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http://www.scottmalensek.com/forums/index.php? I find it incredibly awful that a man boasts about being on the Senate Intel Committee if he's not there half the time, and if his time on that committee is the exact same time frame as the rebirth of Al Queda to the 911 plot. Al Queda reborn in 92/93, begins bombing and grows to mega terror group by 2000. John Kerry on Sen Intel Committee from 93-2000. When asked for more money, he tries to cut budgets, and post911/postIraq there are at least 6 reports showing that the intel community needed major oversight during the period (guess...)...

MIDI - SMALL WORLD AFTERALL There's a problem with our identity...so to set things straight it is up to me He nailed Winger, you know...I am the gigolo And he has an extra vowel Bob has one more "e" than me...Bob has one more "e" than me Bob has one more "e" than me...why can't people see? He had lost a leg, I am pulling yours...I was gone after just a 4-month tour He nailed Winger, you know...I am the gigolo And he has an extra vowel The commitee chose him as its Vice Chair...on top of my head...

Tonight on Fox News I heard something (while I was on the phone) about the Kerry campaign claiming that Johnny boy attended certain Intelligence Committee meetings or something, mistaking him in their claims for "Bob" Kerry, who actually attended those meetings. They looked really foolish, or so it seemed, but I did not catch it all. Can someone fill me in?

In various press releases, including an August 6 "fact check," the Democrats have asserted that "John Kerry served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 6 years and is the former Vice Chairman of the Committee." Eugene Volokh questions this claim: Now the Republican National Committee is pointing out -- correctly, I think, based on my quick search -- that Kerry never was the Vice Chairman of the Committee; that post was held by former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey. I've followed up on Professor Volokh's work and conducted my own research. Democrats won't be pleased with the findings.... Posted...

Fox News just had a news segment where the Kerry campaign, in angry response to Bush claims that Kerry attended few Intelligence briefings, said that Kerry had at one time been the Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence campaign. In response, the Bush people gleefully (Fox's word) returned fire by saying that it was BOB Kerrey, not JOHN Kerry who was Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence committee.

Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004 12:32 a.m. EDT Sen. Intel Chief Calls on Kerry to Release Records Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts called on Sen. John Kerry to release his Intelligence Committee attendance records on Sunday - as controversy swirled over claims that the top Democrat was mostly a no-show during important hearings. "The easiest way out of this is for John Kerry and John Edwards to request [Committee Vice Chairman] Sen. Rockefeller and myself to release the attendance [records]," Roberts told NBC's "Meet the Press."

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004 12:32 a.m. EDT Sen. Intel Chief Calls on Kerry to Release Records Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts called on Sen. John Kerry to release his Intelligence Committee attendance records on Sunday - as controversy swirled over claims that the top Democrat was mostly a no-show during important hearings. "The easiest way out of this is for John Kerry and John Edwards to request [Committee Vice Chairman] Sen. Rockefeller and myself to release the attendance [records]," Roberts told NBC's "Meet the Press." Roberts urged that any Kerry record release should cover "not only...

REPORT OF THE JOINT INQUIRY INTO THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 –BY THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry missed most of the public hearings of the Senate Intelligence Committee during his eight years on the panel, according to his colleagues. During his tenure on the committee, which provides oversight of national intelligence agencies, Kerry was absent for 38 of 49 public hearings, according to Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga. "There's been a total avoidance of discussion of the voting record of John Kerry," said Chambliss last week, following Kerry's acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination. "But that's not surprising. There's one area that he claims to have a lot of expertise and...

"Bush was AWOL!!" scream the Democrats. Based on speculation and no hard evidence, the Democrats repeat this matra about something that supposedly happened 30 years ago. There is a far more contemporary and serious AWOL offense that may tie directly to the terrorism threat we face today that is based on indisputable evidence. From 1993 to 2000, John Kerry was AWOL from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence almost 80% OF THE TIME! Of 49 open, public hearings of the committee, Kerry attended just 11! The most notable of those he missed is the June 8, 2000, hearing on the...

