$20,000 bonus to official who agreed on nuke claim

[TrogL]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34042

This is World Net Daily so take it with a grain of salt.

A former Energy Department intelligence chief who agreed with the White House claim that Iraq had reconstituted its defunct nuclear-arms program was awarded a total of $20,500 in bonuses during the build-up to the war, WorldNetDaily has learned.

Thomas Rider, as acting director of Energy's intelligence office, overruled senior intelligence officers on his staff in voting for the position at a National Foreign Intelligence Board meeting at CIA headquarters last September.

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Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham gave Rider a $13,000 performance bonus after the NIE report was released and just before the war, department sources say. He had received an additional $7,500 before the report.

[realFedUp]

1. What a web...who's the spider?

.

[Robb]

2. Heck,

I'll say my neighbor has a nuke for half that... :eyes:

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Many Freepers aren't happy about this....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962655/posts

[zbdent]

8. Gotta love this line

"The tie between the Bush administration and oil is yesterday's news and quite out dated."

So was the Lewinsky thing. But you think that a RWer will quit bringing that up? No. (Picture John Belushi, after a rant . . . turns the word "no" into three syllables)

[iam]

4. Well, here is the bribery part of

Treason.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Isn't it time yet

for this cabal to resign in disgrace?

[samsingh]

6. what the f#ck is going on?!!

how deep do the tendrals go? who is all involved?

[indepat]

7. Monetary rewards are often awarded for outstanding service

rendered to the nation. So what if his analyses/conclusions, which overroad the analyses/conclusions of senior intelligence officers, just happened to coincide with the PNAC vision, just happened to be music to the ears of his superiors.