Tenet gets up in front of congress and reporters and than he disseminates to congress, the public and reporters too.
I don't know what to believe anymore and it's pretty scary watching both Republicans and Democrats disseminates to citizens. It's like a total meltdown in Washington.
Last night on PBS Newshour, it looks to me like Washington is going into self-destruct overload. The DC core is seeping specious comments that parallels rational from the twilight zone.
AND the follow example is what is happening from the Democratic side:
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JIM LEHRER: Speaking of a debate why do you think the administration is still hanging in there on this? What's your interpretation on this, why will they not concede the search is not over yet?
SEN. EVAN BAYH: Well, I think to some extent they may believe that. There is a possibility that we'll find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I think there is also a reluctance to admit error.
But from my experience, Jim, when all the facts come out if we have made some mistakes, I think the rest of the world and the American people will understand that to err is human, but to persist in error or to deny the existence of error, that's something that's harder to understand -- that undermines our credibility. The next time we go to the world and say, "look, there are bad things happening in North Korea or Iran. We need do something about it." If the reaction is "why should we believe you?" -- that's not a helpful thing. So we need to try and air this out, restore our credibility, and then get on with the job of protecting the country.
I'm guess I'm just NOT as understanding as other American people, and I don't like it that this happened. Too many people have died and billions have been spent and this is suppose to be just an understandable error?
WELL SCREW THAT!
Here we've been at a war AND over 520 American military troopers have dead, several thousand military men and women have been seriously wounded and thousands of Iraqis that have died and been seriously wounded too.
OUR congress in Washington is just a completely perverted apparatus these days.
Paul Krugman today is starting to ask to some pretty important questions.
Get Me Rewrite!
Please take a look at one one paragraph.
Can all these awkward facts be whited out of the historical record? Probably. Almost surely, President Bush's handpicked "independent" commission won't investigate the Office of Special Plans. Like Lord Hutton in Britain -- who chose to disregard Mr. Jones's testimony -- it will brush aside evidence that intelligence professionals were pressured. It will focus only on intelligence mistakes, not on the fact that the experts, while wrong, weren't nearly wrong enough to satisfy their political masters. (Among those mentioned as possible members of the commission is James Woolsey, who wrote one of the blurbs for Ms. Mylroie's book.)
Now I guarantee it that our past President Bill Clinton does not want Krugman to go there, bothering Tony Blair's involvement with this war or questioning James Woolsey appointment either.
Bill Clinton wrote an op-ed awhile back before the war in Iraq to the UK's The Guardian in support of what Tony Blair was doing in his run up to war in Iraq AND James Woolsey IS a Clinton Administration man.
ON Janunary 30th the LA TIMES wrote the following:
Citizen Clinton Takes the Hill
By Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton's first working visit on Capitol Hill with Democratic senators since the end of his presidency three years ago was supposed to be a low-key, off-the-record affair.
But Clinton, looking fit and energized, seized the opportunity to praise Sen. John F. Kerry, the newly designated frontrunner for the party's presidential nomination, and to tell reporters what he thought Democrats needed to do to win the election this year.
---and last two paragraphs please:
But Clinton also has chastised Democrats for dwelling too much on Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq.
"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president," Clinton said in July on the CNN program "Larry King Live." "I mean, you can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in a while. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now. That's what I think."
Today the Chicago Tribune writes the following about George Tenet's public speaking yesterday.
By establishing a public record, Tenet clearly signaled that he aims to protect his agency and himself from claims that it passed bad information to President Bush before the U.S. invaded Iraq last March.
Yet what is most revealing about Tenet's speech is that it shows not how much information the CIA had gathered on Iraq but how little and how difficult a time agency officers and analysts had developing a picture of Hussein's weapons capabilities and intentions.
In that sense, Tenet's critics say, his address differed dramatically from the National Intelligence Estimate the CIA gave the White House in the fall of 2002. The critics saw his speech as a public-relations ploy to gloss over earlier errors.
"This is a tactic that is not going to work," said Mel Goodman, a former CIA analyst and a critic of the handling of intelligence on Iraq. "This should not be the subject of a PR campaign. The estimate was flawed."
In the end, if we are save our democracy, Bush will fall, Clinton will fall and so will Tony Blair.
The real division in the race for the Democratic nomination should be between those who are willing to question not just the policies but also the honesty and the motives of the people running our country, be they Republican OR Democrat.
This is why I'm NOT interested in voting for John Kerry and neither should you be - because it will only continue the white wash that is become all to obvious about this war in Iraq.
We absolutely NEED a third party, in fact I would say that it is imperative that we find a different path to overcome the protectionism going on in Washington DC.
I don't know if that person will be Ralph Nader, I don't who we need, but certainly SOMEBODY. I'm tired of playing the Washington triva insider game. It's costing we, the people FAR too much.
FAR too much...