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 […]
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 […]
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 […]