The CIA, DoD and State all need to be flushed after every Democrat president.
Thank you. Exactly. Iraqi efforts to buy uranium were not secret. That is what drives me wild about this whole story. Bush credited British intel, but he did so needlessly, the Iraqi trade delegation, the efforts by "businessmen" to obtain uranium on Iraq' behalf were not secret. They were public knowledge.
British intel must have had access to detail on the overall Niger uranium smuggling scene, meaning Bush knew much more than he revealed in his speech. His speech very carefully understated what was known. So why did the CIA leave him twisting in the wind on this one? Why has the press been so entirely lacking in curiousity about the subject? There was a blockbuster story waiting, a ripe juicy Pulitzer for the reporter willing to swim upstream. But there weren't any.
According to News Max, President Bush was advised after his innauguration to get rid of the Clinton cling-ons, but he was sold on this "Uniter" idea. It may have worked in Texas, but I don't think he was prepared for the partisan poison, and downright HATE that the Democrat Party has for the Republicans in Washington. They are drunk with power, and National Security takes a backseat to their social agenda.
It was a grave mistake to keep the likes of Richard Clarke and George Tennet. The "Good Guys" left in disgust during the Clinton Adm. (Exmp. James Woolsey and Gary Aldrich). George Bush better toughen up, and fast, or I fear we will lose our country!