Pelosi Statement on Hastert and Frist Calling for Investigation Into Leak

[sabra]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=56385

Pelosi Statement on Hastert and Frist Calling for Investigation Into Leak About Secret Prisons



WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in reaction to news reports that Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Frist have called for a congressional investigation into who leaked to The Washington Post the existence of secret U.S. prisons abroad:

"If Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Frist are finally ready to join Democrats' demands for an investigation of possible abuses of classified information, they must direct the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to investigate all aspects of that issue. That includes the possible manipulation of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, and the disclosure for political purposes of classified information involving the identity of the CIA officer. There is plenty to investigate about the Bush Administrations' use and misuse of intelligence; the American people deserve the truth."

[electropop]

1. Nice spin, Nancy!

Keep it up and we might finally break these bastards. We can't afford to let them twist whistleblowing into crime, and crime into whistleblowing.

[opusprime]

2. So they admitted to secret prisons then??

Amazing that they are more concerned about the leak than the fact that the torture prisons (rape rooms) actually exist.

How low can we go?

[truebrit71]

3. It seems that the Spine-Replacement surgery has taken hold....

....Finally!!!

Keep it up!!!

[The Witch]

4. HELL YES.

Way to go Nancy. That's exactly the tack to take.

[stop the bleeding]

5. Can I get another Democrat to speak up please -

AT the TOP of THEIR lungs.


nominated this thread

[petgoat]

6. Pelosi for President in '07! nm

[crossroads]

17. She seems to be wearing the balls in the Dem party!

Only a handful of Dem are acting like REAL men! Spineless!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

20. She's great!

I just think she's the best. Her and Harry Reid are great leaders. Hopefully we can take back the House and Senate in 2006 and than impeach the bastards and have president Pelosi and my dream is she chooses Reid as her VP. Now that'd be an amazing team I think. :) It would be nice if we could impeach the bastards before Christmas break. What a nice present for Lady Liberty that would be!

[Nimrod2005]

7. Calling 1-800 flowers as we speak

A nice dozen to her office immediately if not sooner.

[AllyCat]

8. Leak? Hasn't this been coming from every corner of the globe for years?

So they pick this one teensy little thing hiding behind the elephant in the living room to ask for an investigation? And what a non-issue it is!

Boy, the RNC must REALLY not want those photos to come out next week. Wonder what is hidden in them?

[Tempest]

9. Trent Lott: Leak Came From A Republican

DU thread on Lott's statement:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1909725

[rodeodance]

14. Blitzer talked of Lott again --here is raw story about Lott "Repuglican"

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Senator_tells_CNN_he_beli...

Senator tells CNN he believes Republican leaked info on CIA jails
11/08/2005 @ 3:40 pm
Filed by RAW STORY


Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) told CNN's Ed Henry Tuesday afternoon that he believed it was a Republican senator who gave information about secret CIA jails abroad to the Washington Post, RAW STORY can report.

Lott said that much of the information contained in the Post report -- which stated that the U.S. was holding terrorist suspects in secret CIA jails overseas -- was discussed at a meeting of Republican senators last Tuesday.

The revelation appears to torpedo the political gambit of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) who called on the Senate and House intelligence committees to investigate who leaked the information to the Post.

The Post story cited as sources "U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement."

DEVELOPING HARD...

[dkofos]

15. oops

Can't wait to see how they spin their way out of this.

Just can't keep the lies straight anymore.

[Beaverhausen]

10. Women from California ROCK!!!

[katty]

12. yup,we do-Pelosi is givin' it right back

[maximovich]

11. Excellent (nt)

[indepat]

13. The doo-doo is beginning to get mighty deep

[Overseas]

16. Bravo Nancy !! /nt

[paparush]

18. BUSH** - "We do not Toture" ED MEESE - "Detainees not coverered..

by the Geneva Conventions"

OMFG - The Repugs are litterally tearing themselves to pieces today.

[struggle4progress]

19. Yeah! You go, girl! eom