. . . and every single one will get five minutes to talk on the floor. Next week. They will have to look at the document in the House Intelligence Committee’s office and sign a secrecy oath. Which means . . . if they learn anything earth-shattering, they can’t discuss it on the floor . . . can they? Or am I missing something? What impact will this have?
(BTW, the Freepers are shitting themselves! 
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The House could always hold a closed session.
It means nothing of significance will remain classified. Get ready for a river of leaks.
Is that good or bad?
Some people appear to be trying to distance themselves from the president.
We may soon be witness to unprecedented levels of lame-duckedness in the white house.
“…voting in treasonous rats is dangerous…” “…looks like Osama won the election…”
Nah, just the usual.
But what is “ping”?
This is some mighty strange scoobies.
The report is 90 pages long. And can only be read in a secure room, presumably shielded by the Cone of Silence. Dense, abstruse stuff. Might take me a good hour and a half. Maybe longer, factoring in time for dismay and horror. Four hundred and thirty five of them. And they gotta read it all, just to protect themselves! They’re probably worse than we are, waiting for the sweet gotchaya, “Well, dim son, if you had read paragraph three on page 73, you would already know how thoroughly you’ve embarassed yourself…”
And then each of them makes a five minute speech to express thier conclusions, presumably based on the report, without revealing the factual foundations of those conclusions. The intellectual challenge would be daunting for a Cecilian, never mind a Congressthing.
And the beautypart is that nobody can reveal what it says in order to contradict what the other numbnuts says!
So we have finally arrived, pals and gals, brethren and sistren. It is a federal crime to say “Cite?”. Maybe that’s as it should be, but it will take some getting used to.
You’ll probably end up starting 5 more threads on this subject over the next week.
Does it bother you that we’re talking about this? Something you’d like to share with the group?
No.
Oh, c’mon 'luci. That was funny.
Probably. But, that’s all right, you see, because I’m a shameless pig. 
To quote that esteemed Private Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, “The ship of state is the only ship that leaks from the top.”
Now’s the time to start a pool on who is going to get tossed to the wolves as each leak adds to the mess. Enough leaks, and maybe the wolves will only be satisfied with Bush’s ass.
Get ready for a waterfall of leaks, proving once again that the word of a congresscritter ain’t worth squat. This episode will be cited as to why more secrecy is required down the road. Now if they’d all be willing to stipulate that if it can be shown that they are responsible for a leak that they will forfeit their office, that would be wonderful. But they won’t, so it isn’t.
Oh Brilliant - so after the waterfall of leaks we will find out that the insergent problem is out of our control, that a surge of 115K troops will not be enough, and that Saddam was shot before he hanged…Wonderful! Can’t wait to tune into Fox news for the play by play.
I hadn’t heard that one before. Are you being serious or are you joking? Has that tidbit been circulated in the press or on the internet?
Maybe . . . eventually . . . but first each and every Congressthing will come walking out of the Intelligence Committee office looking kinda . . . dazed . . . stunned . . . like a deer in the headlights that just got whacked on the head with a two-by-four while being buggered by a grizzly during a screening of a kiddie-snuff film . . .
No it’s false, it’s just a made up bit of crap that these media leakage tirades tend to foster. I can’t wait to see what comes from this after the session.
Its a crock. We’ve heard all of this crap before, about how reluctant the Bushiviks are to reveal super-dooper secret methods and means of gathering intelligence, thats why they can’t tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. Because there would be secret stuff there, stuff our enemies don’t already know.
Horseshit! Buttwhistle! There’s stuff in there *we * don’t know, and they are bound and determined to keep it that way! That is proving to be impossible, so they try to make a fallback case. If someone leaks some ghastly truth, they hope to change the subject to the miscreant who leaked the ghastly truth (praying its either Pelosi or Murtha…). “Sure, we lied to you, but Pelosi leaked National Security secrets! She promised to keep a secret, she didn’t, so she lied to you too! We lied, she lied, its all the same…”
There are people who will buy that line. There are people *here * who will buy that line. And the next time Congress turns over a rock to see what scuttles away, they will clutch their pearls and cry in dismay “That’s secret! You can’t be trusted with secrets!”
Boundless mendacity.