I'm a little suspicious of Mr. Tenet, for obvious reasons.
In addition to the obvious ones, there is this: I doubt seriously that Tenet knows the whole story on the Niger forgeries. I doubt that anyone outside the White House, who was in government at the time, knows the whole story.
If Tenet knew where the bodies are buried on this, he would still be at the CIA, just like Gonzales is still at the DOJ.
Much like the anthrax attacks, the Bush government has shown no interest in getting to the bottom of it: The say they were fooled by the Niger documents. Given that those documents were crudely forged, one would think they would be livid.
Memo to Mr. Tenet: You had better be prepared to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Nothing less will do now.
Tenet Agrees to Cooperate With Congressional Investigation Into Niger Fraud
ThinkProgress.org
Monday 14 May 2007
Former CIA Director George Tenet has agreed to cooperate with a House investigation into the White House's fraudulent pre-war claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapon. That assertion - the infamous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address - was a critical part of the administration's case for war.
In a new statement, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced that Tenet will provide a deposition on the issue and testify before the committee on June 19:
Today Chairman Henry A. Waxman announced that the Oversight Committee will postpone the hearing with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from May 15, 2007, to June 19, 2007. The hearing is being postponed to allow former CIA Director George Tenet to testify with Secretary Rice and to accommodate Secretary Rice's travel schedule.
Mr. Tenet has agreed to cooperate with the Committee's inquiry into whether the White House overstated Iraq's efforts to obtain uranium from Africa and its nuclear threat in making the case for war. Mr. Tenet has agreed to provide a deposition to the Committee prior to the hearing.
Under Tenet, the CIA had debunked the claims about uranium and Niger months before the '03 State of the Union. The CIA "even demanded it be taken out of two previous presidential speeches." Tenet now says the 16 words made it into the State of the Union because he delegated the review of that speech to his deputies.
Tenet has been far more willing to discuss the Niger claims than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Waxman has been forced to subpoena Rice to appear at the hearing along with Tenet, and thus far Rice maintains she will not comply, claiming she has already answered Waxman's questions "in full."
Also, last month, the State Department refused to allow intelligence analyst Simon Dodge to be interviewed by House investigators; weeks before the '03 State of the Union, Simon examined the documents supposedly from Niger and determined they were "probably a hoax" and "clearly a forgery."
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Showing posts with label Niger Forgeries. Show all posts
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Here It Comes...What About Those Forged Niger Docs?
We don't trust what any Bushites says, unless they are under oath, and maybe not then.
Who can trust these people? This whole administration has been a lie fom day one; the very incarnation of deceit.
Rich: Is Condi hiding the smoking gun?
05/05/2007 @ 4:00 pm
Filed by RAW STORY
"George Tenet is just the latest to join this blame game," writes Frank Rich in his Sunday New York Times op-ed piece.
Three years ago it was General Tommy Franks laying the blame for the bungled Iraq war at the feet of Douglas Feith.
Last year it was "neocon cheerleader" Kenneth Adelman pointing the finger at Tenet, Franks and L. Paul Bremer.
Richard Perle called out Bush.
Ahmad Chalabi placed the burden on Paul Wolfowitz.
"And of course nearly everyone blames Rumsfeld," says Rich. "This would be a Three Stooges routine were there only three stooges."
But the highest level Bush confidant who was around when the war was being conceived, and is still on the payroll, is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Last week Rice made the rounds on the morning talk show circuit, just days after rebuffing a subpoena from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the intelligence that was used to make a case for war with Iraq.
"Rice was dispatched to three Sunday shows last weekend to bat away Tenet's book before '60 Minutes' broadcast its interview with him that night. But in each appearance her statements raised more questions than they answered," writes Rich.
"She was persistently at odds with the record, not just the record as spun by Tenet but also the public record. She must be held to a higher standard -- aka the truth -- before she too jumps ship."
For video of Rice's appearance on ABC's This Week, see RAW STORY's coverage here.
