The Senate majority leader is the latest Republican to protest in the aftermath of a leaked memo outlining a strategy by Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee to highlight contradictions between intelligence reports and dysadministration claims about Iraqi weapns programs. No one doubts that the Democrats would be fools if they did not time revelations to affect Bush’s chances of rewinning the White House next year, but to my way of thinking it would not be unpatriotic at all but in the highest service of the nation to expose the irregularities in the Bu**sh** approach. The Republicans of course pull out that tired old horse of accusing the Democrats of undermining the WoT® Ironically, the memo was an uncirculated draft by a staffer and would probably not have been made public but for the Republicans’ desperation. The Republicans accuse the Democrats of politicizing the traditionally nonpartisan intelligence committee and making it impossible to do its crucial job, but again that is the pot calling the kettle black. The most partisan acts these days are those of Republicans refusing to leave the sinking ship of loyalty to the dysadministration..