Amazing Statement Of Congressional Impotence By Senate Intelligence Chairman Jay Rockefeller

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Amazing Statement Of Congressional Impotence By Senate Intelligence Chairman Jay Rockefeller
Submitted by JonathanSchwarz on Tue, 2007-04-24 21:35. Congress


Charles Davis, a freelance reporter with Public Radio International, briefly interviewed Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) last Wednesday. Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, made this startling statement about how the U.S. government really functions:


ROCKEFELLER: Don't you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I'm Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. All of it. All the time. I only get, and my committee only gets, what they want to give me.

Below is the background to what they were talking about—which is truly a matter of war and peace and life and death for millions of people. Included is a transcript and mp3 of the entire Davis/Rockefeller exchange.

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[HereSince1628]

1. The Congress only has the power it claims for itself.

For 7 years it's been surrendering its power just because the WH asks for it.

There is no longer functional government by the constitution and we need a Robspierre to start the reform.

[Botany]

2. Quit fucking around Jay .... release the pre war Iraqi intel

The stuff Pat Roberts blocked for 3 years.

[Supersedeas]

3. when will the Corporate Media Establishment start catching up?

[L. Coyote]

4. Kick for the evening crowd.