Thursday, March 11, 2004
CIA director disputes Cheney assertions on Iraq. Does anyone really care any more? Bush and his mates got their result, Saddam deposed, the country poised to be taken over by their puppet/stooge, it doesn't matter to them that the flimsy house of pretexts they used to dazzle the world has collapsed behind them, they're all moving on now. Eyes to the future!
CIA Director George Tenet on Tuesday rejected recent assertions by Vice President Dick Cheney that Iraq cooperated with the al-Qaida terrorist network and that the administration had proof of an illicit Iraqi biological warfare program...
Tenet admitted to Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee's senior Democrat, that he had told Cheney that the vice president was wrong in saying that two truck trailers recovered in Iraq were "conclusive evidence" that Saddam had a biological weapons program...
[A top-secret memorandum] purportedly set out evidence, compiled by a special Pentagon intelligence cell, that Saddam was in league with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
"Senator, we did not clear the document," replied Tenet. "We did not agree with the way the data was characterized in that document."
CIA Director George Tenet on Tuesday rejected recent assertions by Vice President Dick Cheney that Iraq cooperated with the al-Qaida terrorist network and that the administration had proof of an illicit Iraqi biological warfare program...
Tenet admitted to Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee's senior Democrat, that he had told Cheney that the vice president was wrong in saying that two truck trailers recovered in Iraq were "conclusive evidence" that Saddam had a biological weapons program...
[A top-secret memorandum] purportedly set out evidence, compiled by a special Pentagon intelligence cell, that Saddam was in league with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
"Senator, we did not clear the document," replied Tenet. "We did not agree with the way the data was characterized in that document."
