Iraq Pre-War Intelligence Report: Additional Views of Chairman Pat Roberts ... (on Wilson, Plame)

Roberts' web site ^ | July 9, 2004 | Sen Pat Roberts

[Shermy]

For example, when asked how he “knew” that the Intelligence Community had rejected the possibility of a Niger-Iraq uranium deal, as he wrote in his book, he told Committee staff that his assertion may have involved “a little literary flair.”

[bitt]

a shame that this will never get any play...maybe W can address it in the debates, along with several other slanderous issues...

[Fedora]

"he told Committee staff that his assertion may have involved “a little literary flair.”"

Yeah, a little fictional flair. Thanks for the ping!

[swilhelm73]

The former ambassador’s comments to reporters that the Niger-Iraq uranium documents “may have been forged because ‘the dates were wrong and the names were wrong,’” could not have been based on the former ambassador’s actual experiences because the Intelligence Community did not have the documents at the time of the ambassador’s trip.

Isn't it funny how Wilson *knew* they were fakes without seeing them?

[Tallguy]

On February 12, 2002, the former ambassador’s wife sent a memorandum to a Deputy Chief of a division in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations which said, “[m]y husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity.” This was just one day before the same Directorate of Operations division sent a cable to one of its overseas stations requesting concurrence with the division’s idea to send the former ambassador to Niger.

The Democrats are counting on Media allies to ignore this "smoking gun" memo.

[Diogenesis]

Wilson = traitor = Novak = traitor = Plame = traitor = employers of same

[InterceptPoint]

Pat Roberts wrote in the report:

The former Ambassador, either by design or through ignorance, gave the American people and, for that matter, the world a version of events that was inaccurate, unsubstantiated, and misleading. Surely, the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has unique access to all of the facts, should have been able to agree on a conclusion that would correct the public record. Unfortunately, we were unable to do so

Yes Pat Roberts, you as the Majority leader of the investigation failed in your duty to the American people and proved once again how weak you and your party are when it come to true leadership. Thank God we have George Bush as President because if we had to count on Republican Senators to guide this country we would be lost for certain.

What we need in the Senate is Tom DeLay x sixty. Right now we have Tom DeLay x zero. A bunch of spineless Republicans who let jerks like Rockefeller run all over them.

This investigation was 24/7 politics from the get-go. Any party worth their salt would have have seen this coming and would have resolved to write the truth and take the consequences which would have been a non-unanomous report. Big deal. We need a report that the lying Dems can sign up to like a hole in the head. Pat Roberts failed us. The Republican Party failed us. If they get tossed out of the leadership in November it should surprise no one.

[InterceptPoint]

Pingggggggg.

[Shermy]

“a little literary flair.”

This from the guy whose book is called "The Politics of Truth" and whose website is www.restorehonesty.com

[WOSG]

Thanks for posting.

Reality is vindicating Bush more and more each day.

[WOSG]

Thanks for posting.

Reality is vindicating Bush more and more each day.

[WOSG]

You are CORRECT.

The Republicans could have made a stink, called it a 'coverup' a 'partisan slander' that Dems are trying to support, etc. Dems pull cr*p and then dont get called on it or pay a price for it, so *of course* they do it again and again.

[cyncooper]

"Conclusion: Rather than speaking publicly about his actual experiences during his inquiry of the Niger issue, the former ambassador seems to have included information he learned from press accounts and from his beliefs about how the Intelligence Community would have or should have handled the information he provided."

A conclusion that we were able to discern with very little effort within days of Wilson appearing on the scene.

The former Ambassador, either by design or through ignorance, gave the American people and, for that matter, the world a version of events that was inaccurate, unsubstantiated, and misleading.

We can eliminate "ignorance". I won't take the time to expound on the many reasons why that just didn't fly. It was by design. He continues with his outrageous charges to this very day.

[prognostigaator]

bttt

[river rat]

Once again, the Republics show how they EARNED the name of "The Stupid Party" --- by allowing the Democrats to once again make fools of them by design, deception and DOCUMENTED INTENT....

Senator Roberts tried to play the nice guy, and ended up being the useful idiot and patsy of the Democrats....

Senator Roberts should have refused to release ANY report until the Democrats signed on to the enlargement that Wilson LIED INTENTIONALY as he was most likely coached to do by Democrat members of the credibility challenged 9-11 commission..

Only a fool couldn't recognize that the specific Democrats allowed to join the commission were selected to cover up the faults and criminal neglect of the Clinton Administrations and pin the tail on the Bush team...

Ms. Gorelick -- should have been BEFORE the commission ANSWERING questions, instead of on the commission asking questions....

A POX on all their asses!!

Semper Fi

[cyncooper]

I've got a little literary flair I'd like to lay on Joe Wilson, but I don't want to be banned.

LOL

[cyncooper]

a shame that this will never get any play

We'll see...

[cyncooper]

You with charging Novak again.

I pointed out a few days ago to you that what Novak wrote turned out to be 100% correct and it's the Wilson faction that has lied.

Novak did us a favor by explaining how and why Wilson went off on his Niger jaunt.

[cyncooper]

But Wilson and Plame have done some things I hope are the focus of that grand jury...