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To: KLP who wrote (176432)	11/30/2005 8:45:48 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I guess you didn't read past the first paragraph for fear of being exposed to "highly classified" information. If you read to the fourth paragraph, you would have seen: One of the more intriguing things that Bush was told during the briefing was that the few credible reports of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda involved attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group. Saddam viewed Al Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a potential threat to his secular regime. At one point, analysts believed, Saddam considered infiltrating the ranks of Al Qaeda with Iraqi nationals or even Iraqi intelligence operatives to learn more about its inner workings, according to records and sources. Bush and his admin pals were told this prior to their many allegations of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda, attempting to link Saddam to the WTC bombing, building support for their war policies. But I guess it doesn't matter that they knew these things were false and that they were lying, since they weren't under oath? Or that it was all done in a "good" cause of removing a dictator? Guess it is irrelevant to their current statements that Congress had access to the "same" intelligence that they did when they made their infamous vote on supporting Bush? There are many more such examples in the article, but I don't expect someone who thinks that the only choices before the admin at the time were to "give the entire world every shred of info that the US has" or to lie through their teeth in order to justify an idiotic policy. The highly classified CIA assessment was distributed to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, the president's national security adviser and deputy national security adviser, the secretaries and undersecretaries of State and Defense, and various other senior Bush administration policy makers, according to government records. The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the White House for the CIA assessment, the PDB of September 21, 2001, and dozens of other PDBs as part of the committee's ongoing investigation into whether the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information in the run-up to war with Iraq. The Bush administration has refused to turn over these documents. Indeed, the existence of the September 21 PDB was not disclosed to the Intelligence Committee until the summer of 2004, according to congressional sources. Both Republicans and Democrats requested then that it be turned over. The administration has refused to provide it, even on a classified basis, and won't say anything more about it other than to acknowledge that it exists. That is the way a duplicitous admin works.