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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (588073)	7/6/2004 9:00:02 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The NYT's lead--"C.I.A. HELD BACK IRAQI ARMS DATA, U.S. OFFICIALS SAY; President Not Informed"--forgets a wee bit of context regarding the Senate committee report that the assertions are based on: The committee is Republican-controlled. And as the Times put it last fall: "Democrats fear that [Committee chairman] Senator Roberts and other Republicans on the panel want to blame the C.I.A. for producing faulty intelligence on Iraq to shield President Bush and his top advisers from charges that they exaggerated the Iraqi threat." Also, before the war Vice President Cheney and some others in the White House seem to have pushed the CIA and other intel agencies, which they thought were being too conservative in their conclusions about Saddam's supposed WMD stockpiles and programs.