If Bush lied and distorted pre war intel then why was it that?

Question

In 2003 Hillary said that SHE HAD CHECKED with TRUSTED Clinton officials on this matter and KNEW the intelligence complied by the Clinton administration was CONSISTENT with Bush’s?

pamela--AM I BLAMING anyone? No-I am asking why would Hillary say that she personally verified this information and concluded that the intel WAS CONSISTENT to what the democratic officials had. If Bush distored, exaggerated or lied you would expect her to state that there were MAJOR inconsistancies of the intel between the two administrations. Therefore you must conclude that if Clinton administiration also exaggerated and lied. No blame here-just that it was wrong--am I going too fast for you?

Answer 1

Everyone's Intel matched. I think it's so disingenuous and so UNPATRIOTIC for these Democrats to use this war to their political advantage. It disgusts me.

Read this story from 2004 and see how cleverly she answers the questions.

Answer 2

The President gets more detailed information than the Congress. The House and Senate Intelligence Committee members might get more information from their being briefed by the White House BUT once the Executive Branch trumpets "top secret" or "national security", the rest of the congressional members get a 'scrubbed' version of the information. So it was not until there was a lot of hue and cry that the rest of Congress got "declassified" pieces of intelligence.
You saw this happen last year with the Iraq NIE. The document itself was 30 pages but the White House only declassified 3 pages of it so the Congress could see it.
This was the same thing that happened with the crap that led up to this travesty of a war- Iraq. The Bush Administration cherry picked only the pieces they WANTED the Congress to see, not the dissenting remarks of the intelligence that contradicted what they wanted to use. Then they blamed the intelligence as if it was the informations fault, not their avarice and tunnel vision.

Answer 3

It's called passing the blame onto someone else. Republican are very good at this! Did Clinton or any other politician make Bush go to war? Did any other politician force Bush to keep this war going? Does Bush think for himself?Tenet has been all over the news spilling the beans! Lets not start the blame Clinton thing again. It got old 4 years ago!

Answer 4

I remember those statements too.

She's spinning furiously, and satisfying no one.

She now says her war vote was merely a vote to allow Bush to make his case in front of the UN, and she didn't think he'd go to war. But she supported the action for a year or two at least after the operation began, and didn't mention this rationale behind her vote until recently.

How America could even consider her for president is beyond me.

Answer 5

He had a grudge against Saddam for going after his daddy. I knew Nov. 7, 2000 that there would be a war effort in Iraq by the end of the term. Sept. 11th provided the solid excuse. Read up on what Tenet is saying. This was on Bush and Cheney's agenda before terror was the new cold war.

Answer 6

I'm not sure if she said that, but quite frankly I'm sick of all of them. It looks like a lot of people new a lot of things but neglected to tell the American people. It's more than apparent that both parties were more deeply involved in this dirty business than previously thought.

Answer 7

your going to need to site a source for that statement.

G. Tenent was on 60 minutes last night.
he pretty much called bush a liar.
and does so in his book as well.

and that's that isn't it.

Answer 8

G.W. and Congress had access to the same intell to rely
on -- personally think the intell was correct and still is --
there's too much desert to "misplace" wmd's.

Answer 9

I would say because both parties are own by the same wealthy people.

Answer 10

it's all politics.. personally I'd trust Bush over Hillary, but they're all liars..