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RATS haven't given up. Same playbook, different year:

2003

Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/s_164229.html

The Rockefeller memo: Whiff of treason
Sunday, November 9, 2003

A leaked memo from the office of West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller urges fellow Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to use its probe into Iraq war planning as a staging ground to beat President Bush.

It calls for an independent investigation of the president next year, timed for maximum negative impact on Mr. Bush's re-election effort.

The implications of the document are plain.

" ... (W)e have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral pre-emptive war."

Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., condemned the memo as "politics in its most raw form." Mr. Rockefeller, who voted for the war and is the ranking Democrat on the committee, said the memo was a draft never circulated.

But he did not repudiate its contents.

Hence, as to their constitutional purpose, the hearings are irrelevant. Their object is not to seek the truth and in so doing offer a means to improve intelligence-gathering, which is the committee's portfolio.

They are instead to be a platform for garnering information against the White House by trolling classified material and employing it to the maximum political effect.

If this is not an ethics violation it ought to be. If this does not contain the whiff of treason, the word has no meaning.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1508218/posts?page=208#208