Deadline expires for White House

[StephNW4Clark]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/31/senate.intel/index.html

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With a deadline looming, the White House is reacting coolly to the Senate Intelligence Committee's demand for documents relating to pre-war intelligence on Iraq, saying they already have cooperated even though they are not bound to do so by law."

[truthisfreedom]

1. this will be interesting.

n/m

[Faygo Kid]

2. They will get away with it

Say, I see the ratings for "Joe Millionaire" are down. Let's talk priorities.

[tom_paine]

5. Hasn't anyone noticed that the Imperial Family is bound by NO LAW?

Of course they are going to get away with it. It's almost as certain as Stalin, Hitler or Marcos "getting away with it".

It's a no-brainer.

The only thing question that people like Hitler, Stalin, Marcos, Bush ask is "What are YOU going to do to stop me?"

History shows that usually the answer is "nothing".

And HitlerStalinMarcosBush then walk away scot-free.

How Amerika has fallen from the nation tht secured liberty by defeating Hitler to the Good Germans who blindly followed Hitler...

[NoKingGeorge]

7. The article does not mention which if any departments met

the deadline. The deadline passed (high noon) but I do not see anything from the comittee taht says who complied and who didn't. Hey a leak of documents (on their way to commitee) would make for an interesting weekend.

[Cocoa]

3. note that this is bipartisan

In the letter to National Security Adviser Rice, the committee's chairman and ranking Democrat -- Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, say:

"We have made numerous requests for documents which we have not yet been provided, and we have sought to interview a member of your staff without success. Some of these requests have gone unanswered since July.

"You must expedite our access to the outstanding documents and immediately make available the individual identified. You must also lift your objection to the Central Intelligence Agency providing the committee with certain documents and allowing us to interview individuals involved in briefing senior administration officials."

To Rumsfeld and Powell, the two senators said, "The credibility of the government with its people -- and the nation with the world -- is at stake. Incomplete answers and lingering doubts will haunt us for many years."

[tom_paine]

6. Please, Emperors, Dictators and Fuhrers care NOTHING about credibility

The only "credibility" they care about is if they are control of the levers of power.

I'm sure Roman Emperor Tiberius was very acquiescent when a "bipartisan group" of Imperial Senators came to him with demands for documents.

Right.

[0007]

10. Yeah, didn't they murder the SOB in the senate?

....each senator had a knife and stabbed the SOB so no one could be sure who factually killed the SOB.

[tom_paine]

16. No, that was Julius Caeser

Tiberius, like our own Bunnpyants probably will, lived to a ripe old age in which he spent his declining years in pedophilic debauchery.

[lovedems]

4. What a joke this misadministration has become...n/t

[underpants]

8. As with the leak investigation they are trying to determine relevance

"We've made available NSC staff ... given access to relevant documents even though the committee does not have jurisdiction over the White House," said McCormack.


No junior the investigators determine what is relevant and what is not.

[wryter2000]

9. Did the deadline really have to come on Friday?

Another story disappears into the black hole of 'murika's limited attention span.

PS the above quote could have been lifted right from the Nixon White House.

[lovedems]

11. By the way, mister honor and integrity

can make the claim that they have cooperated even though they are "not bound to do so by law" but they should have a MORAL obligation if not to the american people, AT LEAST to those serving in the military and their families. It is obvious mr. honor and integrity speaks one way and acts another.

[joeunderdog]

12. There are valid reasons not to cooperate with the investigation.

This one is great: http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html

Or how 'bout the cozy little relationships that Chimp has been able to maintain? Who says he has no foreign diplomacy skills?
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/conspiracytheories/saudi.html

[Jack The Tab]

13. They weren't damaged by Plame, they won't be damaged by this...

I fix the blame almost entirely on our corporate media.

We are a joke, the laughing stock of the world. Our Dear Leader is a buffoon, a caricature.

[Nottingham]

14. didn't this Happen in WATERGATE!!!

When Executive priveledge was brought up

Republicans are gonna be put in the HOT SEAT here!

:bounce:

[E_Zapata]

18. did you notice the stacking of the COURTS

starting with the 1st republican president after Nixon??????

Exec privilege problems a la Nixon has been remedied, my dear friends.

[MostlyBlackCat2]

15. Kicking!

:kick:

[BloodyWilliam]

17. Even I had honestly forgotten about this.

The deck's stacked against us. I hate to say it (and I would never condone illegal agains the current administration, but this is the first group of domestic leaders I've ever seen that I honestly want to see hang. Every last corrupt, evil one of them.

[radfringe]

19. .....even though they are not bound to do so by law.

yadda yadda yadda .... papers are a matter of national security ..... blather blather blather .... executive priviledge ..... spin spin spin .... this is a partisan assault ......

Unless Congress suddenly developes a spine - these papers will never see the light of day as long as Baghdad-Bush has is butt planted in the oval orafice