Big deal. One government agency over another. Same bunch of crooks
running the show.
Senate Report Blasts CIA
Pre-War Intel On Iraq
10-24-3
(AFP) -- A report being drawn up for the US Senate will fault the
Central Intelligence Agency for overstating the weapons and terrorism
case against toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, The Washington
Post said.
The report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is
still at a preliminary stage, expresses surprise at the amount of
circumstantial evidence and single-source or disputed information used
to write key intelligence documents, Republican and Democratic
congressional sources told the daily.
The Senate inquiry, which the paper said was similar but less
exhaustive than one being completed by the House of Representatives,
shifts attention towards the intelligence community and away from
White House officials.
However, the daily said the committee was deeply divided on
investigating how the administration of President George W. Bush used
the intelligence it was provided with in its public statements about
Iraq.
Democratic Senator John Rockefeller told The Washington Post he
intended to investigate whether Bush, Vice President ***** Cheney,
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other administration officials
exaggerated the threat from Iraq.
After insisting that Iraq concealed biological, chemical and possibly
nuclear weapons posing a threat to the world, the US-led coalition has
found no such weapons in Iraq since Bush declared an end to major
hostilities on May 1, despite an ongoing search.
The lack of proof has heaped criticism on the United States and on
Britain, its main ally in the Iraq War, as the White House and the CIA
point at each other as the source of the faulty intelligence.
Bush on July 30 publicly accepted blame for the use of a
now-discredited claim in a speech he gave in January that Iraq had
sought uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa.
CIA spokesman Bill Harlow defended his agency's performance on Iraq,
telling The Washington Post that the Senate committee "has yet to take
the opportunity to hear a comprenehsive explanation of how and why we
reached our conclusions."
Harlow also said the committee had not accepted an offer from CIA
Director George Tenet to hear from him and senior intelligence
officials.
Pat Roberts, Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee,
said his staff members had interviewed more than 100 people who
collected and analyzed intelligence used to back up the
administration's statements on Iraq's weapons.
He said none of those questioned had said they were pressured to
change their work to fit the Bush administration's point of view.
Robert said the committee's work was almost complete, but Rockefeller
insisted the report was in the preliminary stage and would not be
finished until the end of the year, or later.
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25 Oct 2003 02:02:07 PM |
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wrote:
Big deal. One government agency over another. Same bunch of crooks
running the show.
Au contraire. Anybody with a brain knows with absolute certainty that
it was the neo-con/Bushmob that was desperately eager for war. This
bizarre move reeks of .. what? Supine Arrogance? Desperation?
Brutish Evil?
Something.
Grantland
Senate Report Blasts CIA
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25 Oct 2003 02:34:25 PM |
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:02:07 GMT, (Grantland)
wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com wrote:
Big deal. One government agency over another. Same bunch of crooks
running the show.
Au contraire. Anybody with a brain knows with absolute certainty that
it was the neo-con/Bushmob that was desperately eager for war. This
bizarre move reeks of .. what? Supine Arrogance? Desperation?
Brutish Evil?
Something.
Grantland
I guess that came out wrong, what I mean is that the whole Butcher
Bush regime is a farce, he is just trying to get some pressure off his
own lies and terrorist ways and pass it on to another department which
is about to have more goodies exposed real soon.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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