July 19, 2004

He told Britain's ITV network that Bush and Blair "should have been able to tell before the war that the evidence did not exist for drawing the conclusion that Iraq presented a clear, present and imminent threat...

The LNS often speaks of the failure of the "US
mainstream news media" to provide sufficient CONTEXT
and CONTINUITY...The increasingly unhinged and
incredibly shinking _resident APPOINTED David Kay to
find the WMDs in Iraq, not only did he deduce that
there were none, he said so bluntly and unequivocally,
confirming that Hans Blix and Scott Ritter were right,
and that the Bush cabal and the
shell-of-man-formerly-known-as-Tony-Blair was
wrong...Now in the throes of this disgusting
scapegoating of the CIA, as the "US mainsteam news
media" capitulates to the Bush abomination and its
running dogs in control of the US Senate, carrying
their filthy water, blaming the CIA for Iraq, just as
it is about to scapegoat the CIA for 9/11, Kay speaks
out again forcefully and plainly...Kay, Richard
Clarke, Paul O'Neill, Joe Wilson -- all Republicans,
all former supporters of Bush and officials of the
Bush abomination...But you have not seen one lead
story on a major network news organization broadcast
showing their faces, their pedigrees and their
corroborating stories (CONTEXT and CONTINIUTY) linked
to show a compelling, DAMNING portrait of a failed
administration, marked by sheer INCOMPETENCE, serious
CHARACTER flaws and an utter ABSENCE OF
CREDIBILITY...You have not seen David Kay or Joe
Wilson on SeeBS Fork The Nation or NotBeSeen Meat The
Press, dissecting the US Senate Intelligence Committee
whitewash on Iraq, nor will you see Richard Clarke I
believe, or the 9/11 Families, for that matter, on the
sunday morning propapunditgandist shows talking about
the 9/11 Commission whitewash...

BETH GARDINER, Associated Press: David Kay resigned
from the CIA (news - web sites) in January and his
conclusion then that Iraq did not have stockpiles of
forbidden weapons caused serious problems for both
Bush and Blair, undercutting their main justification
for war.
He told Britain's ITV network that Bush and Blair "should have been able to tell before the war that the evidence did not exist for drawing the conclusion that Iraq presented a clear, present and imminent threat on the basis of existing weapons of mass destruction."

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Kay Criticizes Bush, Blair on Iraq Intel

Sun Jul 18, 3:28 PM ET

By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - President Bush (news - web sites) and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) should
have realized before going to war that intelligence on
Iraqi weapons was weak and did not indicate Saddam
Hussein (news - web sites) posed a danger to the West,
America's former chief weapons inspector in Iraq (news
- web sites) said Sunday.

David Kay resigned from the CIA (news - web sites) in
January and his conclusion then that Iraq did not have
stockpiles of forbidden weapons caused serious
problems for both Bush and Blair, undercutting their
main justification for war.

He told Britain's ITV network that Bush and Blair
"should have been able to tell before the war that the
evidence did not exist for drawing the conclusion that
Iraq presented a clear, present and imminent threat on
the basis of existing weapons of mass destruction."


"That was not something that required a war," he said.

He said the leaders may not have been sufficiently
critical of intelligence on Saddam's alleged weapons
of mass destruction.


"WMD was only one and I think in their mind, not
really the most important one," he said. "And so the
doubts about the evidence on weapons of mass
destruction was not as serious to them as it seemed to
be to the rest of the world."


Kay said two recent reports on intelligence failures
in Iraq showed that American and British
information-gathering and analyzing systems were
"broken."


"I think they are a scathing indictment," he said of
the reports from the U.S. Senate Intelligence
Committee and a British commission headed by former
senior civil servant Lord Butler.


Butler's report, published Wednesday, said Iraq had no
stockpiles of useable chemical or biological weapons
before the war and British intelligence to the
contrary had been drawn in part from "seriously
flawed" or "unreliable" sources.


He absolved Blair's government of deliberately
distorting the evidence and did not blame any
individuals for the failure. But he said the
government had pushed its case to the limits of
available intelligence and solidified analysts'
hedged, tentative assessments of Iraqi arms into
definite statements.


The U.S. report agreed that intelligence on Iraq was
flawed and placed much of the blame on the CIA, which
it accused of succumbing to "group think" and
interpreting all evidence according to its presumption
that Iraq had banned weapons.


Kay said analysts were facing pressure to support the
belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.


"Anything that showed Iraq didn't have weapons of mass
destruction had a much higher gate to pass because if
it were true, all of U.S. policy towards Iraq would
have fallen asunder," he said in the interview.


Posted by richard at July 19, 2004 02:57 PM