Bush knew Saddam had no WMD
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
09/06/07
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. Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weapons+of+mass+destruction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
by Sidney Blumenthal
09/06/07
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. Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weapons+of+mass+destruction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
rudkla - 6. Sep, 12:02
