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To: jttmab who wrote (173876)	11/1/2005 5:15:35 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Open the Door, Richard: Kristof Again Presses Cheney to Explain or Resign By E&P Staff Published: November 01, 2005 9:55 AM ET editorandpublisher.com NEW YORK Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist who has long been skeptical of criminal wrongdoing in the Plame/CIA leak case, continued pressing Vice President Cheney to come clean in his Tuesday column. He had first made this plea in his Sunday column. "So, Mr. Cheney, tell us what happened," Kristof writes today. "If you're afraid to say what you knew, and when you knew it, then you should resign." He notes, "Five lawyers I've consulted all agree that there is no compelling legal reason why you should not discuss the situation....As it is, you're pleading 'no contest' in the court of public opinion, and that's painful for all of us who want to believe in the integrity of our government." He then lists a series of specific questions Cheney ought to answer, including: --Did you ask Libby to undertake his inquiries about Ambassador Joseph Wilson? --Why did you independently ask the C.I.A. for information about the Wilsons? --Did you know that Wilson's wife was a covert officer? "The indictment states that you knew she worked in the C.I.A.'s counter- proliferation division," Kristof observes." You would think that anyone as steeped in intelligence issues as you are would know that meant she worked in the Directorate of Operations and was perhaps a spook's spook." --Did you advise Libby to leak information about Mrs. Wilson's work in the C.I.A. to journalists? --When Libby made his statements in the inquiry - allegedly committing perjury - were you aware of what he was saying? "Mr. Libby rode to work with you almost every morning," Kristof notes, "but this topic never came up?"

To: jttmab who wrote (173876)	11/3/2005 11:14:33 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's a nice claim. The members of Congress were given access to a room that had a lot of stuff in it. Whether that included everything the Administration had access to is problematic. It's an ACCURATE claim.. Tenet was a Clinton Appointee, and ALSO someone who started his career in the Senate Intelligence Committee.. So if there's ANYONE to blame, it would be Tenet.. And I guess he can also be blamed for Clintons 1998 Iraqi Regime Change Act that he signed INTO LAW... Bottom line.. The intelligence that Bush relied upon to go to war in Iraq was collected, analyzed, and acted upon legislatively in both the US and the UN, while Clinton was President. So you can feed the "propaganda machine" all you want in your vain attempt to rewrite history, but the truth is there.. All it take is for Bush to call them on it (And some of the pundits are starting to do that..). The world is constantly claiming that Americans have one of the shortest memories for history in the civilized world.. And you're revisionisms only serve to substantiate that claim.. Hawk