Posted on 01/14/2006 5:42:32 PM PST by Mia T
MEMOgate: democrat party treason
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Raw Data: Dem Memo on Politicizing Intelligence
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Following is the text of a memo written by a Democrat on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that suggests how to make the greatest gain off of intelligence data leading to the war against Iraq. The memo was obtained by Fox News.
Transcript of a memo written by a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee staff suggesting how to make the greatest gain off of intelligence data leading to the war against Iraq.
We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:
1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard. For example, in addition to the president's State of the Union speech, the chairman has agreed to look at the activities of the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department. The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and co-signs our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. (Note: we can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.)
2) Assiduously prepare Democratic "additional views" to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it. In that regard, we have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims and contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry. The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an independent commission (i.e. the Corzine amendment).
3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation at any time-- but we can only do so once. The best time to do so will probably be next year either:
B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue. We could attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the "use" of intelligence.
In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter foot-dragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman; we have independently submitted written questions to DoD; and we are preparing further independent requests for information.
Summary
Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet, we have an important role to play in the revealing the misleading -- if not flagrantly dishonest methods and motives -- of the senior administration officials who made the case for a unilateral, preemptive war. The approach outline above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives and methods. |
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December 7, 1941+64
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive.
We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will?
In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst?
Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival.
What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times.
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This thread would be a bit more persuasive without the multiple bumps by the author. Something seems a bit odd about it.
Am I missing something here?
BUMP
"Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
It has and will continue to pay off.
Although you do need a T1 to get down with Mia, granted.
Sowell's idea is technically sound but, the "most highly skilled or intelligent people in the country, people with real-world experience" are already the ones pulling the strings.
Pay them a million a year but, also make it legal to tar & feather them and run them out of town on a rail, if they get caught usurping the will of the People.
Make them take responsibility for their own actions.
If they get caught riding a motorcycle without a motorcycle license, they get a ticket,pay the fine(out of their own damn pockets), and get a point on their DMV record.
Hang the traitors, in public.
My server is fast enough. It's all good on that front. I just don't get the bizarre visuals and the abstract articles that seem to be plopped in some sort of clumsy order.
Is it performance art? Is that the mood I should be in for Mia T threads?
The Clintons are monsters, and Mia has some CGI monster imaging that she thinks is befitting, and me, I agree. Consider it a cartoon.
OK
I understand now.
Mia T. Bump.
If by the string-pullers you mean the people buying off the politicos, that goes precisely to Sowell's point.
The truth of the matter is that the politician is a self-selected subgroup of Homo sapiens that is populated on the whole by a bunch of power-hungry, corrupt mediocrities with poor self-images.
We need to get rid of the careerist in DC and go to the founders' original idea: the citizen-politician.
I always thought that wanting to be president should be an automatic disqualifier.
PUBLIC DENUNCIATION:James Risen,NYTIMES have allegedly received +released classified info (vanity) ^
Posted by Brian Allen to Fred Nerks; STARWISE
On News/Activism ^ 12/17/2005 8:18:03 PM PST · 99 of 232 ^
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and he carries his banners openly.
But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
heard in the very hall of government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor.
He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their garments
and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men.
He rots the soul of a nation.
He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city.
He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
His name is: Dingy Harry Reid, Babs Boxer, pick a Clinton, Murtha, Byrd, Durbin and Pelosi;
It's Waxman, Kennedy and Kerry, Biden, McKinney, Schumer, Conyers, Waters and Rangel.
And Risen.
And a Murderer Is Less To Be Feared.
BUMPping
With apologies to Cicero, 42 B.C.
BUMPping!
HeHeHe ...
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This investigation is the mother load and I am glad to see that the Bush Administration has called in the F.B.I, not some "special" prosecutor to investigate this.
I have a sebse that if this is properly opened up, Rockefeller, the Clintons and a host of others will wind up in the dock trying to defend their actions.
For an explanation of my rationale, generally, pls goto:
On using virtual characters in political commentary in cyberspace
bump!
thanx :)
and bump!
We must purge DC of the careerist. (see post 51).
A traitor he is, yoe.
He also appears not too swift. I mean, you have to be a complete idiot to admit playing Paul Revere in the obverse, i.e., to our enemy, on national TV.
The result of all that inbreeding, I suspect.
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