shut out

this afternoon the dems forced the senate into closed session for 3+ hours to discuss why the intelligence committee, after more than a year, has not yet completed a promised 2nd part of its report on pre-war iraq intelligence.

the committee chair, pat roberts (r-ks), has said it was delayed by the 2004 election, which, somebody must have noticed, was exactly 52 weeks ago.

this is the same intelligence committee that issued a statement containing two still-repeated lies about former ambassador joe wilson: (1) that wilson claimed vp dick cheney sent him to niger, and (2) that wilson was actually sent by his wife, valerie.