"The final two Phase II reports and the process that produced them are a great disappointment. The products are poor and the process that produced them was regrettable. Although the Minority requested to be involved in the production of these reports at the start of the 110th Congress, we were exclused from the drafting of these reports and deprived of any meaningful role in the work that produced them.

We believe the Senate Intelligence Committee, above all others in the Senate, should be a Committee where Members work together absent political agendas for the good of the nation. The process that produced these reports, unfortunately, was not in keeping with that conviction, and we are disappointed with the results. We fully concur with the Vice Chairman's views submitted as an assessment on the substance of the two reports; here, however, we believe it is necessary to make know our disappointment over the process by which they were produced...." it goes on to detail the partisan nature of this phase of the investiagations.

Then, while trying to hunt down the Vice Chairman's views as above referenced, I found the following, commencing on page 101

"This majority-only written report by the Senate Intelligence Committee is a great disappointment to us and an unfortunate commentary on the political nature of intelligence oversight in the Congress today. We regret that at a time when the Committee should be focusing its full attention on improving our intelligence community, closing gaps in critical intelligence, and making our country safer, that the Committee finds itself again consumed with political gamesmanship. Although we asked from the beginning of this investigation to be included in it, we were cut out; although we asked that Members of the Commitee produce the conclusions on this report, two majority staff were assigned to the task; and although we had over 50 amendments on the table at our Committee meeting on this report, we were not allowed to offer any of them. We have rarely seen such a poorly handled congressional investigation, and we believe the facts detailed below speak for themselves."

... if you're interested in reading a detailed set of facts that demonstrate fully why liberals are the ones lying here, feel free. Of the pages I have read so far from the minority opinion, I am fascinated.

I would ask yourselves to consider the honesty of the top poster in presenting this as a bipartisan report in the way he did. Is he lying? I suppose he could argue that because the minority opinion that the report is partisan political hackery was included at the end of the document that it is therefore, on balance "bipartisan" in that we can read both sides. But is that how his post was presented to you?

I'll let the liars parse it.