by Arabic experts. Beth Marple, Negroponte's deputy press secretary, said amateur translators won't find any major surprises, such as proof Hussein hid stockpiles of chemical weapons.

Still, conservative bloggers, eager to bolster the case for going to war against Iraq, have long argued for release of the documents. They gained a powerful ally last month in Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. In an interview with blogger Andrew Marcus, Hoekstra called for Negroponte to release the documents online. ''Unleash the power of the Net," Hoekstra said. ''Let the blogosphere go." Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, backed Hoekstra's proposal.

Within hours of the first release of documents, Shahda posted his first translation on the conservative website Free Republic. It was an Iraqi intelligence report of an interview with an Afghan informant that suggests -- but does not prove -- agents of Al Qaeda and the Taliban were active in Iraq before the Sept. 11 attacks.

According to an intelligence official who declined to be identified, Negroponte plans to release all documents that have no further intelligence value. Files that might help apprehend members of the Iraqi insurgency will remain under wraps. So will files that could violate the privacy or harm the reputations of innocent people. For instance, the Hussein regime used rape as a method of torture, and the government won't release documents containing the names of Iraqi rape victims. Nor will it release files mentioning Iraqi-Americans or other US citizens, such as journalists.

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While conservative US bloggers, and some Iraqis, are eager to translate and read the Iraq documents, some prominent liberal bloggers scoffed at the release. ''To me, this is just more evidence that the Bush administration doesn't take national security seriously," wrote Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of the popular Daily Kos website. ''Why doesn't our government have enough translators to handle this job?"

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/03/18/us_puts_iraqi_documents_on_the_web/

K & R and put the word out -- the GOP perpetraitors were Hoekstra and Roberts -- both should have their Chairmanships taken away.

And Bluerevolt notes Hoekstra said this on the NYT revealing old Terror Finance info: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/3/16123/1422

which has this quote:

"But more Americans need to notice, and they should be outraged by this, and all, illegal disclosures of vital national security information."

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Pat Roberts is worse than Bush.

He has alot to answer for!

[Mabus]

6. Roberts' term is up in 2008 and we're ready to work on it

starting Nov. 8th.

What's really frightening though is that Roberts is better than the other idiot we have in the Senate. At least Roberts' office will meet with us and return phone calls. Brownback & staff haven't had time to visit with us or return our phone calls.

[Dems Will Win]

2. kick

[SoCalDem]

3. I hope Hoekstra's opponent uses this in the waning days of the campaign

Can you "trust" a congressman with your children's safety, if HE puts dangerous information out there on the internet(s) for all to see..

He must be WITH the terrorists

[williesgirl]

4. Keep kicked - this is important - recommended

[Hubert Flottz]

5. K&R

History will not look kindly at guys like Roberts and Warner, who sold out their country for a little fame and power!