Doing the President's Dirty Work (NYT Editorial)

[burythehatchet]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/opinion/17fri1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Is there any aspect of President Bush's miserable record on intelligence that Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is not willing to excuse and help to cover up?

For more than a year, Mr. Roberts has been dragging out an investigation into why Mr. Bush presented old, dubious and just plain wrong intelligence on Iraq as solid new proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was in league with Al Qaeda. It was supposed to start after the 2004 election, but Mr. Roberts was letting it die of neglect until the Democrats protested by forcing the Senate into an unusual closed session last November.

Now Mr. Roberts is trying to stop an investigation into Mr. Bush's decision to allow the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without getting the warrants required by a 27-year-old federal law enacted to stop that sort of abuse.

[babylonsister]

1. Yes! This needed to be said; what poop does this admin have on

Roberts that he feels compelled to act so unAmerican?
I'll take my two repug senators; at least I know how
they'll act.
Roberts is way too dangerous, and I can't help but think
he's not acting in the best interests of his constituents.

[burythehatchet]

2. Sometimes I believe just being from Kansas

explains everything. No offense to Kansan DUers. He is emerging as one of the top bush enablers. His appearance on MTP last Sunday was bizarre.

[neoblues]

4. Unsure there's any rationality left in the man...

Whatever small brain Robertson had has turned to mush... he operates in the world of fantasy--which gives him something in common with Bush the Younger. Robertson believes. He believes that anything he believes IS right, IS patriotic, IS G_dly. Again, just like George. Two peas in a pod.

[Lindsay]

3. It's all about power for The Party, I think.

Or else Rove really is blackmailing them all.

Because the Repugs, Roberts (who seems not awfully bright to me) included, seem hell-bent on trashing the Constitution.

[emulatorloo]

5. kick n/t