Senator Jay Rockefeller Gave Syria Advance Warning Of Iraq War Intentions! (FNS Transcript)

Fox News Sunday (Transcript) ^ | 14 November 2005

[Stultis]

WALLACE: ...in October of 2002 in which you authorized the use of force, you went further than the president ever did. Let's watch:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller?

ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.

Now, the intelligence that they had and the intelligence that we had were probably different. We didn't get the presidential daily briefs. We got only a finished product, a finished product, a consensual view of the intelligence community, which does not allow for agencies — like in the case of the aluminum tubes, the Department of Energy said these aren't thick enough to handle nuclear power.

They left that out and went ahead with, "They have aluminum tubes and they're going to develop nuclear power."

WALLACE: Senator, you're quite right. You didn't get the presidential daily brief or the senior executive intelligence brief. You got the national intelligence estimate.

But the Silberman commission, a presidential commission that looked into this, did get copies of those briefs, and they say that they were, if anything, even more alarmist, even less nuanced, than the intelligence you saw...

[herkbird]

Note for future use.

[sure_fine]

bang

[OrioleFan]

Now we have a new Senator Depends.

[Cboldt]

The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperationbetween Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
by Stephen F. Hayes - The Weekly Standard - 11/24/2003, Volume 009, Issue 11

OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. ...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp

[kittymyrib]

So Sen. Jay "Benedict Arnold" Rockefeller warned Syria to help Saddam spirit his WMDs out of Iraq and into Syria. And now that enemy of the US is out for the President's blood. We need to have the FBI investigate the CIA moles and the Democrat turn coats.

[Soul Seeker]

So, Senator, since you are so CLOSE to these governments...

Do you happen to know anything about Syria and Iraqi WMD they might have their hands on?

[tsmith130]

From: Who Is Lying About Iraq?

A campaign of distortion aims to discredit the liberation.

BY NORMAN PODHORETZ
Monday, November 14, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST

SNIP

In explaining its dissent on Iraq's nuclear program, the INR had, as stated in the NIE of 2002, expressed doubt about:

Iraq's efforts to acquire aluminum tubes [which are] central to the argument that Baghdad is reconstituting its nuclear-weapons program. . . . INR is not persuaded that the tubes in question are intended for use as centrifuge rotors . . . in Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.

But, according to Wilkerson:

The French came in in the middle of my deliberations at the CIA and said, we have just spun aluminum tubes, and by God, we did it to this rpm, et cetera, et cetera, and it was all, you know, proof positive that the aluminum tubes were not for mortar casings or artillery casings, they were for centrifuges. Otherwise, why would you have such exquisite instruments?

In short, and whether or not it included the secret heart of Hans Blix, "the consensus of the intelligence community," as Mr. Wilkerson puts it, "was overwhelming" in the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq that Saddam definitely had an arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and that he was also in all probability well on the way to rebuilding the nuclear capability that the Israelis had damaged by bombing the Osirak reactor in 1981.

(Read all of it here...great article!)

[Stultis]

See Bill Bennett's article:

Excellent. Bill's the one that brought this to my attention this morning. I'd watched FNS but this comment slipped by me. (And by Brit Hume too apparently, which makes me feel better.) Bennett sent me back to the TIVO, and by gosh...

[Unicorn]

BTTT

[Keith]

Treason is a federal crime, covered in Article III, Section 3 of the USC. No one would accuse him of this. Only the Senate can discipline him. Or the voters could possibly recall him, depending on WVA state law...

[Fledermaus]

It sure is. I read it last week.

[ladyinred]

The rats are scrambling all over the media denying they are intelligent. Oops, I mean, that they saw intelligence.

[LowOiL]

Wow, just wow... what a sweet 6 months head start must be to the enemy.

[Keith]

"Who was the dude who was tried for treason during the Revolutionary war? I believe it was the two guards that stopped him and made him take off his boots, revealing the "plan" on paper was the convincing argument for treason. Washington WOULD NOT give him clemency."

I believe you are referring to Major Andre, the British officer who was hung as a spy. Some believe it was a response to the hanging of Nathan Hale.

[Mo1]

The rats are scrambling all over the media denying they are intelligent

If you get a chance .. check out Reid's Presser from this morning and their demands from the WH

[Iowa Granny]

Treason is a federal crime, covered in Article III, Section 3 of the USC. No one would accuse him of this. Only the Senate can discipline him.

Thanks you Keith. I understand Treason is a Federal Crime and that only the Senate can discipline him.

My question is WHO gets the ball rolling.

Perhaps Billyboy will drop by to explain it all to all of us Non-lawyer type people. How about it, John, can you give us a simple explaination Little Old Ladies can understand?

[prairiebreeze]

Thanks for the pings, I'll forward it out to my email list.

Too bad our side won't do squat about it...

[debg]

I'll be making calls tomorrow. This just can't slip by.

[LYSandra]

When are these jerks going to be tried for treason anyway? They do and say whatever without any consequences.

[BARLF]

Don't forget Memogate and how they got away with that.

http://www.intelmemo.com/