Tell us why you lied, Bush
The Washington Post is reporting on how the CIA skewed its reports on Iraqi weapons programs during the runup to the war.
The bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on the US intelligence comunity's prewar intelligence assessments on Iraq could not be more clear. In conclusion after conclusion, it delineates just how the CIA, led by George Tenet and a series of shadowy analysts, stacked the deck, witheld key evidence, faked test results, and gamed the weapons inspectors, the UN and the American public.
This is very, very disturbing news. But the central question about this travesty remains unanswered. The central question is: Why? Why did the nation's top leaders force feed the world an absolute pack of lies.
Most of the media is focusing on the CIA which "...knowingly skewed its reports to fit its convictions about an Iraqi nuclear threat," according to the post article. Let us hope that the US media does not abdicate its responsibility to ferret out the truth.
Why should anyone simply accept on face value the proposition that it is the CIA's convictions to which pre-war intelligence was custom fitted? Does anyone really believe that Tenent and his underlings cooked up this scheme by themselves? I do not. I challenge all reporters to ask the following question, again, and again, and again:
President Bush, who told the CIA to falsify intelligence in order to build the case for war?
1 Comments:
Hear hear! You are much too easy on the media. The biggest potential reward of further investigation is not only to call out the true role of the Administration in this global deception, but also the complicity of the media establishment, particulary the ones owned by cronies of the White House. One only has to know a little bit about the secrecy and control methods used by Kissinger in the Nixon White House to guess what's going on behind the scenes in the Administration, but at least then we could rely on the media to be on the side of citizens.
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