Nick McClure wrote: > I'm still not exactly sure what lies they've told.
As I read it, that the rumored purchase of uranium in Niger was a "key judgement" for going to war, which the CIA had already told them was not. Okay, I'm not going to claim that I'm great at descyphering media/politico/legal-ese (as this appreas to have aspects of all three enmeshed in the article), but this is what I read: 1. The CIA heard rumors about Iraq trying to buy uranium in Niger, investigated and concluded the rumors were unfounded 2. Bush and Cheney got fixated on the rumors which the CIA had already told them were probably unfounded 3. Bush and Cheney told the nation we needed to go to war with Iraq on the basis of information the CIA had already told them was probably bad intelligence 4. Bush sends Libby to hand out classified information at the same time that people are _discussing_ declassifying the same information (in programming, we call this a race condition) and suggests that Libby should present the bad intelligence as being the dominant reason for needing to go to war 5. Members of the CIA attempted to discredit bush for using bad intelligence 6. Bush counters with "nuh-uh, the CIA lied to me" in an attempt to cover his ass 7. The Plame case is brought to court. Bush backslides and says it's okay because, although the information wasn't yet declassified when he gave Libby instructions to diseminate it that it was in the process of being declassified, and that his previous CYA story that it was the best intelligence available to him was bogus, thus simultanously keeping himself from being implicated for any malfeasance and proving that the CIA members who previously wanted to discredit him (5 above) were absolutely correct, but that's okay because he already covered his ass previously when they were trying to discredit him, so the fact that he's now proving their point is now irrelevant because? We're stupid and won't care that he's discrediting himself in the case of lying about the reasons for going to war in Iraq? Because lying about the reasons for a war which costs thousands of lives isn't malfeasant? s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:203436 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
