CIA Wants Cheney Out of Senate Intel Report

CIA Wants Cheney Out of Senate Intel Report

Citing national security concerns, the agency tries to keep a critical Intelligence Committee document name-free

By TIMOTHY J. BURGER AND BRIAN BENNETT

Monday, Jun. 21, 2004

Never mind the fact that Dick Cheney?s hands-on role in developing the prewar intelligence picture of Iraq is, by now, a matter of public record - the CIA has asked that the declassified version of a highly critical Senate Intelligence Committee report to redact references to the Vice President. The classified version of the document does not use names, referring to actors by their title instead. But the Agency sought to have even references to titles be excised on national security grounds.

To suggestions that the redaction request could be interpreted as an effort to provide political cover for Cheney, a CIA official responds that "the purpose of declassification review is to protect intelligence sources, methods and other classified matters which, if disclosed, could be helpful to adversaries, like weapons proliferators and terrorists. It is not to stifle criticism." Leaders of the Senate panel don't see it the same way. "The Committee is extremely disappointed by the CIA's excessive redactions to the report," Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, and Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and West Virginia Democrat, said in a statement last week, without mentioning any specific CIA-proposed edits.

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"It is not to stifle criticism."

Oh. Really?

Like John Kerry?

National Security = Bush/Republican Security

I was cleaning out my dresser drawers and sorting things in piles.
I actually made one called it "old and in the way"...lol They were the ones that were old and I never wore but didn't want to throw away.

:-)

the guilty lying arses that bear direct responsibility for the deaths of tens of thousands.

sheesh...

that some lying piece of drivel came from the crooked mouth of our detestible VP. That mouth is truly a dangerous source and method, but not one worthy of protection.

"It is not to stifle criticism."

No, it is an assertion of power and control.

This tactic employed daily by Bush&Co will NEVER be set aside. In this way, they are consistent and predictable. Once this device is fractured and negated, they will be overwhelmed with chaos.

Sneer's in deep shit regarding the phony pretenses for the illegal Iraq Invasion. He's probably looking at life imprisonment in l'Affaire Plame, if he's lucky. Same goes for his charge, Smirk.



May their imprisonment be webcast 24/7.

but then torture is something these guys promote...