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| Kerry: Time to retire 'slam-dunk' on intel |
| 2013-09-02 |
[THEHILL] The idea of "slam dunk" intelligence should disappear from national security discussions, Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Sunday. "The word 'slam-dunk' should be retired from the American national security issues," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "We are saying that the high confidence that the intelligence community has expressed and the case that I laid out the other day is growing stronger by the day," he continued. During the George W. Bush administration, then-CIA chief George Tenet reportedly told Bush that intelligence showing Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was a "slam dunk." The phrase became a symbol for the botched intelligence that the Bush White House used to justify the invasion. Kerry spoke in response to his claim that evidence shows sarin gas was used in the Assad regime's alleged chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus last month. "Individuals who were engaged as first responders in East Damascus, I can report to you today that they have tested positive for signatures of sarin," he said on Fox News. "So this case is going to build stronger and stronger." Kerry, who was to appear on five networks on Sunday, made the case that evidence of a chemical attack is strong. "We know where this attack came from. We know exactly where it went. We know what happened exactly afterwards," he said on Meet the Press, according to a transcript. "We know the preparations were being taken before for this attack, we know people were told to use their gas mask to prepare for the use of the chemical barrage. We also know that after it took place, they acknowledged that they had done it and were worried about the consequences and whether the U.N. inspectors were going to find out," Kerry said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 There was nothing wrong with the intelligence at the time. They sneaked that stuff out to Syria right under our noses. As I recollect, our troops went in suited up and prepared for chemical and bio weapons. Everyone was surprised when they weren't used. |
| Posted by: KBK 2013-09-02 15:37 |
| #3 Obama slam-dunk, anything like an Obama back foot slider across the low-corner? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-09-02 11:56 |
| #2 The phrase became a symbol for the botched intelligence that the Bush White House used to justify the invasion. Continuing to reference the war Iraq as the wrong war, the evil Bush war. This has curiously become a mantra which Champ's regime chirps at nearly every opportunity. One must ask the question, why is this anti-Bush narrative on Iraq still being enforced, or even still being discussed? One possible justification may be the need to distance the regime from a failing Iraqi government rapidly moving into the Iranian camp. When the Iraqi government finally collapses, the regime will herald it's demise as the culmination of the Bush failed policy and wash their hands of it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-09-02 09:48 |
| #1 feckless crapweasel doesn't like being held to the standards he demanded of Boooosh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-02 09:31 |