----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words
> At 06:49 PM 7/27/2003 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> QUESTION 1) The British inform us that they have learned that Iraq has > >> recently tried to acquire significant quantities of intelligence in Africa. > >> > >> The Bush Administration naturally tries to verify this claim, but cannot > >> do so. They tell the British that we can't verify their claim. The > >> British respond that they cannot reveal their intelligence sources on this, > >> but they assure us that the intelligence is of the highest quality. > >> > >> At this point, do you; > >> a) Call the British liars since our intelligence services have such strong > >> reservations about it? > >> b) Call the British incompetent for giving us intelligence that our own > >> intelligence services has not verified, and indeed has strong doubts about? > >> c) Ignore the British intelligence as questionable? > >> d) Accept that the British intelligence services may have access to sources Why not e) Both the British and the American governments have overruled the better judgment of their intelligence services. From what I've heard and read from GB, there has been even worse tension over this than here. The best example of this was the claim that GB knew that Hussein was 45 minutes away from delivering WMD. I have a hard time believing that a significant weapons deployment with that short of a launch window could disappear that quickly. Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
