Alright, Host. This is my conclusion from the information you provided. I appreciate your research:
The Senate Intelligence Committee at that time was comprised of 9 Democrats and 8 Republicans. Below are their votes on the Senate floor, authorizing the use of military force in Iraq:
Graham - D - Nay
Levin - D - Nay
Rockefeller - D - Yea
Feinstein - D - Yea
Wyden - D - Nay
Durbin - D - Nay
Bayh - D - Yea
Edwards - D - Yea
Mikulski - D - Nay
Shelby - R - Yea
Kyl - R - Yea
Inhofe - R - Yea
Hatch - R - Yea
Roberts - R - Yea
DeWine - R - Yea
Thompson - R - Yea
Lugar - R - Yea
The vote count was 4 Democrats in favor, 5 against - and all 8 Republicans in favor. That means that the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which had full access to the classified intelligence voted in favor of authorizing the use of military force in Iraq by a margin of 12-5.
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Originally Posted by Robert Scheer of "The Nation"
It was enormously telling, in fact, that the only part of the Senate which did see the un-sanitized National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq-the Republican-led Senate Select Intelligence Committee-shockingly voted in the fall of 2002 against the simple authorization of force demanded by a Republican President. Panicked, the warmongers in the White House and Pentagon pressured CIA Director George Tenet to rush release to the entire Hill a very short "summary" of the careful NIE, which made Hussein seem incalculably more dangerous than the whole report indicated.
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What is the difference between the "Select" Intelligence Committee and the normal one? I ask because Host and I have already proven that the Senate Intelligence Committee was, at that time, controlled by Democrats. Additionally, two thirds of the members of that committee ended up voting to authorize military force.
So, who sat on this "Senate Select Intelligence Committee"? If this is actually the same thing as the Senate Intelligence Committee, then we will have proven that 12 of the 17 Senators who saw the full intelligence agreed with the President that military force should be authorized...