Reply #42: Edwards, being a member of the SSCI, had more information [View All]

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available to him including the fact that the last intelligence report was almost two years old. Several senators requested a new NIE while Edwards made his 9/12/2002 speech on the senate floor and wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post urging quick action.

Good judgment? Would he have argued a case in court without up to date information?

:shrug:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/congress/2004_rpt/iraq-wmd-intell_chapter11.htm

"In September 2002, in the midst of a debate about taking military action against Iraq, Congress, specifically several Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), requested that the Intelligence Community (IC) produce an National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs.

The IC had not produced an in-depth, comprehensive, coordinated IC assessment of Iraq's WMD programs since the production of the December 2000 Intelligence Community (IC)Assessment, Iraq: Steadily Pursuing WMD Capabilities and had never produced an NIE devoted to Iraq's WMD programs..."


John Edwards 2002 Vote for the Iraq War
9/12/2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY6BZgkI0kI