Roberts has no morals.  He places party over the Dreamtime America.  In pomposity, he claims adherence to Christian Faith, and yet defends the abuse of chained humans for the nugatory purpose of shielding the Son of a Bush from his own outrageous dissembling to the American People.  He has lied for two years, promising a investigation into the Adminstration's use of pre-Iraq war intelligence.  He has loudly whined sinced Senator Reid jacked the Senate out from under his thumb.

Chamblis is pure scum of the earth.  In his senatorial political campaign against Senator Max Cleland, this long-term jogger, who got a selective service exclusion during Vietnam, and classified 4-F because of bad knees, had the nerve to claim Cleland lacked patriotism. 

Neither Roberts or Chambliss can understand why Americans are upset about intelligence practices that include the use of

The Offical Abu Ghraib Interrogator's Model
Chemical Light Stick of GOP Enlightenment 

Why this is nothing more than an expression of pure compassionate conservatism given to the Prisoners of War, and the immoral senators find themselves quite envious at just the thought. 

Last May, when Amnesty International's Report 2005 was published, these very same persons, as well as many more, issued voiciferous condemnations over a phrase in the forward to the report written by AI's Secretary Genera, Irene Khan. A phrase easily seen as hyperbole when tucked within the context of these three paragraphs:(emphasis mine for clarity):

 "Despite the near-universal outrage generated by the photographs coming out of Abu Ghraib, and the evidence suggesting that such practices are being applied to other prisoners held by the USA in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and elsewhere, neither the US administration nor the US Congress has called for a full and independent investigation.

Instead, the US government has gone to great lengths to restrict the application of the Geneva Conventions and to 're-define' torture. It has sought to justify the use of coercive interrogation techniques, the practice of holding 'ghost detainees' (people in unacknowledged incommunicado detention) and the 'rendering' or handing over of prisoners to third countries known to practise torture. The detention facility at
Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times,
entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law. Trials by military commissions have made a mockery of justice and due process.

The USA, as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power, sets the tone for governmental behaviour worldwide. When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity and audacity. From Israel to Uzbekistan, Egypt to Nepal, governments have openly defied human rights and international humanitarian law in the name of national security and 'counter-terrorism'."

The Adminstration, and its defenders shrieked that AI was evily wrong because its Secretary General dared use such an allegory, and they let loose the republican party's heavy artillery, who themselves had waxed hyperbolic in the run-up to War Upon Iraq, with visions of smoking gun mushroom clouds placed in our heads, and Saddam's yellowcake bellyache which had to be stopped, even at the price of leaving America's true enemy to escape at Tora Bora.

These BuShill hypocrites shouted out how deeply hurt and offended they were by this allegory to the dark prison system of the Soviet Union, they made forceful cases that it was unfair. 

We now learned last week, that this was not even hyperbole, but truth, the administration of Bush is nothing more than pathological prevaricators, and there is in fact an archipelago of secret prisons built and operated in foreign lands.

Now Roberts and Chambliss would claim that the exposure of these lies is a crime which creeps as deep in the miasma as the Plame leak from our dishonest, venal and vindictive Intelligence Brief Beyond Belief?

The time has come to revisit
      The Gulag Of Our Time
           Disassembly is Required 

Recently Stevens was quoted saying, 

"I'm a little bloodied by people
who are calling me a torture senator...
I don't know how to solve it
and that's the end of the conversation."

Ted Stevens, quoted in
Arizona Daily Star/Hearst Newspapers - October 26, 2005
"McCain is opposed to exempting CIA from ban on torture"

Ted, you don't know how to stop being called a "Torture Senator"?
It's really easy. Let me show you the way:

Support the McCain Amendment.

I am surprised that you are only "a little bloody" though.  It's plain to see that the effort against you, must be redoubled.  There is no lie, slander, insult or satire too ugly to issue against an American Senator who would not vote to affirm an anti-torture amendment, anywhere, anytime.

No Right To Abuse
   Was Ever Given to The State
     Do Not Do It Under My Flag
     Nor Invoke It In My Name

"In an explosive series of articles appearing this week in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, investigative reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo report that Nicolo Pollari, chief of Italy's military intelligence service, known as Sismi, brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House after his insistent overtures had been rejected by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2001 and 2002. Sismi had reported to the CIA on October 15, 2001, that Iraq had sought yellowcake in Niger, a report it also plied on British intelligence, creating an echo that the Niger forgeries themselves purported to amplify before they were exposed as a hoax.

Today's exclusive report in La Repubblica reveals that Pollari met secretly in Washington on September 9, 2002, with then–Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Their secret meeting came at a critical moment in the White House campaign to convince Congress and the American public that war in Iraq was necessary to prevent Saddam Hussein from developing nuclear weapons. National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones confirmed the meeting to the Prospect on Tuesday.

Pollari told the newspaper that since 2001, when he became Sismi's director, the only member of the U.S. administration he has met officially is his former CIA counterpart George Tenet. But the Italian newspaper quotes a high-ranking Italian Sismi source asserting a meeting with Hadley. La Repubblica also quotes a Bush administration official saying, 'I can confirm that on September 9, 2002, General Nicolo Pollari met Stephen Hadley.'"

 Laura Rozen, "La Repubblica's Scoop, Confirmed", The American Prospect Online, October 25, 2005

 In June, 2003, when the heat had begun to be turned onto th eBush Administration about Iraq's lack of WMDs and the Niger Documents had been publicly exposed as forgeries, buth Bush and Rice blamed it all on the CIA.   One of the Nine Shameless Senators who voted against the McCain Amendment and Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Pat Roberts (R-KS), strongly defended the view too:

"President Bush and his national security adviser yesterday placed full responsibility on the Central Intelligence Agency for the inclusion in this year's State of the Union address of questionable allegations that Iraq's Saddam Hussein was trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa.

The president defended use of the allegation by saying the Jan. 28 speech 'was cleared by the intelligence services.'

Within hours of Bush's comments, CIA Director George J. Tenet accepted blame for allowing the allegations into the Jan. 28 address, saying the information 'did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches and the CIA should have ensured that it was removed.'
[...]
The admission has sparked a new round of calls from Democrats for a broader investigation of Bush's use of intelligence than the more limited inquiries that have been launched in both the House and Senate. But Republicans have defended the administration and yesterday, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, pointedly questioned Tenet -- not the White House.

'So far, I am very disturbed by what appears to be extremely sloppy handling of the issue from the outset by the CIA,' Roberts said in a statement. He added that it was Tenet's job to have told the president directly about his concerns about the material in his speech as Bush's senior intelligence adviser and not have left that job to his subordinates.

'What now concerns me most, however, is what appears to be a campaign of press leaks by the CIA in an effort to discredit the president,' Roberts said.

 Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, "Bush, Rice Blame CIA for Iraq Error: Tenet Accepts Responsibility for Clearing Statement on Nuclear Aims in Jan. Speech", Washington Post, July 12, 2003

 Pat could not haved cared less about the distortions and untruths the Bush Administration was pitching through the media, what he was concerned about was CIA employees leaking the truth, and how it might discredit Bush.