A special report from Raw Story claims that Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), as chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, “quietly ‘fixed’ intelligence, and diverted blame from White House over Iraq.”
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush issued an order to the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, and his cabinet members that severely curtailed intelligence oversight by restricting classified information to just eight members of Congress. [……]
[But this] became a tool by which the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Pat Roberts (R-KS) ensured there was no serious investigation into how the administration fixed the intelligence that took the United States to war in Iraq or the fabricated documents used as evidence to do so.
Coupled with limited access to intelligence documents, RAW STORY has found that Roberts and a handful of other strategically-placed Washington players stymied all questions into pre-war intelligence on Iraq and post-invasion cover-ups, including the outing of a CIA covert agent, by using targeted leaks and artfully deflecting blame from the White House. …
The article is in two parts:
- “Senate Intelligence chairman quietly ‘fixed’ intelligence, diverted blame from White House over Iraq”
- “Through leaks and smears, Senate chairman protects White House to Blame CIA, Democrats”
I haven’t read it all yet but it’s very nicely constructed .. e.g., in part two there are headings like these:
First, blame the CIA
Second, blame the Democrats
Finally, blame Wilson and close the books
Now, blame Fitzgerald
It’s certainly been very clear from the beginning that the Repub-chaired intel related committees’ main job is to deflect scrutiny, obfuscate with respect to the truth, suppress any evidence damaging to the regime, shift all blame for all problems onto Democrats and Liberals, and accuse anyone who challenges their methods and diligence of engaging in “typical partisan smear tactics.”
Roberts will always drink enough of the Kool Aid to remain in favor. Porter Goss drank the Kool Aid a very long time ago. In fact, he’s the one responsible for developing that part of the Kool Aid recipe that deals with “bashing the CIA”.
Everytime I saw Roberts and Rockefeller doing a talking head segment together, I always wished that after Roberts said somethng completely false or stupid that Rockefeller would have turned to him and said; “Pat, you are so full of shit you should be ashamed to say such things in public”.
Rockefeller has such an annoyingly obsequious manner.
It’s all part of that ridiculous “decorum” game that all-self-important congress members play with each other. You know half these characters can’t stand each other, but rather than just saying so they phony it all up by referring to each other using grandiose rhetoric,; (i.e; “My good friend…); “My esteemed colleague…”; “The Honorable…”, etc).
It’s like really bad theater, except these guys do direct damage to the country even when you’re not paying attention to them.
A first-rate depiction of a government truly out of control, bent on perpetrating its twisted agenda at all costs.
Ok, this part really creeped me out:
In my opinion, they are all nuts!!!!!!!!!!! They have no scruples nor any ethics. They are crooks and they know they are that. So why hide what you are…I think after this all breaks loose, the American ppl will soon get a lot of digesting to do with their own thoughts about things. I just wonder if they can handle what they need to think about without becomeing overwhelmed by it.
I GUESS IF THEY LIKE LIARS AND CROOKS IT WILL NOT BE HARD AFTER ALL……