Frist Freezes Senate Probe of Prewar Iraq Data

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Frist Freezes Senate Probe of Prewar Iraq Data

By Walter Pincus and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 8, 2003; Page A18


Angry about a leaked Democratic memo, the Republican leadership of the Senate yesterday took the unusual step of canceling all business of the committee investigating prewar intelligence on Iraq.



Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called on the author of the memo -- which laid out a possible Democratic strategy to extend the investigation to include the White House and executive branch -- to "identify himself or herself . . . disavow this partisan attack in its entirety" and deliver "a personal apology" to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence.


Roberts followed Frist on the floor and said that unless the Democratic members "properly" address the issue, "I am afraid that it will be impossible to return to 'business as usual' in the committee."


Rockefeller, prodded by the Democratic leadership, did not want the blame for any exaggerations of the threat posed by Iraq to rest largely with the CIA; instead he wanted the panel to investigate the separate question of how the administration used the information it was given.

Were the hell is Frist going to go with his bullshit? A Democratic staffer(probably, but not proved) wants to play politics inside the beltway. Wow, that's a first! Of course, the repukes never, ever played politics when Clinton was in office. Maybe Frist will schedule 60 hours of debate on the dangers of playing politics in Washington, after, of course, the 30 hours of debate on 4 stalled judges is over.

Frist wants to freeze this report because they know the outcome and this story can't be told.

The not proved part is interesting........maybe it was planted by a GOP staffer. According to the talk on the Senate floor yesterday the GOP have 30 staffers compared to three on the dem side, if I understood it correctly.

Frist wanted the staffer to come forward.......where was Frist's outrage at the Wilson leak? I didn't hear him tell the White house staff to come forward.

their tactic is designed to delay the inevitable...I don't think they know what the bombshell is going to be - although we sure do - but they've been instructed to delay it past the election. Quite frankly I want to see a re-selection and an impeachment. Its the only way his gang will be brought to justice.

Blocking access to information is job 1. Otherwise heads will roll.

I just called Jay and Roberts. I left Roberts a scathing indictment, and I encouraged Rockefellar to keep up the good work.

Frist is nothing but a cat killer, the slimy b------d. His company, Columbia Healthcare, was exposed for cheating Medicare. They are just rich white t----h.