Maybe that "full-time staff" should spend fifteen or twenty minutes out of one of his or her very busy workdays reviewing the Constitution.

"...we must determine what documents can be properly shared with the legislative branch."

Uh, someone want to tell this guy that the concept of legislative oversight obligates the Pentagon to read requests for documents broadly - its not an excuse to say that you are having a hard time figuring out how to limit your response to the greatest extent possible.

Not to mention the fact that his frame is predicated on Congress being an adversary that must be denied information at all costs....

What the f*ck has happened to democracy in this country...does anyone even care?

EVERYTHING they have told us for years is a LIE! Why should they stop now since Cheeeeney wants to use them again to gen-up another war??

Al they know how to do is LIE and they're obviously good at it as well. The same thing that happened in ALL dictatorships in the past 1000 years is happening RIGHT NOW under our collective noses and we (the people) won't do anything about it?? WHY??

What on earth is stopping the Dems from advancing with impeachment proceedings?
What else do they need?
Is Kucinich the only lucid person in Congress?

Frustrated does not really tell how I feel, but it will have to do. When are the Dems going to wake up and do something that will show the American people that they have spines?????

Congress should punish Bushco's stonewalling by submissively confirming another fascist nominee.

Apparently WE are the fringe, you know, the people who actually care about the constitution and the proper functioning of our government. I'm begining to come to the conclusion that I'm just weird that way. Although it does seem novel to claim incompetence as your excuse for not finding, copying and messengering some documents over a few blocks to the congress. Isn't it a bit like claiming to be too stoopid to pick your nose?

"A spokeswoman for the House Armed Services Committee generously declined to attribute the stonewalling to partisan politics."

I attribute it to blatant contempt for the Constitution and recurrent capitulation by the "opposition" party.

I just want to puke. My ancestors fought for this?

To be fair, there IS significant risk involved with sharing information crucial to the war on terror with persons who have not been throughly vetted by representatives from one of the agencies controlled by this administration.
So remind me again, what does "congress" do?

No greater US Constition thrashing words were ever uttered than these words...."impeachment is off the table".

Breaking: Pelosi's office did, however, receive a copy of "My Pet Goat" with a yellow post-it note that read, "Go F*ck Yurself. You're gay".

The president immediately launched an investigation claiming that anyone who had actually read "My Pet Goat" would be dismissed from his administration.

"We will share our plan with you, once it has been fully executed, and we can look back and write it up so all looks like we planned it!"

Nancy, stop politely requesting these documents and start demanding them. Make some noise about it, for fu*k's sake.

Jeez...

My disdain for the Democrats now equals my hatred of the Republicans. At least the Rs are unequivocally evil. It's harder to know about the Ds. Are they evil, incompetent, spineless, or some vile combination thereof. Whatever. I so wish I didn't care.

Third party, anyone?

The Democratic leadership continues to act as if it's waiting for the officials to throw their flags and signal "unsportsmanlike conduct". Sadly, they will not get half the distance to the goal. There are no officials. They are engaged in a street brawl, not a game.

Have the Democratic ranks been so culled that no one remembers how to threaten credibly, how to filibuster, how to deny funding and votes, how to threaten exposure and disgrace or dismissal? Have Karl Rove and Dick Cheney so gelded those that remain that they haven't the courage to use those tactics, when necessary, to get their way?

Democrats, show NOW the street smarts you will be required to use every day should the public ever again give you the White House and a Congressional majority. That's machismo that would achieve something besides another dead soldier in an unarmored Humvee in Iraq. If you can't do that, go home. Or make Dennis Kucinich Speaker and Jim Webb Senate majority leader.

"Stabilize" Iraq and bankrupt America in the process. The world is watching as the "noble experiment" goes into meltdown. The gods always get their revenge against the arrogant.

I might add, anytime you are dissed as thoroughly as Congress has been dissed by this administration, when you hold the purse strings that keeps their operations going, you know your in trouble. Just that much more proof that Congress is an ineffectual tool of the administration, Democratic majority or not. Plainly, these people couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag! No, I'm not particularly disgusted, why do you ask?

Thank God Nancy Pelosi is on it now, boy, I'm sure she will do something about it. Yessirree any month now, she'll do something, just you wait and see...

Well it's funding time again folks so write to your reps and remind them that they too are not immune to looking for a new job after election day

There is a lot of professed shock here, but really this is the end result of a long process going back to at least Truman (Presidentially mandated support of "UN" in Korea) to reduce the congressional branch to nothing more than an advisory council of the executive.

Only one presidental candidate has the humility to return to what the constitution implicity mandates...making the executive the second most important, not the primary, branch of government. Of course it is Ron Paul. Everyone please consider supporting him. He is our best hope at this point.

The Administration and the Pentagon are refusing to give documents that the people pay for to the Congress? WTF do they get their idea that this is at all Constitutional?! Methinks I smell...treason.