A SPY SPEAKS OUT-WH ignored intelligence on WMD's-60 Minutes THIS Sunday

[kpete]

A Spy Speaks Out
April 21, 2006
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"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."
Tyler Drumheller


(CBS) A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq.

The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did give the White House some bad intelligence, it also gave the White House good intelligence — intelligence the administration chose to ignore.

Drumheller talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley in his first television interview this Sunday, April 23 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Drumheller, who retired last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source. The source was Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, with whom U.S. spies had made a deal.

When CIA Director George Tenet delivered this news to the president, the vice president and other high ranking officials, they were excited, but not for long.

more at:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml

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[in_cog_ni_to]

1. OK...shall we place bets on when CBS will cancel the scheduled airing

of this interview? I won't hold my breath on CBS having the balls to show this. I hope they do, but they tend to cave to political pressure. If anyone from the Right screams about this, they'll drop it. If they do air it, I expect an immediate Swiftboating of Drumheller.

[unschooler]

3. After all, Drumheller MUST be an America-hating pinko Muslim-lover....

I can hear it now.

:eyes:

[unschooler]

2. Great, but where was the MSM three years ago?

:shrug:

[girl gone mad]

10. They were embedded.

Snuggling up to those tanks and machine guns, with dollar signs in their eyes as they calculated precisely how much the images of big explosions over Bagdhad would increase their ad revenue; or fantasizing about their macho news superstar future, when they would be anchoring their own show like that Gulf War stud Leslie Blitzer.

[unschooler]

11. God. You're right. The MSM loves war, don't they? It sells air time.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[HereSince1628]

4. This sounds familiar, didn't we learn this earlier?

Not necessarily from Drumheller, but this turning of Saddam's FM has a disctinctly familiar ring.

[Connie_Corleone]

5. Wasn't it in that book Cobra II?

[HereSince1628]

7. It may have been, but I've not read Cobra II.

[librechik]

6. time to kill the messenger! Fortunately they've already branded CBS

as liars and traitors and liberals. Therefore any facts they put forth are suspect, no matter how self evident.

hardly any work to do at all.

[grasswire]

8. and how many men and women died as a result....

...of this fellow waiting until retirement to spill the beans?

This trend is sickening.

[habitual]

9. Gov't will say it's classified.

watch... man o man

[Imagevision]

12. After 20/20 Bush will have a breakdown, what a way to start the week

[progressoid]

13. I'm tired of the 'intelligence' bullshit.

There will always be bad intell. And this will always be their out. Just blame the intell guys.

And stories that try to uncover the bad/good intelligence story just add to the confusion about the run up to the war. They ignore the fact that this is just a smokescreen and a convenient excuse.