"The match is about to begin"
"Tomorrow is zero hour."
The National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted those two cryptic Arabic-language messages on the eve of the September 11.
Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, heard those two bone-chilling sentences in a closed door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 19, 2002, by Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the then-director of the National Security Agency. Shortly after the hearing concluded, CNN aired a report disclosing the two messages. The next day, both The Washington Post and USA Today published much more detailed news reports regarding the intercepts.
Shelby, who was at the time the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, couldn't wait to leak this to the press and wasted no time in doing so.
After the Justice Department gave the Senate Ethics (boy, there's an oxymoron)Committee a report stating that Shelby was not only a leaker but a liar as well, they, being the good ol' Republicans boys they are, told Shelby not to worry, they'd take care of it.
Hey, leaking and lying is what Republicans do best!
"In the letter sent to Shelby on Friday, Senate Ethics Committee Chairman George Voinovich, R-Ohio, and the committee's vice chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., wrote: "By letter, July 20, 2004, the Department of Justice informed the Select Committee on Ethics that it had investigated the unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to the alleged National Security Agency intercepts collected on September 10, 2001 but not translated until Sept. 12, 2001."
The letter went on to say: "The Department of Justice further stated in its letter that its investigation had produced evidence and information concerning your conduct in connection with the disclosure and concerning 'related conduct.'" Sources said the "related conduct" were allegations that Shelby had misled federal investigators during the probe.
The letter concluded by saying that "the committee has dismissed the matter referred to it by DOJ."
"The match is about to begin"
"Tomorrow is zero hour."
The National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted those two cryptic Arabic-language messages on the eve of the September 11.
Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, heard those two bone-chilling sentences in a closed door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 19, 2002, by Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the then-director of the National Security Agency. Shortly after the hearing concluded, CNN aired a report disclosing the two messages. The next day, both The Washington Post and USA Today published much more detailed news reports regarding the intercepts.
Shelby, who was at the time the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, couldn't wait to leak this to the press and wasted no time in doing so.
After the Justice Department gave the Senate Ethics (boy, there's an oxymoron)Committee a report stating that Shelby was not only a leaker but a liar as well, they, being the good ol' Republicans boys they are, told Shelby not to worry, they'd take care of it.
Hey, leaking and lying is what Republicans do best!
