GOP Gotcha - Maybe Not
GOP Gotcha - Maybe Not
GOP Gotcha - Maybe Not#0
Posted: 11/8/05 at 6:46pm
Well, the GOP was trying to make hay about the disclosure of the off-site CIA prisons, many in former Soviet Block countries. Apparently, Senator Frist and Congressmen Hastert were calling for a full scale investigation. Trouble is, Trent Lott thinks that the source of this story was the Republicans themselves:
"Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) told CNN's Ed Henry Tuesday afternoon that he believed it was a Republican senator who gave information about secret CIA jails abroad to the Washington Post, RAW STORY can report.
Lott said that much of the information contained in the Post report -- which stated that the U.S. was holding terrorist suspects in secret CIA jails overseas -- was discussed at a meeting of Republican senators last Tuesday.
The revelation appears to torpedo the political gambit of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) who called on the Senate and House intelligence committees to investigate who leaked the information to the Post".
If this was not so high school it would almost be funny. Except of course for the innocent people being tortured in the name of Democracy.
Senator tells CNN he believes Republican leaked info on CIA jails
re: GOP Gotcha - Maybe Not#1
Posted: 11/8/05 at 8:14pm
From Daily Kos:
Too funny! Hastert and Frist make a big show of calling for an investigation into a leak allegedly affecting national security -- the locations of secret "black site" torture prisons. And then -- BOOM!!! Lott just said, Tuesday afternoon, that he thinks it was a GOP Senator who leaked the info to the Washington Post last week. He says the details had been discussed at a GOP Senators-only meeting last week, and that many of those details made it into the WaPo story.
Money quote from Lott; "We can not remain silent. We have met the enemy, and it is us."
All just reported on CNN. We are, folks, witnessing the full-on implosion of the national Republican Party. And not a second too soon.
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