Journalist Shares War Secrets: 700 million secretly used for Iraq in 2002 [View All]

[Nancy Waterman]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml

OMG!! This seems like it will be a huge story. It will be revealed in Bob Woodward's 60 Minutes interview.

In the interview, Woodward talked about how the administration was able to finance secret preparations for the Iraq war.

"President Bush, after a National Security Council meeting, takes Don Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically and takes him into a little cubbyhole room and closes the door and says, 'What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq?' What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret," says Woodward.

"...The end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn't know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved. ...Some people are gonna look at a document called the Constitution which says that no money will be drawn from the treasury unless appropriated by Congress. Congress was totally in the dark on this."