Posted on 11/06/2003 10:16:32 AM PST by Grit
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002
Democrat Senator Bob Graham (Florida), March 6, 1997 [NOMINATION OF ANTHONY LAKE]:
"Some history. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has a hard-earned and proud tradition of bipartisanship. It is the successor to the Church committee of 1975-76, which was an investigative committee only. The purpose of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is both to oversee sensitive intelligence activities and to maintain and improve intelligence capabilities and efficiency.
The issues that come before the committee, including the nomination of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, are extremely sensitive. They demand a high level of bipartisanship. I fear that the committee's bipartisanship is fraying and that fair play is falling victim to partisan gamesmanship.
That, Mr. President, should concern all of us, Republican and Democrat alike. Intelligence activities, by their sensitive nature, run counter to Democratic principles of openness. Yet, in my view, good intelligence is essential to our democracy's security.
Effective congressional oversight, in turn, is a critical ingredient to maintaining some balance between these two inherently contradictory forces--democratic openness and the necessary secrecy that surrounds intelligence procedures and operations. Oversight is a serious responsibility. The public must have confidence that we are above politics when we deal with intelligence issues.
In almost every other area of Federal Government, the public has multiple sources of information. That is what freedom of speech and freedom of press provide in a democratic society. But as it relates to the operations of the intelligence community, the general public must rely on a handful of its representatives to provide the necessary oversight and scrutiny to assure that the operations are being conducted in a manner that advances the public interest and assures that the public interest is not being rendered vulnerable by clandestine operations."
These are direct quotes from Senator Graham.
I'll bet you're correct...
The Establishment Media ( no reason to dignify them with "mainstrean;" they're not ) is trying the old "we just won't talk about it" that they perfected during Little Big Fraud's reign.
We'll see if the new internet & talk radio axis can overcome it.
Like a heavy sweat. :-)
Not a chance....
We will see the light in the loafers prance of the Metrosexuals by the Republicans....
Remember -- Hillary STILL has the FBI files on most of the Republicans still in office...
They remain in a self preservation mode -- not in a combative mode, and THAT is exactly what has encouraged the Democrat to behave so badly - lately..
NO CONSEQUENCES for bad behavior...
Only the voters have been reacting with a vengence against the Democrats -- by voting them OUT OF OFFICE...
Semper Fi
Well, I just think the American people might not let that happen. Sen. Zell Miller put it best when he said "the DemocRATS are headed for a train wreck".
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