The leakers are out for Bush.
This is a more open and detailed description of what happened with the intel provided by Naji Sabri, the former Saddam official tasked with giving the rebuttal to Colin Powell's UN presentation, and why it was ignored. Short version: the White House knew the WMD intel was bad, but went ahead anyway.
The revelation that the White House was not interested in contrary intel is not a surprise, but it is another confirmation from a very knowledgable source.
(The interview will be on 60 Minutes.)
Also: A CIA employee has been fired for leaking the secret CIA prisons story to Dana Priest of the WaPo. How did we find out about this? A CIA leak of a Porter Goss memo. Hah! The irony overwhelms me.
"The [White House] group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested. And we said 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change.' "
They didn't want any additional data from Sabri because, says Drumheller: "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."
The revelation that the White House was not interested in contrary intel is not a surprise, but it is another confirmation from a very knowledgable source.
(The interview will be on 60 Minutes.)
Also: A CIA employee has been fired for leaking the secret CIA prisons story to Dana Priest of the WaPo. How did we find out about this? A CIA leak of a Porter Goss memo. Hah! The irony overwhelms me.
posted by mikevotes at
12:57 PM
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Another example of why, in 50 yrs, history students will learn how an administration, blinded by the light of its own inflated self image, drove the course of humanity back by a century or more.
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-epm, at 7:55 AM
It's incredible isn't it? The dynamics that must be at play in these leakers/critics. You want to do what you think is right, but at the same time you're tossing away your carrer, contacts, everything.
In some ways, it's actually pretty amazing to me that we're getting the truth as relatively quickly as we have. Gulf of Tonkin took years, Pearl Harbor, half a century.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 5:22 PM
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