Top Dem scolds Rice on Bolton probe...

[annabanana]

http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-usbolt084250847may08,0,5023077.story

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In a curt letter to Rice, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del) reiterated his requests for State Department documents related to charges that Bolton tried to bend or ignore government intelligence findings that did not suit his hard right ideology.

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Biden said that in her public remarks about the Bolton nomination fight last week, Rice implied "that you do not believe you have a duty to respond to requests from the minority"




(Can we please pester the less ideological Rep. members of the committee with the "Bush/Blair" memo to encourage State to cough up the documents?)

[whistle]

1. Condi Rice suggested that?

...What were Condi's remarks?

Biden said that in her public remarks about the Bolton nomination fight last week, Rice implied "that you do not believe you have a duty to respond to requests from the minority"

[annabanana]

2. the article didn't specify... but you remember

the reports that went out a couple of weeks ago that she had specifically directed that members of the State Department not supply the committee with information that would be detrimental to his nomination....


The first step in cracking this nut is to get a REPUBLICAN committee member to ask her for the specific documents that were in Biden's request.

[whistle]

3. I suppose, but the repuke that heads the Bolton review committee

...has blocked all of Biden's attempts, I forget the jerk's name....Chairman Richard Lugar (Repub-Indiana)

[annabanana]

4. yup, that's him...

But I'll bet Voinovich would be interested in the information that Condi's not sending.

[struggle4progress]

6. There are several threads on this in LBN: Condi honored the R doc

request but not the D request.

[PDittie]

5. Lugar and Biden this morning on Face the Nation

Should be fun. :popcorn: for breakfast...

[GetTheRightVote]

7. RiceBowl at it again, hiding the real truth from the American People

She is so much scum.

:kick:

[struggle4progress]

8. Rice's Reason for Withholding Bolton Files: A Chilling Effect

By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: May 9, 2005

WASHINGTON, May 8 - The State Department is refusing to make public internal documents sought by Senate Democrats in their attempt to seek more information about repeated clashes between John R. Bolton and American intelligence agencies over Syria, administration officials say.

In rejecting the request, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the information involves "internal deliberations" and their disclosure could have a chilling effect on debates within the administration. <snip>

"The real question here is how far did John Bolton stretch the truth or stretch the facts, regarding intelligence," Mr. Biden said Sunday on the CBS News program "Face the Nation." Mr. Biden said the panel needed the documents to learn more about whether Mr. Bolton, as under secretary of state for arms control, had sought "to push the envelope" in making public assertions about Syria, Cuba and other countries that were not supported by objective intelligence assessments.

In appealing the decision, Mr. Biden said in a letter to Ms. Rice on Saturday that the panel needed the documents to help determine whether Mr. Bolton's efforts "to make statements that went far beyond what the intelligence would support" should call into question his fitness to be United Nations ambassador. <snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/politics/09bolton.html?

[truthisfreedom]

9. disclosure of anything that's been going on in the inner halls of bushco

would have a chilling effect on our view of bushco, condi. and stop trying to be sexy, you oily wench.