Hersh: White House sat on Iran intel all year

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/12/seymour_hersh_bush_admin_has_k.php

CNN interview with Hersh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3BLVyeUGiA

(snip)

A current senior intelligence official confirmed the existence of the C.I.A. analysis, and told me that the White House had been hostile to it. The White House’s dismissal of the C.I.A. findings on Iran is widely known in the intelligence community. Cheney and his aides discounted the assessment, the former senior intelligence official said. “They’re not looking for a smoking gun,” the official added, referring to specific intelligence about Iranian nuclear planning. “They’re looking for the degree of comfort level they think they need to accomplish the mission.” The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency also challenged the C.I.A.’s analysis. “The D.I.A. is fighting the agency’s conclusions, and disputing its approach,” the former senior intelligence official said. Bush and Cheney, he added, can try to prevent the C.I.A. assessment from being incorporated into a forthcoming National Intelligence Estimate on Iranian nuclear capabilities, “but they can’t stop the agency from putting it out for comment inside the intelligence community.” The C.I.A. assessment warned the White House that it would be a mistake to conclude that the failure to find a secret nuclear-weapons program in Iran merely meant that the Iranians had done a good job of hiding it. The former senior intelligence official noted that at the height of the Cold War the Soviets were equally skilled at deception and misdirection, yet the American intelligence community was readily able to unravel the details of their long-range-missile and nuclear-weapons programs. But some in the White House, including in Cheney’s office, had made just such an assumption—that “the lack of evidence means they must have it,” the former official said.

[MadMaddie]

1. Hey Madame Speaker of the House...can we Impeach now?

[KoKo]

3. Thanks for that post...Shocking that CNN's War Monger in Chief would have Hersh on...

and since I'm boycotting CNN for most of the time...I missed it! Ain't "You Tube" Grand!!!

[Diamond Dave]

6. Instead of "impeach now" maybe we should say "impeach yet?"

I like it, can we Impeach them Yet, Ms Speaker? Hmmmmmmmm, Yet, if not now, then when?

Ms. Speaker, can we impeach them yet? How many more times until???? Let us all quit saying NOW, let us all start saying YET?

That leads to what more do you need to put them in the corner, in a permanent TIME OUT!

Before they all leave for Paraguay, the Rev Sun Moon and all the water the planet will ever need, along with Blackwater to protect them all?

What are we waiting for Ms. Pelosi?

The Rest of the World?

[calimary]

7. No kidding! Welcome to DU!

No kidding.

What the Fuck are we waiting for???

Or DID you make some sort of deal with the Devil, Mme. Speaker?

[Diamond Dave]

9. Thanks for the welcome and yes, Ms P appears to have made a deal with

someone/or bodies. Damned it all, yes, our dear Ms Pelosi, appears to be dancing merrily with Satan, none other (or his demon child, Dubya).

Thanks for all you do calimary.

[calimary]

11. Back atcha! Every bit of activism that begins here or is spurred on here

is good.

Most excellent to have you with us! We need you! Now get to work. :hi:

[Diamond Dave]

12. I love working with and for a true pro!!

Still have that contact thread for the media alive?

[calimary]

13. Well, there's still the Five Star Activists' Resource Thread.

I'm chagrinned (spelling?) to say I haven't had the time to update it properly, but I added to it here and there, as did MANY OTHER DUers!

It's over in the Activism Forum - top thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x8816

[Diamond Dave]

14. Nice to know, does it still work well for everyone? I've got zero minutes left

to spend here at DU, a livelihood is calling my name. Do me a favor please and check in on the thread for the peace kids from Cocoa Beach. I contacted every person I could yesterday and I promised Skylar and her Mom we would not let them down. Thank you way in advance, I know it is in good hands if you take it up.

Peace

[MadMaddie]

15. Welcome to DU Diamond Dave !

You are right of course....what other proof does she need?

[goforit]

2. Bravery, when Dick Cheney goes into hospital wwith uncontrollable AFIB!!!

I wonder where Lynn Cheney will run and hide!

[GreenTea]

4. Kick

[SpiralHawk]

5. republicons denying and then lying about the truth? How typical

[symbolman]

8. This NEEDS to be on the front page

And soon. Let's get this kicked into the Stratosphere :)

17 Traitorous Rubber Stamping Republicans should be drug to the Hague at minimum.

[Diamond Dave]

10. Make it be so.............. you do have the power, don't you? n/t

I don't have it yet, biding my time.........

Banking on you all - so poof - make it be so and while you are here check in on the thread for the kids in Cocoa Beach, Vets For Peace are needed along with all the connections that you all can bring to the table. We aren't waiting for Nancy to show.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2406418

Peace -