Breaking: Senate Intelligence Committee blocks Rice, Tenet, Powell intervu

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman rebuffs attempts to interview Administration officials in pre-war Iraq probe.

WASHINGTON – The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has denied Democratic attempts to interview Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former senior aides to erstwhile Secretary of State Colin Powell, RAW STORY has learned.

Intelligence Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) sought to interview Rice, Tenet and Powell's aides as part of a Senate inquiry into whether public statements by Administration officials about Iraq were corroborated by intelligence information. Recent reports – including one last Sunday from a former CIA chief in Europe – suggest that the Bush Administration was warned that Iraq did not have substantive weapons of mass destruction.

Rockefeller's spokeswoman said the senator wants Committee staff to interview Powell aides about the Secretary's speech to the United Nations, in which he outlined Iraq's alleged threat.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_Chairman_denies_access_0427.html

[babylonsister]

1. Roberts and the term intelligence always seemed so oxymoronic to me.

:eyes: Still does.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. A typical GOP Nazi type!

[electropop]

2. Roberts will be swept away with the rest of the GOP garbage.

What a transparent crook.

[jbnow]

4. I'm hoping Roberts is one of those

"current and former lawmakers of Defense and Intelligence committees" who will be caught up in that hooker scandal that is breaking. If they have him on tape it might explain why he covers for this administration so much. If he is busted...we might get a real investigation.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. That's basically a confession that they're all guilty.

[Faryn Balyncd]

6. Roberts continues his blatant obstructionism

After making statements promising a Phase 2 investigation after the 2004 election, he has been a total obstructionist.