So what's the big deal?

I am having a very hard time understanding why it is that Jay Rockefeller's comment that Dick Cheney forced Pat Roberts to endlessly delay the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into the Administration's responsibility for the "fixed" intelligence that led us into Iraq is getting so much attention today. After all, we all knew that long ago. It's simply not news.

Update:

For example, here's a quote from an article by Laura Rosen in the American Prospect on October 19, 2005:

But that was then. Today, committee Republicans view their mission as being not oversight but cover-up. Indeed, one source told the Prospect that Roberts has worked closely behind the scenes with Vice President Dick Cheney’s office in crafting the language defining and limiting the investigation’s terms -- even though the committee is supposed to be investigating and providing oversight of the administration’s use of Iraq intelligence. Yet the committee’s leading Democrat, Rockefeller, hobbled by criticism from within the committee -- and according to one account, “a wimp … not confident of his own judgments” -- has felt constrained from pushing the majority more aggressively to comply with its promise.