Paul Pillar on WJ right now....

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Cheney's week just got worse! :evilgrin:

on edit:
Discussing the intelligence leading to war.

Pillar has come out saying that the whole concept of War on Terror is flawed.

Paul Pillar talks about U.S. intelligence policy and the war in Iraq. Mr. Pillar was the CIA National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia from 2000-2005. In a recent article in Foreign Affairs, he argues that during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration disregarded the intelligence community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case. He responds to telephone calls and electronic mail.

better? It's one of those stories we missed while being occupied with CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE. carry on.

[bigscott]

1. what? what? what?

fill us in!

[txindy]

2. Works for me.

But, why, exactly, is his week worse? :shrug:

[laruemtt]

details please. n/t

[madame defarge]

4. Article about Paul Pillar

Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq
Intelligence 'Misused' to Justify War, He Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020902418.html

The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of "cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Paul R. Pillar, who was the national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, acknowledges the U.S. intelligence agencies' mistakes in concluding that Hussein's government possessed weapons of mass destruction. But he said those misjudgments did not drive the administration's decision to invade.

[meegbear]

3. Think you could be a little more vague?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. I could! but I fixed it.

:blush:

[meegbear]

8. You're awesome!!!

Thanks.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Thanks, watching

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[stop the bleeding]

15. thanks for the link n/t

[leftchick]

7. He will be on NPR's Fresh Air today as well!

at least that is what I heard yesterday. It is not up at their web site yet.

[BlueEyedSon]

9. His answer about "spreading democracy" vs "protecting corporate interests"

was total BS

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. agreed

apologizing for bushie still.

I want to hear names. He's saying the intelligence was twisted. WHO twisted it? Cheney, Rummy, et all.

[txindy]

11. Wait. Did you just say that there was an instance of...

CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE? No! Do tell! I can't imagine CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE. Whatever could be the excuse for CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE? It sounds so odd that there's a report of CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE. Has it been in the news that there's an account of CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE? What was the reaction to CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE?

:rofl:

:rofl:

[BlueEyedSon]

14. Thank you, Ed Helms!

[txindy]

16. News about CHENEY SHOOTING A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE upsets me

[BlueEyedSon]

18. Did you just say CHENEY SHOT A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE?

I could swear you said CHENEY SHOT A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE

oh, thats what i thought you said!

[txindy]

19. It's on the hush-hush that CHENEY SHOT A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE

Double super-secret background. Shhhhhhh!

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. OMG!! A caller is telling Pillar "the facts" about the NSA program

and intelligence on Iraq. :rofl:

[BlueEyedSon]

13. Oh great, some bushbot using his call to regurgitate RW talking points

"were not spying on americans, were survailing terra-ists"
"our troops are all volunteer, so they WANT to be over there"
"saddam had WMDs"

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. Funny how he can lecture Pillar about the program and

intelligence. :rofl:

[BlueEyedSon]

20. "An Iraqi general says the WMD were moved to Syria prior to the invasion"

yeah, right

[txindy]

24. Well, it must be true, then, if someone said it.

I say that I'm on a beach in Maui right this moment......

Okay, why didn't it work for me?! No fair!

The caller is such a moran. Someone should send him an old Soviet-written history book (translated into first grade level English) and ask if he believes what's in it simply because it's in print. Sheesh.

[BlueEyedSon]

28. With your wife.... MORGAN FAIRCHILD?

[txindy]

29. Yeah, that's the ticket!

And she was an eyewitness when CHENEY SHOT A 78 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE.

[BlueEyedSon]

21. "Stop nitpicking... the terra-ist are here and they will TAKE OVER!"

Stupid fucking scared merkin.

[stop the bleeding]

22. yep if the libruls are in charge the terrist will take over LOL

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

he answered her call well

[Norquist Nemesis]

23. Not only that, but if the Libs take over the terrorists will take over

and Iraq had WMD, they just moved them out before the invasion! :crazy:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. "it was an unfortunate choice of words"

understatement of the day

[Viva_La_Revolution]

26. Don't miss this, Boys and Girls - 10:30am vote on Patriot Act Extention

in the Senate.

This has been a public service announcement...

[BlueEyedSon]

27. Gawd who is that idiot FOXX? Nobody KNOWS what the

"terrorist Surveillance Program" is, so how can she claim to know id does not spy on "law-abiding citizens"?