[Huck]

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[ken5050]

Thanks for posting...one questio I have never seen raised publicly....where are all the SCUDS?..just before the war...all reports said that Iraq had 60 or so SCUDS and about a half dozen mobile launchers...that's why the Aussie SF troops were deployed months before the war started..in the Iraqi wester desert.the so-called "SCUD box"..to find, target, and destroy themm..remember how they found the two airfields with the buried planes?..yet there has not been ONE report that I can recall or a captured/destroyed missile or launcher...and these are huge..if they tried to drive them to Syria..reconnaissance platforms would have found them....so, where are they?... methinks, FWIW, there's much more to find....and we will...

[Jeff Chandler]

Here's the rat media news headline (taken from the speech):

CIA Director: No Imminent threat

[smiley]

"When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

It will take an additional five years to finish the job of rebuilding our clandestine service, but the results so far have been obvious."

AND WE ALL KNOW WHO WAS PRESIDENT AT THAT TIME, DON'T WE!

[Spunky]

Thanks for posting. Bookmarked for later reading.

[McGruff]

Rush thought this sound bite was worth replaying:

As we meet here today, the Iraq Survey Group is continuing its important search for people and data. And despite some public statements, we are nowhere near 85 percent finished. The men and women who work in that dangerous environment are adamant about that fact.

[Hunble]

Thanks for posting this. Do you have the source?

When I send Libs a link, I prefer that it be from the original source instead of freerepublic.

They tend to read the text, instead of immediately deleting my e-mail.

[eureka!]

Bumping for later. Thanks for the post...

[Coop]

Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Sounds like Tenet's been FReeping. :-)

[Zack Nguyen]

This is a great speech. Tenet did a very good job of laying out the facts here. The successes are never reported.

The media, however, will poke and prod the words until they can come up with something damaging to Bush, to drive a rift between him and Tenet.

[OXENinFLA]

Transcript: Senate Armed Services Committee Testimony of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld(THE WHOLE THING)

[mylife]

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[GOP_1900AD]

Ping for later reading.

[AFPhys]

It will take an additional five years to finish the job of rebuilding our clandestine service, but the results so far have been obvious.

A CIA spy led us to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11th attacks.

Al Qaida's operational chief Nashiri, the man who planned and executed the bombing of the USS Cole, was located and arrested because of our human reporting.

Human sources were critical to the capture of Hambali, the chief terrorist in southeast Asia, who organized and killed hundreds of people when they bombed a nightclub in Bali.

So when you hear pundits say that we have no human intelligence capability, they don't know what they're talking about.

It's important that I address these misstatements because the American people must know just how reliable American intelligence is on the threats that confront our nation.

Let's talk about Libya, where a sitting regime has volunteered to dismantle its WMD program. Somebody on television said we completely missed it. Well, he completely missed it. This was an intelligence success.

Why? Because American and British intelligence officers understood the Libyan programs.

I think I enjoyed this part of Tenet's speech the most. I know he was hired by the 'Toon, but I believe that this guy is an example of the old maxim, "Even a blind hog can dig up an acorn sometimes."

[dmanLA]

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[Bernard Marx]

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