US State Department turns over documents to Senate panel

[pakaya]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-10/31/content_1154282.htm
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- The US State Department has turned over 11 of 15 documents to a Senate committee as requested for the latter's inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq, a department spokesman said Friday.

　　Of the remaining four documents, the department will provide two to the Senate Intelligence Committee soon and the other two "as soon as we can," Richard Boucher said.

　　In addition, the department has made arrangements for the six interviews and briefings requested by the Senate committee, he said.

　　In letters sent to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Thursday, the senate panel accused the three administration agencies of being slow in providing information forthe committee's investigation into intelligence that the administration used to make its case for the Iraq war

[Brucey]

1. I wish we had a mole so we could find out what is going on with

these documents. I am, naturally, reminded of the Nixon tape with the missing 18 minutes. Sure, they turn over the stuff that is benign. And they alter or destroy the other. Is there a chance that someone who knows something or has a harmful document will come forward, a modern Deep Throat?

[truthisfreedom]

2. i'm picturing obvious CIA-style redactions to blot out anything even

slightly incriminating. just sheets of paper with long wide black lines on them that are poor copies of poor copies of poor copies.