Harry Reid Didn’t Read Prewar Intel Report

Human Events ^ | Nov 18, 2005 | by Amanda B. Carpenter

[kellynla]

Welcome home, Marine!

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[nutmeg]

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.), who is leading a spurious Democratic campaign that alleges President Bush misled the country into war, admitted last week that he did not read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs that Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet prepared in 2002 at the request of Senate Democrats specifically so Congress would have up-to-date intelligence as it debated whether to authorize the Iraq war.

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[layman]

“I’m not going to say anything about that" Hillary Clinton said

Is this woman capable of answering anything directly and truthfully? It was a simple 'yes' or 'no' question. I guess it takes a village to answer a question.

[showme_the_Glory]

trea·son (trzn) KEY

NOUN:

Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
A betrayal of trust or confidence.

[Bigh4u2]

"I guess it takes a village to answer a question."

No. Just a village IDIOT!

And she's the biggest idiot in the village.

[eyespysomething]

So he voted to send our men and women into a war without even reading the preWar intelligence?

[MinuteGal]

Our elected officials read little else but their poll ratings.

Right now, their brains are all occupied in thinking about their upcoming holiday resort breaks......the Republicans in the Grand Caymans, and the Democrats in Aruba.

Leni

[newcthem]

Harry didn't read it.........or couldn't read it? Toss-up question.

[justa-hairyape]

So he voted to send our men and women into a war without even reading the preWar intelligence?

So our 'esteemed' US senators were apparently more knowledgeable about the intelligence reports coming from Baghdad Bob and Saddam then there were about the intelligence reports coming from the US intel services. That liberal fantasy land ended for them when Baghdad Bob shouted 'There are no American Tanks in Baghdad !' while jumping into a car to drive away.

Perhaps their current actions and admitted lack of past actions should be grounds for removing whatever security clearances they still possess.

[eyespysomething]

This POS should be removed from the senate, not just have his security clearance pulled.

[DAC21]

Impeach for incompetence, go get him Nevada

[VOA]

Harry Reid Didn’t Read Prewar Intel Report

Advice to Harry...just use Steve Martin's famous line from
Saturday Night Live:
"I just phoned it in."

[prognostigaator]

BUMP

....."he did not bother in 2002 to thoroughly familiarize himself with what the U.S. Intelligence Community was saying about Iraq in the run-up to his own pro-war vote. "

[chudogg]

I thought i was reading Scrappleface. Unbelievable!

[inquest]

Reid said: “We’re talking about six senators. The answer is, if you ask me, I didn’t read it. But I don’t know who did. But there’s a hundred senators, not six. And some members of the Intelligence Committee may have read it. I don’t know. But the fact of the matter is—you can’t escape this—the administration manipulated the evidence and the people who opposed them, like Amb. [Joseph] Wilson were taken to the woodshed.”

Now there's some major spin-dancing. Making my head spin.

[Leofl]

correction

It takes a village "IDIOT" to not answer the question

Just IMHO

[GloriaJane]

"Frist should call a press confernce and tell this. '

I wish Rush would get ahold of this and read it on his show.

[Jack Black]

ping

[stocksthatgoup]

Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.) said: “I got briefings. I got a personal briefing at the Pentagon.” .... I remember Kerry didn't have time for these briefings, didnt have time for important votes on the Senate floor either.

[gitmo]

In an April 7, 2004, article by Dana Priest, the Washington Post reported that few members of Congress read the full 92-page October 2002 NIE. “No more than six senators and a handful of House members read beyond the five-page National Intelligence Estimate executive summary, according to several congressional aides responsible for safeguarding the classified material,” the Post said.

No more than six senators bothered to read the NIE report before taking the United States into war? It sounds like we need to run 94 of these buzzards out of office.