Do you think Roberts will try to force his 4 day report ?

I don't know how many of you saw the press conference with our three senators on the team to lay out a timetable to do phase two.

Rockefeller said Roberts was trying to push the threat of having only three full days of closed talks and vote on the fourth claiming the investigation was completed and produce their report. Rockefeller and Levin said he has the votes to do it, but they said it in a way almost as if saying "I dare ya."

All three were bristling at the absurdity and Levin held up a 500 page report that had to be written for phase 1. He said this was finally agreed to after much haggling as to whether the 500 pages were even comprehensive enough.

Stating clearly that this investigation had not even BEGUN, and we were going to make sure this investigation was "THOROUGH AND SUBSTANTIATED", I think they were throwing down the gauntlet that this is going to be a pier six brawl showdown.

Feinstein is livid. I never would have believed she would become the female Howard Dean but she is angry. They must have found the third rail of the conspiracy.

The Roberts cover-up cohorts all the way up to the head wino himself must be quaking in their boots. I think Levin's release to the NYT front page article today was a warning shot that this information will come out the hard way if you try to foreclose this investigation.

But these are definitely two trains speeding right toward each other. What is your guess? Do you think Roberts will pursue the stupidity to force this to a vote and try to ram through their pre-planned report? And if he does, what do you see happening?

I see a 9.9 earthquake.

Appearing with Hatch on CBS's "Face the Nation," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners "is not what America is all about. Those aren't the values that we're fighting for."

Sen. Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said his vote against the ban doesn't mean he favors torture. He rejected Durbin's comments as "not really relevant to what we are trying to do to detain and interrogate the worst of the worst so that we can save American lives." The senate vote was 91-9 he was one of the nine.

Roberts said that success with detention and interrogation depends on the detainee's fear of the unknown. He suggested that passing a law and putting U.S. policies into a manual would tell detainees too much about what to expect.

"As long as you're following the Constitution and there's no torture and no inhumane treatment, I see nothing wrong with saying here is the worst of the worst. We know they have specific information to save American lives in terrorist attacks around the world. That's what we're talking about," Roberts said.

I so want to say, "Job well done,Mission REALLY Accomplished!"

quake. This has got to be the dumbest challenge ever. How could R*berts imagine that people will accept an expedited, and most likely incomplete, report? Does he not realize that the people are like restless lions? You don't throw them the meat wrapper and walk away.
If they dare to do an expedited vote and report, people have to vote them out asap.

unclassified and more dissatisfied cia employees will get a sudden memory burst and look the fuck out. If they lie they will lose in 2006. Chimp does not care; his future is secure. They should worry.

that Feinstein has finally taking a wrecking ball to that bullshit that they saw the same intelligence Bush did.

The president gets the intelligence first in a PDB. The senate intelligence committee doesn't get anything but the information he passes down. And we know how that got handled. The OSP at his direction.

That dog isn't hunting anymore thanks to her. Does America think the senate intelligence committee saw the memo entitled 'Bin Laden determined to attack within the United States ?

There wouldn't have been a 911 if they did !

as well. Dems need to hammer that fact over and over again.