House Leadership Blocks Vote on Intelligence Bill

[RBHam]

Why block attempts to uncover the truth?
What do they have to hide?

By PHILIP SHENON and CARL HULSE
NYTimes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - House Republican leaders blocked and appeared to kill a bill Saturday that would have enacted the major recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, refusing to allow a vote on the legislation despite last-minute pleas from both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to Republican lawmakers for a compromise before Congress adjourned for the year.

The decision to block a vote on the landmark bill, which would have created the job of a cabinet-level national intelligence director to oversee the C.I.A. and the government's other spy agencies, came after what lawmakers from both parties described as a near-rebellion by a core of highly conservative House Republicans aligned with the Pentagon who were emboldened to stand up to their leadership and to the White House.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/politics/21panel.html?oref=login&th

Nice job by Rove to maneuver it so that the White House aren't the bad guys...