This is news?
This is unbelievable B.S. The former CIA agent, Drumheller (?) looks like he's lying every time he answers "yes" to one of Ed Bradlee's outrageous leading questions.
Is this a re-run of a story from about 2 years ago? It's such a rehash of news that's so old, it makes me think this is a re-run.
WWAD = What Would Abe Do? LOL!
This is a hit piece. Bradley is only telling one side of the story and he knows it. Once again Joe Wilson gets a free pass and a national platform without challenge.
Someone should write a book about the bias at CBS.
This is a question I have been asking for 4 years now. Again, what was the lie?
I think Wilson has had his 15 minutes of fame. After the 9/11 commission sided with Bush, his agenda became null and void. Only an idiot would believe the guy about anything these days.
ummm just because you are an "ex" CIA employee doesn't mean you can talk about anything you wish. Those security clearance documents dictate a time period and not employment as a condition for keeping your mouth shut.
Lock these traitors up and throw the key away. If they have a legitimate gripe they can contact their congressman.
well that one CIA agent evidently knew what Sadaam's generals didnt, and what the Russian and French intelligence didnt.
Listened a bit while doing other things..because my SO wants to watch the segment on aging.
Who was this shifty eyed guy saying that stupid stuff...which has been discredited so many times but apparently not by the drive by MSM.
I can just hear Judge Judy shouting at him to look up and look her straight in the eye.. .both of which he was not doing. He sounded set up and fake...unlike the smooth sophisticated operator Wilson. What a snake!
-------------------------------------- (excerpt from "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward)
With a series of flip charts, McLaughlin showed that Saddam--with near certainty--had lethal chemical and biological weapons, mobile biological weapons production facilities and missiles with ranges far in excess of U.N. ceilings. He was, moreover, thought to be aggressively pursuing such WMD programs. Bush was not overwhelmed. "Nice try," he said, but it's not good enough to convince "Joe Public." Turning to Tenet, Bush posed a critical question: "I've been told all this intelligence about having WMD, and this is the best we've got?" Tenet then weighed in with perhaps the most momentous pronouncement of his career: "It's a slam dunk case!" he enthusiastically informed the President. Wary, Bush pressed the DCI again: "George, how confident are you?" Tenet repeated: "Don't worry, it's a slam dunk." Tenet had sold the President, but Bush was not entirely happy. He informed Andy Card and Condoleezza Rice, each of whom had attended the briefing, "Needs a lot more work" and he warned Tenet several times: "Make sure no one stretches to make our case."
--------------------------------------- From: Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission: Report Disputes Wilson's Claims on Trip, Wife's Role By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Saturday, July 10, 2004; Page A09 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html
The report also said Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong." "Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the 'dates were wrong and the names were wrong' when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports," the Senate panel said. Wilson told the panel he may have been confused and may have "misspoken" to reporters. The documents -- purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq -- were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger. Wilson's reports to the CIA added to the evidence that Iraq may have tried to buy uranium in Niger, although officials at the State Department remained highly skeptical, the report said. Wilson said that a former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, was unaware of any sales contract with Iraq, but said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him, insisting that he meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Niger and Iraq -- which Mayaki interpreted to mean they wanted to discuss yellowcake sales. A report CIA officials drafted after debriefing Wilson said that "although the meeting took place, Mayaki let the matter drop due to UN sanctions on Iraq." According to the former Niger mining minister, Wilson told his CIA contacts, Iraq tried to buy 400 tons of uranium in 1998.
---------------------------------------- From: FactCheck.org (Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania) Bush's "16 Words" on Iraq & Uranium: He May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn't Lying July 26, 2004, Modified: August 23, 2004 http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html
Two intelligence investigations show Bush had plenty of reason to believe what he said in his 2003 State of the Union Address. [...] A British intelligence review released July 14 calls Bush's 16 words "well founded." A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from "a number of intelligence reports," a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke. Ironically, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who later called Bush's 16 words a "lie", supplied information that the Central Intelligence Agency took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger . Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA's conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium. [...] The "16 Words" During the State the Union Address on January 28, 2003, President Bush said: Bush: The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
To paraphrase Mary Mcarthy on Lillian Hellman, every word said on 60 Minutes is a lie, including the ands and the the's.
How is it the liar's heads don't explode?
My husband must be watching it as I type, because he's downstairs swearing at the television.