NYT Editorial: Still Waiting For Answers ("We hope Waxman enforces the subpoena of Rice..")

[Hissyspit]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/opinion/29sun1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Editorial
Still Waiting for Answers

Published: April 29, 2007
Surely no one beyond a handful of the most self-deluded Republicans in Congress was surprised at the disclosure by George Tenet, the former intelligence director, that there was never a serious debate in the Bush administration about whether Iraq actually posed a threat to the United States.

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We hope Representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, enforces the subpoena of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss prewar claims about Saddam Hussein’s long-gone weapons programs. Ms. Rice, who was national security adviser before the war, says she has answered every possible question. Actually, we don’t have room for all our questions.

Just a few: Did she vet the briefing Mr. Bush got from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s rogue intelligence shop on Iraq’s alleged efforts to acquire uranium? The Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department thought, correctly, that the report was false. So why did Ms. Rice permit the president to repeat it to the world? Or did Mr. Bush also know what he was claiming was wrong?

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It is imperative for Senator John Rockefeller, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, to finish two remaining studies on prewar intelligence that his Republican predecessor, Senator Pat Roberts, had no intention of completing. The first, on the errors made by the intelligence agencies in predicting what would happen after the invasion of Iraq, is expected to be finished next month. The final piece of the report will compare what administration officials said about Iraq with the actual information they had. Both reports are essential for understanding how this country got into this mess. Mr. Rockefeller will have to make sure the White House does not drag out the declassification procedure.

And then there are the questions about the purge of federal prosecutors. There is mounting evidence that many of the eight fired United States attorneys were punished for refusing to prosecute Democrats on phony election-fraud charges. Who ran this purge? And is it true, as it now seems, that others were rewarded for bringing weak corruption cases timed to close races?

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[Zhade]

1. Any mention of their own pushing of propaganda?

Is the NYT still pretending it wasn't knee-deep in the lies?

[tanyev]

2. Excellent question.

"So why did Ms. Rice permit the president to repeat it to the world"....VIA the New York Times?

[me b zola]

5. They are too busy sliming Bill Moyers to own up to their own stinky mess

:grr:

[Hissyspit]

3. .

[indie_voter]

4. Memo to NY Times. You might want to ask Judith Miller

She worked for you once, and might just be able to help provide you with some answers.


:grr: