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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015893/posts Politicized Memo Creates RowWashington Post ^ | November 6, 2003 | Dana PriestThe FACT that certain unknown Democrats are focusing more on taking down the president than intelligence, while we are at war and 2 years after suffering the worst attack on this country's soil, is unacceptable and as Zell Miller said, borders on treason.   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015951/posts A Tale of Two Scandals Frontpage ^ | 11/6/03 | Ryan O’Donnell   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015092/posts Democrats use national security intelligence for political purpose http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015862/posts YOO-HOO Ds! (espec. Howard and Susan): How to use MEMOGATE to take your party back. . .    ...

(Editor's Note: The following is text of the Democrats' memo on using the Senate Intelligence Committee to attack President Bush before the 2004 elections.) 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...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A simmering feud over prewar intelligence on Iraq erupted into open battle on the Senate floor Wednesday, triggered by a Democratic staff memo vowing to expose what it said were the Bush administration's "misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives" in making the case for war.</p>

Okay, this is a vanity--my first and only. That said, I want Rockefeller to resign, and I want to see Freeper opinions on this. I think the memo he claimed a staffer wrote is at LEAST a first cousin to treason, as Zell Miller said, and I am furious that the story isn't getting more traction. This isn't just another example of business as usual in DC, this is a case of Democrats using intelligence vital to our war effort in Iraq as a tool to win an election against President Bush next year, no matter the cost in human...

Senate Democrats were forced on the defensive yesterday after Republicans obtained a leaked memorandum outlining an opposition strategy for criticizing the administration's use of intelligence prior to the invasion of Iraq. The contents of the memo, first reported late Tuesday by conservative radio and Fox News Channel commentator Sean Hannity, prompted harsh condemnations by Republicans, including members of the Intelligence Committee. It also prompted calls from both sides of the aisle for further investigation. Republicans demanded scrutiny of whether Senate rules had been violated by the drafting of the partisan memo, while Democrats demanded a probe of how the document...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The festering quarrel over the Senate investigation into pre-war US intelligence on Iraq flared up yesterday as Republicans and Democrats traded charges of politicizing the probe and engaging in office espionage.</p> <p>At issue was a draft strategy memorandum written by a Democratic staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Leaked to the media Tuesday night, it laid out how the party could steer the probe in an effort to produce the information most damaging to the Bush administration.</p>

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), a member of the Senate leadership, today issued the following statement one day after Senate Democrats' refused to repudiate a staff memo outlining a strategy to use a nonpartisan Intelligence Committee investigation for political attacks next year against President Bush. The Senator called on Democrat leaders to publicly denounce the strategy. He also suggested that if staff members deserved the blame for drafting the memo, they should be fired. "First, Democrats sought to blame an unnamed staffer for this memo, saying it had never been approved by any Senators. Next they tried...

<p>WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans were livid yesterday over a staff memo in which Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats lay out a plan to gain politically from the probe into prewar intelligence.</p> <p>The memo, first revealed by the Fox News Channel, outlines a plan by Democrats to cooperate with Republicans on the Intelligence Committee to squeeze information out of the Bush administration - and then surprise them next year by calling for a new independent probe while accusing the Republicans of foot-dragging.</p>

<p>It is a full year before next year's national elections, and Democrats are already up to dirty tricks. On air yesterday, commentator Sean Hannity made public a leaked memorandum that detailed a Democratic plan to use classified intelligence information to attack President Bush politically. The memo suggested that Democrats "pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures" and then "pull the trigger" against the administration. West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller, the ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, admitted that the memo was written by his staff, but downplayed its importance. The scandal will be difficult to cover up.</p>

<p>November 6, 2003 -- AT first glance, the memo just looks like Politics 101 - the work of a Democratic staffer advising his colleagues on how to gain partisan advantage over the Republicans. But there's a reason why the document that leaked on Tuesday from the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is creating a firestorm in Washington.</p>

