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To: LindyBill who wrote (15757)	11/10/2003 2:10:08 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793672

Transcript: Pat Roberts on 'FOX News Sunday' (part 1 of 4) Sunday, November 09, 2003 The following is a transcribed excerpt from FOX News Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003. TONY SNOW, FOX NEWS: Joining us now to discuss the terror attack in Saudi Arabia and other intelligence-related issues, Senator Pat Roberts, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Senator Roberts, first the Saudi bombing. It is suspected to be an Al Qaeda action. Look like Al Qaeda to you? PAT ROBERTS, U.S. SENATOR (R-Kan.): Oh, very much so. We had a briefing in the Intelligence Committee warning about this about a week ago, that Saudi Arabia could very well be the subject of an attack. That's happened. It signals to that family over there, the Saud family, that they are part -- or, they are a target of terrorism. We have had much better cooperation with the Saudis since the first attack in Riyadh. It also indicates that terrorists really don't care who they attack. It's just another example of the global war on terrorism and why this is going to be a long effort. SNOW: Do you expect other attacks in the near future? ROBERTS: I don't think there's any question about it that, you know, they're going to be very global in nature. We had an indication that something could happen in this country, in -- I think it was Great Britain, and then also, obviously, Saudi Arabia. And that's why we withdrew our people from the embassy. SNOW: Now, the fear in the United States is somebody would hijack cargo planes, either from America or from neighboring countries, and try to crash them. Is that the nature of the threat we're worried about right now from the... ROBERTS: No, it wasn't that specific, in terms of a cargo plane or whether it was a biological attack or a dirty bomb or just bombs and explosives, which is what they normally use. It was just the fact that we were entering into Ramadan and we heard a lot of reporting, a lot of chatter, and so we were very much on alert. SNOW: You mentioned dirty bombs and biological attacks. Do you believe Al Qaeda has the capability to do one or both? ROBERTS: I don't think there's any question about that. But I do think they do resort to bombs and explosives. That's their favorite mode of attack, and I think that would be the number-one priority issue. Of course, if you and I sat down with a tablet and we listed 10 things that we thought that they would do, they'd probably do number 11. SNOW: So don't count on that, in other words? ROBERTS: Yes, indeed. to be con't>>>>>>>>>>

To: LindyBill who wrote (15757)	11/10/2003 2:34:21 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793672

Transcript: Carl Levin on 'FOX News Sunday' Sunday, November 09, 2003 [Note: Part 1-- This is part of Levin's transcript...too hard to do the whole thing...but it is worth checking out../i>)] SNOW: Let's talk about use. Before the war, on this program, you stated categorically that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Were you wrong? LEVIN: We all believed he had weapons of mass destruction. We didn't characterize it the way the administration did, in terms of, "He has certainly weapons of mass destruction," and, as a matter of fact, according to Secretary Rumsfeld, "we know where those weapons of mass destruction are." Everyone thought that there were weapons of mass destruction. It was the certainty with which the administration said that he had weapons, and that was the basis of going to war, and the refusal now of the administration to look at the intelligence and say, "Where did we go wrong?" >>>>>>>>>>>>>> SNOW: Let me ask you, on the basis of what intelligence did you build your conclusion that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction? By the way, you were categorical too. You didn't say "maybe," you didn't say you "think," you said "absolutely." >>>>>>>>>>>> SNOW: ... but when one is doing an investigation, normally you call up an investigation when you have reasonable grounds for suspecting that something has been done improperly. What leads you to believe that the administration -- what datum, what bit of information leads you to believe that the administration may deliberately have misled anybody? LEVIN: Look, the question isn't "deliberately," necessarily. The question is whether or not they exaggerated intelligence in order to carry out their purpose, which was to make the case for going to war. Did we know, for instance, with certainty that there was any relationship between the Iraqis and the terrorists that were in Afghanistan, bin Laden? The administration said that there's a connection between those terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq. Was there a basis for that? SNOW: Well, Senator... LEVIN: Was there a basis for putting on a Web site at the White House the pictures of a facility in Iraq and saying that this is now being reconstituted as a nuclear facility? Was there a basis for that? SNOW: OK, Senator, let me ask you -- you've talked about the -- well, you mentioned the link with Al Qaeda. Of course that was Ansar al-Islam, which did have a base in northern Iraq, and... LEVIN: Yes, but that's -- see, Tony, now you're doing exactly... SNOW: ... that was what was cited at the time. No, that's what was cited at the time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>