Wow! Our Security Agencies held back important information to protect Obama

[la...@pivotforpower.com]

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/petraeus-affair-fbi-investigation/2012/11/11/id/463697?s=al&promo_code=10AA5-1

Someone should PAY for this! Holding that information is blatantly political! How can we trust our security agencies if they put politics first over national security? EVERY ONE of the top officials in those agencies should be fired!

I hope the Congressional Committees drag Patraeus (and the other agency heads including Eric Holder) in and grill them until they resign!

Larry

[Alan Baker]

In article <a118f575-a8be-43e3...@googlegroups.com>,
"la...@pivotforpower.com" <la...@pivotforpower.com> wrote:

> http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/petraeus-affair-fbi-investigation/2012/11/11/i

> d/463697?s=al&promo_code=10AA5-1
>
> Someone should PAY for this! Holding that information is blatantly
> political! How can we trust our security agencies if they put politics first
> over national security? EVERY ONE of the top officials in those agencies
> should be fired!
>
> I hope the Congressional Committees drag Patraeus (and the other agency heads
> including Eric Holder) in and grill them until they resign!
>
> Larry

Unlike how things operated under Bush:

'On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in
the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not
have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA
officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi
foreign minister, a member of Saddamąs inner circle, although it turned
out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.

Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate
of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No
one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no
WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after
the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military
Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the
CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam
had WMD.'

<http://www.salon.com/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/>

'On April 23, 2006, CBSąs ł60 Minutes˛ interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the
former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed
that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri,
Saddamąs foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. łWe continued
to validate him the whole way through,˛ said Drumheller. łThe policy was
set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence
to fit into the policy, to justify the policy.˛

Now two former senior CIA officers have confirmed Drumhellerąs account
to me and provided the background to the story of how the information
that might have stopped the invasion of Iraq was twisted in order to
justify it. They described what Tenet said to Bush about the lack of
WMD, and how Bush responded, and noted that Tenet never shared Sabriąs
intelligence with then Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to the
former officers, the intelligence was also never shared with the senior
military planning the invasion, which required U.S. soldiers to receive
medical shots against the ill effects of WMD and to wear protective
uniforms in the desert.

Instead, said the former officials, the information was distorted in a
report written to fit the preconception that Saddam did have WMD
programs. That false and restructured report was passed to Richard
Dearlove, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), who
briefed Prime Minister Tony Blair on it as validation of the cause for
war.'

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."