Lorie Byrd reports on how one of the main stumbling blocks to finishing the report on Phase II of the intelligence investigation that the Senate Dems have been hooting and hollering about is the method that Senator Roberts, the chairman of the Senatate Intelligence Committee, has taken to try to remove partisanship from the investigation. It really is a great idea, but the Dems want to be sure that the investigation is partisan so they don't like what he's been trying to do.

What he had the staff of the committee do was put together a list of hundreds of statements that were made about the intelligence that we had before the war began. But he made the list anonymous. So the Democrats don't know if it was a Republican or a Democrat who made each statement. Thus, they have to be wary about bashing people because they don't know if they'd be trashing someone from their own party. They would have to, horrors of horrors, actually address the substance and accuracy of the statements rather than the partisan identification of who said what. Heh, heh.

Be sure to go read Lorie's summary and comments.