Thursday, April 27, 2006

Pat Roberts Skewered

Faithful Progressive: "Sen. Pat Roberts, National Disgrace
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, is a national disgrace. He has broken promises to hold real hearings on the second phase--was intelligence manipulated-- of the Iraq War hearings. Now it appears that he is the worst offender when it comes to a double standard on leaking intelligence information.

The National Journal's, Murray Waas reports, Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes?

But three years ago on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Roberts himself was involved in disclosing sensitive intelligence information that, according to four former senior intelligence officers, impaired efforts to capture Saddam Hussein and potentially threatened the lives of Iraqis who were spying for the United States. . ."

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