Rumsfeld Aide Denies Senator's Accusation (Feith)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon (news - web sites) official accused by a leading Senate Democrat of deceiving Congress about intelligence on Iraq (news - web sites)'s pre-war links to the al-Qaida terrorist network says the dispute is based on a misunderstanding that could have been avoided if he had been asked to explain.


In a letter to Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites), Douglas Feith laid out in detail his handling of CIA (news - web sites) reports on the Iraq-al-Qaida relationship and denied that he ignored corrections requested by the CIA when he gave a summary of the reports to Congress in January 2004.


Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy, is Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's top policy adviser.


The Associated Press was provided a copy Saturday night of Feith's letter, which was sent to Levin on Oct. 20, the day before Levin released a report arguing that Feith and other Pentagon officials exaggerated the available intelligence on links between Iraq and al-Qaida in order to bolster the Bush administration's case for removing then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).

more:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=7&u=/ap/20041024/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pentagon_iraq_intelligence

Hasn't Levin being asking and saying the same thing for over a year???? What a joke...deny and play nice at the same time...tick tock the time is running out on * clock.

[Swamp Rat]

1. Fuck Feith! He's a criminal and will be tried as such.

Carl Levin had Feith-burger for lunch yesterday.

[AlCzervik]

2. They have no choice now, if they throw one away

they all gp down, but it's a good crack.

[cliss]

3. Are they getting sweaty?

"Methinks the lady protests too much".

I think Washington insiders are betting on Kerry. These guys, not the least of which Rumsfeld, are scrambling right now.

Start finding some cardboard boxes, RumsFailed. It's gonna be time to clear out your office.

[Rose Siding]

4. They could have just blown Levin off...

It wouldn't be the first time. In fact there's already a rpt that the intel committee AGREED not to have released before the election!

They must be taking heat about this from somewhere that isn't obvious to the casual observer.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

5. Does Feith...

... have dual US/Israeli citizenship? I know Richard Perle does as does Wolfowitz. And then there is the Israeli spy ring in the Pentagon that is being investigated.

The other poster is correct, there is more than meets the eye here.