Tennet's response to Chris Matthews question why Cheney didn't get the CIA Iraq report: “Ask him!”

[sabra]

http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/06/80439.aspx

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So, in the words of prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, what was all the “hullabaloo” when Joe Wilson wrote in the New York Times that it was “the vice president’s office” that had raised the question with the CIA of a possible Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium from Niger? Why did Cheney and Libby want everybody to think it wasn’t the vice president?” Why did Cheney’s chief of staff call and complain so fatefully when Wilson’s claims were repeated on “Hardball?”

Could it be that Cheney feared that if the country knew it was his inquiry that led to the Africa trip then he, the president’s right-hand man, could be expected to have gotten a full report on the trip’s findings.

In that case, Cheney would have known a year ahead of time that there was no deal by Saddam Hussein to buy uranium yellowcake in Niger. He should therefore have kept the president from making that assertion in his 2003 State of the Union that “British intelligence” reported a Saddam effort to buy uranium from Africa. That assertion of a nuclear threat from Iraq is what tilted this country toward war.

I asked George Tennet, the CIA director, to explain why the vice president never got a report on a CIA fact-finding trip that was triggered by his inquiry. Tennet’s reply was “Ask him!”

[Bandit]

1. Was he wearing his Medal of Freedom Award?

:shrug:

[jaksavage]

2. I can see it now

Cheney all trussed up like Hannibal Lecter on a hand cart. Only he isn't civil and polite he is more like a demonic being, spitting, growling and writhing against his restraints. Awaiting exorsism. " go ahead, ask him "

Sorry to share my completely unrealistic daydream with you.

[sabra]

3. LOL - and welcome to DU!

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. And Tweety is still pissed about that answer. Tennet should be put under oath by the Senate! GET

THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION!!!