Posted on 03/10/2006 4:18:56 PM PST by Mike10542
Negroponte is one of the all-time stand-up good guys. He's worked for Nixon, Reagan and the Bush. The left wing hates Negroponte. Why should we think that Negroponte's following assessment is wrong?
Lots of quotes in this article. Most likely Pence is the source. Yet the punch line of the entire article, the Bush reply that he supposedly wants the documents released, is not quoted.
Correction, later on in the article the Bush reply was quoted.
Bush told Hadley to expedite the release of the Iraq documents. "This stuff ought to be out. Put this stuff out." The president would reiterate this point before the meeting adjourned.
See the quote marks?
I don't know much about the guy, but when your boss asks for the material, I think his request should be honored...all the moreso when he's the President. Also, he could release some of the more "benign" material to get his critics off his back.
Need to write our congress critters
I'm guessing that the President asked Negroponte about the documents and that Negroponte advised the president not to release the documents at this time. I'm also guessing that the President took Negroponte's advice.
There is no evidence whatsoever that John Negroponte is holding these documents against the President's wishes.
That Negroponte is putting up roadblocks worries me. He's not the usual State Dept type. He needs to be a little smarter about this though, release what is necessary to prove that there were, in fact, WMDs and other connections to terror before he ends up destroying this country while attempting to protect it.
I don't remember the incident you are asking about with the Russian envoy on the road to Syria.
I'm pretty surprised at how tone deaf politically Negroponte is about the tapes and the value of Americans hearing them.
It's vital, imo. Absolutely vital to the success of the war on terror.
Everytime I think about the WMDs, I remember that convoy. They weren't trucks, just cars, but for some reason that always sticks in my mind.
Well, you have a good memory. I hadn't remembered that at all. I do remember Colin Powell showing satellite video to the UN; convoy of trucks leaving known WMD sites for the Syrian border.
I know the president doesn't like to micromanage, but don't they realize in DC the importance of reminding people about this stuff?
I remember the things that are important, and that seemed very important at the time. It was around the time the troops were going through that storage facility where all the yellowcake was stored. The Iraqis were taking out the 55 gal drum and using them for hauling water after dumping the yellowcake out on the ground. I'm trying to pin down the exact timing of it, but it was during the invasion.
I wish I could help with more information on that; my stepson was stationed in Jordan in early and mid 2003 during the invasion and we were more focused on getting info to him via e-mail. They thwarted two major terrorist attacks on their camps. One was someone trying to poison their water and the other was a truck bomb.
Victory....Bush has apparently told Negroponte to get off his ass.
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Monday said it was preparing to release prewar Iraqi government material from a trove of documents and tape-recordings captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The office of U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte decided in recent days to fund a review and release process for an estimated 48,000 boxes of documents and hundreds of recorded conversations, including many involving Saddam Hussein himself, officials said.
The material, removed from Iraq to Qatar, has already been reviewed by the CIA's Iraq Survey Group and continues to be scrutinized for intelligence by the U.S. military, officials said.
But officials said Negroponte's Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, is expected to move quickly to release as much of the material as possible.
"The ODNI is committed to expediting the review and release of the materials," a Negroponte spokeswoman said.
The news was greeted with enthusiasm by U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who has strongly urged the administration to release the material.
He suggested some of the information could shed light on prewar U.S. intelligence reports that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The WMD allegation provided President George W. Bush with a central justification for the war in Iraq. But no such weapons have been found, and the Iraq Survey Group discovered no new evidence of WMD in its review of the prewar material.
"With so many questions about prewar Iraq unanswered, I'm glad to see there is finally the sense of urgency to get this done," Hoekstra said in a statement."
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