11/09/2003 06:37:00 PM | Brad Plumer
More ninnies: Last week Republicans unearthed a memo written by Democrats in the Senate Select Committee that revealed shocking aims: to push for an investigation into administration wrongdoing. Sean Hannity called it "politicized" intelligence. Rick Santorum threatened to shove all those damn Democrats off the committee. Bill Frist decided to freeze further investigation of prewar intelligence in Iraq, at least until the Democrats said they were sorry.
Apparently none of them bothered to do what Kevin Drum did and actually read the memo. And it turns out, the memo's harmless. Entirely harmless. Basically it comes down to two facts: the Republicans are trying to shift the focus of the investigation away from the administration, and the Democrats want a wider, more persistent inquiry to figure out why intelligence was wrong. Um, pardon, but isn't that exactly why we have a Senate Intelligence Committee? To, uh, investigate? Why are Republicans fuming and carping so much?
Jay Nordlinger should issue a retraction for this old OpinionJournal piece. Would "real men" ever moan and whine like this? Hm?
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