How come the CIA is letting Bush blame them for Iraq intel??

[sventvkg]

Bush administration was pushing for doing Iraq the second they came into the country and it's clear Tenet did NOT give them the intel stating there was WMD there. CIA was against it. So, how the hell is the WH now blaming them and getting away with it? The media and the entire congress know the truth...I dont' have much hope of a fair election if stuff like this is allowed to go down. No one seems to be saying a thing about this!!!

[tom_paine]

1. You are correct and I share your fears

I see no evidence that the parasitization and Orwellianization of the wretched remnants of the Formerly Free Press is getting the least bit better.

None.

These Sea Changes towards a Weak and Totalitarian Media are now hardwired into it.

[Disturbed]

2. CIA scapegoats.

The CIA has been nuetered by Cheney's Office of Special Plans, started by Rumsfailed. Tenet and Pavet were fired. The V. Plame outing and Chalabi factor into this situation. The J. Kerry machine won't mention OSP. Why not?

[mmonk]

7. Good point

I think I'm going to put Office of Special Plans on my vehicle's back window (along with Valerie Plame, Sibel Edmonds, PNAC, etc.)and see if people will ask me about these things. It's amazing the Dems such as our candidates won't bring up the OSP. It's really frustrating, like living in an alternate universe or something.

[LeftWingArmy]

3. They fear Bush getting re-elected.

why piss off your future boss?

[mmonk]

4. Neocon coup at the CIA?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/

[Alexander Dyne]

5. The CIA...

will not take the fall for this..they have too much on Bush and Cheney to not do anything. I would be prepared for "leaks" to the media in the next few weeks.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi mphubert!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JHB]

6. 20 years of politicization at the appointee level?

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story43.html

To make Reagan's apocalyptic vision stick -- to blame Moscow for the world's terrorism, Yellow Rain chemical warfare in Indochina, the Pope assassination attempt and virtually all revolutionary movements in the Third World -- Reagan and his CIA director, William J. Casey, set out to purge the CIA analytical division of those who wouldn't toe the party line, those who saw the Soviet Union as a declining empire still interested in detente with the West.

The CIA purge helped Reagan and Casey in another way, too. It cut off the potential for reliable CIA information reaching Congress and the public about the overt-covert paramilitary operations in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. Casey's domestic "perception management" campaigns which sought to influence the U.S. public debate on these issues would be strengthened by ensuring only favorable CIA-blessed propaganda.

[Zorra]

8. The CIA has a habit of not discussing it's business?

[Steely_Dan]

9. Of course, this was the plan...

all along. Blame the intelligence community.

-P

[against all enemies]

10. Tenet Gone. Always blame the guy who left.

[Disturbed]

12. My speculation

I am thinking that Bush told Tenet to back off of Chalabi and Tenet for once refused to bow down. Bush in a fit fired Tenet on the spot. Then a deal was struck. Tenet keeps his mouth shut and the Right Wingers in the Congress wouldn't push Tenet's perjury under oath to Congress. Tenet also violated Intl. Law, the Geneva Convention and the Constitution when he reqested Rumsfailed to send a detainee secretly to an Afghan secret prison. Rumsfailed is also guilty of crimes.

[CaptainMidnight]

13. yo!

They're NOT!

Just wait til what comes next....

Captain Mike

[havocmom]

14. Bush plays checkers and the CIA excells at chess.

Sometimes one allows a 'check' so one can line things up for the 'check mate'.

The spooks will win.