Are you saying what happened to Anderson should happen to the House and the Senate?
On 11/17/05, Gruss Gott wrote: > > 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. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:182671 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=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
