Help me out, guys. What am I missing? (re: leak, torture & cia)

[LanternWaste]

It seems that one story, tied idirectly to another story, has blown up in the GOP's face. Am I readinf this correctly?...

Monday's early news round up and the WH press gaggle were curiously adamant about getting a straight answer frm the WH: "Do we tortire prisoners and if not, why is the WH determined to veto the senate bill outlawing the use of torture?"

O-kay. That was all well and good. WHPC has been illustrating some spine these days and McClellan was KO'd in the third by Helen Thomas (I inferred all this from some mighty, mighty posts on DU earlier in the day, btw. Have yet to read the transcript..).

I leave work, get home and tune in to DU and BY GOLLY! There's a leak investigation request by Frist AND Lott (not the best of buddies in the best circumstances these days) relating directly to the question posed above: "Do we torture prisoners...".

There is no way I can believe this is a coincidence, but the big question is now: who put the ball in play this time? It appears at present that a GOP staffer (at minimum) leaked it, but this is where I get lost: Is the infighting in the GOP deep enough and bitter enough to warrant an investigation that could actually put their own seats up for grabs in the next go-around?

I cannot possibly see where any GOPer would/could win in this situation. Why would they jeopardize their own seat(s) for petty payback?

Help me out, guys. What am I missing?

[stop the bleeding]

1. No you are looking through the "looking glass" correctly and I

have been asking these questions myself.:crazy:

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Hastert and Frist called for the Congressional investigation before...

Lott said a Republican leaked. (They thought CIA, or the Dems leaked.) Now Frist appears to be backing away from calling for an investigation. Meanwhile, CIA has referred this leak of classifed information, as it did the Plame leak, to the Justice Department.

[lildreamer316]

3. ...which is funny as all get-out

if it wasn't our friggin' lives they were playing with. Arg.
Great summation of the day's events; I have been running house to get hubby to work and baby to sleep.....

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Update: Frist has now signed the letter.

:)

[LanternWaste]

4. So possibly

So possibly Frist or Hastert or Lott knee-jerked and called for an investigation assuming their Enemy (Democrats) did it. Then Fristert got the nudge-nudge-wink-wink frm his own boys who told him, "keep it cool, man-- this is our play; so back off from the investigation"

Fristert: "Too late. I asked for it already. But let me see if I can back off from it (what seems to happening now)before the Tues. news cycle ends"

Possibly? My confusion at present is so great as to be entertaining to myself...

This is going to have a weird ending, whatever the outcome.

BTY: Thanks for your LBN posts and updates throughout the day-- you make me look like a prophet and a genius to my cube rat co-workers.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Update: Frist has now singed the letter.

:)

[Double T]

6. the republicans are in a self destruct meltdown..........

don't you just love it????