<p>November 6, 2003 -- It's one of the most serious breaches of trust on one of the most sensitive committees on Capitol Hill.</p> <p>It's a memo, drafted by Democratic staffers on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, that clearly details the manner in which Democrats hoped to manipulate privileged information regarding pre-Iraq-War intelligence to explicit partisan advantage.</p>

YOO-HOO Ds! (espec. Howard & Susan)How to use MEMOGATE to take your party back. . .   by Mia T, 11-05-03 EMOGATE INDIRECTION: Rockefeller and Daschle are decoys, more cutout than cutthroat, less sockdolager than sock-puppet. Rockefeller's too genteel; Daschle's too "concerned." Neither, frankly, has the requisite utter disregard for life. And perhaps most important, (insofar as their decoy role is concerned), both are too bland to inspire sufficient opposition ire. No. Memogate bears the indelible mark of clinton; that is, hillary, and by association, bill. hillary talks: On White House Coverups (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available...

The leak of a Democratic document describing a strategy to highlight contradictions in CIA reports and statements by the US administration about Iraq intensified animosity at a Senate committee. Several Republican Senators accused Democrats of seeking to make political mileage out of a bipartisan inquiry relating to the quality of intelligence used to justify the US-led war on Iraq. Tension has heightened between members of the Senate Intelligence Committee with the approach of next year's election season. "Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq," the memo said. "Yet, we have an important role...

<p>Senate Republicans expressed outrage yesterday over a memo that plotted a Democratic strategy for taking maximum political advantage of an investigation into U.S. intelligence before the war in Iraq.</p> <p>The memo, written by a staffer for Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Democrat and co-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, suggested Democrats "pull the majority along as far as we can."</p>

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - While Democrats were lambasting Republicans for an alleged White House leak of a CIA officer's identity, the Democratic staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was apparently planning to use the committee's probe of pre-war intelligence gathering about Iraq to damage President Bush politically just before the 2004 elections. Republican senators responded angrily to a memo about the plan leaked Wednesday, suggesting that it may violate Senate rules. Even one Democrat called for the firing of anyone involved with the memo's creation. Democrats on the committee should "prepare to launch an investigation when it becomes...

Seven Step Campaign To Get The Dem Memo Story Out   This time, we the people will not stand for GOP spinelessness.  We will not let the GOP simply “Move On” from the vicious, unethical Dem memo.    If you have not read it yet, click HERE.  If you have not read Zell Miller’s reaction, click HERE.  1)  Click HERE to open the “Send Fax” window.  2)  Cut and paste this phone number AS WRITTEN into the "The FAX Number" field:     1 202 224 3514 3)  Address the fax to "Senator Pat Roberts" and don't forget to put your email...

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Sean Hannity has revealed the existence of a plot among the Democratic members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to use their power and their access to classified information to undermine the war effort and attack the President. This isn’t ‘just politics’, this isn’t an everyday thing. The purpose of the Intelligence Committee is to oversee America’s various intelligence services and to ensure that they are working for the defense of the American people. How can they achieve this aim if some members of the Committee are working in an effective alliance with...

MIDI - PROUD MARY They're meeting in their committee...Democratics, Republicans...non-partisan One group can't be trusted...we find their memo...Reagan said it, "There you go again" This stuff may well be treason...politics is the reason Rollin', rollin'...heads ought to be rollin' One man steps forward, Zell Miller...he is sick because of what his party's done Anything for power...it doesn't matter...what rules do they follow...there are none This stuff may well be treason...politics is the reason Rollin', rollin'...heads ought to be rollin' (musical interlude) Rollin', rollin'...heads ought to be rollin' Their actions hurt our brave soldiers...they are doing damage but they just...

Senator Condemns Efforts to Politicize 9/11 Inquiry, Says Staffers Should Be Fired WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee for eight years ending in 2002, today issued the following statement following disclosure of a Democratic strategy memo which plots to use classified intelligence information to wage a political attack on President Bush: “This strategy memo lays bare what we’ve started to see for some time: an orchestrated effort by Democrats at a time of war to improperly use an intelligence investigation as a weapon against President Bush. The memo completely shreds Democrats’...

<p>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.</p>