Congress's Secret Saddam Tapes

[gilliam]

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

The committee has already confirmed through the intelligence community that the recordings of Saddam’s voice are authentic, according to its chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, who would not go into detail about the nature of the conversations or their context. They were provided to his committee by a former federal prosecutor, John Loftus, who says he received them from a former American military intelligence analyst.

Mr. Loftus will make the recordings available to the public on February 17 at the annual meeting of the Intelligence Summit, of which he is president. On the organization’s Web site, Mr. Loftus is quoted as promising that the recordings “will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important - and controversial - weapons of mass destruction questions.” Contacted yesterday by The New York Sun, Mr. Loftus would only say that he delivered a CD of the recordings to a representative of the committee, and the following week the committee announced that it was reopening the investigation into weapons of mass destruction.

(Excerpt) Read more at NYSun.com …

 

[Ani_Ibi]

gilliam:

the committee announced that it was reopening the investigation into weapons of mass destruction.

"I talked to one person relatively high up in DNI, and I asked him about this and asked are they going to follow up, and he looked at me and said, ‘No we don’t think so.’ At this point, I guess you guys don’t get it. "I am trying to find out if our postwar intelligence was as bad as our pre-war intelligence, " Mr. Hoekstra said.

 

[buffalo]

Big surprise. Guess what will happen next. Bush will be chastised for letting them get out of Iraq.

 

[Ani_Ibi]

buffalo:

Big surprise. Guess what will happen next. Bush will be chastised for letting them get out of Iraq.

But of course! It is always Bush’s fault. How it could it be otherwise?

 

[buffalo]

Ani Ibi:

But of course! It is always Bush’s fault. How it could it be otherwise?

Well actually it will be Condi Rice’s fault for she advised Bush not to do a “hot pursuit”.

But, in the end he hired her, so he will get rapped for hiring her and taking her advice.

 

[walstan]

Ani Ibi:

But of course! It is always Bush’s fault. How it could it be otherwise?

Because he is your “Commander in Chief”, at least according to a lot of people on:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=96914

So you know what they say about “Bucks” and where they stop.

 

[gilliam]

walstan:

Because he is your “Commander in Chief”, at least according to a lot of people on:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=96914

So you know what they say about “Bucks” and where they stop.

OK, I give up. What are you guys talking about?

 

[buffalo]

walstan:

Because he is your “Commander in Chief”, at least according to a lot of people on:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=96914

So you know what they say about “Bucks” and where they stop.

If I am in the military or intelligence community and I decide to do a rogue thing, it is then Bush’s fault? C’mon. Get real. Do you know how big the government is, how many layers etc…

I will grant you something can happen under his watch, but to blame Bush (or any President) for things not even under his direct control is ludicrous and is the comment of the uninformed.