“Phase II is dead,” Sen Intel Committee stalling pre-war intel report

[kpete]

Sen Intel Committee stalling pre-war intel report
Larisa Alexandrovna

Phase II, the follow-up to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq, is still facing opposition from administration officials and has seen little action from the committee’s chairman, Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), RAW STORY has learned.

To date, there has been no Phase II report.

Senior Democratic Senate aides familiar with the task force’s activities say Republicans are stonewalling. One aide, who asked not to be named citing the secrecy of the investigation, explained that without the power of subpoena, Democrats are left with few options. “Phase II is dead,” the staffer said.


Feith and the Office of Special Plans

Part of the delay is due to resistance from the Pentagon regarding its ultra-secretive Office of Special Plans (OSP). The group was set up by then Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Doug Feith. OSP was considered by many Defense Department officers and staff to be highly paranoid, secretive cabal of ideologues bent on creating a war with Iraq.

Democratic senators on the Phase II task force have requested interviews and documents from Feith’s office regarding Chalabi, the Iraqi National Congress and “Curveball,” but have been denied access.




http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_stalling_prewar_intelligence_1202.html

[tridim]

1. Time to implement the Phase II government shutdown

Fuck these repukes.. If they don't want to do their job they should just stay home.

[bleever]

2. Time to threaten another closed session?

Whatever it takes.

[harlinchi]

3. If I refuse a sobriety test request made by a policeman, I'm assumed...

...to be drunk. Shouldn't the country at large assume there is much to be hidden by the GOP? The cop asks himself, "Why is this guy refusing? If he has nothing to hide, he'd take the test." A similar use of logic should apply to Phase II.

[Al-CIAda]

4. ...and did you expect any different? When will the Dems learn they are

dealing with CRIMINALS, and express/proceed from THAT realization.

[Justice Is Comin]

5. They wish!

This anaconda is out of the box now. It ain't going back in. We've got them on tape all over credible media saying that the investigation was going to be conducted and that the bipartisan report was going to be agreed on.

This is a 30 foot anaconda with big fangs. It will produce one of the biggest cover up talking points for democrats they've ever seen. They don't dare squelch this now.

[OzarkDem]

6. Then someone needs to leak it

Its hard to get in trouble for leaking a report that they're illegally trying to hide.

C'mon Dems, show us that you love your country and leak that report.