The dishonesty of the republicans on this issue need to be kept visible as this article helps to do.

I just called Roberts' office and asked if his statement last September that the report was nearly completed was simply false. The person answering the phones was pretty clearly embarrassed at first but refused to answer why after just saying she 'didn't think it was false', falling back to the 'we'll forward your comments' line.

Why Reid and Dean aren't talking a lot more about this is hard to understand, not to mention the media.

As long as the republicans can have it both ways, they will; they need to be forced to choose to either be clearly putting politics ahead of the nation's interests and to be breaking their word, or to put the report out with its damaging information.

Kudos to the Washington Post for the article (and to War Room for the heads up to it).

Harry Reid needs to do what he did nine months ago: Invoke Rule XXI of the Senate. It provides as follows:

Rule XXI: Session with Closed Doors

1. On a motion made and seconded to close the doors of the Senate, on the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of a Senator, require secrecy, the Presiding Officer shall direct the galleries to be cleared; and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed.

2. When the Senate meets in closed session, any applicable provisions of rules XXIX and XXXI, including the confidentiality of information shall apply to any information and to the conduct of any debate transacted.

Only by majority vote does the Senate open its doors again. The last time the republicans caved in two hours, and all we got out of it were lies from Pat Roberts.

I've written to Senator Reid and implored him to do it again, only this time, don't agree to open the doors until Pat Roberts shows us the report. That ought to tighten some sphincters.