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To: Alighieri who wrote (193678)	7/8/2004 7:27:41 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574212

Al, re: US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) walks away from a briefing with the media, refusing to answer questions after he was asked about Enron and the reported indictment of former CEO Kenneth Lay, who was a close adviser and fund-raiser for Bush and his father, earning him the presidential nickname of 'Kenny Boy.'(AFP/Paul J. Richards) My God don't tell Steve. He thinks Lay was was a part of the Clinton administration. John

To: Alighieri who wrote (193678)	7/9/2004 12:04:45 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574212

Maybe Bush hired a lawyer because of Ken Lay.

To: Alighieri who wrote (193678)	7/9/2004 1:28:38 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574212

Holes in America's Defense By Richard J. Durbin Friday, July 9, 2004; Page A19 In the war on terrorism, reliable intelligence is America's first line of defense. The Senate intelligence committee report scheduled to be released today reveals in stark terms that in many key areas, the prewar intelligence regarding Iraq's threat to the United States was neither reliable nor accurate. And the report tells only half of the story. What's missing is the ways intelligence was used, misused, misinterpreted or ignored by administration policymakers in deciding to go to war and in making the case to the American people that war with Iraq was necessary. The intelligence committee leadership chose to defer these issues to a second report -- one that will not be released until after the November elections. While failures by the CIA and other intelligence agencies are a significant part of the problem identified in this inquiry, the responsibility -- and the blame -- for the prewar intelligence debacle is much broader than described in today's report. Senior decision makers throughout the executive branch must bear responsibility as well. They should have been more diligent in challenging the validity of analytical assumptions and the adequacy of intelligence collection and reporting related to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war. Instead, those analyses that conformed with pro-war views were routinely accepted and reports that did not conform to the pro-war model were largely ignored. Beyond Secretary of State Colin Powell's examination of Iraqi intelligence in preparation for his February 2003 speech to the U.N. Security Council, there is little evidence that administration officials took the time to question any intelligence reports related to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. washingtonpost.com