CIA Director Tenet says uranium line was the CIA's fault.

[Dog]

Breaking on Fox..

[Mo1]

I'm sure they are .. this just messed their plans

[mewzilla]

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

[jwalsh07]

Bush has exhibited extreme loyalty to those working for him despite calls for certain heads.

Tenet has returned that loyalty, it's what men and women of good character do.

This issue is a non issue and the President should attck the leftists. His direction of attack should be the mass graves in Iraq, the one eared Iraqi's and pictures of gassed Kurds.

[CedarDave]

I just saw the Krauthammer column in my morning paper (which I finally got around to reading). I assume it's been posted here, and I want to see if other Freepers were as impressed with it as I was. Do you have a FR link (I can't remember the title to do a search)?

[MEG33]

I read it in the Telegraph on line.

[YaYa123]

Terry McAuliffe's statement was soooooo whacked out, I thought it was a joke. But no, I guess he really did say it.

[swheats]

Bush may have an "ace up his sleeve" but I can't believe he allowed this entire week of his Africa trip to be dominated by these questions just to pull out his ace.

This appears to be more dirty tricks while Bush is occupied in Africa. He has to be furious.

[Joe 6-pack]

"...the brand new Democrat BUSH is a LIAR Attack TV Commercial."

These dems are really being a bunch of f*in' retards. This whole Niger uranium thing is much ado about nothing and will be forgotten long before 11/04. The average dem kool-aid sipper doesn't know what yellow cake uranium is, doesn't know where Niger is, and was playing nintendo during the SOTUA.

When hard evidence is found they are going to be shown for the morons they are.

They're running ads already? (sorry, don't watch much tv). They must have money to burn...all their candidates have to campaign through a pretty serious primary season. Dubya's going to have no competition and wholesale support from his party. If the dems are rounding up money to buy ads already, that's less money they'll have for their final nominee to go head to head against Dubya.

This gets better everyday!

[mewzilla]

FWIW, here's a little ol' link to something written by David Albright on the subject of Saddamn and his nuke program. Oh no, Saddamn wasn't interested in uranium, plutonium, or anything like that, was he Terry?

[snarkpup]

Earlier, John Gibson was giving Terry McAwful a hard time about that, saying, "So you guys are going to demand that someone appointed by your guy Clinton resign?"

How ironic. Last night I watched a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode on DVD. A witch fires a deadly spell-blast at Buffy, who then puts a mirror in the way. No more witch.

[rintense]

If Tenent goes, every single Clinton holdover needs to go as well. Intelligence will not get better until there is a massive clearinghouse.

[Peach]

Liberal Democrats' Perverse Foreign Policy was the title. If you do a search on FR you'll find it. Sorry - had a computer crash and lost my instructions on linking. Will give it a try after this response.

[Peach]

Source Link

[Peach]

That source link was to Krauthammer's article. Sorry

[DoughtyOne]

Let's talk State Department...

[DoughtyOne]

A classic!

[jethropalerobber]

Bush depends on what info intel gives him.

from tenet's statement it looks like he never told bush that the intel on the uranium sale was anything more that sketchy. all the CIA did was sign off on wording that was, after all, technically correct. this sounds like a kid blaming his spell checker for a lousy book report.

tenet said of the october 2003 national intelligence estimate:
"Let me emphasize, the NIE's key judgments cited six reasons for this assessment; the African uranium issue was not one of them."

my question is why did bush choose to highlight the uranium story in his speech at not those other six reasons?

tenet also says: "Some of the language was changed. From what we know now, agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct, i.e. that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa. This should not have been the test for clearing a presidential address."

it sure sounds like the CIA was doing its best to cover the white house by changing the wording so that it was "factually correct" though still highly misleading. it was not the CIA who drafted this speech, and it is ridiculous to lay the blame on them when the white house clearly chose to push what they knew was weak intel (speaking of intel on the uranium sale specifically, not the nuclear program generally).

who wanted to go to war with iraq in january 2003 - the CIA or the white house?
tenet is just trying to save his job.

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All of that wonderful gas aside, Woolsey joked that Monica got more face time with Clinton than he did.

Woolsey said Ramzi Yousef was an Iraqi agent, and has been allied with Laurie Mylroie in the pursuit of a state-based terror threat.

He's experienced, seasoned, respected, and sees the threat.

I don't know who could better advise on Tenet's replacement--or be Tenet's replacement.

Recall that Deutch said early on his intent was to "f--k them" [CIA], and that Deutch picked Tenet to replace him.

I understand Tenet served Senator Patrick "Leaky" Leahy, the self-appointed Main Enemy of intelligence.

A strong cable on Tenet's belt and the other end out the window to a Cobra helicopter would be the order of the day.

[Brandon]

Members of the Senate have already said that there is WMD information waiting to be declassified. Beyond that, I believe that Bush has people building a huge report on everything they have found in Iraq.

I hope and expect that you're right -- but I also don't think it matters if you're wrong. The polls show it: The American people don't care if we ever find WMDs. They're happy that the war was short and comparatively bloodless, and they're happy that Saddam has finally been knocked off his perch. Even if no WMDs are ever found, the Dems come across looking like they're defending Saddam Hussein -- they look like a bunch of trial lawyers trying to get someone who is clearly guilty acquitted on a technicality. It's a lose/lose issue for the Dems, unless something major happens to our troops that can be pinned on the Administration.

[William McKinley]

"What don't WE know, and when will we know it?"

This is the question that concerns me. Not only have we not found the WMD we thought Saddam had, not only have we not found Saddam, we have not found the materials we know he had, because it had been inventoried by the UN after the first Gulf War. We did not know about 9/11 beforehand, we likely have not gotten Osama. There is a serious deficiency in our intelligence. But the Democrats won't drop the partisan games and be patriots and stand down and assist in finding out how to better enable our intelligence community to do their jobs well.

Probably because they know the root cause goes back to the Torricelli amendment.