All the hype today is about the Senate Intelligence committee report that confirms after years of investigating that the information the Bush Admin used to go to war in Iraq was faulty.
I'll agree with Tony Snow here.... BIG SURPRISE!
Though, as press secretary I am disappointed in Tony.
He appears to have surcom to the talking points. I am yet to hear him have an independent voice. I know he has to be in lockstep with the White House. Just sayin' he's starting to sound more and more scripted and overly defensive.
Just always have to wonder about the kinda people that can shrug off affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, soldiers, families, and Americans because they made horrible decisions based on inaccurate intelligence.
The kinda people that continue to show no remorse, no pause for mental faculty, no sensitivity, no responsibility.
And even more you have to wonder about the people that defend them.
Psychotics!
Willingly or unwillingly, even the state has to pay restitution when it has wrongly prosecuted.
I am looking for these helluva men these brainwashed conservative bimbo's like Ann Coulter keep ranting and raving about. Right now they are looking like a bunch of punk ass bitches suffering from little man syndrome.
The other story I'm not digesting very well is all the hype around the Armitage confession.
Do you people not watch Meet The Press?
You should check out the August 27, 2006 transcript.
Russert asks Robert Novak to confirm the Newsweek story.
Now I may have misinterpreted ... but Novak appears to say that his source has not revealed himself?
Link to transcript
MR. RUSSERT: Before we go, Robert Novak, the story that will not go away. Newsweek today has a story that on the morning of October 1, ‘03, “Secretary of State Colin Powell received an urgent phone call from his No. 2” Richard Armitage.
“Armitage had been at home reading the newspaper,” a column by one Robert Novak. “Months earlier Novak had caused a huge stir when he revealed that Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq-war critic Joseph Wilson, was a CIA officer.
“Ever since, Washington had been trying to find out who leaked the information to Novak. ... Now in a second column, Novak provided a tantalizing clue: his primary source, he wrote, was a ‘senior administration official’ who was ‘not a partisan gunslinger.’ Armitage was shaken. After reading the column, he knew immediately who the leaker was. On the phone with Powell that morning morning, Armitage was ‘in deep distress,’ says a source directly familiar with the conversation.” “‘I’m sure he’s talking about me.’”
The article goes on to quote State Department Intelligence Chief Carl Ford as saying Armitage said, “I’m afraid I’m the guy who may have caused all this,” and that he had met with one Robert Novak on July 8, Mr. Armitage did. Are you now prepared to say, confirm Newsweek that Richard Armitage was one of your sources?
MR. NOVAK: I told Mr. Isikoff, the investigator—he’s a very good investigative reporter, by the way—but I told him that I do not identify my sources on any subject if they’re on a confidential basis until they identify themselves. I don’t say that somebody was or wasn’t. I’m going to say one thing, though, I haven’t said before. And that is that I believe that the time has way passed for my source to identify himself.
