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Negroponte:These documents have provided, and continue to provide, actionable intelligence to ongoing operations. . . . It would be ill-advised to release these materials without careful screening because the material includes sensitive and potentially harmful information. What part of "careful screening" are you too dopey to get?

The logic flaw here, amigo, is that on the one hand your Cold Warrior hero says that all or part of the documents are of of "historical importance" only, and in the next breath says that they need "careful screening" because we're still getting "actionable intelligence" out of them. I've "sanitized" intelligence information before, have you? It's not rocket science, and it doesn't take that long to determine whether it contains "actionable intelligence" and/or references to sources and means, or whether it's "historical" only. When your Commander in Chief is suffering major credibility problems with the American people in time of war, it takes a real "Colonel Flagg" type jerk to defend the practice of hiding "historical" intelligence information which could vindicate the President "behind the green door". Especially when the Clintonoid (dis)Information Agency is already leaking like a sieve on a weekly basis. Now, since I answered your question, answer me this: are you John Negroponte, are you related to John Negroponte or are you just naturally obtuse?

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Tell me how you know from the timing of both of those statements and the content of those statements that the President and Negroponte are now not in agreement?

The logic flaw here, amigo, is that on the one hand your Cold Warrior hero says that all or part of the documents are of of "historical importance" only, and in the next breath says that they need "careful screening" because we're still getting "actionable intelligence" out of them.

Negroponte's (or his office's) full quotes follow. The earlier quote;

Negroponte | Earlier Statement:Analysts from the CIA and the DIA reviewed the translations and found that, while fascinating from a historical perspective, the tapes do not reveal anything that changes their postwar analysis of Iraq's weapons programs.

In his first quote, Negroponte didn't say "historical importance only". The word "only" is your word. Negroponte did say "historical importance", yes, "information that changes postwar analysis of Iraq's weapons", no. That's "A" = "yes", "B" = "no".

Then Negroponte says the following;

Negroponte | Later Statement:These documents have provided, and continue to provide, actionable intelligence to ongoing operations. . . . It would be ill-advised to release these materials without careful screening because the material includes sensitive and potentially harmful information.

In his second statement, Negroponte says "actionable intelligence to ongoing operations", yes. That's variable "C".

I'll ask you a question: Are you going to be dumb enough to try and make an argument that, "information that changes postwar analysis of Iraq's weapons", "B" is equal to "actionable intelligence to ongoing operations", "C" or are you going to be smart enough to see that what is implied in the article is without basis?