Roberts will not conduct invest. on Prison Leak--just heard it on Lou Dobb

they made of doing this so very important investigation yesterday!

Senate Intelligence Committee chairman.

wonder why? :think:

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these fuckers are SOOOOOOOO going DOWN!

was Roberts referring to the probe that Frist and Hastert were talking about, or was he going to do one of his own in the Intelligence Committee?

launching their OWN investigation

Clearly, the Roveites could use such an investigation as a distraction, and Roberts is one of their tools. Will follow more of this; something going on here.

a REPUKE leaked the classified info

Of course. Uncomfortable information would likely come out. I use the term uncomfortable in lieu of, say, impeachable.

Trent Lott already confirmed it was a republican senator who leaked it after a meeting with big Dick. Hell they dont want to have hearings to out a republican.

You think they will get Fitz to investigate this one too!

I can hope right?

to something else.

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this was before Lott spilled the beans.
dar


.....11/8/2005 2:26:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in reaction to news reports that Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Frist have called for a congressional investigation into who leaked to The Washington Post the existence of secret U.S. prisons abroad:

"If Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Frist are finally ready to join Democrats' demands for an investigation of possible abuses of classified information, they must direct the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to investigate all aspects of that issue. That includes the possible manipulation of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, and the disclosure for political purposes of classified information involving the identity of the CIA officer. There is plenty to investigate about the Bush Administrations' use and misuse of intelligence; the American people deserve the truth."

http://www.usnewswire.com /

Nothing to see here (scrambling to bury the bodies). Move along, please.

edit: everyone posted at once. I notice matcom's statement the DOJ is taking over the investigation. *whew*

thats why!!!

What am I missing??? How can this happen now??

Justice Department??? Hey, can we TRUST THEM?? Sure Fitz as Special Prosecutor has stirred up the pot, but is this ANOTHER ploy by "the corrupt ones?"

No explanation was given... does anyone have any GOOD info on this???

Indeed.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/LEAKED_Draft_letter_prepared_to_call_1108.html

Letter calls for inquiry into Washington Post story on CIA jails
John Byrne


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Senior Republicans are pushing for an investigation into who revealed the existence of secret CIA prisons overseas for "high-value" al Qaeda suspects to the Washington Post, RAW STORY can confirm.

The Post reported on the existence of secret U.S. prisons in Eastern Europe Nov 2. The Bush administration has not commented on the report.

The letter follows.

November 8, 2005

Honorable Peter Hoekstra
Chairman
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
United States House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Honorable Pat Roberts
Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Chairman Hoekstra and Chairman Roberts:

We request that you immediately initiate a joint investigation into the possible release of classified information to the media alleging that the United States government may be detaining and interrogating terrorists at undisclosed locations abroad. As you know, if accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks.

The purpose of your investigation will be to determine the following: was the information provided to the media classified and accurate?; who leaked this information and under what authority?; and, what is the actual and potential damage done to the national security of the United States and our partners in the Global War on Terror? We will consider other changes to this mandate based on your recommendations.

Any information that you obtain on this matter that may implicate possible violations of law should be referred to the Department of Justice for appropriate action.

We expect that you will move expeditiously to complete this inquiry and that you will provide us with periodic updates. We are hopeful that you will be able to accomplish this task in a bipartisan manner given general agreement that intelligence matters should not be politicized. Either way, however, your inquiry shall proceed. .....

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003033.html
November 09, 2005
laura Rozen

I've heard differently than TNR's Michael Crowley. Gossip on the Hill that I've heard is that the presumed CIA black site prisons source was in fact one of the nine Senators who voted against the McCain amendment. The motive was something like "up and coming" Republican hot shot sort of thing. And that the people who called for an investigation did not realize that it hadn't come from the CIA but from a Republican Senate source at the time they made the call for it. After word of the Frist-Hastert call for investigation came out yesterday, staffers were turning to each other in amazement, "Do these guys realize what glass houses they are living in?" Then Lott made his comments that the story must have come from one of the Republican Senators briefed last week on it by Cheney. And Frist seemed to indicate he had never really signed such a letter calling for an investigation. In any case, I think Sen. Lindsey Graham gets the big picture in this case.
Posted by Laura at November 9, 2005 03:57 PM

Wayne Allard - Colorado

Kit Bond - Missouri

Tom Coburn - Oklahoma

Thad Cochran - Mississippi

John Cornyn - Texas

James Inhofe - Oklahoma

Pat Roberts - Kansas

Jeff Sessions - Alabama

Ted Stevens - Alaska

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_11_06_atrios_archive.html#113157392872740665

The repukes wanted an investigation into who leaked classified info on the private Prisons but then when they found out it was a fellow repuke they did it, they go quietly in the night saying never mind?

Okay.