IMPORTANT! Rate This Yahoo! Story Off the Charts!

[Gringo]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ft/20031024/bs_ft/1066565356319

This story pertains to the testimony to Congress of CIA agents today that Cheney and the Bush administration pressured them to make their findings fit the Bushie agenda & the Wilson/Plame leak scandal. This also ran on c-span. This should be the TOP STORY of the day, dammit!

[CO Liberal]

1. I Just Voted - Gave it a "5"

Current results:

You have given the news article Senate panel to fault Iraq intelligence a rating of 5.

Its current average rating is 5.00 with 17 vote(s).

[Clete]

2. Done

[flamingyouth]

3. done

:kick:

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Done

kick

[WilliamPitt]

4. The headline has nothing to do with the story

:wtf:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. It's our wonderful media NOT

William, you should know better.

DAMN THEM!

[arcane1]

8. I think that's part of the "filter" we've heard so much about

thus the headline-skimmers think all is well. People who actually read learn otherwise

Kudos for the shout-out from Morford! :toast:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. done

[elfin]

9. Done - now 4.72 with 137 votes eom

[alcuno]

10. Thanks.

[Gringo]

11. The CRUCIAL PART of this article...

is this:

"He said that in the run-up to the war with Iraq, the White House had engaged in unprecedented pressure on the CIA and other intelligence agencies to find evidence that Iraq had links to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and al-Qaeda and that Mr Hussein's regime was trying to build a nuclear bomb.


While the intelligence agencies believe their mission is to provide accurate analysis to the president to aid policy decisions, in the case of Iraq "we had policies that were already adopted and they were looking for those selective pieces of intelligence that would support the policy", Mr Cannistraro said. "


I f you saw the hearings on C-span, you would see that the veteran CIA agents (who voted FOR BUS) were quite detailed & highly critical of the administration, especailly Cheney for putting pressure on them to spin the intel, and then intimidating them NUMEROUS times before the Plame affair. Point being that the intel was FAKE, not because of CIA failure, but because of Bushie pressure to produce the intel that THE BUSHIES WANTED. Of course, "the filter" had no interest at all in following this HUGE story. Disgusting.

Please keep reccommending it, though...

[Myra]

12. Voted

Bump

[Guaranteed]

13. Yeah, it's 4.3 now.

Why do I get the feeling every time we announce there's a chance to rate a great article there are some goddamn freepers around who see the announcment and give it 1's?

[LibertyorDeath]

14. Done 5

Its current average rating is 4.29 with 302 vote(s

[areschild]

15. Done

Rating 4.29 - 318 votes

[Imalittleteapot]

16. Voted. Thanks. n/t

[scarletlib]

17. Done

Rating 4.28 and approx 438 votes