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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (425967)	7/12/2003 3:09:57 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

BUSH Tosses the Dogs a Bone: C.I.A. Chief as Sacrifical Lambchop Kevin, Re: However, sente is shifting from the right to the left. As the right becomes gote, we'll see what goats they throw to the wolves... In an episode of pure Machiavellian genius, Karl Rove has engineered to use a hold-over democrat as the scapegoat for the Lies of George Bush..... you could see this coming on February 5, when Tenet looked like a stuffed sausage sitting behing Colin Powell at the UNSC for Powell's own bravura liefest. This will never work for Bush. The accusations from Ambassodor Joseph Wilson last weekend also implicate the NSA, DoD and Oil Slick Dick's offices in this lying scheme by the White House... -Ray nytimes.com INTELLIGENCE C.I.A. Chief Takes Blame in Assertion on Iraqi Uranium By DAVID E. SANGER and JAMES RISEN The director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, accepted responsibility yesterday for letting President Bush use information that turned out to be unsubstantiated in his State of the Union address, accusing Iraq of trying to acquire uranium from Africa to make nuclear weapons. Mr. Tenet issued a statement last night after both the president and his national security adviser placed blame on the C.I.A., which they said had reviewed the now discredited accusation and had approved its inclusion in the speech. For days, the White House has tried to quiet a political storm over the discredited intelligence, which was among many examples cited in Mr. Bush's speech to justify the need for confronting Iraq to force the dismantlement of Saddam Hussein's arms programs. "I gave a speech to the nation that was cleared by the intelligence services," the president said after a meeting in Uganda with President Yoweri K. Museveni, for the first time placing implicit blame for his error on those agencies. Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, speaking to reporters on Air Force One en route to Uganda, said, "The C.I.A. cleared the speech in its entirety." Although Mr. Tenet's statement did not say he had personally cleared the speech, he said in his statement, "I am responsible for the approval process in my agency." In an administration that prides itself on discipline and message control, the question of how faulty intelligence got into Mr. Bush's speech has become an unusual exercise in finger-pointing, with top officials and agencies blaming one another. In his State of the Union address, Mr. Bush cited an Iraqi attempt to purchase uranium from Africa as part of evidence of Mr. Hussein's unconventional weapons and Iraq's desire to reconstitute its nuclear program. "The British government," the president said, "has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Mr. Tenet said yesterday: "The president had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound. These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president." Other senior administration officials had been more cautious about the information. In a recent interview, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that by the time he got to a meeting that Mr. Tenet attended at the C.I.A. three nights after the president's Jan. 28 speech, Mr. Powell's staff had already dismissed any thought of using the Africa claim to bolster the case the secretary was to make a few days later at the United Nations. The intelligence agencies, Mr. Powell said, were "at that point not carrying it as a credible item." In a briefing with reporters on Thursday night in South Africa, Mr. Powell suggested that he had looked into the assertion more closely and decided it was not based on sufficiently reliable information to repeat to the United Nations. "When I made my presentation to the United Nations and we really went through every single thing we knew about all of the various issues with respect to weapons of mass destruction, we did not believe that it was appropriate to use that example anymore," he said. "It was not standing the test of time. And so I didn't use it, and we haven't used it since." Yesterday, Ms. Rice said Mr. Powell's decision had not been driven by any new information but by longstanding concerns in the State Department's own intelligence branch about whether the data was reliable. The State Department's intelligence unit, Ms. Rice said, "was the one that within the overall intelligence assessment had objected to that sentence." In the classified version of a National Intelligence Estimate prepared by intelligence agencies last fall, the allegation about Iraq's activities in the African nation of Niger was included along with a footnote that said the State Department had its doubts about whether it was justified by the evidence. Somalia and Congo were also cited in the estimate. <Continues.........>

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (425967)	7/12/2003 12:41:35 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

Exactly. The right dish it out but cant take it. And what's gone around is now coming back around, to bite them in the butt. All those thousands of times they dittoed the Bushie misrepresentations. The latest poll now shows 80% know the War On Iraq is becoming a quagmire, and 50% know and admit Bush lied. People dont generally vote for liars. Bush apporovals down from 72% to 58% and will drop further once he has an opponent. And 58% dosn't mean 58% will vote for Bush, it only means they give him generally favorable marks, a good part of that still left over from the post 9-11 suspension of disbelief and non-partisan loyalty.