cia bungling on iraq tells only half the story (usa today op-ed)

[faithnotgreed]

says the other half is that the administration wanted this scenario in the first place

right on!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&ncid=742&e=1&u=/usatoday/20040712/cm_usatoday/ciabunglingoniraqtellsonlyhalfthestory

[ewagner]

1. If only we had

a real John Smiley.............

[Octafish]

2. Well...

Who am I? Chopped liver?

What this guy can tell.
Let me tell you.
And, when facing 50-years-to-life,
It's pretty certain I will.
Then I'll get some respect.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Tenet won't be charged with anything....but he would make a very...

...good star witness, wouldn't he?

[Octafish]

7. Soon. Soon. Executive Privilege wears off soon.

Star witness. O-ho-ho-ho yeah. I'm ready.

Tenet's Perjury And Resignation

by Mark Levey
published by Democrats.com

Reporters for the major papers may have missed the first page of the biggest story since the 9/11 attacks. When his resignation becomes effective July 11, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet will no longer be covered by Executive Privilege. He may then be compelled to testify about what he as a Director of Central Intelligence told the President regarding several matters about which both he and Bush have thus far displayed a startling lack of candor.

Tenet will no doubt be pressed to truthfully answer what he said to George W. Bush in the weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Owing to his perjury before the 9/11 Commission, Tenet has also forfeited his qualified immunity on topics relevant to his meetings with the President in August and early September 2001. This will give potential prosecutors enormous leverage. In exhange for his true testimony about this, and what he knows about the Bush White House's illegal outing of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, we should expect Tenet to ask for and receive immunity from prosecution.

Tenet's perjury and resignation presents Congressional investigators and a special prosecutor with an unexpected opportunity later this summer to finally get to the truth of what the President was actually knew and when he knew it. This is also, of course, the Bush White House and the Republican's worst nightmare.

The widely-known but as yet unspoken truth in Washington is that Tenet committed perjury in his April 14 statements before the 9/11 Commission. The CIA Director raised his right hand and was sworn-in before that official inquiry. He stated repeatedly he had not met with President Bush in August 2001. When given several opportunities by Commission members to correct or retract his story during his sworn testimony, he did not do so. It wasn't a momentary memory lapse or slip of the tongue. Tenet lied repeatedly under oath. That is the very definition of perjury. But, within hours it was apparent that public records contradicted Tenet's statement about his meetings with Bush. CIA aides called reporters later that afternoon and offered that Tenet had "misspoken." The alternative explanation given was that Tenet had "temporarily forgotten," and that is what was reported in the newspapers. The story was all but buried.

CONTINUED...

http://progressivetrail.org/articles/040615Levey.shtml

And if he still doesn't talk, we can employ the same sources and methods of the BFEE:



Ken Starr Witness Production Plan:
"I'm sure we can think of something."

[Miss Authoritiva]

3. Just add moodiness and some zits.

If all of life is just like high school, then this adolescent mode of thinking makes sense: sloppy analysis...few or unreliable sources... little sharing of information...and a dysfunctional culture that encouraged only groupthink.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. I keep reading posts about how the CIA "bungled" the intelligence....

...on Iraq, but the documents coming out of the commission seem to indicate that the CIA did it's job very well. In fact, they did it so well that they pissed off the NeoCons who are wasting no effort to pin this whole Middle East disaster on the CIA.

If I remember correctly, the CIA's classified version of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) contained more than enough qualifying information on Iraqi WMDs to convince any rational person that NO hard evidence existed to prove Iraq had WMDs. Unfortunately for the CIA, they have NOT been dealing with anyone among the NeoCons that could even remotely pass as rational.

And then a funny thing happened to the unclassified version of the NIE...the wording was changed to indicate that there WAS strong evidence to support the idea that Iraqi WMDs not only existed but in alarmingly large numbers.

So, after hoodwinking the Congress and anyone else that needed to be sold on attacking Iraq, Iraq was invaded.

Now, who do you think would have wanted to doctor the classified NIE to justify an attack on Iraq? Yes, that's correct, just as the USA Today states..."the administration wanted this scenario in the first place". Gee, I wonder what was discussed during Cheney's "energy meetings"?

[ewagner]

6. Right on the money!

The CIA didn't fail...Tenet failed to stop the Bush* freight train, and ended up taking the fall for it.

I'd really like to know what "DadCom" (of Matcom fame) thinks about the Company taking the fall for Dubya.

[faithnotgreed]

8. ab so lutely. i was just surprised that usa today called * out at all

but the administration is definitely orchestrating the smear job re cia and wilson etc
and i did make sure the other day to email a letter to a washington post writer after i read the smear job susan smith wrote there a few days ago

could they be any more transparent

catch the op eds coming in tomorrows washington post
now those are worth reading and they were posted on the editorials forum here