BTW, Wilkerson was pulling the punch about Tenet....George may not have been able to say that the assertions were definitely false, but Tenet and about all the senior management of CIA knew that the report was repeatedly rejected until the original conclusion that there was no real proof that Iraq had an active nuke weapons program was changed to say that there was evidence sufficient to conclude that they probably had one.
- and George Tenet assuring Colin Powell that the information he was presenting at the U.N. was ironclad, only to have that same individual call the secretary on more than one occasion in the ensuing months after the presentation and tell him that central pillars of his presentation were indeed false.
Now, do I believe George Tenet knew they were false when he told him that? Absolutely not. I just don't believe it. I refuse to believe it. How did we get to that point? How did our intelligence community get us to that point? How did [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy] Douglas Feith, who clearly politicized intelligence, clearly cherry-picked intelligence, clearly provided some of that cherry-picked intelligence to the vice president of the United States -- how did we combine all of that, plus a good dose of psychological groupthink, to come up with such an abysmal failure in regards to WMD in Iraq? It's a mystery to me, and I will never know the answer.
miggs, on that grain of salt about that TNR reporter......one of those "inaccurate" things that Cheney informed Peretz was cause for killing Ackerman's story was that it said that Feith twice (or three times) returned the CIA report on Iraqi WMD with instruction that the report be amended to be more positive in asserting that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program.....
interesting about Gelman. was reading about him yesterday
long ago, a young reporter at TNR was doing a story about things happening in the DoD's mishandling of Iraq, centered on the idiot Doug Feith. prior to publication, the story was shown to Feith and others in the admin.
Peretz, owner/publisher at that time gets a call from Cheney's aide telling him that Cheney says the story is inaccurate for x,y, z reasons and that it'll harm Feith and therefore Cheney tells Peretz to kill the story altogether and to fire the reporter.
Peretz agrees, in large measure because he teaches at Harvard and Feith was one of his "boys" when he was an undergrad.
Marty the Gerbil calls the editor and relays the instructions. The editor refuses and, after a nasty little meeting where the reporter produces rock-solid backing for the accuracy of x,y,z ...the story runs, Peretz remains furious, Feith's rep starts to unravel...the editor and Peretz remain enemies with the editor no longer printing Peretz's stories! (that's how and why Peretz started his own mini-blog The Spine within TNR.
Eventually though, the editor takes a leave of absence and departs...and Marty the Gerbil gets to install another one of his boys as the new editor.
BTW, Wilkerson was pulling the punch about Tenet....George may not have been able to say that the assertions were definitely false, but Tenet and about all the senior management of CIA knew that the report was repeatedly rejected until the original conclusion that there was no real proof that Iraq had an active nuke weapons program was changed to say that there was evidence sufficient to conclude that they probably had one.
Wilkerson from Frontline interview
miggs, on that grain of salt about that TNR reporter......one of those "inaccurate" things that Cheney informed Peretz was cause for killing Ackerman's story was that it said that Feith twice (or three times) returned the CIA report on Iraqi WMD with instruction that the report be amended to be more positive in asserting that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program.....
turns out that the story was sufficiently salty.
yeah, I might have liked the show.
interesting about Gelman. was reading about him yesterday
long ago, a young reporter at TNR was doing a story about things happening in the DoD's mishandling of Iraq, centered on the idiot Doug Feith. prior to publication, the story was shown to Feith and others in the admin.
Peretz, owner/publisher at that time gets a call from Cheney's aide telling him that Cheney says the story is inaccurate for x,y, z reasons and that it'll harm Feith and therefore Cheney tells Peretz to kill the story altogether and to fire the reporter.
Peretz agrees, in large measure because he teaches at Harvard and Feith was one of his "boys" when he was an undergrad.
Marty the Gerbil calls the editor and relays the instructions. The editor refuses and, after a nasty little meeting where the reporter produces rock-solid backing for the accuracy of x,y,z ...the story runs, Peretz remains furious, Feith's rep starts to unravel...the editor and Peretz remain enemies with the editor no longer printing Peretz's stories! (that's how and why Peretz started his own mini-blog The Spine within TNR.
Eventually though, the editor takes a leave of absence and departs...and Marty the Gerbil gets to install another one of his boys as the new editor.
which is a large part of why I loathe that Dick.
Scott Miller wrote:
to match his eyes.
@ CK MacLeod:
speculation has it that the Cheney's dog's aggression is due to persistent inappropriate touching.