Nightly News not buying it

[Dob Bole]

I just checked all the networks. They're all sounding doubtful of Tenet's new claims, probably because it wasn't realeased in time. Looks like he missed the deadlines for local news too.

[displacedtexan]

1. ABC news

jennings and little georgie (rather subtly) indicated that tenet is taking responsibility for the 'wording' of the statement re uranium... not the facts concerning the forged documents or the decision made by the president to include the bogus info.

[arcane1]

2. Tenet's statement seems similar to that angle

he mentions that the speech was factually accurate (despite containing lies) because it merely says the British Gov't claims that Iraq sought uranium, etc


you could almost call it "Clintonian" :eyes:

[Rose Siding]

3. Hadn't the CIA already told the Brits at that point

that the language should be removed from that white paper?

[Bandit]

4. It was factually accurate that Clinton did not have sexual relations with

Monica also but did that stop anyone? According to Independent Council's office, a blow job is not considered sexual relations.

[aquart]

7. According to the dictionary, too.

Yeah, the hypocrisy is sweet here.

[NYC]

5. Tenet text:

"Officials who were reviewing the draft remarks on uranium raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues," Tenet said. "Some of the language was changed. From what we know now, agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa."

[aquart]

6. And the late release would have been an accident?

I'm pretty sure the CIA knows when to go to press.

I'm watching Rumsfeld talk about how good our intelligence has been on Lehrer Newshour.

[IndianaGreen]

8. Clift: Bush Will Never Admit Iraq Errors (Newsweek)

No Mistakes Were Made
Haunted by his father’s defeat and the accidental nature of his own presidency, Bush won’t ever concede missteps on Iraq

Eleanor Clift

NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE

July 11 — President Bush is certain he did the right thing by going to war in Iraq. Bush never second-guesses himself, a trait that permeates his administration and contains the seeds of his undoing.

HOW CAN BUSH fix the mess in Iraq if he denies any missteps? This administration’s unwillingness to ever admit a mistake makes it unlikely it will expand the force size in Iraq, take responsibility for the phony intelligence Bush touted as a prelude to war or eat enough humble pie to get military and financial help from other nations. The White House won’t acknowledge anything that might chip away at Bush’s commander-in-chief image. That’s the nature of the reelection machine that Karl Rove has constructed in his role as Bush’s consigliere. To admit flaws risks losing the luster of the wartime president

<snip>

Wilson is not some wild-eyed lefty. He had experience in Iraq and North Africa, and completely understood his mission. He only revealed his identity a week ago in the face of continued insistence by the White House that it had no idea the documents were forged. CIA director George Tenet sent Wilson to Niger after Vice President Cheney asked for an investigation. Wilson asks why Cheney’s office would demand this inquiry and not want to know the result. If Bush really was misled, wouldn’t he want to know who embarrassed him? Who made him a liar? In a White House as obsessed with loyalty as this one, the fact that no heads rolled strongly indicates this could go all the way to Cheney, if not to Bush himself. Who knows how much Cheney tells the boss. Bush is not a detail guy. He may not have wanted to know.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/937725.asp?0cl=c1

[comradebillyboy]

9. clift bitch slaps dip-shit

wow! what a great article.

buchannan is even faster than press to point out that tennant only took the blame for allowing the claim to stay, not for inserting the claim. jesus, condi explains how they played with the words to avoid a blatant lie. she just outsmarted herself there.

if the admin pushes any harder on cia or tennant, i would expect cia to have some much clearer explanations. fun fun fun

[RevolutionStartsNow]

10. Great article by Clift

But:

"The drip-drip of bad news from Iraq is reflected in the polls, though it does not yet pose a political problem for Bush. A majority of voters dismiss the wrangling over what Bush knew and when he knew it as partisan."

What we need is more Repubs speaking out and asking questions. Otherwise it is all going to be dismissed as campaigning.