Sen. Jay Rockefeller, ranking Democrat and vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, IE. one Democrat who had seen and had access to all the same intelligence that Bush had, makes a treasonous confession on a Sunday talk show, Fox News Sunday. This is old news now, over a week old. Something else seems to have captured the attention of the biased media; Bush lied. Rockefeller betrayed his country and his responsibility as a member of the Intelligence Committee. Let's deal with something that did happen.
Just 90 days after the attack on 9/11, long before the war began, and 9 months before the President made his case at the United Nations, Rockefeller told Syria's Bashar Assad, Saddam Hussein's bud, that the Americans, no, that Bush will be coming. Remember too that Saddam had kicked out the UN inspectors. With a 14-month heads-up, is it any wonder that Saddam's WMD stuff disappeared? Like into and/or through Syria?
His confession/revelation on Sunday makes the second breach of faith and security in his performance on the most sensitive of committees on Capital Hill, and some action needs to be started. Meanwhile, he should be removed from that committee and lose his security clearance until he has gone through a successful and complete investigation.
Rockefeller must be brought to account for this act, which is a closer cousin to treason than the strategy memo that came to light from his office 8 months after the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which described how they planned to politicize the intelligence to hurt the administration. This, from a Senator on the Select Intelligence Committee. And exactly the sort of thing we have seen from Democrats for the last couple years. To use his words, they have 'pulled the trigger.'
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