CIA condemned for flawed intelligence on Iraqi weapons

[Nottingham]

CIA condemned for flawed intelligence on Iraqi weapons
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
29 September 2003


The intelligence used by the CIA to conclude that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and had links to al-Qa'ida has been severely criticised by leaders of a high-ranking Congressional committee as being "outdated, circumstantial, piecemeal and fragmentary". They said the agency's ability to gather fresh information had "significant deficiencies".

In a scathing attack on the information cited by President George Bush and his senior officials as they made their case for war, the leaders of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said the CIA had relied on "past assessments" that dated from 1998 when UN weapons inspectors left Iraq.

"The absence of proof that chemical and biological weapons and their related development programmes had been destroyed was considered proof that they continued to exist," the committee leaders said in a letter to the CIA director, George Tenet.

Controversy over America's failure to find the weapons of mass destruction that the Bush administration insisted Iraq possessed has been growing since US and British forces ousted Saddam Hussein and occupied the country. And, this week, America's senior weapons inspector, David Kay, is expected to report that his team of 1,400 officials and special forces soldiers have still uncovered no evidence of WMD.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=448040

Looks like Republican Congressmen are Blaming the CIA!

Especially looking at Tenant! But Nobody can look past that Bush used it Colin Powell Used it Rice used it and they are responsible for using it! Maybe this is why the CIA is on the defense!

:bounce:

[Nottingham]

1. I could be wrong but it looks like WAR between CIA & BUSH

:bounce:

What a Battle this is gonna be!

[Shadder]

2. Your not

I could see this one coming on for some time now. And the CIA will win.

[Lindsay]

3. The CIA is NOT going to go quietly

or take the blame for BushCo's incompetence/malfeasance/etc.

Who'da thunk they'd end up being the good guys?!?!?!

[Nottingham]

4. Well said Lindsay! I wouldn't have guessed that! But it just says

the CIA knows this group of men are psycho and crazy!

and I think the CIA is smart here Homeland Security was to get rid of CIA all of them ! :bounce:

[Nottingham]

5. I got a ? for ya guys! What if Bush fires Tenet Now?

Wouldn't that look bad right when the CIA is asking the Justice Dept to investigate the White House??? :bounce:

[coralrf]

8. It would look very bad...

and I imagine it would SOUND horrible as Tenet would talk up a storm. I do hope Bush does this and when one considers all the bad moves that asshole has made lately.....he might.

[mike_c]

6. Bush* is going to try to let the CIA take the fall....

Not smart, but Bush* might be coming to understand that he's a one-hit wonder, in which case he has little to lose and everything to gain by going out with his own reputation somewhat less tattered, in return for pissing on everyone else within range.

[coralrf]

7. Lets hope they do blame them...

and do a real muckraking job of it. I do hope that the Bush administration will paint the CIA as a bunch of incompetent quacks.

The CIA is currently requesting the Justice Department investigate the Bush administration for leaking the identity of a covert operative. Now, I know as you do that we can expect an Ashcroft whitewash of this thing under all but one scenario: a relentless CIA pursuit of the truth.

So let us hope that Rove is dumb enough to try and dump on the CIA. I think he is. In the recent past that man has done little but fuck up by the numbers.

[0007]

9. Damn if they do and damn if they don't

....impossible to book a winner anyway ya look at it junior, baby.

The ghost of J.H. Hatfield will come back to haunt you! Joe Wilson will win this one in a fourth round knock out!

[Nottingham]

10. I'm Betting on the CIA!..Their Smarter!

:bounce:

[proud patriot]

11. The CIA will not be a scapegoat

for the bush cartel

[stickdog]

12. CIA asks for the White House to be investigated.

White House tells its whores to respond with this warmed over crap.