Talking points .....a must read

[jbfam4]

October 24, 2003 http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
My God, this is such a joke. (Josh Micah Marshall)

“The executive was ill-served by the intelligence community,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan), the lockstep Committee Chairman told the Washington Post.

(Roberts is one of the White House’s greatest assets in this whole mess, since he will literally do or say anything to keep the White House in the clear.)


In fact, the White House specifically resisted requesting an NIE because it didn’t want the findings getting in the way of its policy.

So Roberts claim that the White House was “ill-served” fails on chronology and simple logic. The NIE could not have failed the White House, because the White House didn’t use it. Simple as that.

[RobertSeattle]

1. Josh is Great

Bush decided to go to war in Iraq early in 2002 - regardless of the intelligence at that point - everything that followed was just BS to manipulating the American people into "supporting" the war.

Blaming the CIA is just trying to shift the focus away from the BuSh Administration.

[jbfam4]

2. BuSh Administration

Thanks for the laugh of the day.

People need to call and write Roberts for his part in this cover up.

[niyad]

3. as the "great spark hunt" article last week pointed out, it isn't wise to

piss off the CIA, and blaming them for "bad intelligence" when all of us know it was a flat refusal to acknowledge the intelligence is definitely not a smart move.

things could get verrrry interesting