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.
>

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