Where's the 2nd phase of the intel report , Sen. Rockefeller ?

[jaysunb]

We all know why the toady Roberts withheld the report on how Bush manipulated the pre-war intel, but I can't understand for the life of me why Rockefeller has not released it.

Have I missed something with regards to this matter ? or does the Bushies have some "goods" on the Sen. from W. Virginia ? :evilfrown:

[rodeodance]

1. I do not know what is going on.

[rodeodance]

3. here is their website---

110th Congress (2007-2008)

2007-2008
Democrats
Republicans
John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia
Chairman Christopher S. Bond, Missouri
Vice Chairman
Dianne Feinstein, California John Warner, Virginia
Ron Wyden, Oregon Chuck Hagel, Nebraska
Evan Bayh, Indiana Saxby Chambliss, Georgia
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland Orrin Hatch, Utah
Russell D. Feingold, Wisconsin Olympia J. Snowe, Maine
Bill Nelson, Florida Richard Burr, North Carolina
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island



Harry Reid, Nevada, Ex Officio
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, Ex Officio
Carl Levin, Michigan, Ex Officio
John McCain, Arizona, Ex Officio

http://intelligence.senate.gov/memberscurrent.html

[rodeodance]

4. most of their Upcoming meetings are Closed:

Date Time Hearing
01/10/07 2:30 PM Closed Business Meeting
01/11/07 2:30 PM Open Hearing: Current and Projected National Security Threats
01/17/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Iraq's Regional Neighbors
01/18/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Current, Emerging and Future Terrorist Safehavens
01/23/07 2:30 PM Open Hearing: Intelligence Reform
01/25/07 2:30 PM Open Hearing: Intelligence Reform -- FBI and Homeland Security
01/30/07 2:30 PM Closed Business Meeting
02/01/07 2:30 PM Open Hearing: Confirmation Hearing on Nomination of J. Michael McConnell to be Director of National Intelligence
02/06/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Iran
02/07/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Iraq
02/08/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Saudi Arabia
02/13/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: China
02/14/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Renditions
02/15/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: NSA Surveillance Program
03/01/07 2:00 PM Closed Business Meeting
03/01/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: FY 2007 Supplemental Request
03/06/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Iraq
03/13/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: FY 2008 Budget -- Human Intelligence
03/15/07 2:30 PM Closed Business Meeting
03/20/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: FY 2008 Budget -- Signals and Imagery Intelligence
03/22/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Defense Department Intelligence Programs
03/27/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Terrorist Ideology
03/29/07 2:30 PM Closed Business Meeting
04/17/07 2:30 PM Closed Business Meeting
04/19/07 2:30 PM Closed Hearing: Iraq



http://intelligence.senate.gov/hearings.cfm

[Dr.Phool]

2. My guess is.

Roberts had a pure whitewash report. And it will take a while to write up a new one.

[emulatorloo]

5. See this interview of Rockefeller from Jan 07 - Rockefeller: Cheney applied 'constant' pressure

I think you are pretty much dead on -- either a whitewash or nothing was done at all by Roberts and they are starting from scratch

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/16546019.htm

Rockefeller: Cheney applied 'constant' pressure to stall investigation on flawed Iraq intelligence

<snip>

By Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney exerted "constant" pressure on the Republican former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to stall an investigation into the Bush administration's use of flawed intelligence on Iraq, the panel's Democratic chairman charged Thursday.


In an interview with McClatchy Newspapers, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia also accused President Bush of running an illegal program by ordering eavesdropping on Americans' international e-mails and telephone communications without court-issued warrants.


In the 45-minute interview, Rockefeller said that it was "not hearsay" that Cheney, a leading proponent of invading Iraq, pushed Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., to drag out the probe of the administration's use of prewar intelligence.


"It was just constant," Rockefeller said of Cheney's alleged interference. He added that he knew that the vice president attended regular policy meetings in which he conveyed White House directions to Republican staffers.


Republicans "just had to go along with the administration," he said.

<snip>

more at link

[emulatorloo]

6. See my post above -- I DOUBT PAT ROBERTS DID ANYTHING -- so they are probably starting from scratch

I am giving Rockefeller the benefit of the doubt. If Roberts did anything at all it was probably UNUSABLE.

[jaysunb]

7. I can buy that, but

Why wouldn't Rockefeller know that and report it ?

[emulatorloo]

8. Sounds also like Bush admin is stonewalling -- more from that article

<snip>

Rockefeller said that he and the senior Republican member of the committee, Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., have put the frictions behind them and agree that the committee should press the administration for documents it's withholding on its domestic eavesdropping program and detainee programs.

Under the eavesdropping program, the National Security Agency monitored Americans' international telephone calls and e-mails without court warrants if one party was a suspected member or supporter of al-Qaida or another terrorist group.

Rockefeller charged that Bush had violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires the government to obtain permission to eavesdrop on Americans from a secret national security court.

"For five years he's (Bush) has been operating an illegal program," he said, adding that the committee wants the administration to provide the classified documents that set out its legal argument that Bush has the power to wiretap Americans without warrants.

Rockefeller is among a handful of lawmakers who were kept briefed on the program after it started following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But he told Cheney in a handwritten note in July 2003 that he was deeply concerned about its legality.

In the interview, Rockefeller said the committee needs more details about how the program worked before it considers amending the eavesdropping act to give the administration the flexibility it says it requires to be able to track terrorists.

"How do we draw something up if we have no idea about what the president sent out in the way of orders to the NSA? What about the interpretation of the Department of Justice?" he asked. "Americans . . . should want us to discern what the facts are, what the truth is."

<snip>

[blm]

9. Except that Dems issue separate reports that include their findings and conclusions

at the same time the GOP members release theirs - usually, anyway. Undergod knows that NOTHING is usual anymore it seems.