Ackerman: Don't Expect Phase II or Intelligence Reform from Pat Roberts

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Ackerman: Don't Expect Phase II or Intelligence Reform from Pat Roberts
By Jeff Hughes - July 21, 2006, 2:27 PM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001184.php

As long as Pat Roberts is chairman of the Senate Select Committeee on Intelligence, we may never see Phase II of the investigation into the pre-Iraq war intelligence. Spencer Ackerman, who has written extensively on the Iraq war and the pre-war intelligence fiasco for The New Republic, writes for TPMmuckraker about Pat Roberts’ disastrous tenure as the chairman of the committee, and Roberts’ fondness for running in circles:



“Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sprinted off the blocks in early 2005. The very picture of an energetic committee chairman, he explained with a glimmer of excitement in his eye what his agenda for the next congressional session would be during a March 2005 speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center. In the cards was vigorous committee oversight during the ongoing intelligence-community restructuring, as the CIA's role diminished and a new Director of National Intelligence arrived. Not in the cards, Roberts explained only in response to a question, was the committee's long-awaited report into the Bush administration's shaping of prewar Iraq intelligence.

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1. Harry Reid Is Such A Frickin' Idiot

Yeah....his little "stunt" of shutting down the Senate was really helpful.

Yeah, sure....they got right on that Phase 2 report.

You all remember that, right? The excitement when people thought the Dems might actually stand up to the repubs, and get something done.

Our leadership is so pathetic. They would have been better off shutting it down to go get a sandwich.