GOP says Iraq intelligence failure caused by Clinton budget cuts [View All]

[peterh]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/11/national1613EST0753.DTL

In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq, the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct the blame back to the Clinton administration.
Rep. Porter J. Goss of Florida said he heard a 1998 speech in which then-President Clinton warned something must be done about Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction.
"Unfortunately, he did not complete that task before his term expired," Goss said in a Capitol Hill press conference.
He said the Clinton administration gutted intelligence assets in the 1990s, so the U.S. intelligence community could not do any better a job than it has done recently.




Hello…Hello…media…are ya out there…try getting it right for a change…this ain’t no stinkin’ signal of things to come from the party of no responsibility…..it’s been the status quo from day one*****it’s Clinton’s fault****simply amazing how the buck keeps getting passed by these pukes…