But dodging questions on morning talk shows is not where Rich thinks Rice should be talking.
"As long as U.S. troops are dying in Iraq, the secretary of state has an obligation to answer questions about how they got there and why they stay. If accountability is ever to begin, it would be best if those questions are answered not on '60 Minutes' but under oath," he concludes.
Excerpts follow:
On CBS' "Face the Nation," she claimed that intelligence errors before the war were "worldwide" even though the International Atomic Energy Agency's Mohamed ElBaradei publicly stated there was "no evidence" of an Iraqi nuclear program and even though Germany's intelligence service sent strenuous prewar warnings that the CIA's principal informant on Saddam's supposed biological weapons was a fraud.
Of the Sunday interviewers, it was George Stephanopoulos who went for the jugular by returning to that nonexistent uranium from Africa. He forced Rice to watch a clip of her appearance on his show in June 2003, when she claimed she did not know of any serious questions about the uranium evidence before the war.
Then he came as close as any Sunday host ever has to calling a guest a liar.
"But that statement wasn't true," Stephanopoulos said.
Rice pleaded memory loss, but the facts remain.
She received a memo raising serious questions about the uranium in October 2002, three months before the president included the infamous 16 words on the subject in his State of the Union address. Her deputy, Stephen Hadley, received two memos as well as a phone call of warning from Tenet.
DEVELOPING...
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Who can trust these people? This whole administration has been a lie fom day one; the very incarnation of deceit.
Rich: Is Condi hiding the smoking gun?
05/05/2007 @ 4:00 pm
Filed by RAW STORY
"George Tenet is just the latest to join this blame game," writes Frank Rich in his Sunday New York Times op-ed piece.
Three years ago it was General Tommy Franks laying the blame for the bungled Iraq war at the feet of Douglas Feith.
Last year it was "neocon cheerleader" Kenneth Adelman pointing the finger at Tenet, Franks and L. Paul Bremer.
Richard Perle called out Bush.
Ahmad Chalabi placed the burden on Paul Wolfowitz.
"And of course nearly everyone blames Rumsfeld," says Rich. "This would be a Three Stooges routine were there only three stooges."
But the highest level Bush confidant who was around when the war was being conceived, and is still on the payroll, is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Last week Rice made the rounds on the morning talk show circuit, just days after rebuffing a subpoena from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the intelligence that was used to make a case for war with Iraq.
"Rice was dispatched to three Sunday shows last weekend to bat away Tenet's book before '60 Minutes' broadcast its interview with him that night. But in each appearance her statements raised more questions than they answered," writes Rich.
"She was persistently at odds with the record, not just the record as spun by Tenet but also the public record. She must be held to a higher standard -- aka the truth -- before she too jumps ship."
For video of Rice's appearance on ABC's This Week, see RAW STORY's coverage here.
But dodging questions on morning talk shows is not where Rich thinks Rice should be talking.
"As long as U.S. troops are dying in Iraq, the secretary of state has an obligation to answer questions about how they got there and why they stay. If accountability is ever to begin, it would be best if those questions are answered not on '60 Minutes' but under oath," he concludes.
Excerpts follow:
On CBS' "Face the Nation," she claimed that intelligence errors before the war were "worldwide" even though the International Atomic Energy Agency's Mohamed ElBaradei publicly stated there was "no evidence" of an Iraqi nuclear program and even though Germany's intelligence service sent strenuous prewar warnings that the CIA's principal informant on Saddam's supposed biological weapons was a fraud.
Of the Sunday interviewers, it was George Stephanopoulos who went for the jugular by returning to that nonexistent uranium from Africa. He forced Rice to watch a clip of her appearance on his show in June 2003, when she claimed she did not know of any serious questions about the uranium evidence before the war.
Then he came as close as any Sunday host ever has to calling a guest a liar.
"But that statement wasn't true," Stephanopoulos said.
Rice pleaded memory loss, but the facts remain.
