Top Spy’s Story on Prewar Intel Is Finally Told

truthdig.com ^ | Posted on Apr. 25, 2006 | Robert Scheer

[visitor]

Is there any truth to this story?...rto

[Explorer24]

the truth is, this story's been out for over a year. Do a search on here for CBS. The night they ran the show, freepers were all over it.

[Ken522]

The drive-by media is rehashing old news to make it look new; this stuff is just about worn-out!

[ncountylee]

Progressive Journal of News and Opinion is a real collection of puke.

[Bommer]

No! The Saddam files that are still being translated contradict this @ssholes assertions! I find it funny these so called "experts" only start talking after their pensions are secured. If Tyler Drumheller truly was a "Top Spy" why didn't he snuff the lie during the Clinton Administration? Clinton said the exact things Bush said and was the first to order regime change due to Saddam's WMD program. Where was the expert at the time?

[rvoitier]

Robert Scheer?

I stopped reading. Why waste time on lies, distortion and propaganda?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Well, you'd think that DrumHeller would have spoken to one of the investigations which found the intelligence wasn't manipulated, and was bad.

Why his first discussion of the matter would come in a CBS sixty-minutes interview also seems suspect for a "truth-teller".

On the other hand, the facts might be accurate. I imagine that if the foreign minister of Iraq professed to be a "double agent" and told us that Iraq didn't have any WMD, we'd probably figure he wasn't really on our side, unless he gave us real actionable intelligence.

So let's go full-conspiracy mode here. Let's say Bush wanted to ignore the guy, but figured he'd take ONE chance on his accuracy. So he asks the guy, "Where will Saddam be on a day in Mid-march?

In other words, maybe we used the guy for that "surgical strike" the day before the invasion. And when it was clear we didn't get Saddam, we figured the guy was blowing smoke and so we invaded.

See, nice thing about spinning tales is that they are easy to do.

[MNJohnnie]

Ah I see. NOT even our fraud plaged "News Media" would touch this losers story. Considering the dozens of fraudlent stories reported by the Junk Media, his must be pretty wack out there nuts for them to shoot it down. Of course the fact that 3 seperate Congressional investigations have ALL found this to be without ANY basis in truth should not stop the Tin Foil Hate crowd at Moveon.org from pushing this garbage. Just another set of lies told by another Political Bigot who cannot stand his boy lost in 2000 and 2004.

[Thebaddog]

Any truth here is that there is a run up to the 06 election cycle and this is a revisionist article. The democrats are fighting the last war as usual and this is part of their looking down the barrel of the gun, IMHO.

[DoughtyOne]

Robert Sheer is one of the wackiest lunatics that was ever published by the Los Angeles Times. They cut him lose a year or two back.

His articles were generally pegged somewhere left of Pluto and wreaked of an underground mentality reminiscent of a love-sick Castro, Guevara disciple.

I can only remember agreeing with him once or twice in my life, and that on inconsequential matters.

[Prost1]

The fact is this is an ELECTION Year again.

And Bush allowed Wilson/Plame to go unpunished for their LIES. And he allowed Kerry to get away with not signing FORM 180, which Kerry promised to do and still has not done!

And, Bush allowed Richard Clarke to get away with his LIES, so the the BUSH LIED crowd got the communist base going.

And that is what this is about. And until Bush has McCarthly arrested and Dana Paris and the lot of them, this will continue.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Having received an advance copy of the devastating segment, I honored CBS’ proprietary request not to write about the news it carried until after it aired.

Notice how the enemy within operates?

They coordinate their lying attack stories beforehand with the other hate-filled left-wing anti-American dregs of the MSM in order to maximize the timing of the attack.

[operation clinton cleanup]

The fat pig waits until he is in comfortable retirement to report this? I don't give him any credibility at all.

[Lancey Howard]

a definitive investigative report by CBS’ “60 Minutes” on President Bush’s disregard for the truth

LMBO!!!!
Yeah, there's an honest outfit for "investigative reporting"!

HAHAHAHAhahahahaaaaa....! (This is too much!)

[brazzaville]

Good evening.

I thought this old Communist withered up and blew away when the LA Slimes dumped him.

Michael Frazier

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

“He told us that they had no active weapons-of-mass-destruction program,” said the ex-CIA official

One suspects our enemies find it laughably easy to feed disinformation to the CIA.

If I told a CIA analyst that the word "gullible" does not appear in Webster's Dictionary, would he run to his dictionary to check?

[geezerwheezer]

I'm surwe thankful I'm not paying for this pig's meals....or am I?

[litehaus]

Robert Scheer............Wouldn't bother to read...

[Lancey Howard]

Having received an advance copy of the devastating segment, I honored CBS’ proprietary request not to write about the news it carried until after it aired.

Notice how the enemy within operates?

There is no doubt in my mind that this story was also coordinated with Democrat Party operatives.

Remember how Mary Mapes and CBS coordinated the "National Guard" story ("Rathergate") with the Democrats? And how ABC coordinated the "missing ammo" story with the Democrats soon after that, right before the election?

It's the modus operandi of the dying dinosaur, old liberal news media.

[ChadGore]

So much yadda yadda blah wubba yadda from this author.

The simple reality, now 3 years old is:

We defeated the 4th largest military in the world.

What's the number of US troops killed by the Iraq military in 2004, 2005 and 2006 combined?

ZERO