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The real shock was that the CIA had never spoken to him directly. To this day, I still don't understand. How can you hang the most dramatic part of a case for war on an individual no American agent has ever directly debriefed? I realized right away, we needed to follow up in Baghdad on whatever leads we had concerning 'Curveball.'

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donald51
March 22, 2008, 12:23 a.m.
This is why Tenet got that medal of Freedom from Dumya!
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ConquistadorForLife
March 22, 2008, 12:30 a.m.
CIA amazes me lol
hehehe
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DiffeeOnline
March 22, 2008, 3:29 a.m.
If you keep "A" and "B" apart, then you can't get to the real conclusion "C". It's a way, politically, to spin something in a way and make 2 2=5 --- WAR!!!
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Lurch
March 22, 2008, 4:23 a.m.
The real shock was that the CIA had never spoken to him directly. To this day, I still don't understand. How can you hang the most dramatic part of a case for war on an individual no American agent has ever directly debriefed?
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Lurch
March 22, 2008, 4:25 a.m.
935 lies by the Bush administration to start an unnecessary war for personal and political profit by the god-less few.
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truthiness
March 22, 2008, 4:39 a.m.
we went to war on unconfirmed intelligence.
Worst case scenario, they did it on purpose, which is a crime of intent
Best case scenario, they didn't know what they were talking about, which is a crime of negligence.
and the only one's to pay for it are American soldiers and innocent Iraqi's
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Endoscopy
March 22, 2008, 11:10 a.m.
ROFLMAO
What a crock. We now know that Saddam Husein was creating the "fact" that he had WMD to keep Iran at bay. He wanted Iran to believe he had them and everybody else fell for it as well. This story ignores the FACT that every major intelligence agency believed that there were WMD that he was hiding. Every government believed this as well. One person would not cause that to happen. Intelligence agencies work by gathering data from a lot of different points and trying to evaluate them and go by a consensus of opinion. They gather a lot of contradictory information and try to evaluate how good each piece is. They are really making a best guess much of the time.
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rimbaud
March 22, 2008, 11:33 a.m.
If you're looking for excuses to justify a pre-emptive for which you have already amassed troops, I guess you will find them. It's very hard to prepare for war, like we did, and not go ahead with it. Once you've set the miltary machine forward, it's very hard to stop it.
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walden3
March 22, 2008, 11:57 a.m.
"SPIEGEL: How did CIA leadership react to your findings?
Kay: With resistance and denial. It was an absolute refusal to face reality. I just kept on hearing, 'don't stop now. Keep working. You must be wrong. You will find it. Keep looking."
Of course they were resistant. The decision to go to war was made, most like even before 9/11, and the intelligence was stovepiped to fit that decision.
It's funny how the American Republican press would never report on a story like this. Stuff like this is untouchable in the US. Just like the election frauds and the Downing Street Memo.
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donald51
March 22, 2008, 12:31 p.m.
What do you expect from a President who asked for links to Sadam the day after 911 and a Vice President who visited the CIA more than any other VP in history... then made sure that Rummy could provide alternative intel via the Pentagon!
Also, Condi refused to have the CIA guy who had already debunked the aluminum tube arguement even participate in the cabinet briefs! Then to trash El Barradei for further debunking Sadam's WMD. The US Marine inspector, Ritter, also said Dumya and Cheney were liars before the war!
All the Bushies are war criminals... and should be turned over to the World Courts like Clinton did with Milosevic!