Thursday, September 06, 2007

Smoking Gun for Bush and WMD

He wasn't just ignorant. He didn't just have underlings slant what appeared. He saw hard intel from a high-placed source that Saddam possessed no WMD, and ignored it.

clipped from www.salon.com

Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.

Sept. 6, 2007 | 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.

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