‘Because They Didn’t Like The Answers’Let's start the trials now. We only need Bush's new Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, as the witness for the prosecution.Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell was honored to be asked [to be DNI], but he had serious reservations. He had been unimpressed with many aspects of the Bush administration and its conduct of the war on terror, particularly what he felt was a politicized use of intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
“My sense of it is their political faith and convictions influenced how they took information and interpreted [it], how they picked up and interpreted outside events. … I’ve read much more about the current set of players and they did set up a whole new interpretation because they didn’t like the answers. They’ve gotten results that in my view now have been disastrous,” [McConnell said].
McConnell decried the “secondary unit” established within the Pentagon to “reinterpret information” prior to the war. An internal Pentagon investigation released in February revealed that former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith utilized the Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Group within the Pentagon to create and promote false links between Iraq and al Qaeda.
Specifically, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz “asked Feith’s analysts to ignore the intelligence community’s belief that the militant Islamist al-Qaida and Saddam’s secular dictatorship were unlikely allies.” Subsequently, Feith “disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaida relationship…to senior decision-makers.”McConnell stated, “The way you do intelligence is all sources considered. You have to factor one issue against the other and balance it.” Four years later, this administration is still reinterpreting intelligence.
Many blamed - and still blame the CIA for the intelligence failures that needlessly led us into Iraq. That is a lie! The CIA was telling them the truth but as McConnel stated on Meet The Press, 'they didn't like the answers'!
Russ Feingold has called for a 'censure' of George Bush for his conduct on the War in Iraq. A censure is a start, but it should only be the first step to their impeachment and we will only need Bush's new Director of National Intelligence as our country's chief witness.
There should be absolutely no doubt in your mind that the Bush administration lied us into needlessly attacking Iraq.
Our Director of National Intelligence, a man Bush hired just four months ago, clearly tells us so.
What are we waiting for?
