Report to blame CIA for prewar intelligence (new: Roberts climb-down)

[DrBB]

Roberts issued a statement late Friday, saying the Post article had "mischaracterized" his statements. "The committee has not finished its review of the intelligence and has not reached any final conclusions or finished a report," Roberts said.

A Roberts aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the senator's remarks to the Post weren't meant to be a broad critique of the CIA, but were instead aimed at specific instances of flawed intelligence work, such as the now-debunked claims about Niger sales of uranium to Iraq.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/7097415.htm">Mercury News

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Looks like he's feeling a bit burned by Jay Rockefeller's comments.

[goforit]

1. Little Roberts hasn't heard the last of it either!!.It's over for the GOP!

We .......the American People are pissed!!!

[UTUSN]

3. The Wingnuts Want It Both Ways

Lessee: The Shrubbite string-pullers wanted the Intellers to PUMP UP the intel. They kicked and screamed. The Shrubbites emphasized what little they had. Now that it's crying time the Shrubbites are blaming the Intellers for PUMPING UP the intel. Zat it?

[KoKo]

2. Kick! Good to hear that Rockefeller's comments gave "pause" to Roberts!

and this hasn't been reported on the "Cables/Networks" so we need to know!

[Flubadubya]

4. Link not working...

Anyone else have any problem with the link? It dead-ended on me.

[berry]

5. Same here--the link doesn't work. I wonder if it's AP or AFP

Think I'll check Yahoo... I REALLY want to read about Roberts backing off.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Dubya hanging the Company out to dry

Yeah, that's gonna go over real well.

The Bush Cabal have taken a page from the Church of Scientology's playbook -- "Operation Footbullet". Unless they make nice real fast, some pissed-off CIA ops may just decide that certain information about, oh, 9-11, heretofore suppressed, find its way to the Eeevil Libbrul Press.

Revelations that the Bushistas also believed Saddam's lies about the size of the Iraqi oil desposits might also be intersting to leak. (Now that "we" have finally "secured" the country, "we" have discovered that Saddam fudged the figures by 100-200%, so that 5-to-10-year buffer against decreasing oil production and increasing oil prices we thought we'd have is gone. References at www.DieOff.com and www.PeakOil.com)

They are in power, they are arrogant, and they are stupid. And they're messing up because of it.

And guess who will get to pay?

--bkl

[DrBB]

7. corrected link

Sorry--extra http in there. This one works