Republican Senator calls Bush Adm Irresponsible Over Uraniumgate

[mourningdove92]

Bush's 16 words still hotly debated

WASHINGTON (CNN) --A Republican senator said Sunday it is "irresponsible" for the Bush administration to assign responsibility to CIA Director George Tenet for the State of the Union claim that Iraq tried to obtain uranium in Africa.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told CNN's "Late Edition" the intelligence flap "is bigger, wider, deeper than just about one person."

"To just throw George Tenet's body from the train and say, 'That takes care of the problem,' I don't think is the way to do this," Hagel said.

Hagel pointed to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney as part of the process that led to Bush including the report in the annual presidential address.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/20/sprj.irq.wmd.investigation/


woo hoo....pretty amazing stuff.

:kick:

[LeftCoast]

1. Whoa! Pretty amazing!

Anyone have a smilie for 'stupified'?

:)

LeftCoast

[indictrichardperle]

2. way to go Hagel

Hagel was against the war, he ridiculed Richard Perle.

Hagel is an internationalist, in the same camp as Scowcroft, they along with the CIA, the uniformed miltary are against the neo-cons.

The (non DLC) DEMS have plenty of allies, if they will just go after this cabal.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Hagel sees a possible Repug nomination for POTUS in it for him...

He's seeing the beginning of the end for the cabal, and is positioning himself for the repug nomination...

[Frances]

7. Of course, I would vote for the Democratic candidate

against Hagel, but I think we should support his accusations against Bush.

I would be unhappy with Hagel as president, but I would not have the panicked feeling I have now. And I know that some of you are prepared to move to Canada if the Republicans take over the U.S. totally, but I think if the Republicans succeed in doing that, it will be a matter of time until they cripple Canada financially just as they crippled California.

[indictrichardperle]

8. Strictly based on foreign policy

and foreign policy is THE ISSUE, since the neo-con cabal WILL drag the US into a world war.......i honestly think Hagel is just as safe as "some" of the democratic nominees. If we are going to invade Iran and Syria....i dont care too much in comparison about domestic issues.

Dean is our best hope.

[Melinda]

4. Hagel has the BBV hook-up and plans to be prez

He registered Hagel2008.com and ChuckHagel2008.com months ago, and at one time he purchased domain name "Bush-Hagel2004.com (it's history now).

He smells opportunity.

*edited to add link to Bev Harris site with copies of WHOIS

[Catch22Dem]

5. Freepers

The Freepers HATE Hagel.

[janx]

23. Freepers hate any moderate Repub that they can't kick

out of the party. And those are the Repubs (what's left of them) whom most sane people truly respect.

[Frances]

6. And Hastert blames Clinton

<<But House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, said on "Meet the Press" that President Clinton launched a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998 based on the same evidence.

"He didn't give a speech about it, he just did it," Hastert said.>>

I wish I could ask Hastert these question:

How many U.S. soldiers died?

How much money did the bombing cost?

How many allies did we insult and alienate?

[0007]

19. Hastert doesn't have a clue

I'm surprised that the Dems haven't mugged this crock shucker yet.

[janx]

24. When nothing else will do--Blame Clinton!!

It's the standard M.O., and it's incredibly weak.

[julka]

9. did he vote for open hearings? did ANY pug senator?

wasn't it 51-45 against?

51 pugsenators.

so if any pugs voted for, that could mean some dems voted against.

who has the count; anybody?

[uhhuh]

11. I saw it posted

It was a straight party line vote. 4 dems did not vote. I know one was Zell(surprise, surprise)and It hink lieberman was also shown not voting, but forget the other two.

[peacetalksforall]

10. Amazing

It's just amazing to observe the little manuevers of the cabal in which Hagel is a major operative.

So what is this little boom-er-lie-ang here? Hagel's name is going to come up in the next spiking scandal for his role in the clever counting voting machines and now they have him dishing out some criticism. It just couldn't be...ah...to put distance between the cabal who made the decision to count votes their way and the person who was selected to profit from their new math. Could it?

[Wonder]

16. what are you saying?

It is purely tactically, not sincere. his criticism meant to throw us off? Is that what you are saying?

[Dirty Hippie]

12. Is this true?

"But House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, said on "Meet the Press" that President Clinton launched a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998 based on the same evidence." That is evidence of a reconstituted nuclear weapons program?

[Sliverofhope]

13. One of the War Party's current strategies is to blur

past and future. As if Iraq has had one status of its weapons program from 1980-2003. As if it didn't change with the times.

[AndyTiedye]

14. If * has pissed off Hegel he's really in trouble

Doesn't Hegel own the company that makes all the Voting Machinez???

[Alex88]

15. Senator Hagel is also a (Vietnam) War veteran

Unlike President AWOL and his administration save, Secretary Powell.

