ONCE AGAIN, the COWARDLY, AIPAC infested Democrats ALLOW the Bush administration and neo-con media hawks who infest (and control) America's "major media" to CONTROL the Ameican media NARRATIVE...
...FORCING career intelligence agency professionals to RISK PRISON ino order to inform Americans that the neo-con / White House push to BOMB IRAN based on Iran's alleged nuclear bomb program HAS BEEN AN ONGOING LIE.
NANCY PELOSI IS A DISGRACE, for pretending that she and the Democrats have NO, ZERO, NONE obligation to CONFRONT and COUNTER that LYING neo-con, Bush White House narrative that America must go to war against Iran immediately.
IF NOT FOR the courageous Intel pros, GEORGE BUSH WOULD STILL be talking about "IRAN's Nuclear Weapons program" - and NANCY PELOSI WOULD STILL be writing BLANK CHECKS to the corrupt, war-mongering president who has a pathological detachment from the truth, but has borne NO PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY despite his long ties to convicted felons, including Jack Abramoff and Ken Lay, and despite the in-your-face CORRUPTION of Iraq war and New Orleans reconstruction fraudulent, billions-of-dollars missing contracts.
(Indeed, even WITH the NIE report documenting that the president is a Liar, and that Iran discontinued its nuclear WMD program in 2004, the White House and Nancy Pelosi's Congress are STILL pushing for ever greater war funding as they hype the "IRAN THREAT!" that THEY helped create by eliminating Iran's traditional enemy, Saddam Hussein's Sunni dominated Batthist Party.)
NANCY, JUST FOR THE HISTORICAL RECORD, would you please publish or pod-cast that OATH OF OFFICE YOU apparently GAVE TO AIPAC for us? The oath that you clearly give more priority to than your previous oath to "preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States of America."
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The Senate and the Iran NIE
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2007/12/the-senate-and.html
"Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran as well as the specific intelligence that went into it, according to congressional sources.
The move is the first official challenge, but it comes amid growing backlash from conservatives and neoconservatives unhappy about the assessment that Iran halted a clandestine nuclear weapons program four years ago. It reflects how quickly the NIE has become politicized, with critics even going after the analysts who wrote it, and shows a split among Republicans." Wright and Kessler in the WaPo
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The "jungle telegraph" in Washington is booming with news of the Iran NIE. I am told that the reason the conclusions of the NIE were released is that it was communicated to the White House that "intelligence career seniors were lined up to go to jail if necessary" if the document's gist were not given to the public. Translation? Someone in that group would have gone to the media "on the record" to disclose its contents.
It is no wonder that the AEI crowd and their congressional helpmates are running around with their hair on fire over this estimate. In sharp contrast to the ease with which the neocon Jacobins were able to control the content of the October 2002 NIE on Iraq, this time they failed utterly to use a national intelligence estimate as a propaganda tool.
Hearings? Good! Let there be hearings! Let there be many hearings! The more the better and let them be public hearings. Bring them on!. pl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120602457.html
