Friday, September 07, 2007

"Bush didn't give a fuck about the intelligence"

"On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again."
Our intelligence agencies took the heat and the criticism for our historical blunder into Iraq but just as I have said for well over four years, it wasn't the intelligence. It was Bush and his ilk who didn't give a 'fuck' about the intelligence and here's more undeniable proof of that.