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| DoD Policy Undersecretary Feith Said to Misrepresent Intel Assessments |
| 2004-10-22 |
| From The New York Times As recently as January 2004, a top Defense Department official misrepresented to Congress the view of American intelligence agencies about the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, according to a new report by a Senate Democrat. The report said a classified document prepared by Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, not only asserted that there were ties between the Baghdad government and the terrorist network, but also did not reflect accurately the intelligence agencies' assessment - even while claiming that it did. .... The 46-page report by Senator Levin and the Democratic staff of the Armed Services Committee is the first to focus narrowly on the role played by Mr. Feith's office. .... Mr. Levin began the inquiry in June 2003, after Republicans on the panel, led by Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, declined to take part. He said his findings were endorsed by other Democrats on the committee, but complained that the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency had declined to provide crucial documents. In a statement, the Pentagon said the Levin report "appears to depart from the bipartisan, consultative relationship" between the Defense Department and the Armed Services Committee, adding, "The unanimous, bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report of July 2004 found no evidence that administration officials tried to coerce, influence or pressure intelligence analysts to change their judgments." Senator Warner said, "I take strong exception to the conclusions Senator Levin reaches." He said his view was based on the Intelligence Committee's "analysis thus far of the public and classified records." |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #7 I love his patented glasses on the tip of his nose affectation. It's so, uh, um, transparent, lol! A MAJOR 'tard. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-22 12:36:25 PM |
| #6 Unfortunately Levin isn't on the ballot this time around here in MI. We'll have to wait until 2009 for another go at him. |
| Posted by: jn1 2004-10-22 12:34:33 PM |
| #5 When is Senator Levin due for electoral defeat? This anti-Americanism of the left has got to be stopped. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-22 11:22:42 AM |
| #4 it is not clear whether Mr. Hussein’s government harbored Mr. Zarqawi during his time in Iraq before the war um, excuse me? So "Mr" Zarqawi was in fact in Iraq before the war, but it's not clear that Saddam "harbored" him?? Zarqawi needed an operation for his leg, and one of Saddam's hospitals provided it. The notion that Saddam did not know of the presence of one of the world's most dangerous terrorists, and did not support him in his attacks on Kurds and his assassination of US diplomoat Larry Foley, is laughable. Nice try, Paper of Misrecord. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-22 10:59:07 AM |
| #3 Carl Levin is an idiot,an ideologue and a ranting nincompoop. That report is the biggest most transparent piece of fabricated, "lets tar the president on Iraq (again)" piece of tripe that has ever been produced by a Senate committeee. How do complete morons like Levin keep getting elected? SR71 has it right the CIA is full of political hacks, dems at that, notice all the anti bush stuff in the press oozing our from under the doors at Langley??? Get the idea that the CIA is playing politics............and supporting a guy that wanted to cut their budget in half.......... Holy Cow Feces Batman, this is really really almost laughable. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2004-10-22 10:46:45 AM |
| #2 the NY Times should know - they've made a living misrepresenting intel assessments for over 100 years |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-22 9:53:33 AM |
| #1 It is time for a serious purge over at CIA. This is happening because the previous administration politicized the agencies. |
| Posted by: SR71 2004-10-22 9:39:26 AM |