Goss Tells AP He Approves Kay Disclosure

[peterh]

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-goss-interview,0,3523365.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that resigned U.S. weapons inspector David Kay is doing the nation's intelligence system a favor with his harsh criticism of the CIA's flawed prewar estimates on Iraq's weapons capabilities.

"If you really want to get into our national security, Dr. Kay has done some valuable work that has told me, as person with responsibility, that I have got to find a way to get more capabilities in the hands of the intelligence community to deal with these hard targets," Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Goss, a former CIA officer, said he agrees with Kay that President Bush made the right decision to invade Iraq and depose its president, Saddam Hussein. But, he said, the intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq was inadequate because intelligence agencies failed to penetrate Saddam's inner circle.

Goss blamed the apparently erroneous intelligence on underestimation of the fear and repression in Saddam's Iraq and insufficient intelligence budgets during the 1990s. He said the intelligence system needs more resources.

"I already knew it, but I know it in a more reinforced way now, and I figure Dr. Kay has done me a favor," Goss said.




Grab the buck…wipe it clean….move it over here…ta da….it was Clinton’s penis that caused the breakdown…

:puke:

[Dover]

1. Spun to support bigger budgets, reorganization and perhaps

the elimination of the CIA? That's Wolfowitz and Rummy's dream.

[MasonJar]

2. Everyone should call Goss and tell him what a useless,

partyline, protect the pres with more lies, pathetic member of the Intelligence Committee piece of ____ he is. I'm going to. I left that other scum on the Defense Committee a similar message yesterday.

[bahrbearian]

3. Clinton's Fault.

[proud patriot]

4. Gosh darn it It was the Office of Special plans not the CIA's failure

:grr:

[rustydog]

6. This is where Democrats have to make the differentiation...

No one in the media has mentioned the OSP set up by Rummy to circumvent CIA, NSA etc and their refusal to give Bush an ok to go to war over WMD. The OSP gave Bush what he wanted.

[mhr]

5. Anything To Deflect Responsibility From Those Responsible!

-- that miserable excuse for a pResident occupying the White House on Pennsylvania avenue.

Seems all have forgotten about the special intelligence unit created by Rumsfeld to spin the valid intelligence coming from the CIA.

These Bastards have no shame in lying and lying often.

Do they really expect us to believe a word that comes from their lips.

Disgusted and fed up in Texas!