Gore Blasts Bush for Disbanding Senate Intelligence Cte., Charges Nixon-like Coverup over 911

C-SPAN ^ | November 9, 2003 | nwrep

[nwrep]

Al Gore has charged that the Bush administration is attempting to cover-up the 9/11 investigation by dismissing the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In a speech sponsored by the Communist Group Moveon.org, Gore dismissed the partisan Democrat memo advising the committee to use intelligence information for political purposes as "trivial", and accused Bush of over-reaching in his authority, in much the same way as Richard Nixon did when he fired his Chief Investigator during the Watergate scandal.

It was reported here that Senator Frist disbanded the Senate Intellignce Committee after the partisan memo revealed it would be unable to carry out its work in a bipartisan manner.

Frist Disbands Senate Intel Committee Over Memogate

[cars for sale]

this may get me kicked off free republic but to me
dip Kofi Anan in a bowl of flour and record his speach
and that is what we just heard. We just heard a UN
call to arms against extreme fundamentalists

[Prime Choice]

It is so utterly gratifying to watch these nutbags go into political meltdown.

If they keep this up, the humbling that the Left got in 2002 will look like a cakewalk in 2004!

[MHGinTN]

Gore dismissed the partisan Democrat memo advising the committee to use intelligence information for political purposes as "trivial" ... May God have mercy on US, what a fool Al is proving himself to be. I sure am thankful this Al character and his blind partisanship (that endangers this nation in this our perilous hour) did not get elected to the White House!

[swilhelm73]

All Frist has to say, to my mind, is that since the Democrats refuse to conduct a serious investigation - as evidenced by their recent memo on how to use intelligence information as a partisan tool, we cannot afford to put America's security at risk just so the Democrat party has material for attack ads come 2004.

Seriously, that memo is far more damning then the Democrats seem to understand. The American people will not stand for such an outrageous use of America's intelligence resources. Forget Rockfeller's aide who wrote it stepping down - I'd call on the Senate to censor him and ask for his resignation.

[walden]

Since when do respectable Democrats give speeches to communist organizations? What's the MATTER with those people?

[Keyes2000mt]

Well Mr. Gore, if you have a problem with Senator Frist's actions you can run against him. After all, he's from your home state. Oh wait, you'd lose there just like in 2000.

[hgro]

Al Gore is one brick short of a full load.

[kcar]

Carter's turn next. Then Bubba's.

[Maria S]

"cpusa.org endorses moveon.org "

Thanks for clarifying this; cpusa.org DID have a blue "hard" link to moveon on its website, but removed it. Now, they have a request for financial help on the website.

I WOULD like to see the link from C-span, as quoted in the article:
"In a speech sponsored by the Communist Group Moveon.org"

[Miss Marple]

I double dog dare Carter to step into this. If he does, I will call and wite every media outlet I can find, detailing his efforts to get the Soviet Union to help him defeat Reagan!!

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

nwrep, please either present articles as they are written or alert FReepers when you add your own embellishments.

[cyncooper]

In a speech sponsored by the Communist Group Moveon.org, Gore dismissed the partisan Democrat memo advising the committee to use intelligence information for political purposes as "trivial", and accused Bush of over-reaching in his authority,

As usual, the dems must distort the facts in order to launch their attack.

It was Frist, not Bush, who dismantled the committee.

BTW, Joe Wilson is affiliated with MoveOn.org, and I have my own accusations, Algore, of exactly who is up to what, and it ain't pretty. For you or the pigs you are wallowing with.

[cyncooper]

It doesn't matter that Bush had nothing to do with disbanding the committee. All that counts are sound bites. Now that Al said it, everyone in the media and in politics can echo the line.

Yup. And that is why the pressure must be kept up to keep making the truth be told and not let them get away with their treacherous spin.

[zbigreddogz]

Oh sure he has a purpose, he's a great punching bag for the GOP faithful. I mean, come on, people talk about Bushisms, but Gore's done like 10,000 times more.

If nothing else, Gore gave us the "I invented pants" commercial.

See, even scum has some purpose. :)

[Grut]

cpusa.org endorses moveon.org

So if some KKK website mentions FR favorably, we're all Klansmen?

[cornelis]

My hunch is that the poster has not been forthright. It was likely" that cspan.org would air the speech, according to moveon.org. Gore's words can be read at algore.com

In a revealing move, just three days ago, the White House asked the Republican leadership of the Senate to shut down the Intelligence Committee's investigation of 9/11 based on a trivial political dispute. Apparently the President is anxious to keep the Congress from seeing what are said to have been clear, strong and explicit warnings directly to him a few weeks before 9/11 that terrorists were planning to hijack commercial airliners and use them to attack us.

Astonishingly, the Republican Senate leadership quickly complied with the President's request. Such obedience and complicity in what looks like a cover-up from the majority party in a separate and supposedly co-equal branch of government makes it seem like a very long time ago when a Republican Attorney General and his deputy resigned rather than comply with an order to fire the special prosecutor investigating Richard Nixon.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When did George W. Bush become a Senator with authority to suspend any Senate committee?

Well they have blabbled for years about how Senator McCarthy ran the House Committee on Un-American Activities so their thinking that the President runs Senate committees is not such a stretch.

[cornelis]

So if some KKK website mentions FR favorably, we're all Klansmen?

If some Freeper rookie pretends at reporting, are we all dupes? Caveat lector.

[Southack]

If the "Memo" is so innocent, why won't Al Gore post its full contents on his website?

If the Memo is so trivial, why won't its author stand up and admit that she/he wrote it?

If the Memo is so damning to Republicans, why are ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, and the NY Times trying so hard to downplay it?

Hmmm...methinks that this Memo isn't so trivial, innocent, or a blight on Republicans at all!

[doug from upland]

MIDI - MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE

Al invented the debate…hallelujah
He created the blind date…hallelujah

Al discovered Love Canal…hallelujah
He trained Lassie, Timmy’s pal…hallelujah

Al’s the first who gourmet dined…hallelujah
The Trump Tower he designed…hallelujah

Al developed the French kiss…hallelujah
He taught football at Ol’ Miss…hallelujah

Al showed Sosa how to hit…hallelujah
He made diapers to catch ****…hallelujah

Al has conquered all disease…hallelujah
He first said, “Take my wife…..please”…hallelujah