Good on FNC for showing the Dems for exactly what they are: a bunch of petty, treasonous power hungry pissants who'd sell their country and their souls to be able to grab and redistribute more of YOUR money. It really is that simple. That is ALL they stand for. God forgive me for how much I despise the Democratic Party.
I checked the Fox website today and it is not even mentioned on the front page OR in Hannity's section of the website. This is what happens when a story does not have "legs".
Call me a skeptic if you like .. but you need to wait and see with stories like this. Nobody else is touching it .. not even Drudge. Am I the only person who see's some danger?
I just hope that Hannity handled it with a disclaimer .. "it could be true or it could be a setup". The Left is out to get Hannity .. and nobody knows it better than he does. He could have been fed this story in order to discredit him
At any rate, I'm sure we will all know soon enough if the story has "legs" or if Hannity is going to back away from it.
Roberts says memo undermines inquiry
Note discusses creating an independent commission to study Iraq prewar intelligence
By Libby Quaid
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Pat Roberts said Democrats have undermined the inquiry he is leading into Iraq prewar intelligence by drafting a memo aimed at discrediting the Senate Intelligence Committee's work.
The Kansan is chairman of the committee. The memo was written by Democratic committee staff and wasn't finalized or circulated among members of the committee, said the panel's senior Democrat, West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller.
Rockefeller acknowledged the document after news reports quoted excerpts from it. The memo spells out steps to make the committee's inquiry irrelevant by setting up an independent commission, and in the process attempt to "castigate" majority Republicans. It suggested "pulling the trigger" on the plan "probably next year."
Roberts said the memo stunned him.
"It's like a personal slap in the face," he said. "I'm very frustrated by it."
"We cannot politicize the committee," he said. "No member of the intelligence community wants to come up and testify before a committee that is whipsawed by politics. In addition, once this becomes public, or more public, every intelligence agency in the world will take note of it."
"And quite frankly, I think this will give some comfort to terrorists," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday evening. "We have to put back together some semblance of a bipartisan committee."
Roberts and Rockefeller have been overseeing an often rocky review of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction that the White House used to justify the war on Iraq.
The two men met Tuesday after Roberts learned of the memo. In a statement he issued afterward, Rockefeller dismissed the memo as "likely taken from a waste basket or through unauthorized computer access."
He added: "The draft memo was not approved, nor was it shared with any member of the Senate Intelligence Committee or anyone else.
"Having said that, the memo clearly reflects staff frustration with the conduct of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation and the difficulties of obtaining information from the administration."
He said that exploring or asserting the rights of the committee's Democratic minority doesn't politicize the process.
"The American people deserve a full accounting of why we sent our sons and daughters into war," Rockefeller said.
Democrats and Republicans alike have complained the White House, the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department have been slow to respond to requests for interviews and documents.
The White House missed a Friday deadline for complying, and while Roberts announced over the weekend the White House agreed to cooperate, he subsequently backed away and said he spoke too hastily.
Roberts called on committee Democrats to repudiate the strategy outlined in the memo.
"It's a purely partisan document that appears to be a road map for how the Democrats intend to politicize what should be a bipartisan, objective review of pre-war intelligence," he said. "Instead, we should be focusing on how to make our country safer and how to improve our intelligence capabilities."
Memo-gate is alive and well.