Feinstein is leading the cavalry.....You go girl.

[Justice Is Comin]

Get out the Maalox Bush.


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"We want to look at all the intelligence community work and see how it was used," Feinstein said. Under the original plan of Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), the process was to have been simpler: Statements were to be analyzed to see only if there was intelligence that substantiated them, without looking at contrary intelligence.

One example of the work ahead, Feinstein said, would be analyzing President Bush's statement in his 2003 State of the Union address saying the British government had learned that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa.

"We are not looking to place blame," Feinstein said, "but if the president said something like the 16 words on uranium, somebody put them in there, and we want to know what there was before" the speechwriter. She suggested that Robert Joseph, then the National Security Council staff member supervising preparation of the Iraq weapons material in the speech and now undersecretary of state for arms control, might be the type of witness called to testify.

As another example of what she thought should be covered, Feinstein pointed to intelligence covered in then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's Feb. 5, 2003, speech to the U.N. Security Council. He mentioned reports of several Iraqi programs -- later proved incorrect -- including allegations that Iraq had mobile factories for making biological agents, which came from a source known as "Curveball" who had been flagged by a CIA station chief as unreliable. "There was discrediting information in the mill at the time, and we want to find what went to Powell," Feinstein said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110902203.html

[choie]

1. why do democrats feel

like they have to preface remarks with "..we're not looking to place blame"? Why the hell not???? Isn't it about time that somebody is blamed for these lies??? God, I hate this lilly-livered type of talk.

[Justice Is Comin]

2. Oh I know that.

But Feinstein is merely the spider luring the fly into the web. She's waiting to get the bloody glove that's all. There's no need to come on like a storm trooper right now. They did that with R-21. They already have Roberts over the tar barrel.

Remember she has been all over the airwaves now saying if she knew then what she is aware of now, she wouldn't have voted for the war in a thousand years.

She knows something and she's on the case my friend. Just like Columbo, he was only an aggravating pain in the ass until the last ten minutes. Then came the surprise.

[thebigidea]

4. and what the heck makes you think that?

her long career of luring spiders into webs and, what, exactly? what the hell has she ever done once the spider was lured into her web?

seems like empty metaphor talk, but I don't want to place any blame.

[Spurt]

5. Why the hell not?

1/ because omitting blame confronts the most obvious counter attack spin,

2/ because if you demand a scalp you will be served a sacrificial lamb. Better to publicly uncover and establish the details first, and the facts will condemn any provable guilt. Then take the scalps.
You might liken it to investigation before indictment.

[xchrom]

3. she's my senator.

and this is her job -- she's not on my list of favs at all.