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The Frist-Hastert stunt goes awry
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 09, 2005 02:52pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, November 9, 2005 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted 10:33 am | Printer Friendly
I suspect Bill Frist and Dennis Hastert thought they had come up with a clever little plan. They saw Harry Reid pull an adroit stunt last week and thought maybe they could turn the tables a bit. Instead the gang that can't shoot straight pulled another Keystone Kops routine.
As I mentioned briefly yesterday, Frist and Hastert announced they wanted a formal congressional leak investigation — not into the Plame scandal, but into the leak to the Washington Post about "black sites," the CIA's secret prisons in Europe. Politically, at least to Frist and Hastert, this might have seemed like a good idea.
This was a way for GOP leaders to prove that they take the leak of classified information seriously. It may have also been a way to put Dems on the spot: "You guys are worried about leaks? Fine, let's investigate this one." Maybe this stunt was even intended to blur the line a bit between the two controversies, muddling the message in the public's mind.
But sometimes when a team is in a funk, everything goes wrong.
Almost immediately after the GOP leaders started talking about their alleged outrage over the "black sites" leak, one of their colleagues explained that it was probably a Republican senator who dished to the Post. |
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