PHASE II grinds to end / parties accuse each other of delay - Raw Story

[stop the bleeding]

John Byrne
Published: Tuesday April 11, 2006

GOP Chairman signals intent to examine Iran




The Senate Intelligence Committee's inquiry into whether the U.S. intelligence community "cooked" pre-war Iraq intelligence now appears likely to be concluded soon, and a spokesman for the Committee's chairman says he's ready to get onto more "pressing matters" like Iran.

Speaking for Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS), spokeswoman Sarah Little told RAW STORY three sections of the so-called "Phase II" report are likely to made available to members of the committee after the Senate's Easter recess. Little rebuffed Democrats' assertions that the report had been unreasonably delayed.

Democrats, meanwhile, say Roberts stonewalled the inquiry until November, when they shuttered the Senate to demand the investigation be completed.

“There was a lack of commitment to finishing the report in an expeditious manner,” Wendy Morigi, spokeswoman for Intelligence Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), said. “There was virtually no work done on it before November.”


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[stop the bleeding]

1. This Phase II is moot now, because the Pre War Intel is being played

out in the press in regards to Valerie Plame, this article still makes me mad as hell whenever I read a part from Grim Reaper Roberts

[leftchick]

3. roberts always makes me think bad thoughts

he is a criminal enabler and a treasonous bastard.

[rodeodance]

2. Roberts plays into the WH -move forward-mentality

[rodeodance]

4. they omitted Feith this time -saying would do later! What a bunch of idio

ts!!

......Roberts' spokeswoman indicated the senator would examine Feith once the Pentagon completes its report.

"The committee would then look at the Inspector General's report and put out their own," Little said. "Feith's office has been always been willing to talk to the committee and look at their activities."

Feith, who resigned in January of last year, has also been interviewed by the FBI in a recent case involving the leak of classified intelligence. The former Pentagon official oversaw the office which employed Larry Franklin, an analyst who was indicted last May for leaking classified information about Iraq to Israeli lobbyists.

In an earlier RAW STORY report, one former intelligence official suggested that part of the reason for deferring the Feith inquiry was its sensitivity. A Feith investigation might unravel "a bigger can of worms,” the source said, citing the Franklin spy case and what the official believed was a Defense Department inability to address security breaches.

[rodeodance]

6. also "Chairman deferred review of secretive Pentagon office" !!

Chairman deferred review of secretive Pentagon office

Democrats are troubled that the Committee has declined to investigate perhaps the most contentious issue – whether the Pentagon's "Office of Special Plans" (OSP) conducted "unlawful" and "unauthorized" intelligence activities. Last year, Chairman Roberts requested that the Pentagon probe itself – and said he would not review the program until the Defense Department had completed their own examination.

According to a Nov. 14, 2005 memo written by Democratic senators, no agreement could be reached on how to handle Feith’s office, which has rebuffed requests for pre-war documentation and interviews for more than a year.

Democrats expressed concern that the “Inspector General<’s> review should not take the place of the authorized Committee investigation and that it is essential that the Committee insist on the documents and interviews that the Department of Defense has denied us for the past two years, even if it means using the Committee's subpoena power.”

Roberts has declined to use subpoena power to force the release of documents. The Inspector General does not have the power of subpoena.

[RedEarth]

5. We knew this was going to happen... until we gain control of the

house or senate, there won't be any oversite or investigations.

[Roland99]

7. K&R