--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/10/06 5:39:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > But nobody suggested the CIA had changed. The > point was that they were right all along. They > told Tenet there was no evidence of WMD; Tenet > decided to play kissy-face with Bush anyway. He > told Bush what he wanted to hear. > > And he's been well rewarded for it with that > nice Medal of Freedom he got after he retired. > > > > Now that's a good one. Tenet lied to Bush, knowingly giving him false > information, so Bush could invade Iraq (for oil no less) in exchange, he gets > a > medal. Sounds like the red cross bribing me with a cup of orange juice and a > cookie in exchange for a pint of blood they turn around and sell for 400.00. > Actually, if Tenet was just telling Bush what he wanted to hear he wouldn't > have > told him to strike the bit about Saddam trying to buy yellow cake from Niger > in the State of the Union speech, which Bush then quoted British intel > instead of the CIA. The CIA had intelligence from 4 or 5 different > intelligence > agencies that they condensed to present to the White House. Foot notes were > noted in the briefs when there were disagreements as to the meaning of the > intelligence. Sources within the CIA didn't always agree with each other on > every > bit of intelligence and they were noted. Tenet and others in the CIA > believed the preponderance of the evidence was a slam dunk although there > were some > individuals that believed individual pieces of evidence were not accurate. > As > I said earlier Bush didn't appoint Tenet to the CIA, Clinton did. Do you > think Clinton would appoint a yes man like you are suggesting to such an > important post? >
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