Re: CIA warned Bush not to invade Iraq

[Robert Munn]

The real question to ask here is who in the CIA leaked these documents? There is a faction in the CIA that clearly wants the President to fail and is actively trying to undermine the Administration in it's efforts in Iraq. This is shameful and possibly criminal behavior and the people responsible for it should be fired and jailed. Their efforts are helping the enemy in Iraq and no amount of rationalizing as to freedom of speech or right to free press justifies the fact that they are working against the elected leader of the United States.

The President gets briefings of all sorts all the time. Why is it that these reports are being leaked now? The people responsible for the leak do not have the best interests of the country at heart, they are only  interested in providing ammunition for partisan attacks against the President. Of course there were assessments about all kinds of possible outcomes in Iraq- it is the job of the intelligence community to produce those assessments. They would have zero credibility if they only produced rosy scenarios. The Democrats act like the existence of these reports is some dark secret that the President is hiding, but that's just an election-eve pose.

> Prewar Assessment on Iraq Saw Chance of Strong Divisions
> By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER
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> Published: September 28, 2004
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> http://tinyurl.com/6dnlt

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