> Sam wrote: > They did. > Only a handful read the NIE fast page five according to the Washington
What Sam and Kevin are pushing is what philosophers call a "lie of omission" or purposely distorting and omitting facts to prove a case. Ironically the effort is exactly what the President did to convince Congress and Americans to get involved in an unnecessary war. Here are the facts: 1.) The Senate Intelligence Committee was provided a finished product of intelligence, not "the same" intelligence. And that product was finished by the Administration. 2.) Congress does not have access to the Presidential Daily Brief, nor the Sr Exec Intelligence Report, nor the individual analyst reports, nor dept level assessments. 3.) Congress can ask questions, but that's hard to do when you don't have access to the intelligence to know what to ask. As an analogy, let's look at ENRON. They published corporate balance sheets that included all the business of fraud that we now know about. Many folks, including Anderson Accounting, didn't catch it though. Why? Were Anderson and ENRON execs looking at the "the same" balance sheets? Yes. Then why was the fraud not caught? Because the accountants were purposely deceived and manipulated into "glossing over" that parts that included the fraud by senior execs such as Andy Fastow the CFO. So the intelligence about Iraq was the same as the intelligence about ENRON. Everyone had access to the same data and everyone, including the Europeans, thought ENRON was a viable company making honest profits. But the Executives were the only ones that knew the truth until it started to unravel. The same is happening with Iraq. Let's call it ENRON 2. Or the Texas-Deception 2. Whichever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| All-in-one: antivirus, antispam, firewall for your PC and PDA. Buy Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=60 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:182659 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
