(Hat tip-Bill) The Senate Select Committee on Ethics is expected to end its investigation of alleged classified leaks by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
July 27, 2005

(Hat tip-Bill) The Senate Select Committee on Ethics is expected to end its investigation of alleged classified leaks by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) in the next eight to 10 weeks, according to a source familiar with the probe.
The pace has been slowed by difficulties obtaining information, difficulties created partly by Sen. Pat Roberts’s (R-Kan.) decision not to recuse himself from the case, the source said. The investigation has been conducted “off and on” for six months.
Two potential witnesses told The Hill earlier this year that they would be reluctant to cooperate with the Ethics Committee unless Roberts recused himself because he is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and inherited senior aides from Shelby, the previous chairman....
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He exemplifies hackery. Josh Marshall had a similar claim against Roberts here. Josh: "And yet now we hear that he plans to investigate Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation itself. What this man won't do when Karl Rove calls."

The Carpet Bagger Report lists all of Roberts hackiest moments.: "That's right, Pat Roberts is accusing us of playing politics, and pretending to care about non-partisanship on his committee. That would be the same Roberts who… read on

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