{"id":7259,"date":"2006-04-27T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2006-04-27T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T18:23:06","slug":"the-chairman-of-the-senate-cover-up-committee-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-chairman-of-the-senate-cover-up-committee-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The chairman of the Senate Cover-up Committee strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, a New York Times editorial asked<\/a> rhetorically, “Is there any aspect of President [tag]Bush[\/tag]’s miserable record on intelligence that Senator [tag]Pat Roberts[\/tag], chairman of the [tag]Senate Intelligence Committee[\/tag], is not willing to excuse and help to [tag]cover up[\/tag]?”<\/p>\n

For anyone who’s been paying attention, the answer was pretty obvious, but just in case, Roberts is driving the point home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has denied [tag]Democrat[\/tag]ic attempts to interview Secretary of State [tag]Condoleezza Rice[\/tag], former CIA Director [tag]George Tenet[\/tag] and two former senior aides to erstwhile Secretary of State Colin Powell, RAW STORY has learned.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 including one last Sunday from a former CIA chief in Europe \u2013 suggest that the Bush Administration was warned that Iraq did not have substantive weapons of mass destruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s one thing to resist including materials in a committee report, but Roberts won’t even let Dems on the committee talk<\/i> to these people, all of whom have first-hand insights that would be helpful and informative in determining whether the administration was telling the truth before the war.<\/p>\n

Also today, Greg Sargent noted<\/a> that Roberts is breaking promises — which he’d even put in writing<\/i> — in order to ensure that there is no review of the White House’s pre-war conduct.<\/p>\n

You know, call it a hunch, but I’m starting to think Roberts believes Bush has something to hide….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In February, a New York Times editorial asked rhetorically, “Is there any aspect of President [tag]Bush[\/tag]’s miserable record on intelligence that Senator [tag]Pat Roberts[\/tag], chairman of the [tag]Senate Intelligence Committee[\/tag], is not willing to excuse and help to [tag]cover up[\/tag]?” For anyone who’s been paying attention, the answer was pretty obvious, but just in case, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}