Senate Republicans call on Gorelick to testify

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Senate Republicans call on Gorelick to testify
Lawmakers cite commissioner's prior role
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/22/commission.senators/index.html
From Ed Henry
CNN Washington Bureau



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eleven Senate Republicans fired off a letter Thursday to the 9/11 commission demanding that Jamie Gorelick, a Democratic member of the panel, be forced to testify.


Earlier this week, Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia, a member of the GOP House leadership, released a scathing statement about the Democratic members of the commission.

"The commission is a reunion of political has-beens who haven't had face time since Seinfeld was a weekly show," he said, suggesting they were more interested in pointing fingers than finding solutions.

He said they had turned the commission's work into a "get-even-for-Monica investigation," a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which led to President Clinton's impeachment.


The letter was also signed by Republican senators: Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Trent Lott of Mississippi, Conrad Burns of Montana; Bob Bennett of Utah; Pete Domenici of New Mexico; Don Nickles of Oklahoma; Ted Stevens of Alaska; Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; John Cornyn of Texas and Norm Coleman of Minnesota.

[Richardo]

1. You idiots do NOT want to do this...but go ahead.

She'll have you for breakfast and make you look even more stupid than you already do. :evilgrin:

Look at the roster of morans behind this thing. You don't have to look too closely and you'll see the strings leading back to Delay's office.

[dedhed]

2. Three words...

BRING IT ON!!

:mad:

[MSgt213]

5. Why don't these dumb asses ask Ashcroft why he isn't smart enough to work

around a memo written by a deputy in a previous administration when he is the fucking AG.

[AJ BENDER]

3. A Who's Who of Schmucks !

Chambliss :puke:

Lott : :puke:

McConnell :puke: :puke: :puke:

Coleman :puke: :puke:

Burns : :puke:

Bennett :puke:


Can You Say....BUCKETS OF SCUM !


HEY ! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PUKING SMILIES ?

[LeinesRed]

7. Hey! I think we were puking simultaneously...

you could list a few more than I could...before I had to :puke:

[gWbush is Mabus]

4. those are the senators i LOATHE the most

[LeinesRed]

6. Only 11 wanted to sign?

wow, and quite the illustrious group. Chambliss, Coleman, Lott, I can't continue typing names because I have to :puke:

[donhakman]

8. He Involked Monica?

[Ready4Change]

9. I think the legal term would be "precedent"

"MonicaGate" opened a whole can of worms, but it's the Republicans who opened it, so they've no right to complain.

[emulatorloo]

10. She would eat them alive - BRING IT ON!

EOM

[myopic4141]

11. An explanation is needed.

I wish she would testify. In doing so, she could explain how the Clinton Administration was able to work around the more stringent wall to prevent the millennium terrorist attacks. Such testimony would make Shrubby's Administration look even more incompetent (as if that were possible). It would also contradict the arguments about needing the Patriot Act to overcome the barrier. If I remember an old adage correctly, "be careful what you ask for for you may get it".