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Machette · 04-07-2006, 03:00 PM

Another post, because it stands all in its own.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001337.php

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSA ... index.html

[code:c4ac4]"The CIA has decided to keep almost entirely secret the controversial October 2002 CIA intelligence estimate about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that is the subject of today's Senate Intelligence Committee report, according to the CIA's June 1, 2004 response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive."[/code:c4ac4]

So basically, the president gave small bits of info...and everyone is calling it declassifying documents, however, it isn't even avaliable. oOo:

From Sullivan's blog...

[quote:c4ac4]The bottom line is that the president clearly used his prerogative to classify and declassify intelligence data to leak selectively to the press to give a misleading notion of what his own government believed about Saddam's WMDs before the war. He was personally involved; and he tasked his veep to coordinate it. The most plausible explanation is that the president believes grave national security prerogatives can be used for political purposes and/or that he had something embarrassing to hide. Bottom bottom line: we can't trust him to be fully honest with us on one of the bases on which he led us to war. That matters, doesn't it?[/quote:c4ac4]

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Machette is Offline Major Posts: 6,413 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: University of Guelph	04-07-2006, 03:00 PM Another post, because it stands all in its own. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001337.php http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSA ... index.html [code:c4ac4]"The CIA has decided to keep almost entirely secret the controversial October 2002 CIA intelligence estimate about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that is the subject of today's Senate Intelligence Committee report, according to the CIA's June 1, 2004 response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive."[/code:c4ac4] So basically, the president gave small bits of info...and everyone is calling it declassifying documents, however, it isn't even avaliable. oOo: From Sullivan's blog... [quote:c4ac4]The bottom line is that the president clearly used his prerogative to classify and declassify intelligence data to leak selectively to the press to give a misleading notion of what his own government believed about Saddam's WMDs before the war. He was personally involved; and he tasked his veep to coordinate it. The most plausible explanation is that the president believes grave national security prerogatives can be used for political purposes and/or that he had something embarrassing to hide. Bottom bottom line: we can't trust him to be fully honest with us on one of the bases on which he led us to war. That matters, doesn't it?[/quote:c4ac4]