Another Massive Lie: Phase II WMD Intelligence Investigation

[Stevendsmith]

You know, the one that was supposed to take place “after the election.”

From “The Nation” (March 24, 2005)

Last July the Senate Intelligence Committee released a much-anticipated report on the prewar intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The study concluded that the intelligence community--led by the CIA--had "overstated" and "mischaracterized" the intelligence on Iraq's (nonexistent) WMDs.

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But the committee's report did not cover a crucial area: how the Bush Administration used--or abused--the prewar intelligence to build support for the Iraq invasion. Roberts claimed his committee was hot on that trail: "It is one of my top priorities," he said. The problem, he explained, was that there was not enough time before the November election to complete the assignment. Rockefeller took issue with that and complained that the "central issue of how intelligence was...exaggerated by Bush Administration officials" was being relegated into a "Phase II" investigation that would not begin until after the election. A Democratic committee staffer said that such an inquiry could easily be completed within months.

Down the fucking memory hole because we do not have a functioning press in this country.

[keeplaughing]

1. Functioning Media? The media was complicit

in "a cover-up of the web of lies that got America into war on false pretenses."

Yesterday at our DSM meeting, an angry Republican gentleman suggested that we need a class action law suit against the largest of the corporate media giants, charging not only negligence and obstruction of justice, but deliberate dissemination of lies and propaganda in an effort to keep the truth about this administration from the American people.

What damages? LET THEM PAY FOR THE WAR. Let the media giants, let Fox, GE, Time-Warner and all the rest, pay for the reconstruction of Iraq, the medical needs of our Iraq veterans, and all the military costs incurred because of this illegal and immoral war.

[glitch]

2. Welcome to DU! I see you are from WA state. Did you go to the meeting

in Seattle? I had to miss it and have been dying for info on it. How was it?

[leftchick]

3. I wish leslie blitzer had asked that traitor roberts today

on his show. Instead roberts went on and on ad naseum with the RNC CIA talkingpoints. It was awful.

[aquart]

4. Roberts was complicit in the deception?

No wonder they won't release the memos. No wonder they want him on the Court. He's up to his neck in treason.