The Senate Secret Session and the link to Frank Rich's column and Libby

In Sunday's NYTimes, Frank Rich wrote the following:

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The other investigation into prewar intelligence, by the Senate Intelligence Committee, is a scandal in its own right. After the release of its initial findings in July 2004, the committee's Republican chairman, Pat Roberts, promised that a Phase 2 to determine whether the White House had misled the public would arrive after the presidential election. It still hasn't, and no wonder: Murray Waas reported Thursday in The National Journal that Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby had refused to provide the committee with "crucial documents," including the Libby-written passages in early drafts of Colin Powell's notorious presentation of W.M.D. "evidence" to the U.N. on the eve of war.
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http://select.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/opinion/30rich.html

As soon as I read this, I wondered why the Dems had not jumped all over it. Maybe it took the National Journal and Frank Rich to bring it to their attention.

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and its in writing and he has now in the hot seat!!!

Lets get it on the record for Fitzgerald the Cheney & Bush refusal to give documents to the Senate Intelligence Comittee and it all there too see!!!

More Motive on WHY the Plame gate was so important for Cheney!!!

How can he defend his behavior???

after this in a big political showdown, the GOP and their RW media machine would have spun the politics and likely tainted the investigation. That's how they work. Dems are getting better at not acting reflexively every time they are baited.

I had not heard about the refusal to turn over documents before, though, had you?

And I don't hear Roberts talking about it now (nor will we, I suspect).

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I said his role in the coverup should be a focus for Fitzgerald, too.

Lord knows enough of us kept on this for quite awhile now. I was worried that the story was not going to break through.

"We will spend as much time as possible in the next 4-5 days to complete Phase II."

AS IF it can be done in "4 or 5 days"!

Reid said they've been waiting since the commitment IN WRITING was made in JULY, 2004. HOW MANY SOLDIERS HAVE DIED SINCE THEN??

"Work in a bipartisan fashion"

"as we had planned to do"

"my friends across the aisle are people of good faith"

"whether public statements, etc., on Iraq, were substantiated by intelligence information"


We shall see. And if you're lying--as you probably are--I hope they bitch-slap YOU, too, Roberts.