Reply #48: nice football analogy ... [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

i could actually envision Corzine streaking down the sidelines looking back for the ball ...

look, i agree Kerry is working with Conyers ... but the truth is, Conyers has been stuffed into the basement to hold his hearings ... i still talk to many people who "think they've heard about that Downing Street thing" ... most of them have no idea what the DSM is all about ...

how many DU'ers rightfully complained that Conyers was not getting the kind of visibility we wanted? i had hoped that the Senate would join the Conyers' chorus and elevate the visibility of the issue ...

yes, i agree, calling on Roberts to include the DSM in his investigation is a necessary step in the process ... but i am very concerned that without broad public awareness, the kind of public awareness that high profile Democrats could bring to the issue, the DSM investigation will be buried on page 1300 of some Senate report with the same kind of fuzzy language we got from the 9/11 Commission ...

here's a hypothetical sample: "we have investigated references made in the DSM which some believed may have suggested that top American policymakers "fixed" the evidence to justify a case for war. as part of our investigation, we spoke to hundreds of intelligence community analysts looking both at the reports they made available to high administration sources and also looking for situations where "undue pressure" was brought to bear on these analysts. while previous intelligence assessments did indeed highlight the need for a broad range of reforms throughout our intelligence community, we did NOT find any evidence to support the conclusions alluded to in the DSM. in every instance we reviewed, analysts, while drawing erroneous conclusions from limited amounts of available data, presented their conclusions freely without any interference or external pressure from anyone in the Executive Branch. We consider this matter closed."

my advice: don't be so afraid about talking to the American people ... they seem far more open to listening than they have since bush took office ... it's not quite as easy to sweep things under the rug when the American people are educated on the issue and are demanding answers ... again, low profile seems ill-advised to me ...