TIMELINE: Kennedy/Specter Communication

[sweetm2475]

TIMELINE: Kennedy/Specter Communication About Concerned Alumni of Princeton Documents

As provided by Senator Kennedy’s Office:

Chronology of Exchange Between Kennedy and Specter Offices on Rusher Documents

November 30, 2005: Senator Kennedy requests Congressional Research Service to ask Rusher’s permission to examine CAP documents at Library of Congress.

Week of December 5, 2005: Rusher turns down CRS request.

December 22, 2005: Senators Kennedy sends letter to Senator Specter asking for Committee request of Rusher documents. Delivered by hand to Judiciary Committee.

Date unknown prior to 1/5/06: Kennedy staff and Specter staff discuss December 22 request.

January 5, 2006, 7:29 pm: Kennedy staff request status report from Specter staff on request regarding Rusher documents.

January 5, 2006 7:50 pm: Specter staff replies that they are not inclined to grant request because they are personal documents.

January 6, 2006, 12:01 am: Kennedy staff asks Specter staff to reconsider on basis that there are not personal documents but business records of a very public organization.

January 11, 2006: Senator Specter says he’s unaware of the request.

After all this, Specter lectured Kennedy about his conduct regarding the request.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/11/cap-timeline/

[MnFats]

1. Specter says he's unaware of the request?

lying fuck.
or, as Pat Robertson would say, 'he bore false witness. take him to the gates of the city and stone him.'

[rodeodance]

2. a moderate Repug is still a republican.

[sweetm2475]

3. So true, everytime i think i can let my guard down and think

one of these guys isn't so bad, just different political views, that's all, then SMACK! I wake up and realize I fell off the bed.:banghead: