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  • WMD panel used threats as ploy

    04/19/2005 12:42:24 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 205+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 | By Shaun Waterman
    UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Members of the presidential commission that examined U.S. intelligence failures told White House officials that they would resign en masse if President Bush did not ensure the nation's spy agencies cooperated with their inquiry -- and had to repeat the threat more than once. Laurence H. Silberman, the federal judge who was co-chairman of the inquiry, said he told officials, "If we did not get support from the White House at any time we ran into any difficulties, I and others would resign." Click to learn more... "I did occasionally have to remind the White House of...