[antimedia] antimedia: Now here's a real surprise....

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Posted by antimedia:
Now here's a real surprise....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1180810494.shtml


   ....[1]Joe Wilson lied. No kidding.

     In a rare rebuke of a public official by name, the Senate Select
     Intelligence Committee has issued a scathing report blasting former
     Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV.
     The report claims Wilson mislead the public and the intelligence
     committee about his trip to Niger in 2002 on behalf of the CIA to
     investigate claims that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium in
     Africa.

   Yeah, I know. You could've knocked me over with a feather.
   That's not all.

     Perhaps the most damning conclusion of the Senate report has been
     known for nearly three years, but has remained classified until
     now. In the initial July 2004 report, the Senate committee reported
     that the intelligence community "used or cleared the Niger-Iraq
     uranium intelligence fifteen times before the President's State of
     the Union address and four times after, saying in several papers
     that Iraq was âvigorously pursuing uranium from Africa.'"
     Despite that finding, Democrats led by Michigan Sen. Carl Levin
     blasted President Bush for the "16 words" in the January 2003
     speech that described Iraq's efforts to acquire uranium from
     Africa, calling them an effort to "cherry-pick" intelligence and to
     "mislead" the country and the world in a "rush to war."
     In fact, the U.S. intelligence community continued to believe in
     the veracity of the Niger uranium story for many months after the
     speech, and didn't call back its original reporting until June 2003
     â well after the liberation of Iraq.

   You know, of course, that the Democrats have known about this all
   along, right? Obviously, when it comes to gaining political advantage,
   the truth is irrelevant to them. In fact, they're willing to lie
   repeatedly and consciously.
   What remains a mystery is why the Republicans wouldn't call them on
   it. Makes you wonder if anyone in Washington gives a damn about the
   truth or about this country.
   Tags: [2]Joe Wilson [3]Plamegate [4]lies [5]politics

References

   1. http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/6/1/100750.shtml?s=sr
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/Joe%20Wilson
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/Plamegate
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/lies
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/politics