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November 02, 2005

Democrats nuke Senate

In what can only be described as a cunning stunt – no Captain Dyslexia, this isn’t about Maureen Dowd – Harry Reid and his angry band of impotents shut down the Senate for a few hours on Tuesday. They tossed aside the precious comity the Democratic minority has used to intimidate the country club Republican leadership from advancing President Bush’s agenda in order to score a few cheap political points.

Stung by the failure of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to indict White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for wrongdoing in the Valerie Plame affair and Bush’s nomination of solidly conservative Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, Democrats staged a legislative sit-in. While it stirred up the party’s hard core base, that is the MoveOn.org crowd and the Old Media, it emphasized what it is that Democrats do best: get in the way. In recent years Democrats have moved away from the toxic “liberal” label and repackaged themselves as “progressive.” But Tuesday’s sideshow underscored that their agenda is to try to stop any progress at all.

Reid’s ambush drove Sen. Bill Frist, the polite country doctor who has been sleepwalking through his tenure as Majority Leader, to the microphones to angrily denounce his minority counterpart. I can only hope that this confrontation has convinced the Republicans that they are actually in control of the Senate and can govern without deference to the Democrats.

Democrats claim to want a debate about pre-war intelligence and an investigation into the alleged leaking of the identity of Joe Wilson’s wife. Any such discussion must include a no-holes-barred examination of the Central Intelligence Agency. This will reveal that not only was the agency dysfunctional as the result of eight years of politicization under the Clinton administration, a rogue element within the organization of which Valerie Plame was a part, ran an operation to undermine the Bush administration’s policy toward Iraq.

The political component of this investigation cannot be ignored. A memo written by a staffer for Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee described the Democrats’ strategy to use the process against the President in 2004.

What follows is the text of the memo and with some analysis, courtesy of www.IntelMemo.com:

Pulling the Trigger

We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard. For example, in addition to the president's State of the Union speech, the chairman has agreed to look at the activities of the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State department. The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and co-signs our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. (Note: we can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.)

ANALYSIS: The substance of the Committee's work is classified until released, so any such "verbal mention" is strictly forbidden. Here the Democrats are conspiring to drop hints about the classified information they hope to obtain during their investigation. In addition to violating the rules, this would put members of the Republican majority at an unfair disadvantage, since they cannot refute characterizations of the "intriguing leads" without revealing classified information themselves.

Much more at www.IntelMemo.com

Democrats have never disavowed this memo.

Posted by jeffgannon at November 2, 2005 06:51 AM

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