From: Gene McAloon 

For a Republican Congress to do anything but exonerate a Republican president in
any kind of investigation just before an election is to be expected.  It is
about as asinine as Blair handpicking some lord or other to investigate his
actions.

You get a whitewash every time.

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:29:13 +0200, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>Looks like Shrub is setting up his way out:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/06/politics/06INTE.html?ei=5062&en=313ade4c60ca
9e37&ex=1089691200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=
>
>"The existence of a secret prewar C.I.A. operation to debrief relatives of
>Iraqi scientists — and the agency's failure to give their statements to the
>president and other policymakers — has been uncovered by the Senate Select
>Committee on Intelligence. The panel has been investigating the
>government's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq's unconventional
>weapons and plans to release a wide-ranging report this week on the first
>phase of its inquiry. The report is expected to contain a scathing
>indictment of the C.I.A. and its leaders for failing to recognize that the
>evidence they had collected did not justify their assessment that Mr.
>Hussein had illicit weapons."
>
>So it's the CIA's fault after all?

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