That is what many are saying now. Tonight Joe Scarborough and Lawrence O’Donnell echoed those very words. “I know Mark Foley and he is such a nice guy. I would have never known”. Now ask yourselves how many times you have heard that very statement. We hear it with rapists, pedophiles, murderers and even cult […]
This is how incompetent the Republicans in Senate are: When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) claimed a rare victory. Republicans called it a stunt but promised to quickly wrap up […]
Whenever someone brings up the intelligence failures that lead to 9/11, they always point the finger at “intelligence sharing”. The administration has done the exact same thing. Now Bush has had the tools to correct those problems, yet he has failed to implement them: A House subcommittee has concluded that the Bush administration has been […]
The phase 2 report into the pre-Iraq war intelligence failure is still being stonewalled by Senate Intelligence chairman Pat Roberts: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel’s inquiry into the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would […]
It looks like Pat Roberts has made somewhat a change in how he feels the wiretapping program should operate: The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Friday that he wanted the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program brought under the authority of a special intelligence court, a move President Bush has argued is not necessary. […]
On a rather slow and quiet Tuesday about a month ago a hell broke loose on Capital Hill when Harry Reid shut down Senate to demand answers on the stalling of the next phase of the pre-war intelligence report. It lead to outbursts before the cameras and a new political fight. It also resulted in […]
We now have at least one republican in Senate joining the fight with Democrats to investigate the pre-war intelligence. That Senator is none other than John McCain: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has emerged as a leading opponent of the Bush administration’s policy on interrogating detainees in the war on terrorism, wants Senate investigators to […]
Rule 21 of the Senate mandates that any time an issue is to be brought up on the Senate floor that could reveal classified information that the cameras be shut off, no electronic recording devices in the room and no staffers in the room. It is done so to protect national security. That is the […]