If It Looks Like a Cover-Up, and Smells Like a Cover-Up...Guess What?

[journalist3072]

It's a cover-up!

A new article by Murray Waas (National Journal) says that Bush's Brain, Karl Rove, forewarned White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Idiot Son's chances of 're-election' would be greatly compromised if it became public knowledge that Bush had been personally warned that some of his rationale for going to war had been "challenged" within his own Administration.

Rove's concerns surfaced after classified records showed that Idiot Son had been personally adivsed that claims he would make in his State of the Union Speech about Iraq's designs on high-strength aluminum tubes, might not be true.

For his part, Stephen Hadley (then Deputy National Security Adviser) was concerned that the public would learn about a National Intelligence Estimate Bush received in 2002. So just what did that National Intelligence Estimate say? It revealed that although some agencies felt the aluminum tubes were related to uranium enrichment, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Energy Department's intelligence branch disagreed with those assessments. Rather, they felt that the aluminum tubes were likely to be used for more conventional weapons.

In spite of receiving that assessment showing there was disagreement about the probable use of the aluminum tubes, Bush still asserted 3 months later in his 2003 State of the Union Speech: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."

In short, George W. Bush KNEW that there was disagreement within his own intelligence community, regarding the aluminum tubes and what they might be used for. Yet, he and others within the Bush Crime Team cited the aluminum tubes as hard evidence that Sadaam Hussein had designs on a nuclear weapon.

According to Waas' article, the White House was in full damage control mode, ensuring that they ensulated Idiot Son to make it appear as though he did not know about the interal dissent over the aluminum tubes.

And therein lies the cover-up. The Bush Crime Team covered up the fact that the Commander-in-Chief knew that a critical piece of intelligence was being disputed within the Administration.

But Mr. President, I hear you saying, I thought you really didn't want to go to war? That war was your last resort? Well, my friend, think again!

http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0330nj1.htm

[intheozone]

1. Who is leaking this information??? nt

[stillcool]

2. From Libby's proceedings?..

missing emails and what not.

[intheozone]

3. Oh, thanks.

So is Libby turning on the Bush cabal? I hope so, I hope he spills his guts and tells every last thing he knows about this WH.

Oh, I see now, you were asking not telling. Well, one can hope, right?

[journalist3072]

4. "A former senior government official...."

You may be on to something here:

"Presidential knowledge was the ball game," says a former senior government official outside the White House who was personally familiar with the damage-control effort. "The mission was to insulate the president. It was about making it appear that he wasn't in the know. You could do that on Niger. You couldn't do that with the tubes." A Republican political appointee involved in the process, who thought the Bush administration had a constitutional obligation to be more open with Congress, said: "This was about getting past the election."

[journalist3072]

5. We need to keep this kicked, DUers! I personally think this is HUGE! eom