SMART BOMBS ABOUT TO DROP?

INTELLIGENCE or just the simple minds that brought us the war in Iraq will go under the microscope in “Phase Two” of Senate Intelligence inquiry. Some people in the Bush administration may actually have to testify as to how the sixteen words on Niger and uranium got in Bush’s State of the Union address in 2002 [story]

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday worked out a tentative arrangement for pursuing its inquiry into how the Bush administration publicly portrayed the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, with Democrats saying they expected some officials to be called to testify before the review is completed.

INTELLIGENCE MAY BE FOUND in the committee itself. Whether the Democrats have both the BALLS OVARIES strength to follow up or RUN AND HIDE press the issue remains to be seen.  An intelligence committee is an oxymoron with more morons than most.

AND NOW THE HUMINT
[ReddHedd/Firedog Lake] Pat Roberts must be having a cow.

THE HERETIK KNOWS Roberts can't wait for the cows to go home.  Roberts more than any single government official has dragged this intelligence investigation out.  If it weren't for Reid's "stunt" last week, all the cows would be safely in their barns having a good chew on their cuds, going over the same old same old and then dropping more of what cows drop right in our laps.  Oy.  And for those who are hoping a Libby trial would bring things to light, Scooter waived his right to a fair and speedy trial. His first hearing on anything won't be until February.  Welcome to the land of delay and stall.

UPDATE
CIA PRISON SENATE INQUIRY BARRED FOR NOW [WaPo] The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence told Senate leaders yesterday that Congress should hold off on a probe of the disclosure of classified information on secret prisons to The Washington Post until the Justice Department completes its own inquiry . . . Asked how long that could take, Roberts joked, "Decades," indicating he is in no rush to convene his own inquiry.

THE HERETIK LOOKS FORWARD to standup guy Senator Roberts next standup comedy, but could wait . . . decades.