Story about 'Curveball' on 60 Minutes now FWIW. nt

[babylonsister]

[Scurrilous]

1. Thanks for the heads-up!

:thumbsup:

[Auntie Bush]

2. Damn, I wanted to see that, but we're watching Reese Erlic on Book TV

C-SPAN telling how our government is telling lies about Iran. Scary!
Wish I could watch both. I hope someone will tell us all about what she has to say.

[scarletwoman]

3. Watching now. *kick*

[spanone]

4. they believed curveball because they wanted to believe curveball

let the impeachment hearings begin

this clown was totally unreliable

[babylonsister]

5. And we were fed more lies. I'm again disgusted but not surprised. nt

[wildbilln864]

8. exactly!

they jusy used him for an excuse. Someone to lay blame upon. They wanted war regardless. :grr:

[bluhoodie]

6. "One of the deadliest con games of all time"

Eventually "the CIA decided he was a fraud." Why did he perpetrate this fraud? To get a green card to work in Germany.

Did you notice they said also that the U.S. never even interviewed this guy, before going forward with his information.

[babylonsister]

7. Hell, we were told the info wasn't reliable but they went ahead anyway. nt

[spanone]

11. what a bullshit ending to the story by Tyler Drumheller

Former CIA insider Tyler Drumheller has an idea. "It was a guy trying to get his Green Card, essentially, in Germany, playing the system for what it was worth. It just shows sort of the law of unintended consequences," he says.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

[Mandate My Ass]

13. I was screaming at the screen when he said that. "Who could have imagined

a lone, discredited witness without a shred of corroborating evidence to his outlandish claims could fool the brightest CIA minds and lead us to a war with Iraq?"

[Uben]

9. It seems the CIA has a backlog......

......of ...er....problems...to take care of. These people are responsible for the deaths of over 3800 soldiers, thousands of casualties, and the waste of hundreds of billions of dollars. How should they alleviate these...er....problems?

[KharmaTrain]

10. Atta Boy George...Tenet Made The Scapegoat Again...

Pelly implies that Tennet not only knew Curveball was "unreliable" but still went ahead with the "slam dunk" line. No mention of Chenney and his all-night sessions in Langley to get the "intel he wanted".

Tyler Drumheller is featured but this reports leaves out a lot of other details and tries to put all the blame on the CIA...not a word about the OVP is mentioned. Pelly gets a golden cocktail weenie at the next beltway drinkie drinkie party.

[noamnety]

12. My station conveniently had to run a station test

during a key part of that story. :eyes:

[Bozita]

14. The only thing "new" in that report was the identity of Curveball and the accompanying video

[Mandate My Ass]

15. Did I hear correctly at the beginning?

Drumheller said something like, "Well if it wasn't this particular informant it would have been another one. They wanted to go in."

And the reporter didn't even follow up with, " :wtf: are you talking about? That's insane and illegal."

[malaise]

16. So in an effort to obtain permanent residence in Germany

this pathological criminal LIAR managed to con all these so called intelligent men - I'd say they were looking for a con man.

[valerief]

17. More shit-shoveling from the MSM. "It's not GWB's fault!" nt

[Kingofalldems]

18. They were informed by the UN weapons inspectors that

the story was false. The inspectors went to the so-called weapons lab and found it to be free of any Bio weapons.