What's the truth? Who knows?
What has been happening regarding the second part of the Senate investigation into bungled pre-war Iraq intelligence is summarized in Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Still Examining Pre-War Iraq Intel
which states "Five years after the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led
coalition forces, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has yet to
conclude its investigations into the pre-war intelligence that was cited by the Bush administration as the basis for the decision to take military action
against Iraq.
The committee has conducted the investigation in two phases. The first phase, concluded in 2004, centered on a faulty October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) regarding Iraq's nonconventional weapons programs. (See ACT, September 2004.)
The second phase of the examination has faced repeated delays since it was announced in February 2004. Nonetheless, this phase has examined a variety of issues, including the intelligence community's use of
information provided by the Iraqi National Congress. (See ACT, December 2006.)
Two issues remain outstanding, and congressional sources told Arms Control Today Jan. 30 that the committee hopes to vote on reports regarding them before the summer recess. It is unclear if this can be accomplished.
One remaining issue relates to whether pre-war public statements on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and links to terrorism by administration officials were substantiated by intelligence information. As part of this investigation, the committee has asked the administration to share all Presidential Daily Briefs on Iraq during the investigation's time frame. The administration has refused to honor this request.
The second remaining issue involves the intelligence-related activities
conducted by two Pentagon offices: the Office of Special Plans and the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group. Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld established the Office of Special Plans, which was tasked with examining raw intelligence related to Iraq's WMD programs, within the office of Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy. Feith created the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group after the September 2001 attacks to examine links between terrorist organizations and host countries.
In February 2007, the Pentagon inspector general issued a report stating that Feith's office produced "alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaeda relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community." The report further stated that, although these activities were not illegal or unauthorized, they were "inappropriate."
Congressional sources told Arms Control Today Feb. 15 that former committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) used the Pentagon investigation
as an excuse to delay the committee's investigation into Feith's offices."
How do you get "inappropriate" but not illegal or unauthorized? This put our boys and girls in the US military in harm's way. The Democrats are trying to move this matter, but they are getting resistance from all sources as " As part of this investigation, the committee has asked the administration to share all Presidential Daily Briefs on Iraq during the investigation's time frame. The administration has refused to honor this request."
W stonewalls, the GOP protects him-McCain is nothing other than a third term of 43, and the US MSM chases the big bucks of Elliott Spitzer's scandal. This wouldn't have been the media's role back in the days of "Watergate".
All of this devastation is distracting us. We don't concentrate on the fact that Big bro 43 is dismantling our civil rights.
The article "FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters -- 2003-06 Audit Cites Probes of Citizens" at click here states:
"The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on such orders to obtain records that a special intelligence-gathering court had deemed protected by the First Amendment, according to two government audits released yesterday."
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