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| NYT Glee: Senate Democrats Revive Demand for Classified Data |
| 2006-11-24 |
| Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies. “I expect real answers, or we’ll have testimony under oath until we get them,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who will head the committee beginning in January, said in an interview this week. “We’re entitled to know these answers, and in many instances we don’t get them because people are hiding their mistakes. And that’s no excuse.” Mr. Leahy, who has said little about his plans for the committee, expressed hope for greater cooperation from the Bush administration, which he described as having been “obsessively secretive.” His aides have identified more than 65 requests he has made to the Justice Department or other agencies in recent years that have been rejected or permitted to languish without reply. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #7 Release the information to the comittee as 'classified data'. But seed it with 'traceable' details... and when the tracable details appear in the NYT start making arrests. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-11-24 16:54 |
| #6 Screw it. Give them what they want, and prosecute them when they leak. Just be sure to declassify and release the other 3/4ths of the information they kept secret -- you know, the stuff that puts the leaked info into context. A couple of Donk pols going to prison should make a nice kick-off to the 2008 elections. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-11-24 10:54 |
| #5 Senate, and House Democrats should be told: 1) Do whatever you want. These are the chosen representatives of the American people. The American people need to know who they chose and what the consequences of choosing bozos is. Seeing them for what they are will be worth whatever it costs if it prevents us from re-electing and further entrenching them into positions of power. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-11-24 10:50 |
| #4 he's not "Leaky" Leahy for nothing. Monitor the copy machines |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-11-24 07:22 |
| #3 and 3) Get democrat senators to agree that we are in a war and that deception, being fundamental to the nature of war, is characterized by keeping secrets from the world on what we are doing to win that war. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-11-24 04:38 |
| #2 Senate democrats must be told: 1) Releasing classified data to satisfy a domestic political agenda won't win us any points abroad, and won't win the war against Moslem terrorists. 2) Cooperation runs both ways. They must be made publically to agree that the War on Terror, its operations and the personnel involved must remain a secret. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-11-24 04:15 |
| #1 Democarats, RINOs and, Staffers a leak a second on it's way, if we were not in the middle of a war I would be laughing. Time for some arrests and expedited show trials of leakers and The NYT staff and management who published them in open court. Let the political chips fall where they may. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-11-24 03:00 |