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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 11:02 AM
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Did the Senate Iraq Investigation specifically exclude OSP?
I'm re-reading the Karen Kwiatkowski article on Salon and she says, in on part

"President Bush has now appointed a commission to look at American intelligence capabilities and will report after the election. It will "examine intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and related 21st century threats ... compare what the Iraq Survey Group learns with the information we had prior..." The commission, aside from being modeled on failed rubber stamp commissions of the past and consisting entirely of those selected by the executive branch, specifically excludes an examination of the role of the Office of Special Plans and other executive advisory bodies. If the president or vice president were seriously interested in "getting the truth," they might consider asking for evidence on how intelligence was politicized, misused and manipulated, and whether information from the intelligence community was distorted in order to sway Congress and public opinion in a narrowly conceived neoconservative push for war. Bush says he wants the truth, but it is clear he is no more interested in it today than he was two years ago."
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If this is so, then even part 2 of the report will not truly bring to light the role of OSP in the faulty intelligence. Can someone confirm the mission of the Intelligence Committee, link?

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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 11:21 AM
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1. kick because a committee that chooses to leave out OSP
cannot possibly get at the truth
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 11:23 AM
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2. This is very interesting
Another angle that we should rub the media's nose in until they can't breathe.

Search for 'media contact list' and get busy. It takes a lot of us... an overwhelming barrage of outrage, in order to get any kind of response at all.
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