Posted on 11/03/2006 9:04:48 AM PST by Ooh-Ah
Lewisburg, PA -- Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, commented today on a story published in The New York Times that calls to question the release of valuable information contained in captured pre-war documents discovered in Iraq.
“It is incumbent on the President, as our Commander in Chief, to hold members of the intelligence community accountable to the law if an error was made in improperly posting sensitive information on the Internet.”
“In the legislation that I authored, and in correspondence with the President, the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, I have always stressed that we must guard against the dangerous disclosure of classified information in the interest of national security.”
“Releasing captured Iraq documents is imperative to prevailing in our military campaign in Iraq. These documents are necessary to help the American people understand the nature of the threat we face and the justification for our invasion of Iraq. There are many things that need to be done in this war, but none of them will happen unless the American people come to grips with the terrible fact that we are at war, and there is no way to escape it.”
Senator Santorum introduced legislation in March requiring the Director of National Intelligence to make available military documents and photographs recovered in Iraq and Afghanistan. Specifically, the bill requires the Director of National Intelligence to make publicly available on an Internet website documents captured in Afghanistan or Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom. The legislation authorizes the Director of National Intelligence to withhold making a document publicly available if the release of the materials would be harmful to America's national security interests.
lol
If you think Rick Santorum is a typical pol, I really can't help you. Go read Peggy Noonan's column today, or anything Kathryn Jean Lopez has written on National Review in the last two weeks. Or David Brooks' column which you can read at Philly.com.
I think if Santorum loses next week (heaven forbid)...he will automatically become a top contender to run for POTUS...
I was wondering...I just heard Laura Ingraham restating for the millionth time..that we haven't been attacked again..
WHAT IF...the fact that we DID go into Iraq...and DID capture Saddam is THE reason we haven't??
Even Putin told Bush that he knew Saddam was planning on coming after the USA...
I am still a big believer that the WMDS DID exist in 2002...but, by the time the Congress and UN took Bush through the obstacle course...Saddam had a chance to get them out of the country.
BUT, these documents spell out a lot...and I heard today that there were 48,000 BOXES of documents...think of what is still left to translate.
Christian news and commentary at: sacredscoop.com ...
Believe me, if I lived in PA I would be voting early and often for Santorum. I want him to win. And more importantly for the Dem to lose.
Go Santorum!
Starnews~~U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer
You don't need a password to read the Times article at this website.
How can they know if the document is harmful prior to translation?
NEWSFLASH...the article that never quite made it to the front page of the NYT:
Bill Clinton and CIA Gave Iranians Blueprint for Nuclear Bomb
They will not.
Of course the answer is they will not know.
The New York Times Strikes (Out) Again
U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide (Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program)
Saddam Closer To Bomb Than Anyone Thought
Shocker: New York Times Confirms Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Program
JVERITAS Responds to the 11/3 NYT Article Regarding Iraq Nuclear Program.
Rep. Hoekstra's response to the NYT is a thing of beauty. He denies that ANYONE warned the goverment/Congress about the danger posed in those documents.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731635/posts
Iran - CIA 'gave bomb plan to Tehran' (Clinton Legacy - Nuclear weapons)
New York Times: BUSH WAS RIGHT!
Well, that's a fatally-flawed strategy.
This NYT story was a gift to him, and he muffed it. I hope he wins, but this was stupid, stupid, stupid.
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