The administration has made it a practice to deny oversight cooperation to Congress. The stonewalling in the prison abuse scandal has been building to a crisis point.
Today, Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat, is calling for congressional hearings on the controversy.
I'm sorry that some of our closest allies and friends... were alienated because they disagreed with our strategy of preemptive war.
I'm sorry about administration officials, led by the Vice President, repeatedly trying to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11, when there never was ...
the vast majority of our American men and women follow orders, do it very professionally, and make every single Member of the United States ...
I'm sorry that those that tried to find the truth about allegations of prison abuse in Iraq... were ignored.
I'm sorry that truth-tellers in the administration, like General Shinseki and Lawrence Lindsey, were hounded out of their job.
I'm sorry there's no real plan, despite a year-long $5 million effort by the State Department, to stop the looting.
I'm sorry that the President taunted Iraqi resistance fighters to 'bring it on' while our troops were still in harm's way.
Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq when we started this war. They are there now.
I would suggest, especially about the report by Major General Ryder, that we find out whether there is a coordination.