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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (12558)	7/24/2005 10:46:04 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

Apparently Pat Roberts sees the CIA taking another shot at Bush on this matter, and is threatening to re-introduce real OVERSIGHT of this multi-billion-dollar duchy in the Holy Roman Empire we call Washington... Message 21537239

To: Sully- who wrote (12558)	7/25/2005 1:12:44 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 35834

The Senate Report stated that there is no evidence of that the Bush Admin coerced the CIA to change its opinion of Saddam's WMD programs. The truth is otherwise. In the body of its report the senate committee reported that the CIA ombudsman had talked to 24 CIA officers about pressure from administration officials. The ombudsman told the committee that about half a dozen mentioned "pressure" from the administration; several others did not use that word, but spoke in a context that implied it. According to Mr Rockefeller, George Tenet had told the inquiry that analysts had come to him complaining about pressure. Another intelligence veteran had testified that "the hammering of analysts was greater than any he had seen in 32 years at the CIA". guardian.co.uk Cheney's office requested an inquiry into Niger, but the CIA never relayed the results back to him. Wilson had to publish it in a newspaper for Cheney to hear it, because by that time the CIA had figured out that the Bush Admin would get angry when told of facts that didn't fit the agenda. Don't cite the Senate Report again on this thread. Tom