Reply #50: I just want to know why he's taking such flak when he was never in [View All]

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charge of the Intelligence Committee "when it mattered" - that is, when all this shit was first going down, and ANYONE even nominally against it was shouted down, called names, shunted to the side, and certainly not given much if any coverage to present his or her view. There was a republi-CON named pat roberts, of Kansas, who was in charge of this committee, who got the most inside info because this White House for the LONGEST time ONLY briefed its own and people like Dick Durbin were left out in the cold because they had a "D" after their names. And pat roberts did nothing but cover up and sweep stuff under the rug and obstruct and lie and string things out and bait and switch. And WHERE IS HE NOW???? How come nobody's jumping down his throat???

If you want to distribute blame, let's not heap it all on Dick Durbin, okay? Yeah, certainly he could have spoken out, but how much would anyone besides people like us here have paid any attention to him, or given a second-and-a-half to anything he was saying??? NOBODY who tried to speak out got a fair shake. He would have opened his mouth and tried to object and he would have been almost literally RUN OVER and burned in effigy. ANYTHING he would have tried to do, and many of them - like him - DID try, wouldn't have gone ANYWHERE. Certainly it wouldn't have gotten any coverage, nowhere near any "equal time" - which back then was being offered exclusively to bush-fans and bush-backers. Besides, he wasn't in any position to do anything about it, anyway, not being chairman of any committee, not having subpoena power, not being in the majority and being able to help set the agenda. Democrats were ground into the dirt for the last too-many years, ONLY UP TIL JANUARY.

I'm glad he's finally speaking out. At least now, he's in a position to be able to do something about it. And it's not anywhere near as significant as if tenet had grown some nads and spoken out, too. tenet would have been in a position to do something, make some noise, attract some attention to himself, maybe even stall the juggernaut for awhile. People, critics, the media, even other republi-CONS would have HAD to pay at least some attention to a george tenet. Dick Durbin they would have scoffed at, as they did when ANY Democrat back then tried to show some fortitude. I hope we haven't forgotten how horrible, sad, hopeless, and barren those times were - THIS soon.