Pat Roberts may be leaving Senate Intelligence Committee

[sabra]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/nation/16133757.htm

Pat Roberts may be leaving Senate Intelligence Committee

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas is preparing to leave the Senate Intelligence Committee after an intense four years as chairman, according to Senate officials.

Roberts has been a lightning rod for partisan criticism throughout his tenure, which began just weeks before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003.

The Intelligence Committee, once noted for bipartisan collegiality, was increasingly swept into the maelstrom of vitriol surrounding the intelligence that led to the Iraq war, the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and the treatment of suspected terrorists in custody.

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The committee has released two of its five so-called "Phase II" investigations that delve more deeply into issues regarding pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Still to come is the most potentially explosive: Comparing the pre-war statements of government officials with the intelligence available at the time.

[Tight_rope]

1. What's he in trouble for?

Lemme guess...he's going to go spend more time with the family.

[blm]

2. He knows the REST of them know damn well he covered up for BushInc.

He would never be able to handle the pressure without the protection of the power he had.

[Botany]

3. He damn well knows that Rockefeller is going to "out him"

and release the other 3 Iraq pre-war intel reports. Roberts knows
that those reports will show that bush & company lied and he
helped to cover up those lies.

Even in republican Kansas the blow-back is going to be white hot.

[PassingFair]

4. This is RICH...

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"Reasonable people can disagree about whether he did a really good job or whether he saved the president's hide," said John Pike, the director of Globalsecurity.org, a nonpartisan defense research center. "But it was an unusually tough assignment."

"How do you balance the intelligence community's obsession with secrecy with a public that has a difficult time understanding why no one stopped Sept. 11 and why the intelligence on Iraq was so at odds with reality?"

:rofl:


Yes, how DO you BALANCE it?

How do you balance an ADMINISTRATION "so at odds with reality"?

[insidious]

5. An intense four years?

Of what? Washing the skid marks out of Dumbya's drawers? The fucking prick deserves a firing squad for his colluding and conspiring the past 4 years. Fuck him, I hope an alligator eats him.

[reichstag911]

7. Show some mercy...

...to the alligator, please!

[Sydnie]

11. an intense 4 years of NOT releasing reports in a timely manner

Like the promised Phase 2 that was due to be released in 2004 and still hasn't been released. He is a bastage of the worst kind, but I don't wish that kind of gastric distress even to an alligator. ;)

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[central scrutinizer]

6. wonderful!

Get that useless tool out of there so the truth can come out.

[Hardrada]

8. Will he keep the 700 Club?

Wait....that might be another rightwinger.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Seems a lot of the people who helped Bush

manipulate and hide the Intel are dropping like flies lately.

[dchill]

10. Maybe it's because...

he will be one of the first too be investigated by that very same committee...

Just a guess.

[UpInArms]

12. Pat Roberts and "Intelligence" do not belong in the same sentence

together unless the words in between state that he categorically possesses none.

[Zorra]

14. You beat me to it. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

13. The guy's been a partisan shill for President Bush. nt

[rodeodance]

15. good ridence to bad rubbish

[Massachusetts]

16. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Patty boy.

[leesa]

17. Good. When can we arrest him for treason?

[catmandu57]

18. The first of many

and one of the biggies at that, next year is going to be schizophrenic, it's going to be good that all this shit finally comes to light.
What comes to light is going to make us sick to our stomachs, and make us wonder how we ever got so far away from what and who we are.