Laura Rozen catches Sen. Roberts in another rethug LIE

[paineinthearse]

http://warandpiece.com/

Phase II report not to be completed until next year, the Post reports. So perhaps it can be a gift for Veterans' Day 2006. Forgive me if my recollection is incorrect, but wasn't Senate Intelligence committee chair Pat Roberts saying after Reid shut the Senate down last week to demand a status report on Phase II that the move was a "political stunt" since everybody knew that the report would be ready as soon as this week?

Laura is correct, I did a bit of searching, Robert's "next week" quote appears below Walter Pincus' current WaPo article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110902203.html

Intelligence Probe Takes Shape
Senators Discuss Inquiry Into Administration Statements About Iraq

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 10, 2005; A07

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday worked out a tentative arrangement for pursuing its inquiry into how the Bush administration publicly portrayed the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, with Democrats saying they expected some officials to be called to testify before the review is completed. "There is a new resolution of the way we are going," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said yesterday after the committee met in closed session for 90 minutes. Feinstein is one of six committee members charged with resolving differences over how to proceed with the "phase two" inquiry.

The first phase, completed last year, focused on the quality of prewar intelligence, not on how officials used the information. "It is uncertain how long it will take, but the process will be similar to our phase one inquiry," she said, which involved closed hearings and multiple draft reports before being completed. The most contentious part of the second phase -- comparing public officials' prewar statements to the intelligence available at the time -- has for now been turned over to the committee staff for additional work. The staff has been directed to collect major statements about Iraq's weapons programs by administration officials and members of Congress, as well as any relevant intelligence circulating at the time, whether it supported or undercut the statements, officials said.

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Yesterday, senators were given classified staff drafts of two other sections of what will be a five-part phase two study. One was to compare the prewar assessments of Iraq's weapons programs, and its relations with al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, to what was found on both subjects after the war. The second was to compare prewar assessments of what postwar Iraq would look like with the reality that has emerged.

The committee is not scheduled to meet again until next week. After that, sessions will be held as needed, with members and staff not expecting to be finished until next year. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said yesterday, "We have a bit more direction today than before, but . . . there is still a long way to go."

...indeed Roberts lied. In an article headlined "Senate Emerges From Closed Session on Iraq", LIZ SIDOTI of The Associated Press on Wednesday, November 2, 2005; 2:01 AM reported:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110100982.html?sub=AR

Senate Emerges From Closed Session on Iraq

By LIZ SIDOTI
The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 2, 2005; 2:01 AM

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Democrats sought assurances that Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas would complete the second phase of an investigation of the administration's prewar intelligence. A six-member task force _ three members from each party _ was appointed to review the Intelligence Committee's work and report to their respective leaders by Nov. 14.

Roberts' committee produced a 511-page report in 2004 on flaws in an Iraq intelligence estimate assembled by the country's top analysts in October 2002, and he promised a second phase would look at issues that couldn't be finished in the first year of work.

The committee worked on the second phase of the review, Roberts said, but it has not finished. He blamed Democrats for the delays and said his staff had informed Democratic counterparts on Monday that the committee hoped to complete the second phase next week.

"Now we have this ... stunt 24 hours after their staff was informed that we were moving to closure next week," a clearly angry Roberts told reporters. "If that's not politics, I'm not standing here."

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ROBERTS IS A BALD FACED LIAR!

[ChiciB1]

1. YOU Are CORRECT!!

That was one of his FIRST comments!! "We were planning to present evidence next week!"

ROBERTS IS A BALD FACED LIAR!!!! I would have put that in BOLD, but haven't ever taken the time to find out how to do all the "extras" here at DU.

I really need to because there a many times that being "BOLD" and "COLORFUL" is quite helpful!!!

[acmejack]

3. Try the handy HTML Helper.

It even helped me, no mean task either!

On edit: Indeed he is a man with deeply compromised credibility-all in all, a good republiCON.

[ChiciB1]

4. Sank You Veddy Veddy Much!

I will... finding time is MY problem. Always trying to keep up with all the info is "hard work" sometimes!!!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. How right you are. I saw Roberts on TV Sunday morning and

he was saying that Senator Reid's "stunt" was totally unnecessary because everyone knew that his report was already scheduled to come out on November 14. (Wait a minute. Maybe he meant 2006).

[paineinthearse]

5. So perhaps it can be a gift for Veterans' Day 2006.

"Phase II report not to be completed until next year, the Post reports. So perhaps it can be a gift for Veterans' Day 2006."

Laura is always right, don't you know?

[librechik]

8. only if Veteran's Day is AFTER Election Day.

because it CERTAINLY won't be done before election day.

Roberts' constituents should have him made into sausage. Has there ever been a bigger whore in all of Congress?

[karynnj]

6. Beyond that he sent Sen Kerry a letter saying they weren't going

to do any work on this in answer to the letter he and 9 other Senators signed. After the comment, Kerry put his and Roberts letter on his (Kerry's) Senate web site.

[paineinthearse]

7. Link, please

...or better yet, since these docs are public domain, paste the whole enchelada (encheladas?).