Posted on 06/02/2007 3:14:30 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
John Edwards Admits He Never Read Iraq Intel Report
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards misspoke when he said he read a National Intelligence Report before authorizing the war in Iraq, his campaign said.
Edwards did not read the classified report that contained doubts about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, his spokesman said, even though it was available to him at the time when he was a North Carolina senator serving on the Intelligence Committee.
Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz said Edwards had read the declassified summary report before voting to authorize the war, but not the full version.
However, when asked Wednesday whether he read the confidential report, Edwards told employees at Google, "I read it."
Schultz said Friday that Edwards "simply misunderstood the question."
"As Senator Edwards has said many times before, he read the declassified version of the NIE, as well as other intelligence documents which were ultimately summarized in the classified version of the NIE," Schultz said.
Edwards' chief rival, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, acknowledged this week that she also did not read the full report before voting to authorize the war.
© 2007 Associated Press.
Big surprise.
He misunderstood the question. Case closed.
Cue the media attack on conservatives!
I don’t think members of the House and Senate read much of anything they vote on. At least, I hope not: I’d rather blame what comes out of Congress on incompetence and sloth than malice.
Of course they didn’t read it.The wind blew and they voted for that direction where is the surprise?
Edwards can read? Wow. And I thought he was just a pretty man in an empty suit. Oops.
He’s nothing more than a POS.
Edwards on an Intelligence committee? There's an oxymoron!
Point of Sale?
Damn, I’d at least thought Edwards channeled the report to him via telekinesis or something.
He was too busy reading the New York Times and the moveon.com website.
Democrats always “mis spoke, or are taken out of context” but a
republican is a liar..
No, through magic hair power.
CORRECTION - THIS GIRLY MAN IS TOAST.
then he should not have voted on it. how can you vote for something you have no idea what your voting for....
same goes for any other member who doesn't read the bill before them
there should be a law you can't vote if you didn't read the bill any bill
That’s OK ... He never read the Constitution, either, as evidenced by the big fat ZERO grade he receives on a pop-quiz of questions about rights.
He gets them all wrong.
Every.
One.
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