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Kerry wants Tenet (CIA) to take the fall for W



"Kerry calls for Tenet's resignation"
Author    Antidolt        

Just reported on CNN. Sorry, Kerry, but you're a day late and many dollars short. Put the blame on Mame.
http://bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=11&topic_id=8756&mesg_id=875 6&page
the press barely reported it:
"http://sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=c/a/2004/01/29/WMDS.TMP">http://sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/29/WMDS.TMP
The front-runner, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, speaking Wednesday as he flew to St. Louis to campaign in the Missouri primary, said Kay's testimony called into question the integrity of American intelligence, and he urged the administration to come clean.
During the debate, Brokaw asked Kerry:

BROKAW: Senator Kerry, Governor Dean has made a very serious charge against the vice president, saying that he went to the CIA. We know that he did that, but do you believe that he berated middle-level people at the intelligence agency to, in effect, shape the intelligence that he wanted?
As usual, Kerry hedged - vague agreement than change the subject:

KERRY: There is a very legitimate question, Tom, about what the vice president of the United States was doing at the CIA. There's an enormous question about the exaggeration by this administration.

But the most important point -- and I think this is the larger issue of how you choose somebody to run and to be president of the United States. The president gave guarantees not just to the Congress and to the American people, but to the world, about how he would conduct himself as president. "
Set aside that 23 Senators  and all of us didn't buy those guarantees, you promissed to speak up if broken and didn't - until it became convenient, in the campaign
Warrior King - the case for impeaching GW Bush by John C Bonifaz and  John Conyers:
"If he fails to do so," Senator Kerry continued, "I will be the first to speak out."

Senator Kerry broke that promise ... In the crucial days after the president withdrew his efforts to gain United Nations support for his war and before the president launched his invasion, Senator Kerry remained silent.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2094399/

But I still think that the important issue tonight was : who was responsible for the WMD lies? Kerry skirted it.
Thankfully, Clark helped the truth:
This administration did not have its priorities right, and the president, not the intelligence community, and not the previous administration, President George W. Bush must be held accountable for that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/transcripts/debatetranscript29.html 
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Clark's statement on W's liabilotu (not CIA's) (#7) (No rating)

by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 02/06/2004 07:23:49 PM EST

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For Immediate Release
Date: February 6, 2004
http://clark04.com/press/release/229/
Statement On The President's New Intelligence Commission
Clark says: President shouldn't blame CIA for failures: "They report; he decides"
Little Rock - General Wesley Clark issued the following statement on today's announcement by President Bush of his new commission to investigate intelligence failures on Iraqi weapons.
"President Bush's announcement today is a disappointment but not a surprise - George W. Bush's presidency has been a series of failures followed by buck-passing.
"The President of the United States must be responsible for the use of intelligence by his Administration. The President should not use a panel like the one announced today to lay blame on the intelligence community, whose job it is to provide information to policy makers. If there were failures, they were his - the buck should stop with him. As the President's favorite network would say, 'they report; he decides.'
"The President also should not be using a panel to sweep pressing issues under the rug. Waiting until 2005 for the commission's report simply is not acceptable - if there is a major threat posed by these weapons, we should have that information in 90 days, not a year from now.
"I also would like to know why the commission is being created now - it appears that the President delayed the creation of the commission and created a report date in a way that makes it difficult for citizens to know the degree of responsibility and accountability of this administration. This follows the 9/11 Commission - the Administration put up road blocks and delays so that Americans won't hear their report until after the election. George Bush's modus operandi is to keep the public in the dark. I believe that in a democracy the government belongs to the people and I'll be a president who believes in being accountable to the people, not hiding from the people."


Tenet: WMD no imminent danger (#6) (No rating)

by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 02/05/2004 06:38:06 PM EST

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Is that why you wanted him silenced, John?
 
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-05-tenet_x.htm
CIA director defends intel officials' prewar efforts
From staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON -- CIA Director George Tenet acknowledged serious intelligence misjudgments leading up to the war with Iraq on Thursday but defended his agency's overall performance. He also said the CIA never claimed Iraqi weapons were an imminent threat -- an argument the administration used as a major justification for the war.


Tenet fights back, John! (#5) (No rating)

by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 02/05/2004 06:28:29 AM EST

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 washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14074-2004Feb4.html
Tenet to Defend CIA's Role In Prewar Iraq Intelligence
By Walter Pincus and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, February 5, 2004; Page A01
CIA Director George J. Tenet plans today to deliver a spirited and highly unusual public defense of his agency's prewar conclusions that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and to disclose previously secret success the CIA had in uncovering weapons programs in Libya and Pakistan, senior intelligence officials said yesterday.