House Probers Conclude Iraq War Data Was Weak

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House Probers Conclude Iraq War Data Was Weak
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 28, 2003; Page A01

Leaders of the House intelligence committee have criticized the U.S. intelligence community for using largely outdated, "circumstantial" and "fragmentary" information with "too many uncertainties" to conclude that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda.

Top members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which spent four months combing through 19 volumes of classified material used by the Bush administration to make its case for the war on Iraq, found "significant deficiencies" in the community's ability to collect fresh intelligence on Iraq, and said it had to rely on "past assessments" dating to when U.N. inspectors left Iraq in 1998 and on "some new 'piecemeal' intelligence," both of which "were not challenged as a routine matter."

"The absence of proof that chemical and biological weapons and their related development programs had been destroyed was considered proof that they continued to exist," the two committee members said in a letter Thursday to CIA Director George J. Tenet. The Washington Post obtained a copy this weekend.


Bush Lied and Soldiers Died

[thebigidea]

1. gee...

wouldn't it have been really swell if they did this severe, almost proctological probing uh, maybe uh... BEFORE the war?

That would've been nice.

Good work, people.

[Democat]

2. You can't prove you aren't from outer space, so that means you are

Bush logic.

[underpants]

6. The absence of evidence is NOT the evidence of absence

It goes something like that.

[dbt]

3. 'Not challenged as a routine matter?'

Damn, I don't see how the Librul Media let that slip by!

:grr:
dbt

[Flying_Pig]

4. Weak? Outdated? How about nearly 100% fucking lies!!!! Once again,

as they did with the 9/11 report, the Enron investigation (Hello Holy Joe!), Congress has wimped out big-time. This bunch of shysters has done a grave injustice to this nation, and have become defacto "accessories after the fact". They were complicit from the git-go. This, is why there needs to be a Special Prosecuter!!!

[dbt]

5. My favorite bumper sticker:

Empty The Prisons. Make Room For Congress. Given to me by an apparently disgruntled Native American.

:evilgrin:
dbt

[underpants]

7. Ah blame the intelligence community

Not the LIARS who knew damned well this information was weak.

Also why wasn't Congress allowed to see the information the decision was based on BEFORE they voted on it?

[FlashHarry]

8. This is big.

Mainstream coverage of the Big Lie. Drip. Drip. Drip.

[bigtime]

9. weak

like the whistle-ass.