Guardian: The rest of Tenent's statement and what it implies

[Nazgul35]

the guardian published an article today outlining the rest of the CIA directors released statement that lays out everything we've been harping on for almost two weeks now...that the CIA was forced to accept a technically correct statement by forces within the Pentagon and WH so that intellegence would suit the needs of Bush and his desire to go to war...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,999256,00.html

"The next 900 words provide a thinly coded description of how the CIA's arm was twisted into giving the White House what it wanted. Tenet points out that the CIA had strong reservations about intelligence suggesting Iraq was in the market for yellow-cake uranium from Africa in general and from Niger in particular."

--snip--

"So there. But it does not answer the real question, which was: who did all the heavy work leaning on the agency and poor George Tenet, who knew he was lucky to hold on to his job after the September 11 intelligence failures?

Two names come up again and again in conversations with intelligence sources in Washington: Newt Gingrich, the former Republican congressional leader, who seems to be have repeatedly visited as an informal ambassador for the Pentagon hardliners; and Dick Cheney, who seems to have spent more time down at Langley, egging on the analysts, than any other senior official. The trail leads back to the Pentagon and the White House itself."

God hurry up and get here Guardian...we need a decent press...

[cjbuchanan]

1. Two great paragraphs

very nice article.

I like these two paragraphs best:

It was President Bush, that paragon of accountability, who first pointed the finger at the director of central intelligence (DCI) and complained, in effect: "He made me say it."

Two names come up again and again in conversations with intelligence sources in Washington: Newt Gingrich, the former Republican congressional leader, who seems to be have repeatedly visited as an informal ambassador for the Pentagon hardliners; and Dick Cheney, who seems to have spent more time down at Langley, egging on the analysts, than any other senior official. The trail leads back to the Pentagon and the White House itself.

[curlyred]

2. Cheney under pressure to quit over false war evidence?

Did you see this article? I was floored.


Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President and the administration's most outspoken hawk over Iraq, faced demands for his resignation last night as he was accused of using false evidence to build the case for war.

He was accused of using his office to insist that a false claim about Iraq's efforts to buy uranium from Africa to restart its nuclear programme be included in George Bush's State of the Union address - overriding the concerns of the CIA director, George Tenet.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=424786