[Andy5000]

This is going on CBS on Sunday. Yawn.

[Ma3lst0rm]

Must be the recently retired (fired) CIA agent who was leaking stuff to the Washington Post.

[Semper Paratus]

Bush is paying a high price in not completly purging the CIA and Defense of Clinton rump swabs..

[petkus]

I have never seen such a concerted effort to destroy any President in my lifetime!

[NonValueAdded]

And of course, based on the CIA's stellar record, GWB should have taken the information on faith. Yeah, despite all the other infromation to the contrary, watching the sanctions start to unravel through the duplicity of certain "allies," GWB should gamble the safety of the nation in a post-Sept. 11 world because one report of many said, "nope, no weapons."

Idiots!

[BluH2o]

Wait a minute; my recollection is that the former CIA Director Tenet, on the run up to the war in Iraq assured Bush ... finding evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq would be a "Slam Dunk".

[Patriot from Philly]

They never stop, do they. This was clearly going to be the anti-Bush story of the weekend, day, hour? The media, disgruntled bureaucrats, and Democratic operatives were once again collaborating.

Then that pesky McCarthy story broke. Damn, don't you hate it when that happens.

[Tzimisce]

The CIA?

You mean the same bunch that was leaking secret information in an attempt to undermine Bush?

[tobyhill]

MSM payback for Bush destroying one of their inside sources.

[tsmith130]

Nice pic they put with the story. MSM...blech!

[G.Mason]

Tyler Drumheller (the "retired" CIA operative and past head of CIA spying in Europe) has had an axe to grind over this for quite some time.

[Chgogal]

"....a retired CIA operative disclosed". Is this the same CIA who failed us on 9/11? Is this the same CIA who failed to notice that the Soviet Union was rotting from the inside when it completely imploded in 1989? Is this the CIA who failed to warn us about China stupendous growth and need for natural resources that will put both countries at economical and military odds? Are we still depending on the CIA and MSM to keep Americans safe? Why?

[bnelson44]

Retired CIA operative? That could be anyone.

[MizSterious]

The Clintonistas in the CIA are smarting a bit from yesterday's firing, and hoping to mitigate the damage. Since we know what they're up to, I doubt every word out of their treasonous mouths.

[Thermalseeker]

The Central Intelligence Agency warned US President George W. Bush before the Iraq war that it had reliable information the government of Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, a retired CIA operative disclosed.

Well, of course not. In the 14 months we wasted trying to get the UN to go along what weaponry that wasn't buried in the Iraqi desert was moved to Syria and Lebanon and buried. The Iraqi nuke scientists/program were moved to Libya, until Qadafy dropped dime on them and ratted them out.

Jeez, don't these guys pay attention?

[zerosix]

If this is the same "CIA" that Ms. McCarthy was involved in, I'm really not surprised at all.

These people are all about themselves and the administration that they loved so much Clinton/Burgler.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Until I see some proof, I don't believe a word out of this guy's mouth.

Secondly, this is the last straw for me:  seriously.  The entire CIA needs to be defunded and disbanded as a government agency and rebuilt as a new agency from the ground up.

Not everyone in the agency is worthless but the number of leaks, dissemination of information, and sheer incompetence shown by the agency over the last several years has become a high enough percentage to convince me that it is no longer functioning as it was intended.

[kellynla]

When we captured Saddam Hussein, we found the WMD.

[JWinNC]

geez... these folks drive me nuts...

Even if, hypothetically, we were 100% absolutely positive at that moment there were no WMDs in Iraq that would have been...

IRRELEVENT

As the President clearly spelled out in advance we weren't going over there to stop an imminent threat... we went to prevent.

[HawaiianGecko]

Drumheller admitted that Sabri was just one source, but pointed out that the administration would not shy away from other single-source information if it suited its policy goals.

Anytime I hear or read a sentence like the one above, I just yawn. The tone is so blatantly, obviously political that it should be ignored. How many times does one have to know for a fact from the IAEA that Iraq had "X" amount of WMD's in the 90's and destroyed "Y" amount of them, with the difference yielding a positive number.

[hershey]

Oh, did they tell Bush those long lines of trucks headed for Syria in the weeks before we attacked held WMD's, so no problem? What about gassing hundreds of thousands of Kurds? That wasn't evidence of WMD's? Who's kidding who?