"...that Congress saw the same intelligence ...

[SHRED]

...the administration did before the war..."

How long will we have to hear this nonsense from the MSM(mainstream media)?
How many more times will Bu$h and his cronies keep droning on about how Congress had the same intel they did?

Do you realize Bu$h pulled Congressional security clearances just after 9/11?

DIRECT LINK:
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-images/upload/bushrestrictedintel.pdf

It was explained by Kagemusha very well here:

Only an extremely, extremely limited number of Congressmen and Senators (we're talking a max of 8 people, committee chairmain and the top minority party people in those committees for instance) had privileged access to the "more secret intel". Everyone else in Congress didn't. Those 8 people were sworn to secrecy and the rest of Congress (like for instance, John Kerry) were not privileged to receive those reports. Even those 8 did not receive intel before it was pre-packaged for their consumption from within the Executive Branch, so they couldn't see the CIA's warring with the OSP and Cheney's office unless those disagreements made it into the final product. I say this in general; the National Intelligence Estimate case is a particular, documented case and I defer to people who know the really tiny details about it.

The access most certainly was not anywhere near the same.

LINK:
http://www.thinkprogress.org/2005/07/26/bush-pulls-security



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MORE HERE:

Asterisks dot White House’s Iraq argument
Administration had access to intel that wasn’t shared with Congress

ANALYSIS
By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus

Updated: 12:30 a.m. ET Nov. 12, 2005
President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.

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But Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were dependent on the administration to provide the material. And the commissions cited by officials, though concluding that the administration did not pressure intelligence analysts to change their conclusions, were not authorized to determine whether the administration exaggerated or distorted those conclusions.

Continued: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10009710

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As this becomes more apparent and the American public wakes up, as it is doing, not even Rove can save this failed pResident from the cooked intel and bogus reasons for the Iraq invasion.

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1. And the intel they DID see was cherry-picked and cooked.

But we're not supposed to see that.

[tridim]

2. Russert could have easily put an end to that lie this morning

But of course he chose not to. GOP whores always do what the boss demands, no questions asked.