Cheney's Impeachable Crimes Highlighted at UDC Forum
May 29, 2007
Amazing new details on pre-war intelligence by stellar panel
Submitted by Gustav Wynn
Leading U.S. intelligence and military veterans in a forum at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC)
provide dramatic new evidence as to why Vice President Dick Cheney should be impeached. A long read but worth it: Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Libby, Wolfowitz, Plame, Wilson, and much about the real inner workings of our government.
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GOODMAN: But the Vice President, in my mind, is the person who ran this country
on a foreign policy perspective from 2001 to 2005, when I was at the State Department. ....................
GOODMAN: Then, the third thing that's very important, and gets to the heart of the corruption of the tradecraft of the CIA—and this is what I blame Tenet for, as much as anything else: Not only did they politicize the intelligence, but they didn't honor any of the basic tradecraft of how you go about doing intelligence analysis.
The fact of the matter is, the CIA had made a decision—I think they made it in August/September of 2002—basically to cave in to the Administration and to give them what they wanted.................
GOODMAN: So, what the CIA did, and it's a violation of the Holy Grail—I mean, this is the worst possible thing you can do,
they ignored all of the intelligence that you could argue, you could make one series of assumptions from, and they trumped up the intelligence that for the most part was single source, or primary source. And any good investigator or reporter—Knut is one of the best investigative reporters, and he'll tell you that you don't go into print with one source—and that's exactly what the CIA did. They found the source that told them what they needed to know. And when I testified against Bob Gates in 1991, when he was confirmed as CIA Director, I said the CIA and Gates and Bill Casey were guilty of judge-shopping in the courthouse. That's what exactly what George Tenet did. It's what John McLaughlin did. It's what Paul Pillar did, it's what Robert Walpole did, and it's what Alan Foley did. And it's totally unconscionable, and it needs to be corrected.
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JOHNSON:
In May of 2003, I got a note from one of my former colleagues in the CIA. A senior person. And this person said, "the books were cooked." And I went, "Uh oh." And so at that point, I started looking back, and pushing into other areas, and it became clear, that this was a deception that was being carried out on the people of the United States. So, if you haven't bought George Tenet's book, let me put in a plug: Don't buy it. Don't give the bastard a dime. If you need to read it, you can probably borrow Mel (Goodman)'s copy, or go to the library. But for this man to now pretend—"Look, I had doubts from the beginning"—and he said nothing.
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