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

To: American Spirit who wrote (431075)	7/22/2003 12:02:14 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Unfortunately, visits by the VP to the CIA are not without precedent and no credible evidence has come forward to suggest that anyone was pressured...in fact... the opposite is true.....

To: American Spirit who wrote (431075)	7/22/2003 2:34:06 PM
From: Richard S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Multiple visits to the CIA by the United States Vice-President, Dick Cheney, created an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments on Iraq fit with Bush Administration policy objectives, intelligence officials said. They said Mr Cheney and his chief of staff, "Scooter" Libby, questioned analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al-Qaeda. Mr Cheney took the lead in the Administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction. The visits "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here", one agency official said. reference: smh.com.au