Bullxit.
- Speaking to reporters, Hadley said details from the CIA memos and phone call slipped his mind. He apologized to Bush on Monday, he said. "The high standards the president set were not met," said Hadley. Despite the error, the president has "full confidence in his national security advisor, his deputy national security advisor and the director of central intelligence," said White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett.
- "The CIA was pushing the aluminum tube argument heavily and Cheney went with that instead of what our guys wrote," Powell said. And the Niger reference in Bush's State of the Union speech? "That was a big mistake," he said. "It should never have been in the speech. I didn't need Wilson to tell me that there wasn't a Niger connection. He didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. I never believed it."
- "Those 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president," George Tenet said in a statement. "This was a mistake."
- "Now, we've long acknowledged -- and this is old news, we've said this repeatedly -- that the information on yellow cake did, indeed, turn out to be incorrect." ~ Ari Fleischer
- "What we've said subsequently is, knowing what we now know, that some of the Niger documents were apparently forged, we wouldn't have put this in the President's speech -- but that's knowing what we know now." ~ Condoleezza Rice
Could you please unpack that one, Jack?
No one suggested anyone was getting a nuke.
Yeah, that was implied. Sorry.
I disagree absolutely.
What does it mean?
From the NYT article, here's the key.
"He made the claim more than once, but gave no supporting evidence. Amid confusing statements by various lawmakers, he later appeared to backtrack in conversations with both The Associated Press and Reuters, saying that because Sismi never had the documents, it could not comment on their merit."
Bullxit ... Hans Blix, from the U.N. ...In terms of allowing them unfettered access to inspect sites? Yes.
The UN disagrees with you.
WTF are you smoking??When the documents were passed to the IAEA, the US explicitly declined to vouch for their authenticity.
How lucky are you that you had little credibility to risk to begin with?Bullxit.
- Speaking to reporters, Hadley said details from the CIA memos and phone call slipped his mind. He apologized to Bush on Monday, he said. "The high standards the president set were not met," said Hadley. Despite the error, the president has "full confidence in his national security advisor, his deputy national security advisor and the director of central intelligence," said White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett.
- "The CIA was pushing the aluminum tube argument heavily and Cheney went with that instead of what our guys wrote," Powell said. And the Niger reference in Bush's State of the Union speech? "That was a big mistake," he said. "It should never have been in the speech. I didn't need Wilson to tell me that there wasn't a Niger connection. He didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. I never believed it."
- "Those 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president," George Tenet said in a statement. "This was a mistake."
- "Now, we've long acknowledged -- and this is old news, we've said this repeatedly -- that the information on yellow cake did, indeed, turn out to be incorrect." ~ Ari Fleischer
- "What we've said subsequently is, knowing what we now know, that some of the Niger documents were apparently forged, we wouldn't have put this in the President's speech -- but that's knowing what we know now." ~ Condoleezza Rice
Not an intelligence professional among them.
WTF are you smoking??
Colin Powell referred to the forged documents in his presentation to the U.N. when presenting Bush's case against Iraq. That's your idea of declining to vouch for their authenticity? So we knew they were probably fake, but tried to sell them to the U.N. to build a case against Iraq?? Or are you're saying that the Bush administration intentionally lied to the U.N. with the evidence they offered at the hands of Colin Powell??
Yes. Does that justify our actions in Iraq? No.Its not our job to overthrow foreign nations leaders.
How lucky are you that you had little credibility to risk to begin with?
So George Tenet, Director of the CIA at the time ... was not an "intelligence professional?" :doh
There was no deception. Nor was there an intent to deceive.
Bullxit.
- Speaking to reporters, Hadley said details from the CIA memos and phone call slipped his mind. He apologized to Bush on Monday, he said. "The high standards the president set were not met," said Hadley. Despite the error, the president has "full confidence in his national security advisor, his deputy national security advisor and the director of central intelligence," said White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett.
- "The CIA was pushing the aluminum tube argument heavily and Cheney went with that instead of what our guys wrote," Powell said. And the Niger reference in Bush's State of the Union speech? "That was a big mistake," he said. "It should never have been in the speech. I didn't need Wilson to tell me that there wasn't a Niger connection. He didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. I never believed it."
- "Those 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president," George Tenet said in a statement. "This was a mistake."
- "Now, we've long acknowledged -- and this is old news, we've said this repeatedly -- that the information on yellow cake did, indeed, turn out to be incorrect." ~ Ari Fleischer
- "What we've said subsequently is, knowing what we now know, that some of the Niger documents were apparently forged, we wouldn't have put this in the President's speech -- but that's knowing what we know now." ~ Condoleezza Rice
WTF are you smoking??
Colin Powell referred to the forged documents in his presentation to the U.N. when presenting Bush's case against Iraq. That's your idea of declining to vouch for their authenticity? So we knew they were probably fake, but tried to sell them to the U.N. to build a case against Iraq?? Or are you're saying that the Bush administration intentionally lied to the U.N. with the evidence they offered at the hands of Colin Powell??
Please identify Powell's reference to the forged documents.
"At about the same time as the State of the Union address, they said that the dossier doesn't correspond to the truth," Senator Brutti said. He said he did not know whether the warning was given before or after President Bush's address.
He made the claim more than once, but gave no supporting evidence. Amid confusing statements by various lawmakers, he later appeared to backtrack in conversations with both The Associated Press and Reuters, saying that because Sismi never had the documents, it could not comment on their merit.
There had long been doubts within the United States intelligence community about the authenticity of the yellowcake documents, and references to it had been deleted from other presentations given at the time.
Senator Luigi Malabarba, who also attended Thursday's hearing, said in a telephone interview that General Pollari had told the committee that Mr. Martino was "offering the documents not on behalf of Sismi but on behalf of the French" and that Mr. Martino had told prosecutors in Rome that he was in the service of French intelligence.
Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents Identified
I'll help you. Here's the text.
Colin Powell's speech - Washington Post
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eMediaMillWorks. Wednesday, February 5, 2003. Following is the full text of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations on Iraq.
WTF are you smoking??
Colin Powell referred to the forged documents in his presentation to the U.N. when presenting Bush's case against Iraq. That's your idea of declining to vouch for their authenticity? So we knew they were probably fake, but tried to sell them to the U.N. to build a case against Iraq?? Or are you're saying that the Bush administration intentionally lied to the U.N. with the evidence they offered at the hands of Colin Powell??