Coleman: If terror alerts used politically, "Congress will look into it."

[BurtWorm]

His actual words, according to Al Franken: "If in fact people used these things for political purposes, I’m sure Congress will look into that."

I'm sure. :eyes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/al-franken/what-in-godas-name-is-g_1221.html

What in God’s Name is Going On?

Last Friday I was on the panel of Bill Maher’s season finale of his HBO show “Real Time.” Bill’s guest by satellite was Senator Norm Coleman from my home state of Minnesota. Because Coleman serves on the homeland security committee, Maher asked him to comment on former homeland security director Tom Ridge’s recent revelation that the Bush administration would often issue terror alerts that he didn’t think were warranted. Could it be that they were using terror alerts politically?

Coleman answered that it was always good to err on the side of caution. Maher followed by asking Coleman if it struck him as odd that there haven’t been any terror alerts since the election?

After a long laugh from the audience, Coleman answered with some stuff about there still being a high level alert, but then reassured everybody with: "If in fact people used these things for political purposes, I’m sure Congress will look into that."

Wow! If people used these things for political purposes, he’s sure the Republican Congress will look into it? How is it that this guy can’t get through a five minute interview on a political comedy show without having to resort to total b.s.?

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Sure, Norm

I thought he was still in the ICU after the shellacking he got last week.

[patdem]

2. Yeah, reight...if we have absolute PROOF of wrongdoing by a repuke

we will investigate...otherwise there is no PROOF of wrongdoing so we will not investigate..well DUH...investigation is what DETERMINES PROOF of wrongdoing...:grr:

[fob]

3. If bush* woulda KNOWN they were going to use alerts for political

gain, he* would have moved Heaven and Earth to squash any reporting of such. I'm sure.

[BurtWorm]

4. Worse: George Allen never heard of the $8.8 billion the Iraq CPA LOST!

According to Franken, who wonders why Coleman cares more about the UN's finances than the US's:


Meanwhile, the Coalition Provisional Authority, which we ran, has lost 8.8 billion dollars. By lost, I mean it’s totally unaccounted for. Not only has Congress not "looked into" this $8.8 billion and who might have it now, but it seems that some members are completely unaware that this staggering sum, which was supposed to go toward rebuilding Iraq, is missing. The Sunday morning after the White House Correspondents dinner, I ran into Senator George Allen at a brunch thrown by John McLaughlin and his wife. Allen had never heard of the missing $8.8 billion, or at least that's what he told me. And he's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Stunned, I went up to Susan Page of USA Today and her husband Carl Lubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News, two veteran Washington political reporters, and told them about Allen’s ignorance of this huge scandal, which has no doubt contributed to hatred for America and the deaths of our troops. There’s less electricity in Iraq now than there was before we invaded Iraq.

Turns out that Page and Lubsdorf had also never heard of the unaccounted-for $8.8 billion. For a moment I thought that maybe I had been imagining things....

[AzDar]

5. I caught that episode...Norm Coleman's TEETH frightened my 2 year old!

Or maybe he can just sense 'evil'?!? lol