Is Everything We Know About Joe Wilson’s Trip to Niger Wrong?

National Review ^ | Byron York

[Peach]

Rockyeller's still going to try to feed us the "no connections" nonsense about Iraq and alQaeda?

This almost literally makes me gag. There was no reason on this earth for the administration not to present the information going back to the 90's about this and present it forcefully. They've let the Democrats lower support for the war and it's hurting the morale of our military and let all of this spiral out of control.

[nopardons]

This really IS big, but it will never get any coverage at all.

[billybudd]

I haven't seen this anywhere else, maybe in the American Prospect. But that's even beside the point I was making. Even without knowing anything about the situation or media coverage of it, this article is written like the author doesn't believe what he's saying. So my question is - why should I believe it? For me to take anything he says about the issue seriously, he's got to make some statements he can't back out of later. "This may all turn out to be bunk" doesn't cut it.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Shoes for Industry. And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic Connecticut!!!!!!!!

[Enchante]

"One of the reasons some CIA analysts thought it didn't make sense that Iraq was shopping for yellowcake was that they already had over a hundred tons of the stuff from their previous purchase."

Yes, and that simply shows how stupid and ignorant "some CIA analysts" surely are..... from what I've read on the matter, with the uranium in Iraq under IAEA seals, the only way Saddam could start up a clandestine nuke program was to obtain new uranium. The IAEA is incompetent and highly biased toward the Islamo-fascists, but they would not have been able to avoid reporting it to the UN Security Council if Iraq broke the seals and made off with the uranium that was being monitored. Saddam could not use the uranium under seal without alerting the whole world that he was re-starting a nuke program. EVen the DIMocrats and UN could have figured that one out (though they still wouldn't have been willing to do much about it).

[Iwo Jima]

Well, will we ever really know? It stinks to know that part of your government is up to such dirty tricks.

[Enchante]

"At this point I tend to think the CIA coup attempt against Bush/Cheney came from a couple notches below Tenet in the chain of command, but there are a few missing pieces of information I think would be needed to state that with confidence."

Agreed, so far as we know now..... I know of no reason to think Tenet was a completely active participant in any of the main Plamegate garbage, but he let a lot of things slide and there sure do not seem to be any signs that he made any reasonable efforts to find out what was really going on, either. His behavior at many points in this brouhaha make it appear that he had no interest in setting the record straight, defending the truth on sensitive matters that were being grossly distorted to undermine the war effort, or in cleaning up the cesspool of Plame-like people in the CIA.

Granted, even with the best of intentions and resolve it would be like cleansing the Augean Stables..... even Hercules had to re-direct two rivers to perform that feat in the ancient myth, and Tenet obviously has no Herculean talents. Still, Tenet could have made some sincere and vigorous efforts to set limits on the misbehavior from within his agency, and he could have made it clear to the MSM, Congress, and the public that the developing story line spouted by Joe Wilson was fictitious. Tenet let down the country in a big way - sure don't know why he was worthy of a Presidential Medal of Freedom....

[Howlin]

Be sure to read kristinn's thread; he went to court today.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780940/posts?page=847#847

[piasa]

Alamoudi.

[piasa]

thanks

[TBP]

I think maybe Wilson was waiting for the electrician or someone like him.

But I'm sure that they're all bozos on his bus.

[Iwo Jima]

Thanks for the update. Actually, I had already read it and thought it was great.

A very good account of events, Kristinn. There is no substitute for an observant and knowledgeable eyewitness.

[piasa]

Are you sure that's the right link there?

[Howlin]

I wish we were there. *Sigh*

[Howlin]

Ah, no...........LOL.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781101/posts

[Iwo Jima]

I love jury trials.

[Enchante]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781101/posts

[Howlin]

I do, too. I never worked those because there was too much going on at one time for my simple mind; I liked depositions where I could control everybody in the room......LOL.

I'm praying this jury reaffirms my faith in the legal system.

[piasa]

(nice catfight though)

[Howlin]

Just a bunch of housewives beating up on a politico........LOL.