Roberts consistent on how to investigate CIA prison leak

Having taken a beating from the left over the prewar intelligence probe’s second phase, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., is now hearing it from the right over his urging that Congress let the Justice Department first investigate the leak of classified documents that led to The Washington Post story about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh and others are demanding that Congress take a bicameral look at the leak immediately. But Roberts’ reticence is prudent and consistent with his preferred order of probes into the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name. The unfair attacks on Roberts also miss the point: The real potential for outrage isn’t that the prisons’ existence was leaked. It’s that the prisons apparently exist.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

8 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 12:20 am | Permalink

    I’ve heard that tired aurgument. Why is the prison leak and the CIA leak two different standards?

    Maybe, just maybe, Democrats are involved. Rumor is that a Senator, or Senator staff member leaked it.

  2. Sum1
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 6:57 am | Permalink

    The only reason they want this investigation is to find who outed them.They aren’t interested in the ‘fact’ we have prisons in countries to do our torture for us, only interested in which one of them thought truth should come before party line.

  3. XXX
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 10:56 am | Permalink

    Joe,Trent Lott says the leak came from a meeting of republican leaders with Cheney. The leaker is probably a republican, one with some ethics (rare as that may be). I welcome the oncoming investigation. With Congress tied up pointing fingers, they don’t have a lot of time to pass more bad laws. And they’ll probably just turn up another “treasonous republican” (meaning one who doesn’t tow the party line).

  4. Galahad
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 11:23 am | Permalink

    Why is Roberts only probing the Plame leak after Fitzy’s indictment?

    “Old Rubber Stamp” Roberts . . . courageously investigating steroid use among baseball players while Bush lied us into war.

  5. Jed
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 11:24 am | Permalink

    Investigation, in this case means a search for, or manufacture of, the facts needed to get him and his party re-elected!

  6. Sum1
    Posted November 14, 2005 at 4:34 am | Permalink

    If we ‘did not torture’, then there would be no reason for this investigation.

  7. Ben Huie
    Posted November 14, 2005 at 8:07 am | Permalink

    Pat Roberts is part of the PNAC cabal who got us into the Iraq quagmire and is now part of the cover-up, both of the Plame outing and of the torture camps.

    How can a leak about the camps be damaging if they don’t exist as Bush claims?

  8. CF
    Posted November 14, 2005 at 9:43 am | Permalink

    Ben Huie,

    Indeed. Yet another weapon of GOP mass distraction.

    The Bush administration lied about the causes for war, and now they go on lying about having lied.

    Liars.