Cheney: Congress Briefed on Secret Iraq Intelligence

NewsMax ^ | 9/14/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The Bush administration has supplied Congress with intelligence information on Iraq that has yet to be made public, Vice President Dick Cheney revealed yesterday.

"We've started the briefing process," Cheney told nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh in a rare radio interview. "I've participated, Condie Rice, George Tenet and others, in briefing members of Congress, oftentimes in classified sessions so we can share intelligence information with them."

Cheney predicted that congressional members would find the secret evidence persuasive.

"I think what you'll see is a serious effort by the Congress to come to grips with this, hopefully in the next few weeks," he told Limbaugh's EIB network.

The vice president urged congressional leaders not to delay giving Bush a resolution of support for a prospective Iraq attack. "The sooner the better," he told Limbaugh. "I think weeks."

He singled out Senate Plurality Leader Tom Daschle by name as one of the obstacles to a timely congressional vote.

"I know a few people have suggested - I believe Tom Daschle has suggested that somehow we ought to delay this or we should wait until the United Nations acts," Cheney told Limbaugh. "We think that would be a mistake."

"We really think this needs to be addressed by the Congress of the United States, and it has an obligation to focus on this," Cheney added. "It really needs to be addressed now, in this session, before Congress goes home."

Cheney also said he believed Saddam Hussein was psychologically abnormal.

"From having studied him a bit over the years, I must say he's very unpredictable and his mind doesn't seem to work along the same channels that most normal people do," he told EIB.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Word is that our top people flood Sunday news shows. Hey Clinton, what timing!

[Gritty]

Go, Cheney, Go!!

[EternalHope]

He singled out Senate Plurality Leader Tom Daschle by name as one of the obstacles to a timely congressional vote.

Dasshole is beneath contempt.

[A CA Guy]

As long as they don't tell Congress what troop movements will be happening, ou military should be safe.

[D-fendr]

We'll all know soon. Sen. Leahy is now on the phone with CNN as a "senior member of congress who wishes to remain anonymous."

[Howlin]

He's also a liar; John Warner said Bush HAD told them he wanted a resolution in the Cabinet Room at the White House and Daschle WAS there and heard it.