The New GroupthinkBy WILLIAM SAFIREPublished: July 14, 2004 he salient news in the Senate Intelligence Committee report is this: all you have been hearing about "he lied to us" and "they cooked the books" is a lot of partisan nonsense. The 511-page Senate report concluded this: Nobody in the White House or the Pentagon pressured the C.I.A. to change an intelligence analysis to conform to the judgment that the world would be a safer place with the monstrous Saddam overthrown.Ah, second-guessers say, but what about "groupthink"? Before Gulf War I, the consensus held that Saddam was five to 10 years...

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has found bad information was provided to the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war. Some members of Congress claim if they known then what they now know they would have not voted to authorize force to topple Saddam Hussein.     That adage about being careful about the finger you point at others because three are pointing back at you applies here. It is Congress, not the executive branch, that fashions our intelligence apparatus, authorizes money and sets parameters beyond which information collection may not legally go. Congress should at least share equal...

The editors of the S.F. Chronicle have long been convinced that George Bush is the main thing that’s wrong with this country. That judgment borders on a deep hatred that causes them to forget all those little details about journalistic integrity. They produced a lead editorial on Monday that takes the cake in that respect. They simply rewrite the Senate Intelligence Report to say what they wished it had said. Their conclusion is the opposite of what the report concluded insofar as Bush is concerned. Note these opening paragraphs: TRY AS it might, the Bush White House cannot just shrug...

Senate intelligence failure - Yesterday, through the release of its long-awaited report, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously blamed the CIA for errant assertions and mistaken assumptions about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. Much of that scathing criticism is well-deserved. However, the blame must be shared by the members of the committee, who failed badly in their constitutional duty of oversight. There was "a global intelligence failure" at the CIA, said Committee Chairman Sen. Pat Roberts, Kansas Republican. Many of the declarations of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate have collapsed, and no surprise, since the estimate...

Report: CIA Gave False Info on Iraq 13 minutes ago Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo! By KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) — that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons — were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA (news - web sites) analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday. AP Photo Intelligence analysts fell victim to "group think" assumptions that Iraq had weapons...

WASHINGTON - The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) — that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons — were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA (news - web sites) analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday. Intelligence analysts fell victim to "group think" assumptions that Iraq had weapons that it did not, the bipartisan report concluded. Many factors contributing to those failures are ongoing problems within the U.S. intelligence community — which cannot be fixed with...

Going on now. Roberts spoke, blamed CIA and intelligence agencies. Rockerfeller speaking, blames intelligence agencies and administration and (some) to the Congress.

President Bush said this today in response to the Senate Intelligence Committe report: "I look forward to working with members of Congress to put out reforms that will work," Bush said at a campaign event here, noting that he had not yet seen the report. "I want to know the truth. I want to know the facts, ... and I want to make this the best system we can have."The President also reiterated that Saddam Hussein had been intent on building weapons of mass destruction.

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR WASHINGTON Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to release its report on the prewar intelligence on Iraq. The document is likely to make clear that America's intelligence network, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency, badly needs repair. The Senate report will also show that America's intelligence shortcomings aren't going to be addressed simply by changing C.I.A. directors. As the report should make clear, our spy services both failed to do a thorough enough job watching Iraq's weapons programs and played down evidence that challenged the prevailing assumptions that the programs were active. In addition, analysts did not critically...

July 8, 2004 INTELLIGENCE Senate Iraq Report Said to Skirt White House Use of Intelligence By DOUGLAS JEHL ASHINGTON, July 7 - A bipartisan Senate report to be issued Friday that is highly critical of prewar intelligence on Iraq will sidestep the question of how the Bush administration used that information to make the case for war, Congressional officials said Wednesday. But Democrats are maneuvering to raise the issue in separate statements. Under a deal reached this year between Republicans and Democrats, the Bush administration's role will not be addressed until the Senate Intelligence Committee completes a further stage of...