WTF Is It Now?!?

"President Bush is not losing sleep over giving out false information on Iraq. He said, 'Last time I looked Iraq still had lots of oil.'" - - Craig Kilborn.


Cheney must go
From Salon:

In a letter to President Bush, a group of CIA veterans charge the vice president drove the U.S. to war with a "campaign of deceit" -- and call for his head. Editor's note: Following is the full text of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity's open letter to President Bush, originally published on July 14.

It is now dawning on our until-now somnolent press that your national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, shepherds the foreign affairs sections of your state-of-the-union address and that she, not Tenet, is responsible for the forged information getting into the speech.

It was a deep insult to the integrity of the intelligence process that, after the Vice President declared on August 26, 2002, that "we know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons," the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) produced during the critical month of September featured a fraudulent conclusion that "most analysts" agreed with Cheney's assertion. This may help explain the anomaly of Cheney's unprecedented "multiple visits" to CIA headquarters at the time, as well as the many reports that CIA and other intelligence analysts were feeling extraordinarily great pressure, accompanied by all manner of intimidation tactics, to concur in that conclusion.

We recommend that you call an abrupt halt to attempts to prove Vice President Cheney "not guilty." His role has been so transparent that such attempts will only erode further your own credibility. Equally pernicious, from our perspective, is the likelihood that intelligence analysts will conclude that the way to success is to acquiesce in the cooking of their judgments, since those above them will not be held accountable. We strongly recommend that you ask for Cheney's immediate resignation.

"The American people are mad at being lied to. They want to know what George Bush knew and when Dick Cheney explained it to him." - - Craig Kilborn.