Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush issued an order to the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, and his cabinet members that severely curtailed intelligence oversight by restricting classified information to just eight members of Congress.
"The only Members of Congress whom you or your expressly designated officers may brief regarding classified or sensitive law enforcement information," he writes, "are the Speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the Chairs and Ranking Members of the Intelligence Committees in the House and Senate."
The order is aimed at protecting "military security" and "sensitive law enforcement."
But what was said to be an effort to protect the United States became a tool by which the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Pat Roberts (R-KS) ensured there was no serious investigation into how the administration fixed the intelligence that took the United States to war in Iraq or the fabricated documents used as evidence to do so.
And more layers of the onion are peeled back to reveal the most unbelievable attack on our country in it's short history, it is so much worse by being an attack from within! I try to keep an open mind about Republicans as much as I can, but they are making it an impossibility! How can any of these individuals ever ask Americans to trust them again after they have betrayed our trust, destroyed our international reputation, and bankrupt our economy! Pat Roberts should be hanged for treason! And anybody who knew, or approved of his conduct, should be stripped of their responsibilities and put on trial. That trial should be televised so that all Americans can be made aware of the type of behavior that is conducted in the smoke filled rooms in Washington, so that they can be far more vigilant in the future.
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Don't feed the trolls!
It just goes directly to their thighs.