Cheney, Neo-Cons Geek Over LaRouche

"The leaking of the Feith annex to the neo-con media occurred simultaneously with the theft of Democratic Party staff memos from the Senate intelligence panel and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sources say that both the thefts and the leaking of the pilfered staff memos to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and rightwing radio gadfly Sean Hannity, were all aimed at bullying Democrats into a defensive posture--allowing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn) to shut down the work of the Senate Intelligence Committee altogether, on the grounds that the Democrats were playing “partisan politics'' with the national security of the United States in the midst of the “war on terror.''