Posted on 10/12/2004 11:28:30 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Mark Dayton said Tuesday he is closing his Washington office because of a classified intelligence report which made him fear for the safety of his staff.
Dayton, D-Minn., said the office will be closed while Congress is in recess through Election Day, with his staff working out of his Minnesota office and in Senate space off Capitol Hill.
``I take this step out of extreme, but necessary, precaution to protect the lives and safety of my Senate staff and my Minnesota constituents, who might otherwise be visiting my Senate office in the next three weeks,'' he said on a call with reporters.
``I feel compelled to do so because I will not be here in Washington to share what I consider to be an unacceptably greater risk to their safety,'' he said.
Dayton said he could not describe the contents of the top-secret intelligence report, which was presented to senators at a briefing two weeks ago.
``None of us can predict the future,'' he said. ``I hope and pray that the precautions I've taken will prove unnecessary.''
Asked what advise he would have for Minnesotans who want to travel to Washington over the next few weeks, Dayton said, ``I wouldn't advise them to come to Capitol Hill. I would not bring my two sons to the capitol between now and the election.''
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And here I thought terrorists were just a "nuisance."
Democrats looking to vote like the Spanish Alert!
I think it is a ploy to get the tax payers to pick-up the tab for getting his staff back to MN so that they can work on the various campaigns.
What a girl.
Seems to be a little extreme for only a "nuisance" problem
Ted Kennedy found his car keys?
This guy isn't playing with a full deck so don't take him for anything
So, a senator can be informed of potential threats, but average citizens can't be? "Classified intelligence reports." BAH!
Sounds like somebody does expect the spanish inquisition, or in any event, something grossly more serious than a 'nuisance.'
Good of him to leak this...sometimes these things fold up and blow away before anyone can be caught if they get a whiff of their detection.
Gee, that must be a real "nuisance."
Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn... lib-dem girlie man! Yep, say it all.
He's the Howard Dean of U.S. Senators.
He must expect the Kerry campaign implosion to be far more destructive than we can imagine.
This guy is a schmuck! I live in MN and wrote him a letter about 3-4 months ago telling him NOT to support gay marriage, and he sent me back a nasty email about how he won't "infringe on someone's rights" I wish I would have saved that email, I know I screwed up I was pissed off and read it and deleted it. Then A little while later I knew that I should have saved it.
This is a U.S. Senator, right? Is he normally a tinfoiler, or would you say his reaction indicates something is really about to go down in D.C.? And why does he think Capitol Hill itself is safer than his regular office? And if this is all true, then what the heck are W & Laura doing hanging around D.C.?
Pussy. If we're in so much danger here in DC, maybe you and your senate colleagues should stick around the Capitol, burn a little midnight oil, and DO SOMETHING about it, instead of running away.
By the way, Sen. Dayton, how much are we paying you guys again? And did I mention, you're a pussy?
Bingo!
Why isn't this on the Main Stream Liberal CBS, and ABC and NBC yet. The liberal Star Tribune picked it up. Can't wait to see what they say about it.
Exactly.
I happen to live in Arlington, Va., and I work three blocks from the US Capitol.
If Senator Dayton knows of some threat to the welfare of those of us who live and work in Washington, DC, he is, I think, morally obligated to share that information with us.
RE: Teddy, LOL.
So why Dayton and no other member of Congress? This is very strange.
I was under the impression that after the Pan Am 103 incident, there was a "no double standard" rule to avoid situations like this.
Keep an eye on his colleagues. If they bug out in larger numbers than I would suspect that there is something to it. These guys are generally cowards. Well, that is, except John Kerry. He's only running home to get his gun. Yeah, THAT'S the ticket...
Oh so right. We pay for that information but we cannot know the facts. Congresspeople are NOT more valuable than the citizens. Citizens put them there and pay them to do this to us.
I got the same response from our MA D Olver, he will not endorse writing discrimination into the Constitution.
But by not having an amendment, these idiots refuse to see, that is EXACTLY what they are doing.
I'm not so sure this should so easily be dismissed as "Chicken Little" talk. The election is just three weeks away folks, and let's not kid ourselves, the radical Islamic scum would love to prove that they're still capable of pulling something big off. If the administration put out this message I think we'd probably be taking it fairly seriously.
OK so where is the elevation of alert levels, where is the news about it, I seriously doubt President Bush would be keeping a lid on this.
Perhaps DemoRats are planning something with the big Republican Rallies coming on at the capitol? I know the coalition for traditional marriage is going to be there this week for a big rally/
Chickensh*t.
Send Markie another note, and he'll probably resend the same boiler plate message back to you.
His D.C. staff will be just as safe, no more no less, in their own offices, than in Senate space "elsewhere" in the Capitol. They will, however, be crippled in their ability to respond to requests from constituents for information and help, by being separated from years of files still in the (now closed) Senate offices.
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I'm flying to D.C from California next week for a week's vacation. I'll stop by the Senator's office and slip a note under the sniveling coward's door telling him that some of us will continue our normal lives and routines while he trembles in his shoes back in Mn.
If you're using Windows Outlook for mail, your emails are never completely deleted unless you erase them from a system file. Search for and open with Notepad, WordPad or Word the file named deleteditems.dbx in C:\Windows. Search the text for Dayton's name and you should be able to retrieve the contents of his lovely note. Looking forward to reading what he had to say.
;-)
NO, this was NOT a form letter this was a written off-the-cuff pissed off response... I should have saved it...
Ahhh I use AOL for e-mail because my brother doesn't want to learn how to use normal e-mail... I have formatted since then anyhow with the release of WinXp Sp2
John Kerry – On the threat of terrorism
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First of all...Senator you just telegraphed to all what you learned from a SECRET intel report...second, I thought we can't rely on intel reports!
Isn't MN a swing state? Are all the swing state Congressional members leaving Washington? Very interesting development.
Sounds like the fun my Dad is going through...
Maybe he should hire some of the West Virginia AFL-CIO thuggies for security.
If only I had known. This Minnesotan ate lunch on capitol hill just two days ago.
This kind of chicken little alarmist crap isn't helpful, especially as it exposes "secret" briefings.
If I went around telling people veiled references to secret briefings I've received, that would be a BAD THING. Stupid Mark Dayton.
Shouldn't matter even if the lords of the senate were told the attack was tomorrow. If our guys in the field are up to it, so should be our glorious elected leaders.
It's classified, yet this little girl tells the press and closes his office?
This is too bizarre.
"I happen to live in Arlington, Va., and I work three blocks from the US Capitol."
Mark Dayton to chs68: "You little people do not matter."
is he trying to drum up a scare effect and a stampede of the sheeple--thinking that the President is keeping something from them?
While you and your staff are cowering outside of the Washington, DC area, can I be permitted to use one of the "Reserved For Staff Only" parking spaces near the Capitol??
What a pantload...
This guy will be back here in MN lending his hand to the dems campaign. Probably got wind from some our so-called 'progressive' leaders, whining about how much trouble they're in because they no longer are considered a shoe-in state for ANY Democratic candidate.
"Oh, Marky - PLEASE HELP US! We are lost without your money connections - er, your progressive intuition!"
BTW, isn't the Wellstone anniversary coming up soon? I'm sure he'll do some memorial photo-op. I'm so ashamed - I'm a Minnesotan, and how quickly I forgot that date...(!)
Stupid Leaking OPSEC blow-sky-high PING.
"What a girl."
Hey, I'm a girl. Don't go comparing that wuss to me.
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