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Concerned by reports of the politicization of intelligence, the 9/11 commission recommended in July 2004 that the House and Senate intelligence committees be almost evenly balanced, regardless of the number of Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
The Senate intelligence committee currently stands at 8 Democrats and 7 Republicans, and is slated to remain the same this year, despite sharp Democrat gains in November.
The House committee has 12 Democrats and 9 Republicans, but under Pelosis new rules, Democrats will increase that margin to 13-8.
When Pelosi took over as Speaker of the House in January 2007, the first piece of legislation she passed was H.R. 1, "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.
In floor debates, the California Democrat was clear to distinguish her party from the Republicans by saying that Democrats favored carrying out the 9/11 commission recommendations in their entirety, whereas Republicans took a more selective approach, arguing that President Bush had already carried out many of the proposed reforms through executive order.
Going to 13-8, the new ratio in the House intelligence committee Pelosi announced on Tuesday, means that she views the Intel committee the same way she views the Rules committee, which she is ruling with an iron fist, Hoekstra said.
Democrats accused the Bush White House of politicizing intelligence on Iraqs weapons of mass destruction programs, to justify launching the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.
But five years of highly partisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee failed to turn up any serious evidence of White House meddling with the intelligence process.
Instead, Senate Republicans revealed that a key witness lionized by Democrats for daring to defy the Bush White House in public, turned out to have exaggerated his charges.
Former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller made his allegations of White House tampering with intelligence on CBS 60 Minutes and with other media.
But as revealed in Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, Senate Republicans issued a stunning and unprecedented rebuke that essentially called Drumheller a liar.
After re-examining the entire classified record and re-interviewing former CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA officials involved in the operations that Drumheller disclosed publicly, the committee concluded that Drumheller had mischaracterized much of the information he claimed showed White House politicization of intelligence.
The committee is still exploring why [Drumheller]s public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation, a September 2006 Senate Selective Intelligence Committee report concluded.
The Senate intelligence committee currently stands at 8 Democrats and 7 Republicans, and is slated to remain the same this year, despite sharp Democrat gains in November.
The House committee has 12 Democrats and 9 Republicans, but under Pelosis new rules, Democrats will increase that margin to 13-8.
When Pelosi took over as Speaker of the House in January 2007, the first piece of legislation she passed was H.R. 1, "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.
In floor debates, the California Democrat was clear to distinguish her party from the Republicans by saying that Democrats favored carrying out the 9/11 commission recommendations in their entirety, whereas Republicans took a more selective approach, arguing that President Bush had already carried out many of the proposed reforms through executive order.
Going to 13-8, the new ratio in the House intelligence committee Pelosi announced on Tuesday, means that she views the Intel committee the same way she views the Rules committee, which she is ruling with an iron fist, Hoekstra said.
Democrats accused the Bush White House of politicizing intelligence on Iraqs weapons of mass destruction programs, to justify launching the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.
But five years of highly partisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee failed to turn up any serious evidence of White House meddling with the intelligence process.
Instead, Senate Republicans revealed that a key witness lionized by Democrats for daring to defy the Bush White House in public, turned out to have exaggerated his charges.
Former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller made his allegations of White House tampering with intelligence on CBS 60 Minutes and with other media.
But as revealed in Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, Senate Republicans issued a stunning and unprecedented rebuke that essentially called Drumheller a liar.
After re-examining the entire classified record and re-interviewing former CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA officials involved in the operations that Drumheller disclosed publicly, the committee concluded that Drumheller had mischaracterized much of the information he claimed showed White House politicization of intelligence.
The committee is still exploring why [Drumheller]s public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation, a September 2006 Senate Selective Intelligence Committee report concluded.
