how in the hell does this piece of shit keep his position after this?
Democrats condemn posting of Iraq arms data
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/11/04/democrats_condemn_posting_of_iraq_arms_data/?page=2<snip>
The documents were posted on the Internet after leading Republicans -- including Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, his House counterpart -- lobbied John D. Negroponte , the director of national intelligence, to disclose more information about Iraq's weapons activities.
Kay said yesterday that key administration figures, including Paul D. Wolfowitz , then deputy secretary of defense, also wanted to release the classified information, especially when it became apparent that Iraq had not restarted its weapons programs. After warning him of the consequences about making bomb instructions public, Kay said Wolfowitz reluctantly agreed to keep the documents classified.
But powerful Republicans in the House and Senate pushed through a resolution earlier this year that forced intelligence agencies to review the material and publish as much of it as possible.
Hoekstra yesterday urged a stricter review of sensitive information, but he said only about 40 percent of the documents had been released. Some of the documents, including one that indicated Iraq may have been a year away from building a nuclear bomb before the first Gulf War, were critical in "understanding the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime" and the necessity of the Iraq war, he said.
It was such statements -- conflating decades-old intelligence about Iraq's efforts to build a nuclear bomb with the White House's rationale for the 2003 invasion -- that Democrats attacked as misleading.
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