Reply #7: newsweek should have read letters by Veteran Intelligence Professionals .. [View All]

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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity


Newsweek should have read what we were reading prior to * starting an illegal war of aggression...or at least reported what our retired sppoks were saying..

fuck newsweek now..they have all that blood on their hands..to ever get redemption!

but no msm was covering what the spooks were saying..they were too busy giving little lord pissy pants blow jobs!

from my files...fly

also found here:
http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/030501-xCIA-WMD.pdf
Published on May 1, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Intelligence Officers Challenge Bush
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
May 1, 2003
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
SUBJECT: Intelligence Fiasco




http://www.alternet.org/story/15127

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity


Memo to the President

By Ray McGovern, AlterNet. Posted February 7, 2003.


An ad-hoc group of veteran CIA analysts gives the president a much-needed intelligence briefing. Tools


snip:

MEMORANDUM TO: President George W. Bush
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Mr. President:
Secretary Powell's presentation at the UN on Feb 5 requires context. We give him an A for assembling and listing the charges against Iraq, but only a C- in providing context and perspective.

What seems clear to us is that you need an intelligence briefing, not grand jury testimony. Secretary Powell effectively showed that Iraq is guilty beyond reasonable doubt for not cooperating fully with UN Security Council Resolution 1441. That had already been demonstrated by the chief UN inspectors. For Powell, it was what the Pentagon calls a "cakewalk."

The narrow focus on Resolution 1441 has diverted attention from the wider picture. It is crucial that we not lose sight of that. Intelligence community analysts are finding it hard to make themselves heard above the drumbeat for war. Speaking both for ourselves, as veteran intelligence officers on the VIPS Steering Group with over 100 years of professional experience, and for colleagues within the community who are increasingly distressed at the politicization of intelligence, we feel a responsibility to help you frame the issues. For they are more far-reaching and complicated than "UN v. Saddam Hussein." And they need to be discussed dispassionately, free of sobriquets like "sinister nexus," "evil genius" and "web of lies."

Flouting UN Resolutions

The key question is whether Iraq's flouting of a UN resolution justifies war. This is the question the world is asking. Secretary Powell's presentation does not come close to answering it.