Rigging another election, Pat Roberts style

it's a lot easier to create a one-party, totalitarian state when you have so many people working with you to make it happen...

Releasing any documents was a change of pace for the panel’s chairman, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, who has consistently tried to stymie this phase of the investigation.

Unfortunately, the documents — only two of the five parts of the final report — are beside the big point of this inquiry: Did Mr. Bush and his aides knowingly hype the intelligence on Iraq and deliberately mislead Americans into war?

The first phase of the committee’s investigation listed countless ways in which the intelligence agencies messed up before the war, but drew no conclusions about how Mr. Bush used the flawed intelligence. That question was put off until after the election of 2004, and Mr. Roberts did his best for another year to make sure it would never be answered.

When Democrats forced him to resume the investigation, Mr. Roberts re-engineered the inquiry into a five-part series and orchestrated the process so that the verdict on the actions of Mr. Bush and his team will now not be rendered until after yet another election season is over this fall.

good work, pat...

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