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Politicizing Intelligence – Yet Again
Front Page Magazine ^ | 14 September 2006 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 09/14/2006 4:41:43 AM PDT by unionblue83

If you thought efforts were over to rewrite history on the lead-up to the war in Iraq and to smear the head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad Chalabi, then think again.

A remarkable pair of reports released last week by the Senate Select committee on Intelligence re-examine for the umpteenth time the pre-war intelligence on Iraqi WMD programs and Saddam’s alleged ties to al-Qaeda. The reports were produced at the demand of committee Democrats as part of a vast fishing expedition aimed at buttressing their old saw, Bush lied-People died.

What’s remarkable about these reports are not the facts they contain, although they are jammed packed with new information, culled from the more than 40,000 finished intelligence reports produced by CIA on Iraq in the six years leading up to the war.

The absolutely stunning news, totally unreported by the formerly mainstream media, is the scurrilous effort by committee Democrats to falsify the facts, introduce phony and erroneous conclusions, and then parade about on their political high-horse to journalists who never bothered to read the actual reports.

In an unprecedented move for a committee that until 2004 was known for bipartisan efforts to conduct oversight of the intelligence community, the committee chairman –Sen. Pat Roberts (R, Ks) – actually dissented from the report’s published conclusions on intelligence provided by Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, as did most of the majority members.

The full report, accessible as a PDF file here, makes fascinating reading. To understand what actually happened, readers need to turn directly to page 123 of the printed report, which details how the committee arrived at the final version.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmedchalabi; alqaeda; cia; gwot; inc; intelligencereport; iraq; prewarintel; senateintelreport; waronchalabi; waronterror; wot
Unfreakin' believable the depths to which the SeditionRats will sink to make up history.
1 posted on 09/14/2006 4:41:45 AM PDT by unionblue83
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To: Convert from ECUSA; F15Eagle; sheik yerbouty; Salem; Slings and Arrows

Ping.


2 posted on 09/14/2006 4:42:15 AM PDT by unionblue83 (Duty is ours; consequences are God's. -- Stonewall Jackson.)
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To: unionblue83
“If you’re trying to say that the INC is the one that pushed us to go to war because of the WMD reporting, that’s wrong,” one CIA officer told the committee. (p144).
Ticking off the CIA is never a good idea.
“The facts are clear,” Roberts concluded. “The prewar assessments of Iraq’s WMD programs were a tragic intelligence failure. However, the real causes of that failure… had nothing to do with Ahmed Chalabi and the INC.”
You would think such unambiguous findings would lay to rest the old conspiracy-laden allegations that Chalabi’s INC concocted a bunch of stories to sucker the U.S. into war.
But the Democrats have shown that they will not hesitate to use the Senate intelligence committee for partisan goals, with reckless disregard not just of the facts, but of their own obligations to conduct oversight of the intelligence community.

This'll go down the memory hole completely before too long. It's halfway there already.
3 posted on 09/14/2006 5:02:06 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; Dog; ...

FYI Ping


4 posted on 09/14/2006 5:06:53 AM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: Mo1

And in related news, we find out how other traitors have lied. Again.

Posted by Peach to Peach
On News/Activism 09/14/2006 8:08:29 AM EDT · 45 of 45


In 2002, Kurds presented the CIA with evidence that an offshoot of AQ was in part funded and directed by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard.
September 14, 2006. The New York Sun
http://www.nysun.com/article/39631


5 posted on 09/14/2006 5:11:33 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Mo1; ikez78

You know, the more I think about this article, the angrier I get.

Roberts has to find a way to get this information out in the public domain more than just a FrontPage article. He should call a major press conference that the media is forced to cover.

And he should sit down with Tony Snow and the president and make sure that this is something Snow talks about during his daily briefings.


6 posted on 09/14/2006 5:18:11 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
You know, the more I think about this article, the angrier I get.

It ticks me off also

The Dems think this bs helps them .. if anything it makes me even more determine to make sure they never regain power

7 posted on 09/14/2006 5:21:28 AM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: Mo1
The Dems think this bs helps them .. if anything it makes me even more determine to make sure they never regain power

I hope a lot of people are feeling the same way.

8 posted on 09/14/2006 5:30:19 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: unionblue83

Friends of mine don't call them DemonRATS for nothing. They lie like a musty, mildewy old rug.


9 posted on 09/14/2006 5:34:07 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Mid East Ceasefire = Israel ceases but her enemies fire)
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To: Peach

I'm with you but Roberts has not been a strong leader on any of this that I've seen. The bottom line will be people, like you, who keep this information current and then post it when the left makes some outrageous claim based on it.

It's a sad state of affairs as Democrats prove once again they cannot be trusted with national security or protecting USA interests at home or around the world.


10 posted on 09/14/2006 5:46:00 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Morgan in Denver

Didnt they lose already on Bush lied people died? Why do the dems continue to run losing campaigns?


11 posted on 09/14/2006 5:51:48 AM PDT by sachem longrifle (proud member of the fond Du lac band of the Ojibwa people)
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To: sachem longrifle
Democrats are still using their old Vietnam anti-war slogans so why should this be any different? Since Democrats use polls and focus groups to get their sound bites, it should not be a surprise. They count on perception becoming reality as they use the same words over and over to defame President Bush and the Republican congress. The words failed them in 2004 and we have to keep telling the truth, which is an absolute defense, to defeat them again in 53 days.
12 posted on 09/14/2006 5:58:35 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Mo1

G'morning Mo.


13 posted on 09/14/2006 6:16:44 AM PDT by Sundog (In a world without Walls or Fences, who needs Windows or Gates?)
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To: unionblue83
Once again the treacherous calumny of the Democrats is exposed. Hagel and Snowe need to be added as well to this lengthening Hall Of Shame.
14 posted on 09/14/2006 6:23:35 AM PDT by Gritty (Liberals are becoming like the Sunni insurgency without the physical courage - Ann Coulter)
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To: Sundog

Morning Sundog :0)


15 posted on 09/14/2006 6:24:09 AM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: Mo1

I've been thinking about this all morning, It is afternoon now, and I'm still relatively speechless.

I guess we are all the way down to Ben Franklin's comment, "We have a government, lady, if you can keep it."

I think that is who said it and about what he said, but we are coming to the end of the 'keeping it' part. Someone else said, "The democracy will exist until people realize they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury", I believe it was a Scottish professor.

He underestimated the treachery of those who would vote themselves largesse, for they would follow it with wanton vandalism on the institutions of government.

It is human nature.


16 posted on 09/14/2006 12:30:04 PM PDT by Sundog (In a world without Walls or Fences, who needs Windows or Gates?)
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To: unionblue83

BTTT


17 posted on 09/15/2006 12:22:23 AM PDT by nopardons
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