Democratic cave-in No. 643

This time, it’s on pre-2003 Presidential Daily Briefings on Iraq. Senate Democrats dropped their demand for these briefings as part of 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill. This was the first time since the Senate Intelligence Committee was created more than 30-years ago, after the Church Committee investigation, that an intell bill hadn’t been summarily passed.

Beyond dropping the PDB demands, and perhaps more ominously, Senate Dems also caved on something else:

Democrats also dropped a demand for the Director of Central Intelligence to identify and hand over documentation related to secret prisons run by the US government around the world and operations involving extraordinary rendition.

So much for Congressional oversight, eh?

But, my (for now) fellow bloggers at the Watching Those We Choose joint blog will continue to excoriate progressives like me who insist that a Green Party vote must be seriously considered.

Please. Enablers.