A new Salon piece by Sidney Blumenthal will blow your mind.
Some Ex-CIA folks are to reveal: Bush was briefed by Tenet, he was told there were no WMDs. He blew it off, Tenet let him do it...
http://www.salon.com/...
On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.
Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.
This is huge, and it's no coincidence these guys are coming out now. If Bush is to be stopped from moving further on the NeoCon dream, there need to be fresh, clear, inspired reasons for impeachment.
And here it is, all in black and white:
In the congressional debate over the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, even those voting against it gave credence to the notion that Saddam possessed WMD. Even a leading opponent such as Sen. Bob Graham, then the Democratic chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who had instigated the production of the NIE, declared in his floor speech on Oct. 12, 2002, "Saddam Hussein's regime has chemical and biological weapons and is trying to get nuclear capacity." Not a single senator contested otherwise. None of them had an inkling of the Sabri intelligence
Blumenthal has done some incredible muckraking on the war, and this is some of his best.
There you are, congressional Democrats. You love posting on Kos, how about taking some progressive action? Have at 'em, if these aren't impeachable charges that could stop these bastards from taking us into the next war, those charges don't exist. The time is now.