Closed WMD [Senate] Session Delayed

[NewJerseyDem]

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/49_86/news/4559-1.html (subscription required)

A secret Senate floor debate to discuss alleged pre-Iraq war intelligence lapses is not likely to occur until next month in order to allow the Intelligence Committee to finalize a report detailing its own 10-month investigation into the matter.

The Intelligence panel has recently held several private sessions for committee members to view a draft of the report, which is expected to be completed in the coming weeks.

Once the report is finished, the executive session of the full Senate would be scheduled, a spokesman for Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said Monday.

“The leader has made it clear that we should allow the Intelligence Committee to complete its review before we move forward,” said Frist spokesman Bob Stevenson. “We should have the benefit of that review before we go forward with an executive session.”

[fearnobush]

1. The leader has made it clear...

that this indeed will be a whitewash to protect our reactionary Republican brothers.