CIA Says Cheney Was Wrong

This is fantastic...I guess screwing the intelligence agencies wasn't a good idea eh Georgie?

Now, this sort of thing needs to be kept going and a real investigation launched. It's obvious from Tenets statements that Cheney was willfully lying to the American people. Of course, it wasn't about a blowjob so I don't expect many folks to care.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/8146447.htm

...Tenet at first appeared to defend the administration, saying that he did not think the White House misrepresented intelligence provided by the CIA. The administration's statements, he said, reflected a prewar intelligence consensus that Hussein had stockpiled chemical and biological weapons and was pursuing nuclear bombs.

But under sharp questioning by Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, Tenet reversed himself, saying there had been instances when he had warned administration officials that they were misstating the threat posed by Iraq....

Levin also questioned Tenet about a Jan. 9 interview with the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, in which Cheney cited a November article in The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, as “the best source of information” on cooperation between Hussein and al-Qaida.

The article was based on a leaked top-secret memorandum. It purportedly set out evidence, compiled by a special Pentagon intelligence cell, that Hussein was in league with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. It was written by Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, the third-highest Pentagon official and a key proponent of the war.

“Did the CIA agree with the contents of the Feith document?” Levin asked.

“Senator, we did not clear the document,” Tenet replied. “We did not agree with the way the data was characterized in that document.”

Tenet, who pointed out that the Pentagon, too, had disavowed the document, said he learned of the article Monday night, and he planned to speak with Cheney about the CIA's view of the Feith document.

Lots and lots more good stuff in the article.

drip...drip...drip....drip

whores on cable and network news used yesterday.

Our media whores are not right wing GOP controlled - they just act like they are.

and while it took him a while to get to it, Ted wouldn't drop it until he admitted Cheney took liberties with the info. I hope they keep the pressure on.

OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS!!!