Posted on 02/02/2004 2:03:51 PM PST by Cathryn Crawford
Bush Backs Probe of Probes of WMD Probe
(2004-02-01) -- President George Bush may back a probe into the six ongoing inquiries into U.S. intelligence agency investigations of Iraq's pre-war stocks of weapons of mass destruction based on United Nations inspections.
"Accountability is everything in a democratic republic," said an unnamed senior White House official. "The CIA got much of its WMD intel from U.N. inspection teams that they couldn't trust. The House, the Senate, the CIA, the Army, the Iraq Survey Group and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board are all conducting inquiries into why we haven't found the expected stockpiles of WMD. But all those people are engaged in political turf wars, so the president feels we should establish an independent commission to investigate the panels that are investigating the pre-war investigation of Iraq's weapons capabilities based on the U.N. investigation."
The Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Reuters news agency have all assigned investigative reporters to determine whether the president's desire to appoint a commission to investigate the investigations may be politically motivated.
Meanwhile, the editor of Columbia Journalism Review said his publication would assign writers to monitor how the major media cover the president's request for a probe into the probes of the CIA's probe of Iraq's WMD based on the U.N. probe.
An overnight poll shows that almost 83 percent of Americans are proud that their tax dollars can provide funding so that the two major political parties can discredit each other as Congressional aides try to answer questions that the world's finest intelligence agencies failed to answer accurately.
In the words of one survey respondent: "If even one politician or political appointee loses his job as a result of all this, it will be worth the millions of dollars and months of political wrangling. And as a result, America will be safer."
Turf wars ?... is each agency afraid of moles in the other agency's.?.. sounds like those agency's have moles hanging them predatory parasitical bats.. hell. the intelligence committee(i.e. THE memo) can't depend the minorty members and the majority members are not even outraged or ensnitted even... which makes THEM themselves suspect too...
WHAT GOIN ON HERE.!!. Time for a major house cleaning.. Looks like ANY democrat is a security risk...
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