From: Adam Flinton 

Mark Hessey wrote:

> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3479703.stm
>
> The Fox News network's Bill O'Reilly told viewers he was now sceptical about
>
>>the US president's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
>
>
> That's twisted, he didn't say he was skeptical of Bush, but of the
> intelligence and he continues to call for Tenet's resignation. I'm not sure
> that Tenet resigning now would be all that productive, he survived the
> transition from Clinton to Bush and after all this he may be likely to be
> the most effective going forward via trying to avoid even more crap from all
> sides.
>
>

ROFLMAO. "Please don't shoot the bearer of bad news".

Even before the war started I said the intel people would catch the flak as
they are "anonymous" & duty bound not to talk whereas no such
restrictions on their pol masters.

Intel is mostly about the balance of probabilities. If you have a 80-20
situation then you can believe the 20% if you really want to.

Do you really think Bush,Cheney & Rumsfeld approached the intel with an
"open mind"?

I reckon point 1 in meeting 1 twixt pols & spooks was entitled
"Preserving credible deniability".

Adam

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