[Byronic]

17. Plus,

Hagel was one of the few Republican senators to buck the trend and firmly support John McCain against Bush in 2000.

[Ernesto]

22. Rummy

served in the Navy

[Dhalgren]

26. I think it was Navy Reserve

but I could be mistaken.

[dusty64]

18. This is good, but

there is that funny connection to ES&S (the voting machine company). HMMMMMMM.

[phillybri]

20. Kick

Way to go Hagel. Nice to see a Repug standing up to the BFEE...

[Beetwasher]

21. Now it can't be labeled "partisan politics"

Hagel's been speaking out against the admin. like this for over a week and yet many in the media were still calling it partisan. The Dems need to throw out Hagel's name any time someone tries to label it as such...

[janx]

25. It's so much more important than partisan politics. I hate to see

Dems belittle Hagel or suspect some ulterior motive. There are a few politicians left who actually care about country first. (Granted, not many...)

[jeffreys14b]

27. Hagel won 2002 re-election with 80% + votes

He's wildly popular, obviously. And he's been known as a maverick for as long as he's been in office.

While it's refreshing to see a rational Republican, I have to remind myself he's the opposition.

[slack]

29. ever heard of voting machines?

<...>
Back when Hagel first ran there for the U.S. Senate in 1996, his company's computer-controlled voting machines showed he'd won stunning upsets in both the primaries and the general election. The Washington Post (1/13/1997) said Hagel's "Senate victory against an incumbent Democratic governor was the major Republican upset in the November election." According to Bev Harris of www.blackboxvoting.com, Hagel won virtually every demographic group, including many largely Black communities that had never before voted Republican. Hagel was the first Republican in 24 years to win a Senate seat in Nebraska.

Six years later Hagel ran again, this time against Democrat Charlie Matulka in 2002, and won in a landslide. As his hagel.senate.gov website says, Hagel "was re-elected to his second term in the United States Senate on November 5, 2002 with 83% of the vote. That represents the biggest political victory in the history of Nebraska."

What Hagel's website fails to disclose is that about 80 percent of those votes were counted by computer-controlled voting machines put in place by the company affiliated with Hagel. Built by that company. Programmed by that company.
<...>

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm

[Melinda]

30. More on Hagel's interest in ES&S

On October, 10, 2002 Bev Harris, author of the upcoming "Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering" in the 21st Century, revealed that Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has ties to the largest voting machine company, Election Systems & Software (ES&S). She reported that he was an owner, Chairman and CEO of Election Systems & Software (called American Information Systems until name change filed in 1997). ES&S was the ONLY company whose machines counted Hagel's votes when he ran for election in 1996 and 2002. The Hill, a Washington D.C. newspaper that covers the U.S. national political scene, confirmed her findings today and uncovered more details.

Hagel's campaign finance director, Michael McCarthy, now admits that Senator Hagel still owns a beneficial interest in the ES&S parent company, the McCarthy Group. ES&S counts approximately 60 percent of all votes cast in the United States. According to the Omaha World-Herald which is also a beneficial owner of ES&S, Hagel was CEO of American Information Systems, now called ES&S, from November 1993 through June 2, 1994. He was Chairman from July 1992 until March 15 1995. He was required to disclose these positions on his FEC Personal Disclosure statements, but he did not.

Hagel still owns up to $5 million in the ES&S parent company, McCarthy Group. But Hagel's office, when interviewed by Channel 8 News in Lincoln, Nebraska for the evening news on October 22, 2002, said he had sold his shares before he was elected. His office issued a fact sheet claiming that he had made full disclosure.

Last week, Hagel's campaign finance director, Michael McCarthy (currently an owner and a director of ES&S) admitted to Alexander Bolton of The Hill that Hagel is still an owner of ES&S parent company, the McCarthy Group, and said that Hagel also had owned shares in AIS Investors Inc., a group of investors in ES&S itself. Yet Hagel did not disclose owning or selling shares in AIS Investors Inc. on his FEC documents, a required disclosure, nor did he disclose that ES&S is an underlying asset of McCarthy Group, in which he lists an investment of up to $5 million in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

Link

[hezekkia]

28. ??

What does BFEE stand for? I'm new here. :+

[Melinda]

31. Welcome to DU -- enjoy. :-)

BFEE

*edited to fix link.

[reprobate]

32. Bush Family Evil Empire.

From Prescott's funding of the new german nazi party before WWII, to the smirking simian squatting in the white house, to his brother screwing up everything the state of florida ever stood for, to his other brother that profitted greatly by stealing from his Savings and Loan, to his OTHER brother making a killing from selling the tests that the states are now mandated to use to grade their schools.

In other words, anyone with smirks dna in their veins.