Republifucks Report This Comment Date: April 01, 2005 02:22AM
Like George Carlin said (about military intelligence) 30 years ago: The concept
is oxymoronic.
Stiffler Report This Comment Date: April 01, 2005 03:02AM
Bush and his cronies needed a scapegoat for their WMD's fuck up and the CIA is
apparantly it. It was only a matter of time before this bullshit hit the news
wires. I've been wondering who would take the fall.
Anthony Report This Comment Date: April 01, 2005 05:26AM
I just read about some interview Colin Powell gave in Germany. He was really
embarassed about going to the United Nations with faulty information. Powell
said he was “furious and angry” that he had been misinformed about Iraq’s
stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and said “It was information from
our security services and from some Europeans, including Germans. Some of this
information was wrong. I did not know this at the time,” he told the magazine.
Hundreds of millions followed it on television. I will always be the one who
presented it. I have to live with that.”
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 01, 2005 06:21AM
Yea Anthony I read that too but this report is why I posted Four-and-a-half
years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the US intelligence
community remains in many ways a bureaucracy in chaos.
The CIA, the FBI, and other agencies involved in espionage and intelligence
analysis are still adjusting to such major changes as the the new National
Counterterrorism Center. As yet, there's no new director of national
intelligence in place - nominee John Negroponte's Senate confirmation hearings
don't begin until later this month.And now forceful criticism from a new source
is stirring the intelligence pot again. A presidential commission on Thursday
outlined 74 more changes for a community it says knows "disturbingly
little" about the threats facing the country. The latest panel to offer its
say on US intelligence is officially known as the Commission on the Intelligence
Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Headed
by Senior US Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman and former Sen. Charles Robb
(D) of Virginia,The panel's report is harsh in its judgment of the performance
of US intelligence prior to the war in Iraq, saying it was "dead
wrong" in most of its judgments regarding Saddam Hussein's purported
weapons of mass destruction.
Implicitly, the report absolves the administration of politicizing intelligence
prior to the war, saying that CIA briefers told the White House "what they
believed."
The panel also studied current US intelligence about the WMD programs of North
Korea and Iran, among others. While the unclassified version of its report says
little about this subject, a cover letter addressed to Mr. Bush states that
"the bad news is that we still know disturbingly little about the weapons
programs and even less about the intentions of many of our most dangerous
adversaries."
Stiffler Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2005 04:34AM
The CIA told the White House "what they believed" and this boils down
to paranoia on their part. No matter what the UN or anybody else said, the US
was going to find out for themselves, in their own way, come hell or high water,
what was going on over in Iraq. I want to know, now that there is nothing there,
who is going to pay for this massive gaff?
If this was any other country that did this the US would be all over them like a
cheap suit, pointing it's big, holier than thou, finger at them but since the US
has done this themselves they no doubt will sweep it under the rug like it's no
big deal.
This kind of thing falls under foreign policy which is what pisses the rest of
the world off about the US. Then the American people wonder why it is that they
are so unpopular with the rest of the world.
Just because you have the most to lose doesn't give you the right to treat the
rest of the world like shit.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2005 05:24AM
well said Stiffer
