Bush reaches out to GOP lawmakers

[maddezmom]

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Some lawmakers have directed criticism at Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone.

Some Republicans are privately making the case that if Rumsfeld is to keep his job, then one of his senior deputies -- possibly Cambone -- should resign for encouraging the use of military police officers to help military intelligence units at the Abu Ghraib prison.

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But this adviser and other Bush loyalists said they believed Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq, and the beginning of military justice proceedings against some of the U.S. soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners would, as the political adviser put it, "change the picture a bit."

In this environment of pressure, Cambone is at at the intersection of several lines of complaint: He is close to Rumsfeld; he is the senior civilian in charge of military intelligence matters; and he has antagonized some members of Congress with his views on the scandal.

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more: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/13/congress.abuse/

Looks like the bush administration is working hard to change the focus....wonder if Cambone will be sacrificed?

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Line Increasingly Blurred Between Soldiers and Civilian Contractors
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_7648.shtml

An Overseer of Intelligence Efforts at the Defense Department
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/politics/12cambone.html

[ewagner]

1. Boykin works for Cambone

If Cambone is the sacrificial lamb then Boykin has to go too.

[pinto]

2. Bush found out there was a Congress oversight thingie in our Constitution?

Wonder who clued him in. This is the guy who worked as a part time Governor in a state with a part time legislature....don't anyone tell me about his "leadership"...too little, too late, too many effin scams.

[central scrutinizer]

3. seems like too little too late

Not a big enough name to have much effect. Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

[progressivebydesign]

4. What's that old saying?

"I feel for you, but I can't quite reach". Bush has some serious ass-kissing to do.. he has pissed all but his most devoted (Hughes, Rice, and Rove). He knows now, as it is being reported, that he is considered disposable to the GOP House and Senate that want to hang on to their jobs and their majorities. That's not a good thing to be hearing when you're 6 months from an election..