Boo Radley
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Re: Newly released Benghazi documents reinforce that White House was pushing that vid
NO, they did not believe the intel. The key there was the slam dunk comment. Put yourself in his shoes, honestly, and you look at the intel and it doesn't measure, so you say is this all there is? This is recognition that the case isn't adding up. Would slam dunk really make you go OK, with no change in the weak evidence? The reading of that which makes any sense is the one given by Tenet: "The slam dunk mean it was a rationale the people would buy." I'm sorry, but the evidence is far too great that they didn't believe it, nor even really cared about it.
But you are right that they started with the answer first. On that we agree.
The error was mirror-imaging. We made the mistake of believing that since proving there were no WMD was most important to us it was therefore most important to the Iraqis. It was not. What was most important to the Iraqis was leading the Iranians to believe Iraq did have WMD. The Iranians were fooled, and so was the US. It does not, however, matter that much because the GWB group decided on war in advance of the intel, not because of it. They believed the intel was true, but they also very much wanted it to be true.eace
NO, they did not believe the intel. The key there was the slam dunk comment. Put yourself in his shoes, honestly, and you look at the intel and it doesn't measure, so you say is this all there is? This is recognition that the case isn't adding up. Would slam dunk really make you go OK, with no change in the weak evidence? The reading of that which makes any sense is the one given by Tenet: "The slam dunk mean it was a rationale the people would buy." I'm sorry, but the evidence is far too great that they didn't believe it, nor even really cared about it.
But you are right that they started with the answer first. On that we agree.