Has the CIA responded to the white house accusations?

[TNDemo]

Are they going to be agreeable to taking the fall?

[JackSwift]

1. That's their job

In 1991 Bush I crapped all over them about missing Hussein's intention to invade Kuwait.

[lkinsale]

2. Captain of the Ship Goes Down

Blame Game Over False WMD Info--CBS

Senior administration officials told CBS News Thursday that the president included the claims about Iraq buying uranium from Africa in his Jan. 28 speech despite initial objections from the CIA.

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Our response to the blame game should be what Senator Graham said yesterday to Candy Crowly:

CROWLEY: Well, Senator, as you know, the president scores fairly high
among the public for being trustworthy and honest. This, obviously, is
an attempt to say, Wait a second. But when you say misleading and his
administration is misleading, aren't we talking about the president?
And is this an actual accusation from Democrats, yourself included,
that the president deliberately lied? I mean, isn't that what
everybody is sort of dancing around?

GRAHAM: Well, I believe in the old admonition if you're the captain of
the ship and the ship goes aground, you're responsible.

The administration, President Bush appointed all of the key people who
are running our intelligence agencies. He appointed the people in the
Department of Defense and the Department of State which reviewed the
information. And in spite of all that, in his State of the State Union
-- message, he had a statement that was clearly untrue. And that is
that Niger had supplied nuclear materials to Iraq.

[jpgray]

3. Graham is dead-on right

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[Perky]

4. Tenet's silence is deafening!!!!

Two things:

1) the DCI is either fuming big time for being made the scapegoat or he is being a loyal follower. You can bet someone had to start suggesting that it would be inane to tell the brits the CIA thought the infor was bogus and not tell the president in the run-up to the Speech. How Tenet can explain that one will not be easy.


2)This story has serious legs: The argument should not be the war was unjustified but rather that Bush Misled the COntress and the American People.

If Bill Clinton lied about Sex and was impeached, how can we accept a President who Lied about evidence that led to deaths of thousands od people.?

Can anyonew say Iraqgate?

[lkinsale]

5. Bush already looks bad no matter how they spin it

Of course the dedicated Bush fans will never admit it, but it doesn't matter whether Bush lied or whether he pushed to get his way, or the CIA "ok'd" the speech. Any way you look at it, he looks bad, because HE'S the CEO.

And HE,the CEO, made a fool of this country by sending that Niger stuff to the UN (which instantly rejected it as a forgery) and using it in front of the whole world as his reason for war, citing mushroom clouds along with it.

Most Americans believe the buck stops at the top.

I believe that as long as the press doesn't drop this, it will undermine him fatally. I also wouldn't put it past them to plant WMD evidence now, but that's very risky for them. They might do it though. Wish they would, and get caught.

Bush just looks like the incompetent he is, whining that "the CIA didn't TELL me, wahh, wahh."