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Friday, July 11, 2003
Scapegoat Now!
Sen Pat Roberts (R-Dorothyland) is protecting his leader by laying the blame on George Tenet:
In a harsh rebuke of the CIA, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday criticized the agency's "extremely sloppy handling" of some prewar intelligence on Iraq and accused the agency of leaking information that reflected badly on President Bush.
"What now concerns me most ... is what appears to be a campaign of press leaks by the CIA in an effort to discredit the president," U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, chairman of the panel, said in a written statement.
[snip...]
The comments from the unnamed sources are apparently what elicited Roberts' ire. Roberts laid responsibility for the matter squarely on the shoulders of CIA Director George Tenet.
Roberts said Tenet should have personally told Bush of any concerns about the reliability of the uranium information about Iraq. "He should have told the president, and it appears that he failed to do so," Roberts said.
So the buck doesn't stop with President Teleprompter who just reads what is put in front of him. And it doesn't stop with Condoleeza Rice whose job it is to coordinate information from the various intelligence agencies and advise the President. No. It's Tenet's fault. And if employees of the CIA are trying to defend themselves from being maligned by an inept administration, well, by god, Tenet better knock that crap off.
Glad to see Roberts has his priorities in order.
Here's a quote from a good Senator:
Now the Bush White House and the Bush CIA are pointing fingers at each other over the president's misleading claim about Iraqi uranium purchases from Niger," U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Florida, said in a written statement. "Mr. President, stop trying to pass the buck. You made the baseless claim; you should take responsibility."
and here's what Colin Powell has to say:
Powell, who is also traveling with Bush in Africa, said there was never any "attempt on the part of the president or anyone else in the administration to mislead or deceive the American people."
"We now have to focus on the future," he said, "and that is to build a better Iraq for the Iraqi people and help them put in place a representative form of government that will make sure that there are never any more weapons of mass destruction, and that it's a country that will live in peace with its neighbors."
I see Colin has fallen back into his My Lai cover-up persona again.
During a second tour in Vietnam he received the Soldier's Medal for pulling several men from a burning helicopter. He became battalion executive officer and division operations officer in Vietnam in 1968.
It was during this time that Powell, as deputy assistant chief of staff for operations G-3 at Americal Division headquarters in Chu Lai, was asked to handle a potentially embarrassing letter a young soldier had written to Gen. Creighton Abrams, commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam.
The soldier had written about rumors of a massacre that Americal Division soldiers had committed in the hamlet of My Lai 4 in South Vietnam. Although he did not mention My Lai in the letter, the soldier complained that Americal soldiers were indiscriminately killing Vietnamese civilians. Such acts, the young soldier warned, "are carried on at entire unit levels and thereby acquire the aspect of sanctioned policy."
Powell sent a memo to his superior, the adjutant general, positioning that the young soldier had not given enough specifics upon which to base an inquiry. Powell said the soldier's charges were false except for "isolated instances." He wrote that "relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese are excellent."
Powell's damage control efforts soon proved fruitless and the My Lai massacre burst onto the world stage like an atomic explosion, severely damaging the U.S. war effort in Vietnam.
Which lesson from Viet Nam do you think Powell learned?
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