Kay Says Bush Slowing Intelligence Reform

[jpak]

Kay Says Bush Slowing Intelligence Reform

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2004/feb/12/021206331.html

The Bush administration is hampering efforts to improve intelligence by clinging to the false hope that weapons of mass destruction may be found in Iraq, the former chief U.S. weapons inspector said Thursday.

"My only serious regret about the continued holding on to the hope that eventually we'll find it is that it eventually allows you to avoid the hard steps necessary to reform the process," David Kay said in an interview with The Associated Press.

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Kay said the administration could fear the political costs of acknowledging error. "I suspect if I had their jobs I'd probably, to keep my sanity, be an eternal optimist about some things," he said.

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[brokensymmetry]

1. Ah, yes. * and intelligence.

What a combination.

[central scrutinizer]

3. goes together like

a fish and a bicycle

[Sinistrous]

2. Kay is a Weapon of Mass Distrsaction

He is deftly keeping the focus off the fact that * cooked the intelligence that was available before the invasion of Iraq.

The intelligence I have read about was not bad. Only the OSP-vetted version that was fed to Congress and the American people was in error.

[JoFerret]

4. Slow Bush

intelligence?

[damnraddem]

5. Eternal optimism that they can find an excuse.

There was never any chance that they would find what they claimed. They just hoped to find something less and then change the focus to that. Instead they found nothing, so they're trying to change the focus to that -- to nothing. This has nothing to do with 'intelligence reform' -- that's why Kay was always destined to be disappointed in them.

[acmavm]

6. Any time Bush* is associated with anything involving intelligence, it

actually doesn't slow down, it lays down and dies.