Kennedy Calls for CIA Director to Come Clean With Congress (Chappaquidick Ted Alert)

AP ing ^ | 3-5-04 | Lolita C. Baldor

[Lance Romance]

Kennedy Calls for CIA Director to Come Clean With Congress

By Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press Writer
Published: Mar 5, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - CIA Director George Tenet must come clean with Congress and explain why he waited until last month to "set the record straight" that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United State in the months leading up to the war, a leading Senate Democrat said Friday.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., in remarks prepared for delivery, said Tenet must explain why he never corrected President Bush and others in the administration when they warned of a nuclear threat building in Iraq.

"Where was the CIA Director when the vice president was going nuclear about Saddam going nuclear?" said Kennedy in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. "Did Tenet fail to convince the policy-makers to cool their overheated rhetoric? Did he even try to convince them?"

In a speech last month, Tenet said Saddam Hussein's regime posed a danger, but that analysts had varying opinions about whether Iraq possessed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. He said that information was passed on to the White House.

The analysts, said Tenet, "never said there was an imminent threat." But while he has distanced himself from the administration's assertions of an urgent threat in Iraq, Tenet has never said the White House distorted the intelligence.

Kennedy is a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where Tenet is scheduled to testify Tuesday. During that appearance, Kennedy said, the CIA director will have the opportunity to explain "why he was so silent when it mattered most - in the days and months leading up to the war."

A Democratic appointee named to the CIA post by then-President Bill Clinton, Tenet has been on the hot seat for months as Congress has questioned the quality of the intelligence on Iraq and the existence of weapons of mass destruction.

[Lance Romance]

I demand Ted Kennedy come clean on the "Waitress Sandwich".

[NativeNewYorker]

To me, Ted's reasoning just doesn't hold water.

[MCRD]

I demand to know if Teddy had sex with that woman before, during or after the last voyage of the S.S. Oldsmobile!

[bobo1]

"I demand Ted Kennedy come clean on the "Waitress Sandwich"."

Yea, and come clean on Chappaquidick. And while we are at it, let's come clean on memo-gate. Let Hanoi John open up his military records, and his FBI records also.

Right, it might happen when the "Pubs" develop a little backbone. Teddy should at least be on probation for vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving and leaving the sceene of an accident.

Liberals can get away with murder. Teddy did.

Blessings, Bobo

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Teddy asking anyone to come clear is absurd.

[bobo1]

"Teddy asking anyone to come clear is absurd."

Not in the liberal mindset. They belong to the "Pee" party. Pornnography, Perversion, Political Prostitution, Pedophilia.

Any moral standards can only be used against conservatives. Liberals have none.

Blessings, Bobo

[bobo1]

Imagine, giving authority to someone who can't even drive a whoxx accross a bridge. Leadership at its finest. Blind leading the blind and all fall in the ditch.

Blessings, Bobo

[onedoug]

The Roosevelt administration launched the multi-billion dollar Manhattan Project on Albert Einstein's concern that Germany mught be building an atomic weapon.

When we got into Germany and it turned all the related intelligence was wrong, another Democrat bombed Japan with the Project's nuclear devices anyway.

Justifiably so. But twice!

[sheik yerbouty]

Teddy was asked if he would again run for President. he is said to have replied: "I'll drive off that bridge when I come to it!". The man has been lost since his long time chaufeur, Jacqus Cousteau, died. The senator is now under the official protection of Greenpeace.

[cwb]

"The analysts, said Tenet, "never said there was an imminent threat." But while he has distanced himself from the administration's assertions of an urgent threat in Iraq, Tenet has never said the White House distorted the intelligence."

Well...at least I see that they have gone from imminent to "urgent."

[dirtboy]

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., in remarks prepared for delivery.

I can see Kennedy's speechwriter working on Fatboy's opening line:

"George Tenet must clear the water on this matter."

** crumple crumple **

"George Tenet must bridge the gap between intel and the truth."

** crumple crumple **

"Why did the CIA run off the road when it came to Iraqi WMDS?"

** CRUMPLE CRUMPLE ***

-- groan --- ... "I hate this job..."