Originally posted by rpm371
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5409538
I have not read the report. I read that guy's (who was he?) opinion of what the report said. Bush got hammered by the report's authors on MTP for chosing to go with the bad intel when he already had doubts about it. To be fair, they took the same blame, but said had they known then what they know now a vote to approve the war would have failed. That was from a Republican.
Ok I just read it.
You completely ignore what the other senator on that panel said. He said that 200 people interviewed and all of them said they were not pressured.
Rockefeller said that the the ombudsman of the CIA, whose job it is to listen to people's complaints said that in his 32 years of work in the CIA, he had never seen so much hammering, i.e. pressure, on the intelligence community.
But Roberts said that when interviewed (the ombudsman ) Give me names of people that you have talked to." It boiled down to I heard it in the cafeteria.
Also there was this.
SEN. ROCKEFELLER: Yeah. I absolutely agree with Pat Roberts that doing it right is more important than meeting the "election deadline." I've always felt that. I mean, there's enormous feeling about that out in the country. But we--our job is to do our work correctly. The report that we put out is the most extensive, most analytical report of the intelligence community that's been out, I think even including the Church report.
Anyhow, in my opinion Rockefellers "feeling" is not inline with his report.
