bobobrazil1984 0 Report post Posted November 9, 2005 The first one is this, Republicans making a big show of calling for an investigation the leak of secret international prisons story to the Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0800764_pf.html "If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) wrote in a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees. The letter requests that the committees "immediately initiate" a bicameral investigation. It also instructs the committees to refer to the Justice Department any information it uncovers that might constitute a violation of the law. Ok, so far so good... the Republicans are gonna go hardcore and find out who leaked it and prosecute them...? This is from CNN (transcript reposted across lotsa blogs n sites n such), as i understand it sometime later after the hastert/frist thing: CNN now. Ed Henry: Trent Lott stunned reporters by declaring that this subject was actualy discussed at a Senate Republican luncheon, Republican senators only, last tuesday the day before the story ran in the Washington Post. Lott noted that Vice President Cheney was also in the room for that discussion and Lott said point blank "a lot of it came out of that room last tuesday, pointing to the room where the lunch was held in the capitol." He added of senators "we can't keep our mouths shut." He added about the vice president, "He was up here last wek and talked up here in that room right there in a roomful of nothing but senators and every word that was said in there went right to the newspaper." He said he believes when all is said and done it may wind up as an ethics investigation of a Republican senator, maybe a Republican staffer as well. Senator Frist's office not commenting on this development. The Washington Post not commenting either. Whoops! It will be interesting to see if Hastert and Frist pursue this with the same vigor they seemed to have when calling for the investigation. Did the GOP's public strategists take the last two days off or something? this is kerry-like in its political sloppiness Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
