Jay Rockefeller demands White House turn over docs(Libby/Cheney)

[RedEarth]

This is from Murray Waas' site and deals with the article(link below) he wrote yesterday regarding Cheney and Libby withholding documents requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

"Lost in the more significant news of the moment, the vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, last night renewed demands on
the White House to turn over materials regarding Libby's role in allegedly distorting intelligence information to make the administration case to go to war with Iraq.

Rockefeller was reacting to a report that was posted online yesterday in the National Journal, and which I wrote, disclosing that Vice President Cheney and Libby personally overruled the advice of some political staff and administration attorneys that they cooperate with the committee probe. (see post below for more details.)

Here below is Rockefeller's statement:

"In February 2003 the White House provided input to the CIA during the preparation of Secretary Powell's United Nations speech. During the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, I believed it was important for the committee to obtain and review the White House drafts.

"On October 31, 2003, I wrote to CIA Director George Tenet requesting this and other White House documents. I repeated that request in writing on two subsequent occasions.

"Despite these and other efforts, the Committee never received the White House documents.

"The fact is that throughout the Iraq investigation any line of questioning that brought us too close to the White House was thwarted.

"For several years, I've called on the Committee and the Congress to get to the bottom of whether this administration misused intelligence in making the case for going to war.

"That question is no less relevant today than it was then."
posted

http://whateveralready.blogspot.com/2005/10/libby-to-be-charged-later-today.html

link to the article...

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1027nj1.htm

Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel
By Murray Waas, special to National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005

Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to Bush administration and congressional sources.

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[rodeodance]

1. go Jay go. and where is the Repug chair? hiding as he is the

midst of this withholding!!

[IChing]

2. good news can the moderator move this to the right forum?

[RedEarth]

4. Actually, I posted it here since it doesn't deal directly with the CIA

case coming down today. Plus, I really feel this is a very important story and didn't want it to get lost in all the threads in the other forum. However, if the mods would like to move it, it's fine with me.

[Mme. Defarge]

3. Let the drum beat begin!

[kentuck]

5. Democrats have to do this.

They have to have a second front, other than just Fitzgerald.

[janx]

6. When did Rockefeller write this?

?

[RedEarth]

7. Waas mentions he wrote it last night

[Supersedeas]

8. the can of worms runneth over