Posted 8:08 PM by Jason
Closed Session in the Senate

Today the Democrats pushed the Senate into closed session, information on that here.
I have to commend the Democrats on their brilliant plan to force a committee (that already exists) to review the work of a committee and report back to the Senate.  I mean, lets look at what people looked at and tell other people about it, because it will obviously make all the difference in the world.  If the same thing just gets looked at by enough committees, things will eventually come out in their favor.  

In the article Harry Reid tied the move to the Scooter Libby indictment, which "provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions." Ummm, ok Harry, too bad the indictment was for allegedly lying to the grand jury in the investigation (the left suddenly thinks this is serious, not that it isn't, but given their love of rooting out hypocrisy...) and not any actual "unmasking" of an agent.  The Libby indictment isn't not a big deal, but this is clearly an unsubstantial political stunt.  

Look, in going to war, our intelligence may have been bad, but so was everyone else's.  On the issue of Saddam seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger, the subject that Joe Wilson "investigated" on his tea sipping African trip, the fact that Saddam never obtained the yellowcake doesn't mean he never sought it, and British intelligence stands by their finding.  

Interestingly Joe Wilson was discredited by the Senate Intelligence Committee's report.
Maybe Senate Republicans should use this as an opportunity to point out (again) that Joe Wilson was a terrible investigator.  

Lets have a little sense here, not that this is original, but just a refresher.  If "Bush lied" about WMD's to go to war, actually knowing that none existed, he would have known (or if you want to believe that he is an absolute moron, his staff would have known) that we wouldn't be able to find any, and would know that that would be damaging politically.  The opposition just cannot stand the notion that mistakes can be made in anything other than bad faith, even when the same mistake was made by those they trust so much (i.e. non-Americans).    

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