Former Iraq Arms Inspector Faults Prewar Intelligence

[Dover]

By PHILIP SHENON

Published: August 19, 2004

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 - A former Bush administration official who led the fruitless postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq told Congress on Wednesday that the National Security Council led by Condoleezza Rice had botched intelligence information before the war and was "the dog that did not bark" over Iraq's weapons program.

In uncharacteristically caustic remarks about his former colleagues, the weapons inspector, David Kay, said the National Security Council had failed to protect President Bush from faulty prewar intelligence and had left Secretary of State Colin L. Powell "hanging out in the wind" when he tried to gather intelligence before the war about Iraq's weapons programs.

"Where was the N.S.C?" Dr. Kay asked, suggesting that the president had come to depend too heavily on information supplied by Ms. Rice, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, and that the president needed to reach out to others for national security information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/politics/19panel.html?ex=1093934278&ei=1&en=d7fc3c06e88a68da

[buycitgo]

1. kay is a fricking douchebag for propaganda

he's a shill, spouting that crap to defend the chimp

''National Security Council had failed to protect President Bush from faulty prewar intelligence ''

riiiiight

any idiot who doesn't believe they got EXACTLY the intel they were looking for is too stupid to live

how's that?

check Kay's background

he dissed Blix majorly, for starters, and has very dirty connections

try this:

Who is David Kay?
Even the most cursory investigation of David Kay’s past reveals that the mass media is not reporting his political involvement with intelligence agencies and his financial connection to corporations involved in 'administering' occupied Iraq. The investigation calls into question anything Kay has to say on the subject of Iraq’s alleged WMDs and his suitability for the position of heading the so-called Iraq Survey Group.

In fact, Kay’s connections to the Pentagon, the CIA, ultra right-wing Israeli ‘think-tanks’, a major military contractor called SAIC and the Iraqi Reconstruction and Redevelopment Council, all the members of whom are actually employees of SAIC, reveals a relationship extending back to the middle of 1990s and even before, to Ronald Reagan’s government. A relationship that the corporate press is not mentioning, and with good reason, for in doing so it would reveal the suspect nature of anything Kay has to say about Iraq’s alleged WMD ‘programme’ prior to the invasion.

"Under Reagan, he was a chief scientist for the Pentagon as well as serving as a section chief for the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Administration of the UN) from 1983 until 1991. During this time, Hans Blix - Kay's boss - who was a man of integrity, was continually pressured…first Reagan, then Bush to come up with 'evidence' that oil-rich Iraq posed a sufficient nuclear threat for the US to invade (and thus to capture the oil)."
http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg107176.html

Let the buyer beware
Kay also has connections to the man who supplied much of the totally discredited information on Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons programme, Khidir Hamza who, surprise-surprise is also now an employee of SAIC as a member of the Iraqi Reconstruction and Redevelopment Council! Hamza has much to answer for and it’s more than likely that the fabled ‘other documents’ (if they exist at all) that Blah has referred to in connection with the faked Niger yellowcake documents, are the ones supplied to the IAEA in July 1995 by Hamza.
In article by Soloman Hughes written for GlobalResearch, quoting documents leaked from the IAEA,

"Dated July 1995, the IAEA letter describes "two single-page documents, which were represented as official Iraqi correspondence generated in April/May 1994, suggesting the reconstitution of a nuclear weapons programme".

"There is also reference to " an additional set of three documents".

"According to the IAEA, "a detailed analysis of the form and content of the documents "found a large number of errors and inconsistencies"

"The UN weapons inspectors declared that as a result of this investigation, they had "reached the conclusion that, on the basis of all evidence available, these documents are not authentic".

"Nuclear weapons inspector Maurizio Ferrero described one of the letters rather more bluntly as "a fake"
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HUG306A.html

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0105.html

[UTUSN]

2. Before He Got His Job He Was Always on (Faux?) Spouting the WMD Line

Which is WHY he got the job. Funny how he doesn't get much air time now.

[kodi]

4. building that case of plausible deniability one more lie at a time

bush took the nation to war and did not have to do it. i consider that treason.

[Rose Siding]

3. Good. Rice hasn't taken nearly the heat she's earned n/t

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

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