60 Minutes Sunday: A Spy Speaks Out About The Iraq War Intel!

[leftchick]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml

(CBS) A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq.

The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did give the White House some bad intelligence, it also gave the White House good intelligence — which the administration chose to ignore.

Drumheller talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley in his first television interview this Sunday, April 23 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Drumheller, who retired last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source. The source was Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, with whom U.S. spies had made a deal.




"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."

[Jim__]

1. The more people who speak out, the harder it will be for the repubs

to lie their way through another election.

[Warpy]

2. There has been a real power struggle going on for years

among the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon. The Pentagon's intelligence office, in search of a mission, has now lied us into two disastrous and unwinnable wars. The CIA allowed them to in the 1950s when they were just getting started. They objected in the early 00s because they knew full well that the old drunks and expats with grudges the Pentagon was relying on were unreliable, to put it mildly.

Team Stupid relied solely on the Pentagon, something the CIA quite properly resents. They sent in Porter Goss to keep a lid on things. I don't honestly think he's going to be able to do that for much longer.

[leftchick]

3. I don't think he will either

I believe we will see many more ex-CIA speaking out in the weeks to come. It is gonna be one long hot summer for the chimp. And then George Tenet's book comes out in October! That will be very interesting.

[Justice Is Comin]

4. This is going to

reinforce Paul Pillar's tell-all. The second corroboration. This is like the iceberg in the Titanic. And Sixty Minutes is widely viewed.

God, this is like shooting fish in a barrel.

[rpgamerd00d]

5. Why does this guy have to be selling a book? It hurts his cred

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060874996/104-5046642-3115968?v=glance&n=283155

/sigh

I think he is legit, but still, it looks bad when they are selling something...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Sometimes, that is the ONLY way to tell the truth to a lot of people....

...I really don't understand the part about how writing a book undermines your credibility.

[FrannyD]

7. How many more reliable sources

does one need. Same old shit. If people don't know by now, we deserve what we get.