She received a memo raising serious questions about the uranium in October 2002, three months before the president included the infamous 16 words on the subject in his State of the Union address. Her deputy, Stephen Hadley, received two memos as well as a phone call of warning from Tenet.
DEVELOPING...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Cheney Behind The Niger Forgeries?
Hey, Ray, we have been convinced of this for a very long time, but can you prove it?
If you can, do it! Now! Don't Wait!
Ex-CIA Heavy: "I've Got the Goods on Cheney"
If you haven't seen it yet, check out Ray McGovern telling Tucker Carlson that he's got evidence that none other than the dark emperor himself was behind the Niger yellowcake document forgeries used to substantially boost the (snicker) "administration's" case for occupying Iraq.
This might well be the dash of holy water that can put an end to deadeye dick's evil reign of global terror once and for all, lending much-needed purchase to Dennis Kucinich's currently tenuous and nebulous case for impeachment.
With a little digging, we can easily find the shiny slime trail of thugs leading directly to his Dark Majesty's doorstep.
First, we have washed-up ex-cop, happy to sell his hot potato to the highest bidder; then there's the former Defense analyst convicted of passing classified intelligence to the AIPAC for five years, specifically to catalyze Middle Eastern policy; the Iran-Contra Affair stooge conveniently posted in Rome; and we mustn't forget the amoral propagandist with easy access to the DC movers and shakers.
While it's all repellently fascinating to read in shock and awe of the blatant treason in which this cabal of bloodshot-eyed zealots and icy-veined opportunists engaged, the point of exposing this staggering abuse of the public trust is to ensure that its participants come to justice and are never allowed to touch the carkeys again.
Thus, I'd like to request that you, kind reader, assist the process in contacting the following individuals and urging them to assist in exposing a "slam-dunk" case for impeachment.
Larisa Alexandrovna--investigative journalist, managing news editor of Raw Story larisa@larisablog.com
Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst, founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanityrmcgovern@slschool.orgvips@counterpunch.orgRep.
Dennis Kucinich: email form:http://www.house.gov/writerep/(Ohio Zip code: 44107)
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....And The Truth Shall Set Us Free
If you can, do it! Now! Don't Wait!
Ex-CIA Heavy: "I've Got the Goods on Cheney"
If you haven't seen it yet, check out Ray McGovern telling Tucker Carlson that he's got evidence that none other than the dark emperor himself was behind the Niger yellowcake document forgeries used to substantially boost the (snicker) "administration's" case for occupying Iraq.
This might well be the dash of holy water that can put an end to deadeye dick's evil reign of global terror once and for all, lending much-needed purchase to Dennis Kucinich's currently tenuous and nebulous case for impeachment.
With a little digging, we can easily find the shiny slime trail of thugs leading directly to his Dark Majesty's doorstep.
First, we have washed-up ex-cop, happy to sell his hot potato to the highest bidder; then there's the former Defense analyst convicted of passing classified intelligence to the AIPAC for five years, specifically to catalyze Middle Eastern policy; the Iran-Contra Affair stooge conveniently posted in Rome; and we mustn't forget the amoral propagandist with easy access to the DC movers and shakers.
While it's all repellently fascinating to read in shock and awe of the blatant treason in which this cabal of bloodshot-eyed zealots and icy-veined opportunists engaged, the point of exposing this staggering abuse of the public trust is to ensure that its participants come to justice and are never allowed to touch the carkeys again.
Thus, I'd like to request that you, kind reader, assist the process in contacting the following individuals and urging them to assist in exposing a "slam-dunk" case for impeachment.
Larisa Alexandrovna--investigative journalist, managing news editor of Raw Story larisa@larisablog.com
Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst, founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanityrmcgovern@slschool.orgvips@counterpunch.orgRep.
Dennis Kucinich: email form:http://www.house.gov/writerep/(Ohio Zip code: 44107)
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. The Lantern has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is The Lantern endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
....And The Truth Shall Set Us Free
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